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LIBRARY 
Miss Mabel Colcord, In Charge. 
NEW BOOKS 



Miss Ina L. Hawes, S. B. Simmons College #1917, has been appointed assistant 
in the Bureau library. 
NEW BOOKS: 
The Bureau library has just acquired for reference use the Handy volume 
issue of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed, 1l- the latest edition- in 29 octavo 
volumes. It is the large Britannica reprinted on cheaper paper and in smaller 
type; it is hoped it will prove true to its name and be "handy". 
Chapin, C. V. How to avoid infection. Cambridge, Mass., 1917. 88p. 12° 
(Harvard health talks) 
How to fight garden pests. Harrisburg, Pa. The Countryside Press, 1915. 
72p. 
Illinois bee keepers association. 16th annual report. Springfield, 1917. 
170p. 
Munro, R. W. and Brown, L. C. Practical guide to coco-nut planting. 
London, 1916. 1186p. 
Pests and diseases, p. 113-155. 
U. S. Dept. of Commerce. Statistical abstract of the United States. 1916, 
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1917. 873p. 
Weed, C. M. Butterflies worth knowing. Garden City, N. ¥Y., 1917. 286p. 
illus. 
BEE CULTURE. 
BE. F. Phillips, Apiculturist In Charge. 
; The first bulletin on honey market news was issued by the Office of Markets 
and Rural Organization on June 15, These reports will apear semi-monthly during 
the shipping season, There is apparently considerable speculating with the 1917 
honey crop and it is hoped that an early result of this service will be a curtail- 
ment of this practice. The object is to give both producers and buyers informat- 
- dion concerning actual sales on which they can rely. 
- Chas. L. Sams, Mars Hill, N. C., has been appointed to continue the exten- 
_ sion work in beekeeping in North Carolina, which was temporarily discontinued in 
April. His headquarters will be in the Entomologist’s office Raleigh. 
£ Kennith Hawkins returned June 17 from a trip in Virginia where 2 series of 
_ meetings of beekeepers was held. 
4 E. L. Sechrist left on June 7 for a trip through Montana to attend a series 
of twelve mootings of beekeepers arranged by the Entomologist and the Extension 
Director. 
iq The first series of circulars issued to stimulate an increase in the honey 
® crop consisted of about 150,000 in all. These have resulted in the heaviest in- 
coming mail ever received in this office, the mail received during June far exceed- 
ri ing any previous year. Envelopes are now being addressed for a second series of 
 ¢irculars which should begin about July 15th. 
| G. EH. Bartholomew is in a hospital in Knoxville, Tenn., with an attack of 
_ pleurisy. 


