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F. C. Bishopp spent April 22 and 23 in a survey of the mosquito 
control work now being conducted by State officials in New Jersey. 
r. S. Kulock, of the United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining 
Company, Boston, Mass., accompanied by George S. Tullcch, a graduate 
student of Harvard University, arrived in Washington for a series of 
conferences with F. C. Bishopp and other Department officials on the 
proposal to conduct a cooperative investigation of the mosquito problem 
in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska. Tentative plans were laid for Mr. 
Tulloch to undertake the field work under Mr. Bishopp's direction. 
On April 11 F. C. Bishopp and T. P. Cassidy were present at a 
conference held with the Texas Experiment Station authorities at College 
Station, Tex., on the investigations of the sheep scab and the goat 
louse. 0. G. Babcock, of the Sonora field laboratory, took part. 
COTTON INSECTS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 
F. C. Bishopp left Washington on April 7 on a trip to Oklahoma, 
Texas, and Louisiana. On April 9 he participated in a conference of 
State and Federal officials at Stillwater, Okla., to decide upon a uniform 
program of boll-weevil control work to be carried out cooperatively in 
Oklahoma during the present year. State officials attending the conference 
were D. P. Trent, C. E. Sanborn, E. Hixson, C.'F. Stiles, E. EH. Sei 
and L..W..Osborn. Mr. Bishopp and T. P. Cassidy, of the Tucson, Argaes 
field laboratory, represented the Bureau of Entomology. A plan of pro— 
cedure was agreed upon and H. C. Young was selected to take active charge 
of the Bureau field work. On April il conferences were held with the 
Texas Experiment Station authorities at College Station regarding co-— 
operative work on the cotton bollworm. E. W. Dunnam, the Bureau repre— 
sentative at College Station, participated in their conferences. 
T. P. Cassidy, Entomologist in charge of the Tucson, Ariz., field 
laboratory, spent April 11 to 16 at Tallulah, La., conferring with Bureau 
men there, and arranging for equipment, etc., for the season's activities 
in Oklahoma. He returned to his regular duties at Tucson on April 22. 
C. E. Smith, Associate Entomologist in charge of miscellaneous 
crop insects at the Baton Rouge, La., field laboratory, spent April 22 
at Tallulah, gathering information on emergence and migration of the 
spotted cucumber beetle. 

