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On February 21 the field laboratory at Biloxi, Miss., was visited 
by five officials of the State Plant Board of Mississippi, these being 
Dr. L. E. Miles, Pathologist, J. M. Langston, Entomologist, and three 
Inspectors, R. P. Colmer, H. Gladney, and Henry Deitrich, located res— 
pectively at Moss Point, Ocean Springs, and Lucedale. On February 25 
the same field laboratory had as a visitor C. E. Smith, in charge of 
the field laboratory at Baton Rouge, La. 
O. E. Gahm, Arlington Farm, Va., and J. S. Houser, Chief Entomo-— 
logist, Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, visited Lima, 
Ohio, on Feruary 24, where Mr. Gahm gave an informal talk before mush- 
room growers of Ohio on the control of mushroom pests. Mr. Gahm also 
visited mushroom plants at Urbana, Barberton, Napoleon, and Marblehead, 
Ohio, returning to Washington on February 26. 

DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Oliver I. Snapp attended the meetings of the Cotton States En- 
tomologists at Jackson, Miss., on February 6 and 7, where he discus— 
sed the results of spraying and dusting experiments on large blocks 
of peach trees. After the meetings he visited the Delta Laboratory, 
for the study of cotton insects, at Tallulah, La., Mr. Snapp has been 
reelected secretary-treasurer of the Cotton States Branch of the Amer-— 
ican Association of Economic Entomologists. 
Une february 10°F. H. Lathrop, W. FP. Yetter, jr:;°G:' A. Runner: 
=. J. Newcomer, L. B. Smith, W. E. Fleming, H. W. Allen, J. L. King, 
J. W. Lipp, Luther Brown, and E. H. Siegler attended conferences on the 
codling moth and oriental peach moth. These gentlemen have since re- 
turned to their usual duties. Dr. Lathrop spent the greater part of 
February in Washington, preparing manuscripts on the results of his field 
investigations. 
Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
On February 6 E. J. Newcomer, in charge of the field laboratory 
for the study of apple insects at Yakima, Wash., visited the Japanese- 
Beetle Laboratory. Mr. Newcomer spent the day talking with entomolo- 
gists on insecticide problems and looking over the laboratory equip- 
ment. 
Arthur Gibson, Entomologist of the Dominion of Canada, and Dr. 
T. J. Headlee, State Entomologist of New Jersey, visited the Japanese- 
Beetle Laboratory on February 15. 
