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he will visit the following laboratories and institutions for conferences 
on his wireworm investigations: Billings, Mont., laboratory, Kansas Exper- 
iment Station, Nebraska Experiment Station, Wichita, Kans., laboratory, 
end the Kirkwood, Mo., laboratory. 
J. R. Horton, in chargé of the Wichita, Kans., laboratory was in 
Kansas and Missouri several days in November, going over the Hessian fly 
plots there. 
M..M. Resher of. the Forest Grove, Oreg., laboratory, has resumed his 
work there after several days of absence cn account of a diphtheria quar- 
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The division of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations was honored 
during November by the following visitors: Dr. Wm. M. Jardine, President 
of the Kansas Asricultural College; Prof. J. T. Jardine, Director of the 
Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station; Prof. D. J. Farrell, Director of 
the Kansas £gricultural Experiment Station; Dr. EH. C. Johnson, Director of 
the Washington Agricult tural Experiment Station; Prof. ©. W. Creel, Director 
of Hxtersion of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station; Dr. J.-M. 
Swaine, Associate Dominion Entomologist of Canada, and C,H. Hadley, Chair- 
man of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hombleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
J. I. Hambleton visited Johns Hopkins University on November 10. 
Prof. E. NW. Cory, State Entomolcgist of Maryland,was at the Labora- 
tory on November 21. 
On December 30 onen house will be kept at the Laboratory for the 
benefit of those attending the meetings of the American Association for the 
Advanzement of Science.” A special sxhibit will be on display, including, 
among other things. apparatus used in various experiments and a collection 
of 400 samples of extracted BODE from all parts of the United States.. The 
investigations row in progress at the Laboratory will be explained informally 
by those in charge. 
J. I. Hambleton, A. BP. Sturtevant, and W. J. Nolan are among those 
listed on the program for the Apicultural Section of the Asscciation of Hco- 
nomic Entomologists on Deremoer 3l. 
At the request of beekeepers the Laboratory has taken up the question 
of the relative tavidity of granulation in comb-honey from varicus regions 
of the country. Yor this purpose samples‘of comod-honey from all over the 
United States are now. being sent to this office. 
