February, 1916. 



American ^ee Journal 



to work out as many of these details 

 as time and opportunity will permit. 

 The bulletin on "Anatomy of the 

 Honoyboo" by Mr. K. 10. Snodgrass, 

 fjivos additions to our knowledge of 

 the subject and corrects commonly 

 credited errors. After Mr. Snodgrass 

 had linished his fundamental work on 

 anatomy of the mature insect, it was 

 followed by the monumental work on 

 the development in the egg by Dr. 

 .Tas. A. Nelson, which was reviewed 

 in the .lanuary number of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. The work by Dr. 

 N. E. Mclndoo on "The Olfactory 

 Sense of the Bee" has already been 

 discussed in this Journal. It nil be 

 recalled that Doctor Mclndoo locates 

 the olfactory organs on the bases of 

 the wings and legs and not on the 

 antennae, as commonly supposed. He 

 claims this to be the case with 

 many other insects also. 



"The Manipulation of the Wax 

 Scales of the Honey Bee" and "The Be- 

 havior of the Honey Bee in Pollen 

 Collecting," two papers by Dr. D. B. 

 Casteel have attracted wide attention 

 and have corrected some wrong im- 

 pressions concerning the activities of 

 the bees. Doctor Casteel found that 



E. G. Carr 



the "wax-shears" on the hind legs of 

 the bees have nothing to do with wax. 



Surveys of beekeeping conditions 

 and possibilities in Porto Rico and 

 Hawaii by Doctor Phillips and in 

 Massachusetts by Dr. B. N. Gates have 

 been published and a similar survey of 

 the conditions in one of the southern 

 States has recently been made bv Mr. 

 B. G. Carr. 



Several practical bulletins, in addi- 

 tion to those already mentioned, have 

 been widely circulated. A general 

 bulletin on beekeeping has had a wide 

 circulation and bulletins have been 

 issued on queen-rearing and extracted 

 honey production. Another bulletin, 

 on the production of comb-honey, by 

 Mr. Geo. S. Demuth, in addition to a 

 very careful outline of the essentials 

 in comb-honey production, contains a 

 logical discussion of the vital question 

 of swarm control in this special con- 

 nection. 



The bulletins on the chemical analy- 

 sis of honey, on which the enforce- 

 ment of the pure food laws for honey 

 adulteration is based, and the bulle- 



THEY PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH 



tin on uses of honey in cooking and 

 baking, which is so deservedly popu- 

 lar just now, were prepared in other 

 Bureaus within the Department, prob- 

 ably witli some stimulation from the 

 bee-men of the Bureau of Entomology. 

 The bulletin on sweet clover, althougih 

 not directly a beekeeping subject, has 

 been very helpful to the beekeepers, 

 since with the Department's endorse- 

 ment of this plant as a forage plant, 

 it cannot now be considered as a weed. 



THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE WORK 



At present there are five men and 

 two women, in the Drummond labora- 

 tory, engaged in the investigations in 

 bee-culture. Several of those whose 

 names have already been mentioned 

 in connection with the various bulle- 

 tins have left the Department or aie 



no longer in the special branch 

 charged with investigations in this 

 special line. A short sketch of those 

 now in the work follows: 



DR. E. F. PHILLIPS. 



Doctor Phillips is a well known 

 figure at conventions and needs no 

 introduction to many of our readers. 

 His extensive investigations have kept 

 him prominently before the beekeep- 

 ers for several years past. A suc- 

 cessful investigator needs thorough 

 training, great patience and an open 

 mind. All these qualifications our 

 friend possesses in marked degree. 

 We know so many things that "aint 

 so" that the research student must 

 expect many objections when new the- 

 ories are advanced. Time always es- 

 tablishes the truth or falsity of new 



DR. PHILLIPS AT HIS DESK 



