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tion of value mentioned in or comino- within the scope of this act, and 

 of such other matters as the board may from time to time direct." 

 Staff: Alexander Craw, superintendent and inspector. 

 A. Koebele, consulting entomologist. 

 Jacob Kotinsky, assistant entomologist. 

 C. J. Austin, inspector's assistant. 

 Division of Entomology, Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar 

 Planters' Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. 



Organized August, 1904. Lines of work: Study of the insect pests 

 of sugar cane, and the collection, introduction, and distribution of the 

 parasitic and predaceous enemies of the insect pests of sugar cane. 

 Staff: R. C. L. Perkins, director. 



A. Koebele, consulting entomologist. 

 Alexander Craw, consulting entomologist. 

 G. W. Kirkaldy, assistant entomologist. 

 F. W. Terry, assistant entomologist. 

 Otto H. Swezey, assistant entomologist. 



BEE KEEPING. 



The bee keeping industry in the Hawaiian Islands represents an 

 investment of approximately $150,000. With the exception of a few 

 Japanese who are engaged in the work individually on a small scale 

 and certain others who produce comb honey for local consumption, 

 the industry is in the hands of three corporations, one of which equals 

 in production the combined product of the other two. It is apparent 

 that with the completion of the plans of expansion now under way by 

 these corporations the next year or so will see the various honey 

 producing localities of the islands well covered and the limit of pro- 

 duction attained. (PI. II, figs. 1 and 2.) This is of course on the pres- 

 ent basis of production. The entomologist believes that the local 

 consumption of this product could be greatly increased and in the local 

 market a small producer could easily compete with a large corpora- 

 tion where the freight rates and amount produced would not permit 

 competition in the markets of the mainland or Europe. Again, many 

 small producers could organize an association and grade and market 

 their honey in bulk with equal advantage in comparison to large ship- 

 ments of a single concern. Although under corporation management 

 the honey industry will in the near future reach its limit, there is still 

 room under proper management for small producers, depending only 

 in part on honey for their income and perhaps doing a large share 

 of the manipulation of the apiary at odd hours of their time, to enter 

 the field and obtain a fair return for their labor. As with silk culture, 

 bee keeping could be carried on in certain localities as a side issue 

 and, by organizing the marketing, prove a source of income. 



