
In the latter part of October H. D. Smith, of the Carlisle, Pa., field laboratory, 
made a survey in various counties of Pennsylvania in connection with work on the Hessian fly. 
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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
Dr. W. W. Alpatov, of the University of Moscow, one of the outstanding apicultural 
workers of Russia, is in this country pursuing his work on variability in the honeybee. 
He was particularly desirous of continuing his work on variability in this country because 
of the distinct advantages offered in the United States, as in Russia, by the great range 
in latitude in both countries. His work here is being done with Prof. Raymond Pearl, of 
the Institute for Biological Research at Johns Hopkins University. 
Lloyd M. Bertholf, Junior Biologist in Apiculture, who is on the summer.staff of 
the Laboratory, has resigned and will continue his work on the reaction of the honeybee to 
light of varying intensity and color at Johns Hopkins University. He has been awarded the 
much coveted Bruce Fellowship. 
An item of economic interest is the recent great increase in the exportation of honey. 
This increase parallels the recent activities of various governmental agencies in promoting 
foreign trade in honey. During the fiscal year ended June, 1926, only about three million 
pounds of honey was exported, whereas about eleven million pounds was exported in the year 
ending June, 1927. 
The Bee Culture Laboratory, in using the Standard Honey Color Grader, has found that 
washing the honey trough after grading a sample is greatly facilitated by using a dam of 
rubber to confine the honey to the part of the trough required for that particular sample, 
thus keeping the honey out of the narrow end of the wedge, which is the difficult part to 
cleanse, the narrow part being required for the darker honeys only. Pieces of rubber cut 
from an ordinary eraser answer the purpose excellently. 
A cooperative honey-marketing association has been formed in Ohio, based on one of 
the commercial beekeepers' associations. As the members of this association have been work- 
ing together for a long time, not having missed a monthly meeting in ten years, the new 
organization should be successful. All the honey sold by the association will be graded 
according to the United States Grades recently adopted by the Department of Agri- 
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