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the beekeepers of that State to feed celonies of bees seriously short 
ef stores for winter, This Office has made every effort to have su- 
gar diverted to beekeepers seriously needing it in other parts of the 
country. The suger shortage means much to beekeepers whose bees are 
short of stores for winter and it is probable that the losses of bees 
in the spring of 1920 will be severe, 
G.H.Cale and Geo, H, Rea attended the annual meeting of the Mary~ 
land States Beekeepers' Association at Hagerstown, Md., October 30. 
LIBRARY » 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
New Books¢ 
Association of American agricultural colleges and experiment stations. 
Proceedings 32nd annual convention. Burlington, 1919, 
Audouin, Jean Victor. Hadstoire des insectes nuisibles a la vigne, et 
particulierenment de la pyrale...349 pp., illus., 23 pls., 4°. Par- 
is, Fortin, Masson et cie, librairies, 1842, : 
Fabre, J.H,C, The wason wasps. Tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. 
318 p., 8°. N.Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1919. 
Hillebrand, S.F, Fishes in relation to mosquito control in ponds. 
U,S. Public Health Service, Public Health Reports, v. 34, Nok, Sin 
pp. 1113-1128, May 23, 1919. | 
Matheson, Robert. A study of the plant lice injuring the feliage and 
fruit of the apple, (N.Y, Cornell Univ. Agr. Bxp. &ta, Memoir 24, 
June, 1919), 
Rogers, Leonard, Fevers in the tropics. 404 pp., illus., tab., 4¢ Lon- 
don, Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1919, 
Townley, Edward. | A practical treatise on humanity to honey bees, 
162 PPp., 16 * bh ae de! Wm, S, Dorr, 1843, 
Urich, F.W. Thrips, black ants and esther inséctspests of cacao in 
Grenada, with a note on coconut disease, 23 pp., 2pls., 8. 
Trinidad, Printed at the Government printing office, Port-of-Spain, 
1918, . 
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SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INBECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J.L. Webb, Entomological Assistant Acting in Charge. 
R.H,Hutchison made a trip to Mound, La., during the month. He hes 
returned to his station in Philadelphia. 

