December, ’23] 
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of the cotton industry. Claude G. Rives, Jr., of New Orleans, president of the 
Louisiana Bankers’ Association, chairman of the conference, named part of this 
committee, which will meet on November 17 in New Orleans, when the full personnel 
will have been named. Those already named on the committee include: from the 
Department of Agriculture, W. D. Hunter and B. R. Coad, who is in charge of the 
Federal bollweevil experimental station at Tallulah, La.; from the Association of 
Southern Agricultural Workers, W. E. Llinds, of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 
and D. C. Hull. 
The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomologv have been announced: 
L. M. Bertolf, assistant bacteriologist, bee culture investigations, to become in¬ 
structor of biology, North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, N. C.; L. L. 
Benton, W. C. Gideon, J. G. Lewis, G. E. Hawkins, K. M. Mace, C. A. Bolt, W. H. 
Craven, J. H. Hunter, C. Ling, L. C. McCraw, A. L. McCrary, W. D. McGowan, 
F. G. Martin, M. C. Martin, R. L. Martin, D. L. Outen, S. D. Reid, T. D. Ricten- 
baker, T. S. Smith, J. N. Todd, A. M. Bacot, E. B. Barnett, G. R. Fulton, L. F. Greer, 
S. B. Hendricks, L. P. Hodges, B. C. House, D. E. Lott, T. E. McNeel, A. L. Monroe, 
R. W. Necaise, S. Sevier, of the bollweevil force; L. L. English, Mexican bean beetle, 
to become a graduate assistant at the Iowa Agricultural College, where he will investi¬ 
gate insecticides and work for the doctorate; Dr. Arnold P. Sturtevant, bee disease 
work, to accept a position in the bacteriological department of the New York Homeo¬ 
pathic Medical College; W. D. Mecum, field assistant, Madison, Wis.; C. H. Hadley, 
Riverton, N. J., to become Director, Bureau of Plant Industry, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Notes On Apiculture 
The fall meeting of the Connecticut Beekeepers’ Association was held at the 
State Capitol, Hartford, October 20. 
The annual meeting of the Indiana State Beekeepers’ Association will be held at 
Indianapolis on Thursday and Friday, December 13 and 14. Mr. C. O. Yost, 
State House, Indianapolis, is the Secretary. 
Mr. Wallace Park has resigned his research work in apiculture at the Iowa Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station to take charge of the beekeeping work in the department 
of entomology at the University of Illinois. 
The annual convention of the New Jersey Beekeepers’ Association will be held on 
January 17 and 18 at Trenton, in connection with Agricultural Week activities. 
Mr. Jay Smith of Vincennes, Ind., has been engaged as one of the speakers. 
A beekeepers’ conference was held Thursday, November 8, at the Eastern Apple 
Exposition and Fruit Show at the Grand Central Palace, New York City. Some of 
the speakers were Dr. E. F. Phillips, Prof. E. N. Cory, George H. Rea and E. R. Root. 
Dr. Robert Burri, whose work on the brood diseases of bees is well known and who 
is now director of the Dairy Experimental Station at Liebefeld, Switzerland, was in 
Washington during the International Dairy Conference. He reports that the work 
on the control of the Isle of Wight disease in Switzerland is progressing favorably. 
Mr. R. L. Parker of the Department of Entomology has been transferred to take 
charge of the research work in Apiculture of the Iowa Experiment Station, succeed¬ 
ing Wallace Park who has gone to the Department of Entomology at the University 
of Illinois. Mr. Parker is at present working on his Doctor’s Degree in Apiculture, 
having already received his Master’s Degree in Apiculture, so that he comes to the 
