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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Dr. Quaintance recently visited the field laboratory at Moorestown, 
N. J., and went over the work there under way in some detail with L. B. 
Smith, in charge. A visit to Westbury, Long Island, was made to observe 
the investigations on the Asiatic beetle being conducted there by H. C. 
Hallock and his assistants. 
Late in July Dr. B. A. Porter visited the field laboratories at 
Vincennes, Ind., and Sandusky, Ohio, to make observations on work under 
way. In company with Messrs. R. F. Sazama and William P. Yetter, Jr., 
he spent half a day with Prof. W. P. Flint in southern Illinois, looking 
over experimental work on the control of the oriental peach moth. 
William Blakiston, a student at George Washington University, 
was appointed Field Assistant, July 15, and assigned to duty at the 
field laboratory at Sligo, Md., where he is assisting Luther Brown in 
investigations of parasites of the codling moth. 
B. E. Montgomery, who has received his master's degree at Pur— 
due University, has been appointed Field Assistant at the field lab-— 
oratory at Vincennes, Ind., where he is assisting in investigations 
of deciduous—fruit insects. 
COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
G. C. McGinley, airplane pilot, stationed at Tallulah, La., ar— 
rived in Washington July 10 to take charge of a De Haviland airplane 
which had been transferred from the War Department to the Department of 
Agriculture. He took off in the plane for Tallulah on July 11, arriving 
there the next day. 
In the latter part of July Mr. Coad visited several points in 
Oklahoma, where experiments in control of the boll weevil are being 
conducted by the Bureau of Entomology in cooperation with the Oklahoma 
Agricultural Experiment Station and the Extension Service. | 
Prof. J. W. Bailey, of Mississippi A. and M. College, at Clin- 
ton, with his senior class in entomology, composed of 26 young men and 
women, visited the field laboratory at Tallulah on July 24, spending 
most of the day in observing the practical field and laboratory opera— 
tions and demonstrations in cotton dusting with ground machines and air-— 
plane. 
