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Prof. W. C, O'Kane and W. A. Osgood, of the New Hampshire Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station, and H. N. Worthiey, Extension mtomologist of 
Pennsylvania, were recent visitors at the Arlington laboratory. 
_ i. H. Patch, of the Sandusky, Ohio, corn borer laboratory, is making 
the annual infestation survey in Ohio. H. N. Bartley, of the Silver Creek, 
‘XN. Y., laboratory, is Similarly engaged in western New York. 
Visitors to the Sugarcane Insect Laboratory at New Orleans in Sep- 
tember included Dr. H, Atherton Lee, plant pathologist of the Hawaiian Sugar . 
Planters’ Experiment Station, Dr. D. L. Van Dine, in charge of the Cuba 
Sugar Ciub Experiment Station, and H. K. Plank, formerly of the Bureau, and 
now engaged in studying the sugarcane moth borer in Cuba for the Tropical 
Plant Research Foundation. | 

COTTON INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
INVESTIGATIONS OF INSECTS AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF MAN AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
J. L. Webod, Associate Entomologist, Acting in Charge 
in August F. C. Bishopp gave talks on the control of poultry parasites 
at a series of district meetings held at Sweetwater and Stephenville, Tex., 
under the auspices of the Texas Farm Bureau. He also discussed the:work of 
the Bureau on Insects affecting livestock at the "round up" held at the Texas 
Experiment Substation No. 14, located in the heart of the ranch country near 
Sonora, On this trip he also visited the Bureau substations at Sonora and 
Uvalde, as well as the extensive project on the control of the screw worm which 
is being carried out by ranchmen in Menard County, under the direction of County 
Agent R, W. Nisbet, The plan followed is that: recommended by the Bureau, and 
the test is being closely watched, at: 
br. G. F. White spent the month of September at Jacksonville Beach, 
Fla., cooperating with Vi. £, Dove in investigations of creeping eruption. 
Ellis C. Pattee has been appointed Junior Chemist, and Richard Henry 
Howe and George li. Bamberg Field Assistants, at the Boll Weevil Laboratory at 
Tallulah, La. | 
Appointments of J. W. Wilson, J. C. Pearson, G. L. Hales, R. B. Carr, 
H. T. James, L. F. Greer, Franklin-Sherman III, W. H. Wilson, W. W. Brunson, 
i. R. Thompson, W. A. Brunson, W. A. Shands and D. L. Wray, temporary Field 
Assistants in boll weevil investigations, terminated in September. 
