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Mr. R. S. Hawkins, temporary Insect Pest Inspector at Fredericton, N. B., Lab¬ 
oratory, resigned on September 8. 
Mr. Alfred Lutken, a graduate of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of 
Mississippi, has been appointed Plant Quarantine Inspector for duty at the Honolulu, 
Hawaii, station. Mr. Lutken has had two years’ experience as Assistant Inspector 
for the State Plant Board of Mississippi. 
A staff of four inspectors is now engaged in the examination of vegetables shipped 
from the Windsor district to the United States, and up to July 12, certificates were 
issued for the export of beets and beans to the value of $10,000.00 and oat straw grown 
in various parts of the province, amounting to the value of about $1,500,000.00. 
On July 1, a Regulation was passed by the Federal Horticultural Board prohibiting 
the export of Christmas trees from all townships along the international border in 
southern Quebec, on account of the danger of spreading the Gipsy Moth to unin¬ 
fested portions of the United States. The protection of the balance of Quebec and 
Canada Fas also been provided for through a Domestic Quarantine which was passed 
on September 3 as Regulation No. 7, placing an absolute quarantine on the bordering 
townships in southern Quebec covered by the United States Regulation and also 
placing under restriction the townships adjoining this area on the north and west, 
which prohibits the movement of Christmas trees from this area unless accompanied 
by a certificate of origin issued by this Department. To date a total number of 5990 
permits have been issued to cover shipments of nursery stock from the United States 
and a total number of 4153 permits to cover importations from other countries. 
Apicultural Notes 
The fall meeting of the Connecticut Beekeepers Association was held in Hartford, 
October 25. 
The annual meeting of the Georgia Beekeepers Association was announced for 
October 29-30 at Savannah. Mr. L. C. Walker, Alma, Ga., is Secretary of this 
organization. 
The annual meeting of the Alabama Beekeepers Association was scheduled to be 
held in the Chamber of Commerce Auditorium, Montgomery, Ala., on November 6. 
Mr. M. C. Berry is Secretary. 
Announcement was made of the annual meeting of the Northern Illinois and 
Southern Wisconsin Beekeepers Association on October 21 at Freeport, Ill. Mr. B. 
Kennedy, Rockford, Ill., is the Secretary. 
About 250 people from the United States, Canada, and Europe, attended the 
Seventh International Apicultural Congress held at Quebec, September 2 to 4. The 
Bureau of Entomology was represented by E. F. Phillips and James I. Hambleton. 
Mr. W. J. Nolan of the Bureau of Entomology attended the meeting of the North 
Carolina State Beekeepers’ Association at Winston-Salem, September 10. Messrs. 
E. S. Prevost and C. L. Sams, formerly extension workers with the Bureau, but each 
now engaged in similar work for South Carolina and North Carolina respectively, 
were also present. 
Included among the visitors at the Bee Culture Laboratory of the Bureau of En¬ 
tomology during the month of October were: Dr. E. F. Phillips, now Professor of 
