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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 16 
The relation between the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and 
beekeeping in Texas is two-fold. In the first place, the Experiment 
Station, through the Division of Entomology, is conducting investiga¬ 
tional work in beekeeping, and in the second place the Chief of the Di¬ 
vision of Entomology, as State Entomologist, is in charge of the foul- 
brood control work of the state. I will first discuss briefly the investi¬ 
gational work. 
Investigational Work in Beekeeping 
At the present time the headquarters for the investigational work in 
beekeeping is in Bexar County near San Antonio, to which place it was 
moved from College Station this past summer because of the exceedingly 
poor beekeeping possibilities in the vicinity of the latter place. A 
ten-acre plot of ground was purchased and an attractive and substantial 
brick laboratory building, containing an office, a laboratory, and a large 
store-room, was erected. In the near future it is planned to build a 
residence for the apiculturist. Mr. H. B. Parks, who is well-known to 
the beekeepers of the country through his work and writings, is in charge. 
Extensive planting will be made of all the honey-plants which grow well 
under the climatic and soil conditions obtaining in that part of the state 
in order to aid in a thorough study of honey-plants and of nectar secre¬ 
tion. The main apiary will be located here, and out-apiaries will be 
established in the surrounding country with the idea of making a study 
of all the problems of the commercial beekeeper. 
About four miles from the headquarters laboratory is the experimental 
queen yard which is in charge of an expert queen breeder, Mr. A. H. 
Alex, a graduate of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
who works under the direction of Mr. Parks. Here studies of the various 
problems of queen breeding are carried on. Queens are reared to supply 
the experimental apiaries in the state where they are tested for the 
various qualities that are considered desirable in queens. Each year 
the surplus queens are sold to the beekeepers of the state, selling not 
more than three to any one beekeeper, in order to obtain as wide distri¬ 
bution as possible and thus aid in bringing up the general level of quality 
of bees throughout the state, and especially in getting the average 
beekeeper to appreciate more fully the importance of good queens. 
Two experimental yards have been established to study special prob¬ 
lems in two of the most important honey producing regions of Texas, 
one at Dilley in southwest Texas, where mesquite (Prosopts glandulosa ), 
huajilla (Acacia berlandiera ) and catsclaw (Acacia greggii) are the 
