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A new instrument has been devised by T. E. Bronson, of the 
field laboratory at Madison, Wis., which records on one chart the force 
of the downfall of rain and the wind velocity. It will be of great value 
in studying the effect of storms upon infestations by the pea aphid. 
The summer field laboratory at Columbus, Wis., has been discon— 
tinued. The headquarters for investigations of the pea aphid will re- 
main at Madison, Wis. 
_ Field Assistants who have been recently appointed are J. F. Roe, 
J. H. Lilly, and E, J.’ Lease, for service at Madison, Wis., G. Bayer, 
at Alhambra, Calif., G. Zelsnick and J. B. Cooper, at Philadelphia, Pa., 
W. C. Newman and J. G. Wilson, at Sanford, Fla.; J) Ri” Weedon?” atuhioare 
folk, Va., W. A. Lyon and S. C. Lyon, at Clarksville, Tenn., Fi°Be Gone 
ner, at Bozeman, Mont., D. M. DeLong, C. W. Eagleson, J. A. Gillett, 
H. A. Waters, A. C. Cole, Jr., and C.T. McCoy, at Twin Falis, Idaho; Evite 
Murdock, at Grand Junction, Colo., H. E. Dorst, at Richfield, Utah. Ayine 
Bonn and P. M. Eide, at Puyallup, Wash., P. C. Ting, at Santa Ana, Califia 
R. W. Brubaker, A. Peterson, and C. C. Plummer, at Columbus, Ohio, 
J. G. Shaw, at Estancia, N. M., and R. H. Davidson, at Geneva, N. Y. 
BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
Prof. George H. Vansell, of Davis. Calif., spent three days in 
June with Dr. A. P. Sturtevant at the Intermountain Bee Culture Field 
Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo., studying methods of diagnosing diseases of bees. 
J. E. Eckert, Associate Apiculturist at the field laboratory at 
Laramie, Wyo., will continue this summer his work on the flight range of 
the honeybee. The experimental work will be conducted in the San Luis 
Valley. 
oe Jas. I. Hambleton visited the Northwestern Experiment Farm (co- 
operative investigations) of the Bureau of Plant Industry, at Holgate, 
waco, 0n June 10 to 12, to confer with Dr. E. A. Hollowell, of that Bu— 
reau, concerning the details of experiments to be conducted there this 
summer on the relation of honeybees to the pollinatiou of red clover. 
Prof. W. E. Dunham, of Ohio State University, and Frank Bailey, a stu-= 
dent at the University, have been appointed Field Assistants, and will 
be responsible for the apicultural features of the experiments. This 
work is to be conducted cooperatively with the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Dr. C. S. Hudson, of the National Institute of Health, visited 
the Ree Culture Laboratory on June 23. Doctor Hudson is interested in 
obtaining a supply of melezitose, a rare sugar which honeybees occasion- 
ally gather when they have access to scrub pines. 
