October, ’24] 
APICULTURAL NOTES 
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to determine the effectiveness of sulphur dioxide gas, orthodichlorobenzene, and 
creosote in preventing and checking the attack of ambrosia beetles, or pin-hole borers, 
in select grades of cypress which are used for partitions in batteries furnished auto¬ 
mobiles and airplanes. At High Point, N. C., considerable control work was done 
in treating infested rustic furniture with orthodichlorobenzene. About a week was 
spent at Asheville, N. C., with A. H. MacAndrews, who is conducting life-history 
studies of bark-beetles attacking pine trees, and the seasonal cutting of various trees. 
The following appointments to the Bureau of Entomology have been announced: 
Temporary appointments: Mexican bean beetle, H. L. Weatherby, Prof. D. M. De- 
Long, Field Assistants; Rodney Cecil, Junior Entomologist, Norman Allen, Roy H. 
Stansell, Junior Entomologists, and Calvin J. Boal and Horace Richman, Field 
Assistants, truck crop insect investigations; John A. McLemore, Junior Entomologist, 
sweet potato weevil eradication; Cecil C. Wilson, Junior Entomologist, cereal and 
forage crop insects, Sacramento, Cal.; Hiram G. Burt, Junior Entomologist, joint- 
worm investigations, Charlottesville, Va.; Adan Celaya, seed chalcid investigations, 
Yuma Valley; David Dunevan, wireworm investigations, Yakima Valley, Wash.; 
Wm. J. Reid, Junior Entomologist, truck crop insect investigations,Chadbourn, N.C.; 
Wm. M. Mingee, Junior Entomologist, sweet potato weevil eradication, Gulf Coast 
Region, S. F. Potts, Mexican bean beetle, Ohio. 
Mr. H. R. Bryson has been appointed Assistant Entomologist in the Department 
of Entomology, Kansas State Agricultural College 
Apicultural Notes 
Mr J. E. Eckert of State College, North Carolina, was a recent visitor at the Bee 
Culture Laboratory. 
Mr. W. J. Nolan attended the meeting of the North Carolina State Beekeepers’ 
Association at Winston-Salem, September 10. 
Mr. E. L. Sechrist was in attendance at the Maryland State Fair at Timonium in 
connection with the educational exhibit in beekeeping, September 1. 
Professor Frances Jager of the University of Minnesota, has been selected as judge 
of the honey exhibit for the Mid-West Horticultural Exposition, which will be held 
in Waterloo, Iowa, November 11-16. 
Mr. George Harrison, vocational instructor in bee culture at the University of 
Maryland, College Park, under Prof. E. N. Cory, has resigned and accepted a posi¬ 
tion as manager of the G. B. Lewis Company, Lynchburg. Virginia. 
Gail M. Creger, a vocational student at Iowa State College, Ames, who took api¬ 
culture under Prof. F. B. Paddock, has accepted a position as manager of the G. B. 
Lewis Company of Wichita, Kansas. 
The summer meeting of the State Beekeepers’ Association of North Carolina was 
scheduled to be held at Winston-Salem on September 10. The secretary is J. E. 
Eckert, State College Station, Raleigh, N. C. 
Dr. James A. Nelson, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, formerly connected with the Bee Culture 
Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, recently spent a few days at the laboratory 
arranging for the publication of his paper on the morphology of the honey bee larva. 
