February, ’23] 
NOTES ON APICULTURE 
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The Public Hearing to consider the advisability of restricting or prohibiting the 
importation of fruits and vegetables in the raw or unmanufactured state from all 
foreign countries and localities on account of the Mediterranean and other fruit 
hies, held by the Federal Horticultural Board December 19, 1922, was well attended. 
The California State Department of Agriculture was represented by Mr. Lee A. 
Strong, and the State Plant Board of Florida by Dr. J. H. Montgomery. Both of 
these men took part in the discussion. Other out of town entomologists attending 
the hearing were Messrs. Glen W. Herrick (Cornell University), A. W. Morrill 
(California), and C. P. Lounsbury (Union of South Africa). 
Notes on Medical Entomology 
The New Jersey 1922 legislature appropriated $18,000.00 for mosquito control. 
Mr. A. Robertson of the Treesbank laboratory, Canada, has now collected twenty- 
two species of mosquitoes in a special study he is making and many notes have been 
obtained of their breeding habits. 
According to Science , Professor W. A. Riley, chief of the division of entomology, 
University of Minnesota, returned in September from a three month’s stay in 
Porto Rico, where he made an intensive study of the relation of the soil conditions 
to the propagation of parasites. 
On November 10 a mosquito conference was called at Houston by the Texas 
Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of formulating plans to reduce the economic 
waste and annoyance from mosquitoes in the Southwestern States. Considerably 
over one hundred health officers, sanitarians, drainage engineers etc., were in attend¬ 
ance. Following a brief address by Mr. J. S. Cullinan, President of the Texas 
Chamber of Commerce, the life history and habits of mosquitoes, especially Ano¬ 
pheles and Aedes aegypti, were discussed and demonstrated by Dr. A. C. Chandler of 
Rice Institute, in the absence of F. C. Bishopp who was unable to be present. Dr. 
J. A. LePrince of the United States Public Health Service discussed mosquito con¬ 
trol and losses chargeable to these insects. Mr. V. M. Ehlers, chief sanitary engineer 
of the State Board of Health, discussed practical methods of controlling msoquitoes. 
Resolutions looking toward the formation of organizations in various parts of the 
Southwest to further mosquito control work were adopted. Dr. Oscar Dowling, 
State Health Officer of Louisiana, Dr. C. W. Garrison, State Health Officer of Ar¬ 
kansas, and Dr. J. H. Florence, State Health Officer of Texas, were in attendance and 
took part in the discussions. Dr. W. T. Davidson, Director of Public Health of 
Dallas, presided. 
Notes on Apiculture 
The Indiana State Beekeepers Association held a meeting at the State House, 
Indianapolis, December 21 and 22. 
The seventh annual winter meeting of the North Carolina State Beekeepers 
Association was held at Charlotte, January 11. 
The fall convention of the Connecticut Beekeepers Association was held at the 
State Capitol, Hartford, October 28. 
