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COTTON-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, Entomologist, in Charge 
J. A. Evans, Assistant Chief of the Cooperative Extension Work, 
Washington, was a visitor at the Tallulah laboratory from May 8 to May 
1l, conferring with B. R. Coad on cooperation of the Bureau of Entomology 
with the Extension Service and State Experiment Station of Oklahoma, in 
control of the boll weevil. 
S. H. McCrory, Chief, Division of Engineering, Bureau of Public 
Roads, was a visitor at the Tallulah laboratory on May 23, conferring 
with B. R. Coad regarding cooperative engineering work. 
On May 16 and 17 R. C. Gaines and V. V. Williams attended a con- 
ference with J. A. Evans, Assistant Chief of the Cooperative Extension 
Work, Washington, and officers of the Oklahoma Experiment Station and Ex— 
tension Service at Stillwater, to arrange for cooperative work in Okla-— 
homa during 1928 between the Bureau of Entomology and the Oklahoma Ex— 
periment Station and Extension Service. At this conference it was agreed 
that the Bureau of Entomology in cooperation with the State of Qklahoma 
would conduct a series of boll weevil control tests at two points ean 
southeastern Oklahoma, and that the Bureau of Entomology would make 
records of weevil infestation at weekly intervals throughout the season 
in aS many counties as possible in southeastern Oklahoma. These infesta— 
tion records will be forwarded to the Director of Extension at Stillwater, 
where they will be analyzed by a central committee composed of the Exten- 
sion Director, Extension Entomologist, and Experiment Station Entomolo-— 
gists. On the basis of these records recommendations will be made for 
control of the boll weevil in the various areas, 
A. J. Chapman, who for the past two years has been in Arizona 
engaged in scouting and other investigations of the Thurberia weevil, has 
returned to Tallulah. 
F, F, Bondy, of the Tallulah laboratory, has been placed in charge 
of the cooperative work of the Bureau of Entomology and State Experiment 
Station, recently established in South Carolina, with headquarters at 
Florence. 
R, E, Mitchell and John Payne, airplane pilots of the Tallulah 
laboratory, spent several days in the latter part of May at Albany, Ga., 
dusting pecan trees by airplane, in cooperation with J. B. Demaree, of 
the Division of General Orchard Disease Investigations, Bureau of Plant 
Industry. 
C. C. McCall, of Whitman, Miss., and Clyde F. Rainwater, Waynes-— 
boro, Miss., have been employed as temporary field assistants at the 
Tallulah laboratory for the summer months. 
