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N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, attended the annual convention of the 
Vegetable Growers Association at Cleveland, Ohio, September 14 to 16. 
The temporary appointments of the following field assistants have 
. been terminated in September: E. L. Weatherby (Athens, Ohio), H. Beerman 
(Philadelphia, Pa.), and W. J. Douglass (Estancia, N. M) 
Dr. D. M. DeLong has resigned his temporary appointment as field 
assistant at Columbus, Ohio, to resume nis professorship in entomology at 
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C. O. Bare, Plant City, Fla., has been transferred to Tampa, Fla. 
Summer Camp for Pea Apnis Study at Columbus, Wis. 
Field control of the pea aphis is possible over a season lasting only . 
Six weeks. In order that the entire work on this project might, without dis- 
tracting influences, be concentrated on the maximum production of results, a 
field camp, including 20 acres of experimental plots, and provided with 
Suitable laboratory and other quarters for the staff of six men, a stenog- 
rapher, and a cook, was organized at Columbus, wWis., in June by J. EB. Dudley, 
Jr., in charge of the Madison, Wis.,pea aphis laboratory. At the camp break- 
fast was served at 6:30 and Supper at 5:30, The entire force was thus avail- 
able for research and control work from 7:00 to 5:30, the evenings being 
occupied with recreation and conference. The camp,was broken about the mid- 
dle of August. Be adiiy re 
The constant close contacts. thus brought about led to an exceptionally 
excellent morale and esprit du corps, and the discussions each ‘evening aided . 
in the solution of many small problems as they arose, Together with the 
tendency to spend long hours in’the field,. these factors contributed in no 
Small degree to exceptionally efficient. research, and it is Mr. Dudley's be- 
lief that the advantages of such an arrangement far outweigh any difficulties 
in connection with its organization, , 

: DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
R. F, Sazama, who has been associated with Dr. Porter at Vincennes , 
Ind., in connection with apple insect investigations, has been given a fur- 
lough for one year, to undertake «graduate studies at the Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural Colleze, | . . sathey 
