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Walling will work under the supervision of the State Entomologist, Prof. G. M. 
Bentley. 
Recent visitors to the Bee Culture Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology were: 
Prof. N. E. Phillips, Extension Apiarist, and D. L. Van Dine, Extension Entomologist, 
both from State College, Pa. Dr. E. Kohn of Grover Hill, Ohio, and Dr. L. D. 
Leonard of Minneapolis, Minn., both prominent beekeepers, also visited the 
laboratory. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips attended the annual meeting of the Ohio State Beekeepers’ 
Association held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, on February 7 and 8, and 
the following week attended a special series of meetings for beekeepers held by 
Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. While in Lafayette, Dr. Phillips spoke before 
the monthly meeting of the extension staff of the University. 
The importance of the winter packing of bees is emphatically shown by the 
condition of the bees in Tennessee this spring. Those who packed allowing proper 
amount of stores for their colonies already have eight frames of brood. Those who 
did not direct attention to packing, although with plenty of stores, have come 
through in a weakened condition. 
Messrs. Lloyd M. Bertholf and Bruce Lineburg, who were employed at the Bee 
Culture Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology last summer, will return there for 
work about June 1 for the summer period. Mr. Carlton Burnside, a graduate of the 
University of Michigan, will also be at the laboratory to investigate the fungi of the 
alimentary tract of the adult bee. 
According to Gleanings in Bee Culture , Mr. Warren Whitcomb, a senior in agri¬ 
culture at the University of New Hampshire, is making a survey of the beekeeping 
industry of New Hampshire with special reference to the kinds and amount of honey 
produced and the disease conditions. Mr. Whitcomb will give particular attention 
to the eradication of brood diseases as New Hampshire has no foul brood law, and 
consequently is not permitted to send bees into neighboring states. 
Prof. R. B. Willson, Extension Specialist in Apiculture at Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., gave a radio talk on “The Uses of Honey” from Station WEAF, 
New York City, on February 27, and on account of it received 372 requests for the 
Government Bulletin, “Honey and its Uses in the Home.” Prof. Willson in com¬ 
pany with some of the New York apiary inspectors, planned to visit Medina and 
Ashtabula, Ohio, early in April, to study, first hand, the problems connected with 
the sterilization of diseased combs by the alcohol-formalin method. 
Plans for the VII International Apicultural Congress are progressing satisfactorily 
and the final program will be issued about June 1. Information regarding the details 
of the Congress may be obtained from M. C. Vaillancourt, Ministere de Agriculture, 
Quebec, who has charge of the arrangements. The proceedings of the Congress will 
be held in both French and English and all papers submitted will be translated so 
that they may be read in both languages. Following the meetings of the Congress, 
to be held September 1-4, several interesting excursions are arranged for those 
in attendance, including one to the Saguenay River on a specially chartered boat. 
