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COTTON-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, Entomologist, in Charge 
B. R.iCoad, Dr. J. W. Folsom, Dro We Vo King Ree Gaines, 
K. P. Ewing, and Dr. F. A. Fenton, of the Tallulah laboratory, attended 
the meetings of the Southern Agricultural Workers at Memphis on February 
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B. R. Coad, R. C. Gaines, and A. J. Chapman left Tallulah February 
21 for points in Texas and Arizona. Mr. Coad will be in the Southwest 
probably for the next five or six weeks. The principal points will be 
visited where work is under way on the pink bollworm, the Arizona weevil, 
and the cotton leaf perforator. 
Dr. F. A. Fenton left Tallulah on February 4, returning to El 
Paso, Tex., to continue his investigations of the pink bollworm. 
A. J. Chapman, who has been in Arizona for the past two years, 
engaged in scouting and other investigation of the Thurberia weevil, 
spent two weeks at Tallulah in February in conference with B. R. Coad and 
Other members of the laboratory staff. 
V. V. Williams, of the Tallulah laboratory, who for the past two 
years has been investigating the cotton leaf perforator, Bucculatrix 
thurberiella, in the vicinity of Calexico, Calif., spent the greater part 
of February at Tallulah working up reports. 
F. H. Tucker, of the Tallulah laboratory, spent February 17 to 
29 in Washington, consulting literature and conferring with Dr. C. H. 
Richardson and members of the staff of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils 
regarding insecticides. Mr. Tucker is especially concerned with the 
insecticidal action of sulphur on the cotton flea hopper and other cotton 
insects. 
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TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
B. L. Boyden, Associate Entomologist, formerly in charge of the 
Sweet-potato weevil work in Florida, and who has been employed by this 
division in various assignments since 1914, has been transferred to the 
Federal Horticultural Board, effective Feb. 1, 1928, to take charge of 
the work on eradication of the date scale at Indio, Calif. Mr. Boyden's 
selection for this difficult assignment was a recognition of the very ef- 
fective work conducted under his direction in connection with the sweet 
potato weevil in Florida. 
