Bey fa 
Prof. Bruce Lineburg, of Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, I1l., 
visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on August 27. 
W. B. Bray, one of the largest honey packers in New Zealand, ex— 
ecutive of the National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand, and owner 
and editor of the New Zealand Honey Producer, visited the Bee Culture 
Laboratory September 2 and 3. He is making an extended trip through Eu- 
rope, Canada, and the United States, in the interest of honey marketing. 
Mr. Bray reports that through Government assistance New Zealand has made 
great strides in honey marketing, and he was particularly interested in 
learning what is being done in this country along that line. In the 
course of his stay in Washington he visited officials of the Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics and the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. 
Dr. Warren Whitcomb, jr., of the Southern States Bee Culture Field 
Laboratory, Baton Rouge, La., reports that at the meeting of the State 
Association of Queen Breeders and Package Shippers, which was held in 
conjunction with the meeting of the Texas State Beekeepers' Association, 
at College Station July 28 and 29, the package producers were well pleased 
with the progress being made by the Southern States Bee Culture’ Field 
Laboratory in recommending a satisfactory and uniform cage which could 
be used indiscriminately by all shippers of package bees. Doctor Whit- 
comb says that the use of a uniform package by the shippers will eliminate 
a great deal of confusion in the package-bee business, and that it will 
Dertvicularly enable the express companies to facilitate shipment. fThe 
cage that the laboratory has been working on is simple in construction, 
is therefore economical, and makes it possible to ship the bees with as 
little loss as the more expensive and complicated cages now being used 
by a number of shippers of package bees. 
INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 
F. C. Bishopp spent the entire month of August in field travel. 
He made stops at the field laboratories at Galesburg, Ill., Fargo, N. 
Dak., and Portland, Oreg., and visited many intermediate points to make 
observations on insects injurious to livestock. 
R. W. Wells, of the field laboratory at Galesburg, I1l., is tem- 
porarily located at the field laboratory at Beltsville, Md., where he is 
conducting tests of electrified screens for the control of house flies. 
He arrived at Beltsville August 15. 
W. E. Dove, who has been placed in charge of investigations of the 
sand fly, with headquarters at Charleston, S. C., arrived there August 
19 to take up his duties under the new assignment. 
