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about 5,00) acres of beans were totally destroyed, and the amount of damage 
is conservatively placed at $100,000. Reports by several of the growers and 
by Dr. Rotert Middlebrook, entomolcgist of the State agricultural College, 
College Station, N. Mex., indicate that the insect was held in check to some 
extent by dipterous parasites. An investigation of this report was made, but 
i¢ was too late in the seacon to determine absolutely whether a parasite had 
been at work. As a general rule, the Mexican bean beetle, in its occurrence 
in New Mexico, confines its attacks to the edges of the large plantings that 
lie close to the hills. During the present year severe damage resulted in 
the middle of the Estancia Valley, many miles from the mountains, end the 
bean growers are fearful lest the insect will repeat its attacks other yearss 
The bean harvest in the West was almost completed by September 10 and many of 
the beetles were in the fields, but none of them could be found in hibernation 
in the shrubbery in the foothills. 
J. We Hendry, inspector in sweet-potato weevil work at Macclenny, Flaey 
for the past three years, has resigned to engage in business at Jacksonville, 
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W. E. Stone, formerly agent with the Bureau of Entomology, has been | 
appointed scientific assistant, and will be engaged in sweet-potato weevil | 
eradication work. 
L. M. Prichard, in charge of sweet-potato weevil eradication at the 
Gulfport station, has recently resigned to engage in farminge 
L. We Brannon, H. Bs Lancaster, D. M. Dowdell, jr. and F. R. White, who 
have been temporarily employed in Mexican bean beetle investigations, have 
been appointed plant quarantine inspectors in connection with this projecte 
Sam H. Rountree, in charge of sweet-potato weevil eradication work at 
Macclenny, Fla., has been transferred to Brownsville, Fla-, to take charge of 
a new eradication project, including about 30 infested farms at Lilly, Fla 
This infested region comprises a new angle of the project, since sweet potatoes 
are grown continuously throughout the year and dug as needed. An opportunity 
will therefore be afforded to study the sweet-potato weevil under strictly 
tropical conditionse 
C. H. Batchelder has concluded his investigation and experimental work 
against the insects affecting potato at Presque Isle, Maine, and ao now pré= 
paring a report on the summer's operations against the potato flea-beetley 
potato aphids and leafhoppers, and, in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, the transmission of the potato mosaic diseases 
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Hill Book Company, Ince, 1921+ 

