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Resignations 
Alfred Lutken, Agent, stationed at Piceyune, Miss., has resigned to 
undertake special work in the Hawaiien Isiands. 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
BR. F. Phillips, who has had charge of tne Bee Culture work of the 
Bureau since 1907, and who entered the Bureau in 1905, will leave the service 
some time during the late summer to accept a professorship in Apiculture in 
the College of Agriculture, Cornell University. He will devote his time there 
chiefly to graduate students and to research work in apiculture. 
Bruce Lineburg and L. M. Bertholf, who were employed at the Bee-Culture 
Laboratory last summer, have been reappointed for the present summer and have 
begun vork. Mr. lineburg will receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 
at the Johns Hopkins University this month. 
Carlton Burnside, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, has 
been appointed for the summer season to investigate the fungi of the alimentary 
tract of the adult bee. He is taking graduate work in mycology at the 
university. 
R. B. Willson, who has been doing extension work in beekeeping in ' 
cooperation between this office and the College of Agriculture, Cornell Univer= 
sity, will continue that work onier the administration of the university after 
July 1. C. L, Sems, vho hag been doing similar cooperative work in North 
Carolina, will also be continued after that date without support from this 
office. The cooperative extension werk in Wisconsin will not be continued 
after July 1, With these changes, all cooperative extension work in beekeeping 
from this office is discontinued, 
A. P. Sturtevant left May 29 for Wyoming, where he will investigate 
vhat appears to be a serious outbreak of sacbroodc, a disease of the brood of 
bees. He will probably return before the end of June. 
ips and Jas. I. Hambleton attended the meeting of the 
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SOUTHERN PIELD-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. Le Weoh, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
J. C. Hamlin, formerly emoloyed by the Federal Horticultural Board, 
and more recently in charge of the entomclogieal work for the Commonwealth 

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