
. “At the present time beekeeping is taught in the agricultural colleges in 
22 States. In all but one or two cases this work has been inaugurated within 
the past five years. In ten of these colleges, the work occupies the exclusive 
‘attention of at least one instructor. 
In 1906, when Entomology Bulletin No. 61 was issued,there were laws in 
twelve States providing for the inspection of apiaries. Most of these laws have 
been since replaced by more effective ones. At present there are such laws in 
29 States and, in addition, Hawaii and Porto Rico have regulations to prevent the 
-introduction of bee diseases. In all there are about 100 apiary inspectors in 
the United States. Thirty-four States now have State associations of beekeepers 
and five have associations for marketing honey. In addition to these there are 
now many county associations. 



















DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L. Quaintance, In Charge. 
B. R. Leach, who has been in Washington preparing manuscript and notes 
on the results of his investigations of the woolly apple aphis, has returned to 
his permanent headquarters at Winchester, Va., where he will resume his field 
duties in connection with apple insect investigations. 
. A. J. Ackerman, formerly engaged in nursery insect investigations at West 
Chester, Pa., has been transferred to the Bureau’s laboratory at Benton Harbor, 
Mich., where he will essist Mr. F. L. Simanton in connection with orchard in- 
secticide investigations. 
Edwin R. Selkregg, who has been employed temporarily on different occas=- 
dons in connection with deciduous fruit insect investigations, has now been 
appointed as Scientific Assistant, and will assist in experimental work 
against the oriental peach moth at Arlington Farm, Va. 
A, J. Flebut, who has been engaged in investigations of chestnut weevils 
and other nut insects in the East, is now undertaking experimental work with 
these insects at his permanent headquarters, Paxinos, Pa. 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURE BOARD. 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman. 
The hearing held April 10, on the subject of the White Pine Blister Rust, 
has resulted in the issuance of two quarantines effective June 1. The first of 
these is a domestic quarantine, and prohibits the movement of five-leafed pines, 
and currant and gooseberry plants, from the eastern half of the United States, 
west of the line formed by the western boundaries of the States of Minneasota, 
= Towa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, with the object of protecting the great 
pine forests of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States. There is a further 
prohibition of the movement of the five-leafed pines and black currant plants 
‘from the New England States, and New York, to the States lying between these. 
States and the western line of the general quarantine, for the purpose of pro- 
tecting these intermediate states from possible infection by white pine blister 
rust, by means of the plants named, from the rather heavily infected New England 
States and New York. ‘The foreign quarantine prohibits the further entry of 
gooseberry and currant plants from Europe and Asia, and completes the protect- 
