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TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. &. Graf, in Charge 
Walter Carter, Twin Falls, Idaho, visited Washington, D. C., 
August 6 to 12, to confer with Bureau officials regarding investigations 
on the sugar-beet leafhopper. 
iT. BE. Dudley, Uri) !/ Madison? Wis. visited Washington, D. C., 
August 13, for conference on the work of the Division in Wisconsin, 
and especially with regard to investigations on the pea aphis. 
The following employees of this Division attended the meetings of 
the Fourth International Entomological Congress, Ithaca, N. Y.) eaueie 
foeto ie 6C..0: Bare, sanford, Plas 3h. Cecil, Geneva, N. Y., Waker 
Carter, Twin Falls, Idaho, D. E. Fink, Philadelphia, Pa., N. F. Howard, 
Columbus, Ohio, C. H. Popenoe, Sligo, Md., E. M. Searls, Madison, Wis., 
and Alfred Weed, Madison, Wis. 
C. G. Woodbury, of the National Canners Association, Washington, 
De Go) Visited the, fisld laboratories at Alhambra and Garden Grove, 
Calif., about the middle of August. 
Dr. Lon A. Hawkins, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, and 
W. R. Barger, of the field laboratory of the Bureau of Plant Industry at 
Lamada Park, Calif., visited the field laboratory at Alhambra, Calif., 
on August 17. 
Prof. R. W. Harned, State Entomologist of Mississippi, and Troy 
Thompson, Nursery Inspector for the State of Alabama, were recent visitors 
at the Biloxi, Miss., field laboratory. 
The temporary appointments of H. L. Ratcliffe, Chadbourn, Nias 
and R. W. Burgess, San Jose, Calif., were terminated on August 3l. 
D. P. Ellington, Picayune, Miss., resigned his temporary appoint— 
ment as Field Assistant August 15. 
E. S. Parkinson has been given a temporary appointment as Field 
Assistant at Columbus, Ohio. 

COTTON-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
On August 15 B. R. Coad, in charge of the field laboratory at 
Tallulah, La., with R. E. Mitchell, pilot, took off for El Paso, Tex., 
in the newly purchased Stinson Detroiter airplane, en route to Tlahaulilo, 
Mexico, where he will inaugurate studies of the migration of the moth of 
the pink bollworn. 
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