THE JHAWAIIAN 
mtSm h AGRICULTURIST 
VOL. VII 
JUNE, 1910 
No. 6 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s recent publication on 
'‘The Anatomy of the Honey Bee” embodies the results of de- 
tailed studies and should prove of value as bringing to bee- 
keepers reliable information concerning an insect of such great 
economic importance, and also as furnishing a sound basis in 
devising new and improved practical manipulations. The sub- 
ject has been for years the object of study of many careful 
students ; but the popular demand for information has also in- 
duced untrained men to write accounts of bee anatomy contain- 
ing numerous errors, and illustrated by drawings more artistic 
than accurate. The text of the bulletin here mentioned is pro- 
fusely illustrated, fifty-seven figures, including a full page 
median longitudinal section of the body of worker, being used, 
all but three of which are new and original, having been pre- 
pared by the author with a thorough realization of the need of 
more accurate illustrations of the organs of the bee, especially 
of the internal organs. This bulletin can be secured only from 
the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, 
as the Department’s supply is by law limited to an edition barely 
sufficient to furnish libraries and the collaborators of the Depart- 
ment with copies. 
The Yearbook for 1909 just issued is the sixteenth volume 
under that title from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The 
current volume does not differ materially from its predecessors 
except that its size has been reduced — this issue showing about 
200 pages less than the 1908 volume. This reduction was ac- 
complished not by redircing the number of articles but by the 
greatest possible condensation of the matter in those printed and 
the elimination from the appendix of certain less important fea- 
tures. 
AN EVENTFUL YEAR. 
This year is eventful for agricultural development in Hawaii 
in the direction of having the land peopled with tillers of the 
soil who will form a backbone of citizenship. Hitherto agri- 
cultural expansion in the islands has taken the form of tillage of 
