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TRUCK—CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
P. N. Annand, formerly in charge of the sugar-—beet leafhopper 
laboratory at Davis, Calif., has been transferred to Twin Falls, Idaho. 
K. L. Cockerham and 0. T. Deen, Biloxi, M. Brunson and L. B. Reed, 
Picayune, and F. A. Wright, Bay St. Louis, all in Mississippi, attended 
the meetings of the Cotton States Entomologists at Jackson, Miss., 
February 5 and 6. 
N. F. Howard. Columbus, Ohio, was in Washington February 8 to 2l, 
to assist in miscellaneous work on manuscripts, including a revision of 
Farmers' Bulletin 1407, on the Mexican bean beetle, and a new manuscript 
on the Mexican bean beetle, prepared by L. W. Brannon and himself, to be 
published by the Virginia Truck Experiment Station. 
On February 11, while in Washington, N. F. Howard discussed the 
control of the Mexican bean beetle with E. N. Cory, State Entomologist 
of Maryland, L. M. Peairs, head of the Department of Entomology, West 
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, and C. 0. Eddy, of the Depart— 
ment of Zoology and Entomology of the South Carolina Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station. 
N. F. Howard attended a school for canners held on February 20 
at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he took part in a 
discussion on the Mexican bean beetle. 
On February 8 M. C. Lane, in charge of the field laboratory at 
Walla Walla, Wash., gave an informal talk at the Young Farmers' Con- 
ference at Yakima, Wash., on the latest developments in the control of 
wireworms in the Yakima Valley. 
On February 13 G. Allen Mail, Assistant Entomologist of the Mon- 
tana Agricultural College and Experiment Station, visited the field 
laboratory at Walla Walla, Wash., and conferred with M. C. Lane regard-— 
ing the possibility of undertaking cooperative work on wireworms in the 
State of Montana. 
On February 14 M. C. Lane visited the Experiment Station officers 
of Idaho and Washington at Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Wash., in the 
interest of the present season's work on wireworms in those States. 
L. U. Brannon, of the field laboratory at Norfolk, Va., visited 
Washington February 21, to confer with N. F. Howard and others regard— 
ing the coming season's investigations on the Mexican bean beetle. 
