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nual  Report  of  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations  for  1907,  but 
is  now  available  as  a Reprint. 
In  addition  to  the  above,  the  following  bulletins  issued  by  the 
Office  of  Experiment  Stations  are  suggested  as  being  of  use: 
Bulletin  No.  201.  “Cost  of  Pumping  from  Wells  for  the  Irri- 
gation of  Rice  in  Louisiana  and  Arkansas.”  By  W.  B.  Gregory, 
Professor  of  Experimental  Engineering,  Tulane  University  of 
Louisiana.  Pp.  39. 
Bulletin  No.  203.  “The  Distribution  of  Water  in  the  Soil  in 
Furrow  Irrigation.”  By  R.  H.  Lougbridge,  Ph.  D.,  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  California. 
Bulletin  No.  205.  “Irrigation  in  Wyoming.”  By  C.  T.  John- 
ston, State  Engineer. 
All  the  publications  referred  to  above  are  obtainable  from  the 
Office  of  Experiment  Stations,  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture. 
HAWAIIAN  BEE  KEEPING. 
The  visit  of  Dr.  E.  F.  Phillips  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands  last 
year  was  an  event  of  great  importance  to  the  local  honey  industry. 
LTpon  his  return  to  Washington  Dr.  Phillips  embodied  an  account 
of  his  observations  in  a paper  which  has  recently  been  issued 
entitled  “A  Brief  Survey  of  Hawaiian  Bee  Keeping.”  The  pub- 
lication is  an  extremely  interesting  one,  containing  many  typical 
illustrations  and  will  no  doubt  be  of  great  value  to  our  local 
apiarists. 
The  pages  devoted  to  “Bee  Rights”  and  to  “Sources  of  Honey” 
are  particularly  instructive  and  the  concluding  chapter  on  the 
nature  of  diseases  and  the  means  of  preventing  their  introduction 
to  Hawaii  should  be  closely  studied. 
The  article  in  question  is  Bulletin  No.  75,  Part  V,  of  the  Bureau 
of  Entomolgy,  and  may  be  obtained  from  the  U.  S.  Department 
of  Agriculture,  Washington,  D.  C. 
A factory  has  been  opened  at  Kalaoa,  Hawaii,  by  W.  Conradt, 
for  the  manufacture  of  Hawaiian  starch.  The  manioca  for  this 
purpose  is  grown  in  the  neighborhood  and  it  is  intended  to  market 
the  product  in'one  pound  packages  to  retail  at  ten  cents  each.  It 
is  said  that  Hawaiian  starch  “pia”  is  of  much  greater  value  for 
laundry  purposes  than  other  varieties. 
