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BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge. 
Dr. C. L. Marlatt, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, visited the 
recently established Pacific Coast Bee-Culture Field Laboratory at Davis, 
Calif.. on June li. 
Alice Mayo has been appointed Field Assistant at the Somerset, Md. , 
field laboratory to assist in research work on bee diseases. 
W. Haydak has been reappointed Field Assistant to continue work on 
the nutritional requirements of the honeybee at the Somerset laboratory. 
C. L. Farrar, Assistant Professor of Entomology and Beekeeping at 
the Massachusetts State College, has been appointed Field Assistant at 
the Sonerset laboratory to devise a method for obtaining accurate infor— 
mation on the rate of flight of bees. 
The Maryland State Beekeepers' Association held its annual meeting 
at the Bee-Culture Laboratory at Somerset on June 20. Short talks were 
given by various members of the staff. 
George E. Marvin, of the Somerset laboratory, in company with R. 8S. 
Washburn, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, left Washington June 
20 to visit the cooperators who are assisting in the studies on apiary 
management and cost of production in the White Clover Region. They will 
visit cooperators in Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, and New York. 
Wm. C. Northrup has been reappointed Field Assistant at the Inter— 
mountain States Bee—Culture Field Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo., to assist in 
bacteriological work. 
J. &. #ckert, of the Intermountain States Bee—~Culture Field Labora— 
tory, returned to his official duties on June 3 after a year's leave of 
absence at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, where he received the 
degree of doctor of philosophy. 
Dr. A. P. Sturtevant, of the Intermountain States Bee-Culture Field 
Laboratory, attended a meeting of the Apiary Committee of the Western 
Plant Quarantine Board, at Cheyenne, Wyo., on June 19. 
The Honorable R. G. Simpons, Member of Congress from Nebraska, with 
his family visited the Intermountain States Bee-Culture Field Laboratory 
on June 19. 
Dr. Everett Oertel, of the Southern States Bee—Culture Field Labor— 
atory, Baton Rouge, La., spent the latter part of the month at the Somer— 
set, Md., laboratory, working over the phenological records relative to 
the blooming dates of various nectar-secreting plants. 

