258 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY Vol. 15 



Apicultural Notes 



The East Tennessee Beekeepers' Association now has 111 members and will hold 

 its fifth annual convention at Knoxville on May 17. 



The black locust blossom has been abundant in Tennsesee. White clover is 

 beginning to blossom on May 9. Bees generally are doing well. 



It is reported that 62 students are enrolled in the course in beekeeping at the 

 Colorado Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colo. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips of the Bureau of Entomology has recently been elected an honor- 

 ary member of the Beekeepers' Association of South Africa, and honorary vice- 

 president and Fellow of the Apis Club, an international organization with head- 

 quarters in Benson, Oxon, England. 



Mr. W. L. Walling, who has been spending the winter in Knoxville, Teni ., and 

 giving several lectures to the apicultural classes of the University of Tennessee, has 

 returned to his beeyard at Hardin, Montana. Last year Mr. Walling produced 

 18,500 pounds of honey. 



Dr. G. F. White, specialist in insect diseases, Bureau of Entomology, has been 

 elected a Fellow of the Apis Club, Benson, Oxon, England. In transmitting the 

 notice of election, the secretary said "It is the highest position of distinction that is 

 within our power to offer to a benefactor in beekeeping." 



A series of beekeepers' meetings was held at Jackson, Lexington, Dyersburg and 

 Memphis, Tennessee, on April 25, 26, 27 and 28 respectively. Much interest was 

 shown in these meetings by the beekeepers who have asked that a West Tennessee 

 Beekeepers' Association be perfected at the next meeting of the Farmers' Institute 

 to be held at Jackson. 



Prof. R. O. Wahl, entomologist of the Grootfontein Agricultural School, Middle- 

 burg, Cape Colony, South Africa, has recently made a trip through Canada and the 

 United States. He visited Ottawa April 5 and 6, and spent the 24th and 25th at the 

 Ohio Station, Wooster, Ohio. He spent a week at Medina, Ohio, to study American 

 beekeeping methods and equipment. He is a friend and co-worker of C. W. Mally 

 who was assistant entomologist at the Ohio Station from 1898-1902. After leaving 

 the United States, Prof. Wahl expects to visit Honolulu and Australia. 



Following the conference held in Washington! March 9th, a bill was drafted pro- 

 hibiting the importation of adult bees into the United States except for scientific 

 purposes by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and except from countries having 

 no diseases dangerous to adult bees under rules and regulations prescribed by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture. This bill was intro- 

 duced into both Houses of Congress and at the time of this writing has been unani- 

 mously reported on favorably by the House Committee on Agriculture. The bill 

 seems to have met with almost universal favor among beekeepers, the only oppo- 

 sition having corne from those interested in future importations of races other than 

 the Italian. The Minister of Agriculture of the Dominion of Canada has issued an 

 order prohibiting the importation of bees from Europe and the Dominion of Australia 

 has a similar order applying only against Great Britain. Both are, of course, designed 

 to prevent the introduction of the Isle of Wight disease into these countries. The 

 March number of Schweizerischer Bienenzeitung announces the finding of the mite 

 causing the Isle of Wight disease in Switzerland. 



