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FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
As La Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
C. A. Weigel has just returned from a trip to New Orleans, where he 
assisted the florists in fumigation operations against the camphor scale.- 
Dr. William Moore, associate professor of entomology, University of 
Minnesota, has been appointed as ar agent in the Bureau and assigned to duty 
at Riverton, N. J., to take Cnarge of insecticide investigations against the 
Japanese beetle. This work will be carried out in cooperation with the New 
Jersey anc Pennsylvania State Departnents of Agriculture, 
Dr. Henry Fox, who has been assisting in Japenese beetle control operations, 
has returned to college to resume his teaching duties, 

SOUTHERN TIELD-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Je Le Webb, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
Dre W. D. Hunter, B. R. Coad, G. A. Malorey, a member of the boll weevil 
force, and F. S. Chamberlin, in charge of the tobacco insect laboratory at 
Quincy, Flae, visited Washington during the menth. 
G. L. Garrison, who has been on temporary field work at Quincy, Fla., 
has returned to Washington. 
At the end of the month R. W. Wells left Herkimer, N. Ye, for Dallas, Tex. 
During his absence from Herkimer, the ox warble work in New York will be 
carried on by H. M. Brundrett. 
. The following men have been temporarily transferred from the boll weevil 
force te the Federal Horticultural Board: L. BR. Lyle, G. Be. Ray; I. Be Rut. 
ledge, G. L. Smith, W. A. Stevenson, J. V. Vernon, and V. V. Williams. 
The following temporary appointments have been terminated: W. R. Heard, 
J. Be. Pope, and H. C. Young of the Tallulah, La., laboratory, and Chas. 
Milford of the Madison, Fla, Laboratory. 
F. D. Parnell and W. R. Smith of the boll weevil force have resigned. 

TRUCK-CROP Ii'SECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. H. Chittenden, Entomologist in Charge 
The Mexican bean beetle caused larger losses than usual in the stances 
Valley in New Mexico. Reports by county agents and several growers show that 
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