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rely on any one of these factors alone and expect to get the very best 

 results. The}' are all necessary. 



Chairman Paddock: The next paper on the program is by Frank 

 C. Pellett. 



SOME BEEKEEPING PROBLEMS FOR EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



By Frank C. Pellett, Haniilton, III. 



The experiment stations are justly entitled to a large share of the 

 credit for the great advancement of agriculture during the past few- 

 years. Unfortunately, as yet, few stations recognize the problems of 

 the hone\^ producer as of sufficient importance to engage their serious 

 attention. Iowa and Texas are the two outstanding exceptions, for 

 in these two states full time men are devoting their undivided attention 

 to research work. However, in both cases, the work is new, and sufficient 

 time has not yet elapsed to get far wdth the problems at hand. In 

 several other states some research work is under way in charge of the 

 entomologist or of some one on the staff who devotes a portion of his 

 time to beekeeping. 



For the most part the progress of apiculture is to be credited to the 

 work of enthusiastic beekeepers who have made accidental dis- 

 coveries and to well trained men who have taken up beekeeping as a 

 hobby. The results obtained by the staff of the Bureau of Entomology 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in their wintering experiments 

 and in their research work on bee diseases, would surely indicate that 

 beekeeping offers a promising field. 



Since beekeeping is now receiving more favorable notice from the 

 colleges of agriculture and state experiment stations, as evidenced by 

 the fact that in more than thirty states some work in beekeeping is 

 now under way, it may be an opportune time to point out a few of the 

 problems which might profitably be undertaken. 



The two problems which have received the most attention, wintering 

 and bee diseases, may be mentioned. While much has been learned 

 concerning the activities of the bees in winter and the fundamentals 

 that must be observed, there is still a lack of such information as will 

 enable the average beekeeper to apply these principles to his specific 

 conditions. In every state it should be possible to give the enquiring 

 beekeeper definite information as to the best method of wintering in 

 his particular locality. Kansas is just now making an attempt to w^ork 

 out this information for the beemen within her borders. 



