Hindle, Edward. Flies in relation to disease; bloodsucking flies. Cambridge, 1914. 398 p. illus. (Cambridge 
public health series under the editorship of G. S. Graham Smith and J. E. Purvis.) References at ends of sections. 
Hood, J. D. An outline of the subfamilies and higher groups of the insect order Thysanoptera. (Proceedings of the 
Biological Society of Washington, v. 28, p. 3-60, Mar. 12, 1915.) 
Hutchinson, W. Z. Advanced bee culture; its methods and management. The A. 1. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 1911. 
ed. 4. 205 p. 
Kraemer, Henry. Applied and economic botany, especially adapted for the use of students in technical schools, 
agricultural, pharmaceutical, and medical colleges, and also as a book of reference for chemists, food analysts, and 
students engaged in the morphological and physiological study of plants. 806 p. 424 pl. Philadelphia. The 
author, 1914. 
The library of the Department of Agriculture has recently received by transfer from the Library of Congress a number 
of volumes on apiculture, among them a first edition (1853) of ‘‘Langstroth on the hive and honey bee.’’ North- 
ampton, Hopkins, Bridgman & Co. These books are filed with the Apicultural Division at Drummond. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 650, The San Jose scale and its control, by A. L. Quaintance, was issued March 30, 1915. 
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 658, Cockroaches, by ©. L. Marlatt, was issued March 27, 1915. 
Report of the Secretary’s Office No. 101, entitled ‘‘The Woolly Apple Aphis,” by A. L. Quaintance and A. C. Baker, 
was issued March 31, 1915. 
The Contents and Index number of the two papers on Aphididz, known as Technical Series 25, has gone to press. 
Bureau Bulletin 94, Part II, Biology of the termites of the eastern United States, with preventive and remedial 
measures, by Thomas E. Snyder. Issued February 17, 1915. 
Department Bulletin 197, Home-made lime-sulphur concentrate, by E. W. Scott. Issued March 31, 1915. 
BEE-CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS. 
E. F. Puirures, In charge. 
In conjunction with the Southern Conference for Education and Industry, to be held at 
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 27-30, there will be a conference of southern bee keepers. The 
meeting on the first day will be devoted to a discussion of beekeeping for teachers and others 
interested in the development of beekeeping in the South. The Tennessee State Beekeepers’ 
Association has called a special meeting to be held with this conference on April 28-29. E. F. 
Phillips is chairman of the bee-keepers’ conference. 
N. E. McIndoo will leave about April 1 for Roswell, N. Mex., and Grand Junction, Colo., 
to do work in cooperation with the Office of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations. Mr. George 
S. Demuth will go to Winchester, Va., for similar work on a later date. 
The taking of records for the investigations on wintering will be discontinued about March 
31. The lateness of the season has made it necessary to continue this work longer than usual. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
F. M. Wesster, In charge. 
Mr. Irving R. Crawford has been appointed temporary field assistant, and will proceed to 
San Diego, Cal. to collect parasites of a species of Hemileuca oliviz in northeastern New Mexico. 
The force engaged upon this investigation will consist of Mr. D. J. Caffrey, in charge; Messrs. 
Crawford and J. R. Sandige, temporary assistants; and a permanent appointee not yet selected. 
Mr. Timberlake, who has been spending the winter at the Brownsville, Tex., laboratory, 
engaged particularly on the hymenopterous parasites of lady beetles, will return to Salt Lake 
about the middle of April, and on his return Mr. L. P. Rockwood will be transferred temporarily 
to Forest Grove, Oreg., to assist in the clover-insect investigations being carried on at and from 
that laboratory. é 
