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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
On February 19, at Spokane, Wash., E. J. Newcomer, in charge of the 
field laboratory at Yakima, Wash., for investigations of the codling moth, 
met with representatives of the Washington Experiment Station and the Wash— 
ington State Department of Agriculture to formulate recommendations for 
state control of the codling moth in 1929. 
T. L. Bissell, until recently of the pecan-insect field laboratory 
at Barnesville, Ga., which has been discontinued, is now in immediate charge 
of pecan-insect investigations at Experiment, Ga., where laboratory facil-— 
ities have been provided by the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station. 
G. F. Moznette, in charge of pecan-insect investigations, attended 
the meetings of the Cotton States Branch of the American Association of 
Economic Entomologists held at Houston, Tex., February 6 and 7, where he 
presented @ paper on "Airplane dusting experiments, and results secured 
for the control of the pecan leaf case-bearer." Others present from the 
Division of Deciduous—Fruit Insects were 0. I. Snapp, of the field labo- 
ratory at Fort Valley, Ga., and C. ©. Pinkney, of that at Brownwood, Tex. 
Mr. Snapp was elected secretary-treasurer, and B. R. Coad, in charge of 
the Division of Cotton Insects, chairman, of the Cotton States Branch. 
After the meetings Mr. Moznette visited the field laboratory at Brown- 
wood, and that at Shreveport, La., and conferred with various men who are 
working on pecan insects. Mr. Snapp, with several State entomologists, 
Made a trip into the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas to observe some of 
the work being done on the Mexican fruit worm and in inspection at points 
on the Mexican border. 
Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, and Frank A. Herman, Assist— 
ant Chemist, both of Ottawa, Canada, visited the Laboratory on February 
15. Other visitors were C. W. Collins, in charge of gipsy-moth research, 
Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass., on February el, C. H. 
Popenoe, of the Division of Truck-Crop Insects, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, 
Washington, on February 27, and on other dates Prof. Clyde C. Hamilton, 
Entomologist, of Rutgers University, and R. Bourdette, of the New Jersey 
State Experiment Station. 
V. I. Safro, Director of Japanese Beetle Suppression for the New 
Jersey Department of Agriculture, has resigned his position to enter com-— 
mercial work with the Kay Laboratories, West Nyack, N. Y. 
R. J. Sim visited the New York State Museum at Albany on February 
18 and 19, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City 
on February 20, 21, and 22, to study types of Phyllophaga. 
