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’ BEE CULTURE 
H. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge. 
Dr, BE. F. Phillips return November 14 from an extended western trip, taken 
rw the purpose of arranging for extension work in bee keeping, In addition to 
nferences with various extension directors, meetings of beekeepers were held 
a Utah, Idaho and California. Most beekeepers in the west are awake to the need 
fF increasing honey production next year and are making plans to that end. The 
fe disease situation in California is more serious than had been realized due 
“ee failure of beekeepers to differentiate American foulbrood and European foul- 
rood. Many are attempting to treat American foulbrood by methods applicable 
nly to European foulbrood with disastrous results. 
By C. H. Bartholomew has been transferred from Tennessee to carry on extens~ 
On work in beekeeping in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and southern Idaho. He will 
o first to Wyoming to complete a trip to the northern part of the state before 
‘evere weather begins. 
Kennith Hawkins is in Florida for a few weeks. It appears that American 
julbrood has broken out in the Apalachicola river region and beekeepers are 
reatly disturbed, 
be George S. Demuth attended a meeting of Farm Advisers and Farmers' Insti- 
ate Workers at Ithaca, New York, on November 26. | 
B. F. Atwater of Idaho has been appointed as Special Field Agent and will 
onduct extension work in California, Arizona and New Mexico. He will report 
irect +o the Extension Director of California. Mr Atwater has for several 
years managed 1000 colonies of bees in Idaho. 
5 G. GC. Mathews of Idaho has been appointed Special Field Agent and has re- 
or ed to Washington for conference before leaving for field work. Mr. Matthews 
@s an extensive beekesper in Idaho and has had experience in commercial beekeep- 
ne in several western states. 
q W. Atkins of the Iowa Agricultural College has been appointed Special 
Field Agent and has reported for conference before taking up extension work in 
[owa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. 
q P, W. Erbaugh spent the month of November in Illinois on extension work. 
lefore entering the Bureau service, Mr. Erbaugh was deputy apiary inspector of 
Wichigan and instructor in beekeeping at the Agricultural College, Hast Lansing, 
lichigan. He is the son of Mr. D. W. Erbaugh, State Apiary Inspector of Indiana. 
