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The two motion picture films on bee keeping prepared by the Bureau of Entomol¬ 
ogy and distributed through the Motion Picture Laboratory of the Department of 
Agriculture have had an enormous demand. The film showing the life history of 
the bee has been especially popular and it has been quite impossible for the Depart¬ 
ment to furnish the film to all persons requesting its use. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips addressed a joint meeting of the Society of the Sigma Xi and the 
Biological Club of Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, on “Beekeeping Investi¬ 
gations” on the evening of February 1. He was scheduled to speak before the Ohio 
State Beekeepers Association, Columbus, Ohio, February 1-2,the American Honey Pro¬ 
ducers’ League, St. Louis, Mo., February 6-9, and to give one of the Ludwig Lectures 
of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia on the evening of 
April 2. 
The American Honey Producers’ League held its annual meeting in St. Louis on 
February 6-8. Important matters which were considered by the convention were 
color grades for extracted honey and the enforcement of the Act of Congress on 
August 31, 1922, prohibiting the importation of adult honey bees into the United 
States, except from countries in which the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine 
that no disease dangerous to adult honey bees exists. The League will issue a monthly 
bulletin to its membership during the coming year. Prof. H. F. Wilson was re¬ 
elected president and Dr. S. B. Fracker has been chosen as Secretary by the Executive 
Committee. 
The collection of honeys made by the Bureau of Entomology last summer was 
sent to the annual meeting of the American Honey Producers’ League in St. Louis in 
February, where it attracted much interest. The members of the League in attend¬ 
ance were asked to state individually where, in their opinions, the several color grades 
should be limited, as based on the samples submitted. There was naturally con¬ 
siderable difference of opinion but by averaging the decisions made individually and 
by further discussion an agreement was reached, representine the recommendations 
of the meeting for the establishment of grades. It is expected that in the near future 
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture will establish 
legal grades for this purpose, after which assistance will be given in the duplications of 
these color grades for the use of beekeepers and buyers of honey. 
A conference regarding regulations for the importation of adult honey bees, under 
the act of August 31st, 1922, was held in the United States National Museum, March 
12th. The conference, with Dr. Phillips as Chairman, considered and passed the 
regulations as submitted by the Department of Agriculture. Regulation 5 was 
amended to make it clearer that bees could be imported from Canada without re¬ 
strictions under the law, and, in Section B, by the addition of a clause further safe¬ 
guarding the introduction of queens from countries in which the Isle of Wight disease 
does not now exist. 
The following men attended the hearing: Kenneth Hawkins, G. B. Lewis Com¬ 
pany; R. B. Willson, New York; N. E. Phillips, Pennsylvania; C. L. Marlatt, 
Bureau of Entomology; E. A. Sherman, Solicitor of the Department; A. P. Sturte- 
vant, Bureau of Entomology; T. K. Massey, State Inspector of West Virginia; G. 
C. Chase, a Wisconsin beekeeper and George Rea and Ernest N. Corjq representing 
the apicultural section of this association. 
