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S. EH. Crumb returned to Clarksville, Tenn., Feb. 3, after con- 
sulting with Museum specialists and others in Washington regarding his 
investigations on tobacco insects. 
K. B. McKinney returned to Clarksville, Tenn., Feb. 16, from a 
temporary assignment with the Federal Horticultural Board, and left 
Clarksville, Feb. 20, for Tempe, Ariz., where he will inaugurate inves- 
tigations on the tobacco stalk borer. 
W. A. Thomas, of Chadbourn, N. C., returned to that place February 
25. after a visit to Green Cove Springs, Fla., to investigate a reported 
outbreak of the mole cricket. 
O. T. Deen has been transferred from Picayune to Biloxi, Miss., 
effective February 20. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
J. W. Ingram, in charge of the sublaboratory at Crowley, La., 
Spent a few days in February at the New Orleans field laboratory. 
Early in February F. W. Boyd, of the field laboratory at San 
Antonio, Tex., made a trip through northern Texas to study the effects 
of the extremely cold weather on greenbugs. He reports that they con- 
tinue to be abundant near Wichita Falls and in the neighborhood of Denton. 
So far as he was able to find, the cold weather has had no effect on them. 
D. J. Caffrey spent February 3 to 10 in the Washington office, 
consulting with Bureau officials and preparing reports. 
On February 21 F. T. Cowan, of the Billings, Mont., laboratory, 
attended a meeting held at Fort Collins, Colo., to discuss control of 
the Mormon cricket. 
C. M. Packard of Lafayette, Ind., J. R. Horton of Wichita, Kans., 
and C. C. Hill and H. D. Smith of the field laboratory at Carlisle, Pa., 
were in Washington February 25 to 28 in consultation with Bureau officials 
regarding various phases of the work on the Hessian fly. 
