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to study honey-market conditions, He was accompanied by Mr. Wells A. Sherman of 
the Office of Markets. Visits will also be made to the other chief wholesale 
markets for honey to gain information on which to establish the reports on market 
conditions and records of honey-crop movements which are to be issued by the 
Office of Markets. I+ is learned that the heavy demand for honey for export taken 
all the remainder of the 1916 crop at high prices. 
The work on the effect of spraying on bees was conducted this year at the 
Drummond Laboratory. 
Kennith Hawkins returned early in the month from an extended trip in Texas 
and Oklahoma. On May 7 he began a series of meetings in Virginia in cooperation 
with the Virginia Extension Service. Meetings wilt be held in all parts of the 
State during the next few weeks. 
C. E. Bartholomew recently finished a three-weeks trip on a special bee, 
poultry and marketing train over the lines of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. 
Louis R.R. This is the first agricultural train to be run in the United States 
on which special cars were set aside for beekeeping work. Reports received from 
railroad officials and others indicate that this was one of the most effective 
steps so far taken to build up the beekeeping industry in any State. 
BE. L. Sechrist of Fairoaks, Calif., began work as Apicultural Assistant on 
April 23, 
Several temporary assistants have been appointed recently to assist in the 
campaign for stimulating the beekeepers of the country to increase production. 
Dr. Burton N. Gates, Massachusetts Avricultural College, and G. A, Cale, 
Maryland College of Agriculture, have been appointed collaborators to assist in 
the campaign for more money. 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. be Quaintance, In Charge. 
R. A. Cushman, who has been in Washington doing systematic work on parasitic 
Hymenoptera, has returned to hisfield quarters, North East, Pa. to resume his 
studies of grape berry moth parasites. On his way to North East, Pa., he spent 
several days in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., in examining 
types of Hymenoptera. 
Dwight Isely has completed manuscripts and reports on the grape berry moth 
and has returned to North East, Pa., to continue work in connection with grape- 
insect investigations, ” 
E. B, Blakeslee, who is engaged in the study of peach insects, especially 
the peach borer, has returned to his field headquarters, Springfield, W. Va.e, to 
continue his field operations. 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman. 
A public hearing was held May 18, in Washington, for the purpose of con- 
sidering the extension of the gipsy moth and brown-tail moth quarantine to cover 
four additional towns in New Hampshire, and one in Vermont. 
Recent reports on the pink bollworm situation in Mexico indicate that this 
insect occurs at least over an area of 1200 square miles in the Laguna district, 
and that it seems probable that it also occurs elsewhere in Mexico on account of 
known distribution of seed from the Laguna for planting. This development makes 
it very doubtful whether it will be possible by any expenditure of money to exter- 
minate this insect in Mexico. 
