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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
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Apicultural Notes 
Mr. A. I. Root, founder of the A. I. Root Company, Medina, Ohio, and author of 
the A B and C of Bee Culture died April 30 at his home in Medina at the age of 83 
years. 
The annual spring meeting of the Connecticut Beekeepers Association was held 
at the State Capitol, Hartford, on May 5. The association has about 250 members 
and the following officers were reelected: President H. L. Lankton; Vice-President 
S. J. Griffin; Secretary-Treasurer, Louis St. Clair Burr; members of executive 
committee, L. C. Root, J. D. Kroha, H. W. Coley: auditors, A. W. Yates, C. J. Ross. 
A new bee disease law has been enacted in Ohio through the efforts of the Ohio 
State Beekeeper’s Association, and carries an appropriation of 15,000.00 for inspection 
work. The enforcement of this law is in charge of Richard Faxon, Director of 
Agriculture, who is empowered to formulate rules and regulations concerning the 
inspection and shipment of bees. 
Mr. A. E. Lundie, a graduate student of Cornell University, who is making a 
special study of beekeeping in this country, preparatory to taking up work in bee¬ 
keeping for the Union of South Africa, has spent most of the last eighteen months at 
the bee culture laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology near Washington. D. C. 
Mr. Lundie has now returned to Cornell to take his examinations for the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy, and will soon return to South Africa 
FOR SALE—Collection of 171 Butterflies from all over the world. 
A. Zwicker, 321 Second Ave., New York City. 
