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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
In cooperation with the Tennessee Extension Service, Oliver I. 
Snapp spent November 18 to 23 in Tennessee, speaking to peach growers in 
each county where peaches are of commercial importance. Meetings were 
held at Cleveland, Sale Creek, Dayton, Kingston, and Clinton. The aver-— 
age attendance at these meetings was forty. The Tennessee peach crop was 
severely damaged this year by the curculio. On November 11 Mr. Snapp 
addressed the peach growers at Newnan, Ga., on control of the curculio 
and other peach insects, and on the following day spoke to the growers at 
Hogansville, Ga. 
M. E. Phillips, of Ithaca, N. Y., formerly connected Witheine 
Division of Stored=Product Insects of the Bureau of Entomology, and 
Mrs. Phillips, who, like her husband, is a graduate entomologist, visited 
the field laboratory at French Creek, W. Va., about November 1. 
Fred E. Brooks, in charge of the field laboratory at French Creek, 
W. Va., gave a talk on insect pests before a service club meeting at 
Buckhannon, W. Va., on the night of November 5. 
Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
On November 1 Octave Piel, S. J., of the Museum of Natural His— 
tory of Zi-Ka-—Wei, Université l'Aurore, Shanghai, China, visited the 
Japanese-Beetle Laboratory while on his way to China. His visit was ad-— 
vised by Dr. P. Vayssiére, of Paris, who was at this laboratory in the sum- 
mer of 1928. Father Piel was much interested in the work of the parasite 
division of the laboratory. He has lived in the district in China where 
our field collectors obtained Tiphia, and has a large series of these: 
parasites which he very kindly offered for study here. These were ac— 
cepted, and it is felt that Father Piel will be of further assistance to 
the bureau in obtaining certain desired weather reports of the same region. 
On November 13 and 14 M. C. Lane, of the Division of Truck Crop 
Insects, and in charge of the field laboratory at Walla Walla, Wash., 
visited the laboratory. Mr. Lane was interested in the laboratory equip- 
ment and general layout, and spent some time conferring with R. J. Sim 
on studies of Coleoptera. 
J. N. Knull and Dr. T. L. Guyton, of the Pennsylvania Department — 
of Agriculture, Harrisburg, spent the afternoon of November 14 with Mr. 
King, discussing the work on parasites of the Japanese beetle. 
Dr. L. M. Peairs, head of the Department of Entomology, West Vir-— 
ginia University, Morgantown, W. Va., visited the laboratory on Novem- 
ber 19. 
Dr. R. T. Cotton, of the Division of Stored-Product Insects, spent 
November 29 at the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory. He was interested gen-— 
erally in the laboratory and its work. 
