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FOREWORD 
Hitherto this Monthly Letter has been devoted almost exclusively 
to items of interest or of progress selected frem the monthly reports 
of field stations. A good many items of current interest come up in 
the general administrative functions of the Bureau in Washington and 
it is proposed that hereafter brief information with respect to the 
more important of such subjects be included in the opening page or pages 
of the Monthly Letter. These items will include not only administra— 
tive matters but important new appointments or assignments, as well 
as discussion of subjects of broader interest, and such items will be 
brought up to the date of the final preparaticn of the number. 
GENERAL ITEMS 
(To May 20) 
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Status of appropriation for the fiscal year 19%5.--As this number 
Of the, Monihly Letter gces to press-—-May 20--the Act making appropria~ 
tions to the Department for the fiscal year 1933 still awaits final ac— 
tion by Congress. The bill has been passed by both the House and the 
senate and the conferees' report submitted. The conferees' report has 
not yet been considered by the Senate. The bill as approved by tke 
conferees sustains the amendments made on the floor of the Senate, which 
reduce the amount carried in the House Bill for the Bureau by $155,447. 
The three reductions are: Fruit and Shade-Tree Insects, $47,645; Cotton 
Insects, $72,872; and Taxonomy and Interrelations of Insects, $34,930. 
announced by sec 
recommendation for an appropriation of $1,450,000 for cooreration in i 
grasshoprer control, and this item was duly approved and submitted by 
the President to Congress on February 4, 1932. 
sracskoprer centrol left to States.-—-In furtherance of the program 
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The plan of ccooperaticn was substantially as worked out last win- 
ter in conference with State representatives and provided for a divi- 
Sion of the cost between the Federal Government and the States concern— 
ed—-the Federal mcneys to go largely into the purchase and delivery of 
the poisoned bran bait and the States to assume the cost of local han- 
dling and distribution. The essential feature of the campaign was to 
make provision for poisoning the young grasshoppers as they emerge in 

