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BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
C. E. Burnside and W. J. Nolan attended the annual meeting of the 
Maryland State Beekeepers' Association, in Baltimore, on January 8. 
Doctor Burnsids spoke on "The present status of American foulbrood con— 
trol," and Mr. Nolan gave a talk on "Races of honeybees." 
C. W. Cary, Norfolk, Va., visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on 
January 10, after attending the meeting of the Maryland State Beekeepers’ 
Association, January 8. 
Ww. J. Nolan attended the annual meeting of the New Jersey State 
Beekeepers' Association, at Trenton, on January 16 and 17, and spoke on 
"The United States honey grades," and "The work of the Bee Culture Lab— 
oratory." On January 21 and 22 he attended the annual meeting of the 
Pennsylvania State Beeksepers' Association, at Harrisburg, where he gave 
a talk on "Characteristics of the various races of honeybees," and also 
acted as judge of the apiary products at the Farm Show. 
Dr. W. C. Jacobsen, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine and 
Pest Control, of the California Department of Agriculture, was a visitor 
at the Bee Culture Laboratory on January 25. 
J. E. Eckert, of the Intermountain Bee Culture Field Laboratory, 
Laramie, Wyo., attended the holiday meetings of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, at Des Moines, Iowa. 
A. P. Sturtevant, of the Intermountain Bee Culture Field Labora-— 
tory, Laramie, Wyo., attended the meeting of the Iowa State Beekeepers' 
Association, and the Iowa short Course, at Ames, on January 28 to 3l. 
Doctor Sturtevant spoke on "The brood diseases of bees," and on certain 
special work being conducted by the laboratory at Laramie. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
The grasshopper project has been reorganized, and Doctor J. R. 
Parker, formerly connected with the Department of Entomology of the 
Montana Agricultural College and Experiment Station at Bozeman, Mont., 
has been placed in charge of this work. The laboratory at Billings, 
Mont., is being moved to Bozeman, where Doctor Parker will have his 
headquarters. 
E. V. Walter, in charge of the field laboratory at San Antonio, 
Tex., spent January in the Washington office for consultation with 
Bureau officials and for attention to the preparation, in collaboration 
with V. L. Wildermuth, of a manuscript of a Technical Bulletin on Aphis 
maidis. 
