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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Dr. F. H. Lathrop, who has been in charge of the Bureau's blue— 
berry maggot investigations at Cherryfield, Me., has been transferred 
to Vincennes, Ind., to be in charge of the field laboratory there. 
L. C. McAlister, jr., who has been associated with Dr. Lathrop 
at Cherryfield Me., will take charge of investigations of the blue-— 
berry maggot. 
James R. Thomson, jr., a graduate of North Carolina State Col- 
lege, who recently received the degree of Master of Science from the 
University of Tennessee, has been appointed Junior Entomologist, to 
assist with investigations at the Peach Insect Laboratory, Fort Val- 
ley, Ga. 
On September 28 Oliver I. Snapp addressed the peach growers of 
Tennessee at the courthouse in Kingston, in that State. Over 150 grow-— 
ers attended this meeting, and before adjournment an organization was 
formed to conduct~a district-wide campaign for suppression of peach 
insects. On the night of October 25 Mr. Snapp gave an address on insect 
control at a men's meeting in Fort Valley, Ga. 
Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
On October 5 Dr. W. E. Britton, Dr. Philip Garman, andes 
F, Townsend, of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, vis— 
ited the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory to confer with the Principal En- 
tomologist in Charge in regard to rearing parasites of the oriental 
peach moth. Mr. Townsend spent several days collecting parasitized 
strawberry leaf-roller for use in parasite rearing which has been under— 
taken in Connecticut. 
George E. Murrell, horticulturist of the Southern Railway, Wash— 
ington, D. C., visited the laboratory to study the methods used in rearing 
parasites of the peach moth and to discuss the possibility of utilizing 
them in certain peach-growing sections of Tennessee which are heavily 
infested. 
On October 17 C. R. Willey and G. T. French, of the State De— 
partment of Agriculture, Richmond, Va., spent some time looking over 
the equipment used in the laboratory. 
G. J. Haeussler reports having found three species of parasites 
of the oriental peach moth in southern France. One of these is Asco-— 
gaster carpocapsae; the others are as yet undetermined. 
Luther Brown, of the Codling-Mcth Laboratory, Silver Spring, 
Md., spent some time at this laboratory in the latter part of October. 
