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On May 28 E. G. Rex, of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, 
visited the laboratory to confer further on the pp Orage of treating turf 
for control of the Japanese beetle. 
On May 28 Messrs. Humphreys and Carver, of the Andorra Nurseries, 
visited the laboratory to observe the nursery stock growing in soil treat— 
ed with lead arsenate. 
On May 29 T. J. Headlee, State Entomologist of New Jersey, visited 
the laboratory in connection with nursery problems in control of the Jap-— 
anese beetle. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
J. A. Harris, Assistant. Entomologist, of the North Caroiia 
State Department of Agriculture, and J. C. Moser, Assistant Entomologist, 
and H. J. Kile, Inspector, of the Division of Plant Disease Control, Uni- 
ersity of Tennessee, visited the peach-insect laboratory at Fort Valley, 
Ga., on May 5. Other visitors to the laboratory during the month includ- 
ed three inspectors from the office of the State Entomologist of Texas; 
one from the office of the State Entomologist of South Carolina; one from 
the Alabama Bureau of Plant Industry; and three from the U. S. Bureau of 
Plant Industry. 
On May 6 F. C. Petherbridge, of the School of Agriculture, Univer- 
Sity of Cambridge, England, visited the Yakima, Wash., field laboratory. 
E. J. Newcomer, Senior Entomologist in charge of the Yakima, Wash., 
field laboratory, has been elected president of the Yakima Valley Federal 
Business Association. 
Prof. W. E. Hoffman, of Lingnan University, Canton, China, vis-— 
ited the oriental peach moth parasite project at Moorestown, N. J., on 
May 14. He was interested in the nature of the damage by the fruit moth 
in the United States, and is making a study of its North American para-— 
sites. 
Dr. Alberto Graf Marin, head of Servicio Sanitario Vegetal, of 
Santiago, Chile, visited the oriental fruit moth parasite laboratory at 
Moorestown, N. J., on May 20 to 21. Dr. Marin was particularly interested 
in the technique of mass rearing of parasites and in the breeding of 
Ascogaster carpocapsae, a parasite of the peach and codling moths not 
present in Chile. 
J. K. Holloway and H. J. Willard, of the Moorestown, N. J., field 
laboratory, received on May 26, from the Steamship Augustus at New York, 
the first consignment of oriental fruit moth parasites to be shipped from 
Europe this year. 
