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q Kennith Hawkins was a recent visitor at the Bee Culture Labora— 
tory, with which he was formerly connected. 
Booty. ROOT, associate editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture, con- 
sulted with members of the Bee Culture Laboratory on a recent visit to 
Washington. 
if D. &. Kohn, of Grover Hill, Ohio, a prominent beekeever in his 
home State, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on March 20 while on 
his way home from Florida, where he also has extensive beekeeping in- 
terests. 
On March 20 Jas. I. Hambleton visited the vicinity of Westmin—- 
ster and New Windsor, Md., on an inspection trip for the location of an 
experimental apiary. 
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COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
H. C. Young, M. T. Young, Andrew Chapman, and G. L. Smith, who 
have completed field work on the Thurberia weevil in Arizona, have been 
transferred to Presidio, Tex., for work on the pink bollworm. 
Rex McGarr, who has been in Arizona for four months, working on 
the Thurberia weevil, has been transferred to Brownsville, Tex., where he 
will work on the cotton flea hopper. 
The appointment of D. L. Moody, Field Assistant, ended March l. 
Syrus Conn, Junior Entomologist, resigned March ll. 
C. A. Bennett, Mechanical Engineer, of the Bureau of Public Roads, 
who has been cooperating with the field laboratory at Tallulah, La. 
in cotton—drying investigations, was in Dallas, Tex., during the first 
week in March to confer with one of the large gin pe raniee and to make 
preliminary tests of all-steel cotton driers built upon the lines indi- 
cated by the field laboratory. He also visited Jackson, Miss., to confer 
with a representative of an eastern firm making cotton gins, with whom 
he made tentative plans for the erection by this company of driers of 
the type devised. The processes and methods patented as the result of 
the investigations carried on at the field laboratory are beginning to 
create much interest and to receive wide recognition. 
