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Canners' Association held at Atlantic City ,N. J., during the latter half 
of the month. He has furnished similar material for exhibit by the ento- 
mologists of Illinois, Kansas, and other States. The fine exhibit shown 
in Cambridge during Convocation Week was arranged under the direction of 
D. J. Caffrey and L. H. Worthley. 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
The bureau's laboratory at Wallingford, Conn,, has been digcon- 
tinued and Dr. B. A. Porter has been transferred to Vincennes, Ind., 
where, in cooperation with the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment 
Station, investigations will be undertaken of the more important fruit 
insects of southern Indiana. 
W. D. Whitcomb, who has been connected with apple insect investi- 
gations at Yakima, Wash., has been transferred to New Orleans, La., and 
Will be associated with Dr. H. L. Dozier in investigations of the camphor 
scale, — 
C. A. Weigel has been temporarily assigned to New Orleans, La., to 
conduct fumigation investigations in the treatment of nursery and florist 
stock infested with the camphor scale. He will return to Washington in 
the course of two or three weeks, 
The laboratory at Medford, Oreg., has been discontinued, and M. A, 
Yothers, who has been in charge of this station, has been transferred to 
the bureau's laboratory at Yakima, Wash., where he will be associated 
with E. J. Newcomer in the continuation of fruit insect investigations of 
that region, 
TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F, H, Chittenden, Entomologist in Charge 
J. E, Dudley, Jr., assistant entomologist, stationed at Madison, 
Wis., recently visited the Bureau of Entomology in connection with making 
arrangements for the proposed campaign against the pea aphis for the com- 
ing calendar year. Mr. Dudley was en route to the National Canners' As- 
sociation Convention at Atlantic City, N. J., January 22-26, 1923, where 
he presented an interesting paper outlining the plans of the department 
undertaking work against the pea aphis in Wisconsin and other portions of 
the United States, in cooperation with State entomologists and repre- 
sentative canners. 
