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S. E. Flanders, connected with the Walnut Growers! Association, Sati- 
coy, Calif., has been appointed Agent and will conduct investigations on 
the lima-bean pod borer in Ventura County, Calif., in cooperation with Mr, 
Campbell. | ‘@ 
H. H. P. Severin, Professor of Entomology, University of California, 
a specialist on the sugar—beet leafhopper, has been appointed collaborator 
and will cooperate with Bureau officials in California in work on this 
insect. . 
J. H. Montgomery, of the Florida State Plant Board, stopped off 
at Washington while en reute from California to Gainesville, Fla, After 
conferring with Bureau officials he accompanied J. E. Graf on the latter's 
trip South. 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
H. L. Sechrist has returned from a two months! trip devoted to 
‘visiting the principal western comb-honey centers. His mission was to 
obtain first-hand data on which to base comb-honey grading rules which 
will be applicable in every region of the country. An investigation was 
made of comb—honey in warehouses of both producers and dealers. Mr. 
Sechrist's itinerary included Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Ogden, Salt 
Lake City, Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and points 
in Wyoming and liontana, 
Professor Doctor Y. Tokuda, in charge of bee-culture at the Imperial 
Zootechnical Experimental Station at Chiba, Japan, was a recent visitor 
at the Bee Culture Laboratory.. Doctor Tokuda is known for his work on 
the native Japanese honeybee, a species of Apis indica, and also for his 
work on poisonous honeys of Japan. On his present tour he has visited 
apicultural leaders in various countries of Europe, and wishes to become 
familiar with apicultural conditions in this country. 
