August, ’23] 
APICULTURAL NOTES 
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recent years, namely the potato wart and the Japanese beetle, and the success of 
enforcement in these is in no little measure due to his organizing genius and untiring 
efforts. By the withdrawal of Mr. Sanders the State of Pennsylvania loses a power¬ 
ful force that was wholeheartedly devoted to its agricultural progress. 
A cotton boll weevil laboratory and field station has been opened at Florence, S. C., 
under a cooperative project between the Bureau of Entomology and the South 
Carolina Experiment Station, with Dr. N. E. Winters in charge. Early in May Mr. 
Coad spent a few days at Florence, conferring with Prof. Barre, Prof. Conradi, and 
Dr. Winters, relative to the plans for this season’s experiments. Messrs. H. C. 
Young and V. V. Williams, of the main Boll Weevil Laboratory at Tallulah, La., 
have been detailed to the Florence station. In addition, a number of entomologists 
will be employed. Plans were made to study primarily the particular point of 
weevil biology and behavior which have local significance in connection with control 
measures. Extensive tests are planned to include the field use of all of the principal 
suggested measures of control, such as the dusting method, the Florida method, and 
the use of sweetened poisons. In addition to the work at Florence, certain of these 
experiments will be repeated at Clemson College and several other points in the 
State, representing the principal topographical districts. The experimental work to 
be conducted at the Boll Weevil Laboratory at Tallulah, La., relative to the use of 
airplanes for distributing poison dust for the control of the boll weevil is now under 
way. In April, three De Haviland 4B planes were detailed by the Air Service for use 
in this work in cooperation with the War Department. These planes are under the 
command of First Lieut. Guy L. McNeil, who served on this same project last season; 
Allen L. Morse, an aeronautical engineer from McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, was also 
detailed for duty on this project and arrived at Tallulah shortly after the arrival of 
the planes. It has been found that owing to the different behavior of the DeHaviland 
planes, as compared with the small Curtis plane used in the experiments conducted 
last year, the dusting problem becomes quite different, and the mechanical problem 
of providing suitable distributing mechanism is very complicated. Several types 
of dust hoppers have been constructed for use in these planes. This phase of the 
work is still in an experimental stage and it will require considerable time and 
experimentation before a final design for a hopper can be decided upon. Mr. Coad, 
who is in charge of the Boll Weevil Laboratory, hopes to have a fairly satisfactory 
permanent hopper installed in at least one of the planes in time to use it in actual 
control work during the summer months. Several plantations near the landing 
field have been mapped and all arrangements made for poisoning the cotton on these 
in an effort to accomplish boll weevil control through the season. 
Apicultural Notes 
Mr. Arthur C. Miller, Providence-, R. I., an authority on beekeeping, died at his 
home, June 11, in the 61st year of his age. 
Mr. A. P. Sturtevant of the Bureau of Entomology appeared before a board of 
experts on May 29 to defend his thesis presented for his doctor’s degree at the George 
Washington University at commencement in June. His thesis is entitled: “The 
Development of American Foulbrood in Relation to the Metabolism of its Causative 
Organism,” 
