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TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
J. N. Tenhet, Chadbourn, N. C., visited Washington December 6 
to 13, for consultation and to review literature on wireworms. 
About the middle of December A. C. Morgan, Clarksville, Tenn., 
visited Tempe, Ariz., and other points in the Southwest, to confer with 
workers regarding investigations on the tobacco stalk borer, which has 
proven injurious to tobacco plantings in that section. 
The following employees of this Division were in attendance at 
the annual meetings of the American Association of Economic Entomolo- 
Pists, held at New York City, December 27 to 31: Walter Carter, Twin 
Falls, Idaho, N. F. Howard, Rodney Cecil, and O. E. Gahm, Columbus, 
Ohio, J. E. Graf and C. H. Popenoe, Washington, D. C., D. E. Fink, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., and W. E. Stone, Sanford, Fla. 
Walter Carter, Rodney Cecil, and W. E. Stone stopped over at 
Washington for conference, on their return from the New York meetings. 
On his return from the scientific meetings in New York City Prof. 
D. M. DeLong, of Ohio State University, Columbus, was a visitor at the 
Washington office, where he called to discuss the work he has been con- 
ducting on the bean leafhopper. 
INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 
0. G. Babcock, of the field laboratory at Sonora, Tex., attended 
the International Livestock Show at Chicago, December 1 to 8, where he 
had charge of this Bureau's exhibit on cattle grubs. He also attended 
the meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation at the Sherman Hotel, 
Chicago, December 10 to 12. At this meeting the Bureau of Entomology 
had an exhibit on mites and lice of poultry. 
Dr. W. V. King, in charge of the field laboratory at Mound, La., 
sailed on the S. S. President Taft December 8 for Manila, where, dur- 
ing the next five months, he will make special studies of the Anophe- 
line mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands. This work is to be done 
under the auspices of the International Health Board. Dr. King's head- 
quarters while in the Philippines will be the Bureau of Science, Manila. 
0. G. Babcock attended a meeting of ranchers at Del Rio, Tex., 
December 16, to which he had been invited for the purpose of discuss— 
ing measures for controlling screw worms and blowflies. 
