1()() GRASSHOPPERS AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1911 AND 1912. 



OUT STATION APIARY. 



Last winter was a severe one upon bees and loss in wintering 

 was in some cases as high as 75 per cent. Therefore, although the 

 summer of 1912 has been an excellent one as regards honey flow, 

 the total amount of honey produced in the State this season is below 

 the average. White Clover and Sweet Clover both did well and 

 Bass Wood was in bloom at a time when bees could take care of the 

 nectar. Notwithstanding favorable conditions during the sum- 



Fig. 70. "Wlio's afraid of liees?" Photo taken in our Colleg-e Aiiiary b.v A. A. Aaniodt. 



mer, it looks on account of the above winter conditions, as though 

 there would be something of a shortage in the honev supply this 

 fall. 



Bees in our apiary are going to their winter quaiters in good 

 condition. 



The Entomologist gives a course in the elements of bee keeping 

 to college students and a certain number of lectures on this subject 

 to senior school students. Of necessity, all college and school in- 

 structions has to be given at a time when one cannot work in the 



