_ E-199 MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY! 
.. .. . UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE °° | 
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Number 71 ” | : March, 1920 
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BEE CULTURE 
E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
The National Beekeepers’ Association met at Buffalo March 9-11. At 
this meeting the old association was discontinued and in its place was 
organized the American Honey Producers’ League. The’new organization 
aims especially to facilitate the marketing of honey, but will con- 
tinue work formerly done by the National in legislative activity and 
protection of members. Membership in the League is through affiliated 
State or. County organizations. It is believed. by the organizers of 
the League that the future prosperity of the beekeepers of the country: - 
demands an organizing of marketing since the great increase in honey 
production during recent years may result.in a-drop in prices ‘unless 
steps are taken to stimulate the honey market. 
The series of extension short courses for the winter ended with ‘the 
one held at Cornell University during the week of February Ly Those. 
arranged in Kansas, Iowa, and Minnesota during February were called off 
because of the influenza epidemic. During the present fiscal year 
ten Of these courses have been held, making 17 in.all. The average 
attendance has been well over 100-and those in attendance have been 
Chiefly extensive beekeepers, for whom the work was planned. At the New 
York course, for example, the average number of colonies reported was 
100. These courses have proved very popular among extensive beekeepers 
and constitute one:of the.most valuable phases of the beekeeping ex- 
tension work.. Unfortunately they can not be continued further without 
interfering too greatly with other necessary;work-and it has been found 
impossible to arrange for a special staff for this purpose. In the — 
future, therefore, these courses will not be ivan tk possibly ‘in 
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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
) '° . +A.*D. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge aon 
7 ope Si Clausen, who.was recently appointed to undertake. a study of . 
y parasites ‘of the Japanese beetle in Japan, is now en route to that 
country. 
E. R. Van Leeuwen, who has been temporarily in Washington, has been 
placed in charged of ..the Bureau’s- laboratory at Cornelia, Ga., where 
life-history studies of the.codling moth'in that region will be conducted. 
John B. Gill, who has been temporarily in Washington, has returned | 
to Monticello, Fla., to resume his field duties in connection with pecan insect 
investigations. J : 
The Bureau’s laboratory at Seaview, Wash., where investigations of 
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