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This will include an exhibition of the instruments used in obtaining internal humidity 
and temperature records of the hive, an exhibition of over four hundred samples of 
honey from all sections of the country, the spectro-photometer or instrument used 
in an attempt to establish color grades for honey, the special photographic apparatus 
used in obtaining records of brood development, the various bacteriological methods 
used in determining diseases, specimens of Acarapis woodi, as well as other things of 
interest. 
Alertness by the Mississippi State Plant Board in the forepart of the year prevented 
a possible outbreak of American foulbrood when a beekeeper from another State 
moved a truckload of bees into one of the best honey-producing counties of Missis¬ 
sippi without proper authority. His action came to the attention of the Board almost 
immediately, however, and resulted in destruction of the apiary. 
R. B. Willson, extension worker in charge of beekeeping for New York State, has 
equipped an automobile for demonstrating the use of the Hutzelman alcohol-formalin 
method for treating combs infected with American foulbrood. 
Several interesting beekeeping books have appeared recently. One of these, “Law 
of the Honeybee,” published by The American Honey Producers’ League, aims to 
give all court decisions affecting beekeepers’ rights. Two beekeeping books have 
appeared from England, one entitled “Beekeeping for Beginners” by I. H. Jackson, 
and the other “Practical Beekeeping” by Arthur M. Sturges. Rev. Ivan F. Kitz- 
berger of Czechoslovakia, editor of a journal devoted to scientific apiculture, has 
published a book, “Rostliny Medonosne,” which gives in Czech a description of all 
the honey-plants found in the author’s country, the Latin equivalents being given 
for all generic and specific names, and the German equivalents for all generic names. 
Among recent state bulletins is that by Russell H. Kelty, entitled “Seasonal Man¬ 
agement for Commercial Apiaries,” published as Special Bulletin No. 135 of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station of Michigan Agricultural College. In August, 
Texas issued a reprint of its bulletin No. 255, “Beekeeping for Beginners.” 
As a publication of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Ot. Laxa has 
prepared a 116 page report on Czechoslovak honey. One section of the work is 
devoted to the results obtained from a chemical analysis of 166 different samples of 
honey from the author’s country. 
To settle a controversy as to which comb-honey granulates more quickly, that from 
the West or that from the East, beekeepers asked the Bee Culture Laboratory to 
take up a study of the rate of granulation in comb-honey from all sections of the 
country. To provide the Laboratory with samples of comb-honey for this purpose, 
beekeepers in several regions of the country have already sent specimens of their 
crop, and it is hoped that enough more will do likewise so as to have every portion 
of the country represented. 
For some time Europeans have been more zealous in an attempt to better their 
bees by breeding than has been true of beekeepers in the United States. The co¬ 
operative methods employed for maintaining mating stations by beekeepers in Swit¬ 
zerland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Austria are known to all who read the bee¬ 
keeping journals of Continental Europe. To most American beekeepers the term 
“mating station” is unknown. In recent months European workers in this field have 
been laying much emphasis on the fact that honey-gathering qualities should be con¬ 
sidered of first importance, and that only secondary importance should be attached 
