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BEE CULTURE. 
EY F, Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge. 
Dr. EV Fy Phillips went to Denver, Colo., the 
last of the month to attend a meeting of beekeepers of Colo- 
rado and adjacent States. 
Kennith Hawkins Left July 9 to attend State meete- 
ings of county agents in Oklahoma, Téxas and other Southern 
States. He will spena the lattsr part of Avgust in Virginia, 
holding local meetings of teekeepers in cooperation with county 
agents, 
A. P. Sturtevant recently made a trio in New Jersey 
and Massachusetts studying HEUropean foulbrood conditions. 
C. E. Bartholomew is recovering from his attack of 
pleurisy and is again taking up his work in Tennessee. 
Miss Myrtle Dickett resigned July 23 to accept a 
position in the War Department. 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist In Chaxge. 
Robert B. McKeown, a graduate of the Colorado Agri-~ 
cultural College, and Assistant in that institution, has been 
appointed as Scientific Assistant in the Bureau and assigned un-~ 
der John B. Gill to pecan insect investigations in Texas, Messrs. 
Gall and McKeown are now in Texas in consultation with the authore 
ities of the Texas Agricultural College and Experiment Station, 
and will locate a iaboratory at a point where conditions are most 
favorable for the work. 
