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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, in Charge 
W. J. Nolan is now in Baton Rouge, La., temporarily in charge of 
the new Southern States Bee Culture Field Station. The University of Lou-— 
isiana has kindly offered laboratory quarters, heat, light, janitor serv— 
ice, and other facilities which mean a considerable saving to the Depart— 
ment. Dr. Warren Whitcomb, Jr., is en route to the station, of which ‘he 
will be in charge and which will be his permanent headquarters. At the 
hew station will be considered the advisability of establishing at an 
early date standard grades for queens and package bees. 
Dr. L. M. Bertholf is continuing this summer his studies at the 
laboratory, on the reaction of bees to light of various wave lengths and 
intensities. 
A very peculiar situation has arisen in the apiary of the Bee Cul— 
ture Laboratory this summer. Ordinarily after the honey flow from the tu- 
liptree is over the bees gather very little honey until goldenrod and as— 
ter are in blossom. This year, however, during July the bees made about 
13 supers of honey, presumably from sweet clover. This honey granulates 
immediately, even before the cells are filled. Granulation is so solid 
that it is impossible to throw out the honey with an extractor. In order 
to salvage anything at all from these supers it will be necessary to cut 
out the combs and melt the wax and honey. Beekeepers in this section of 
the country will have to take particular care to see that this honey is 
not left on the colonies for winter stores. Samples of the honey have 
been sent to the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils for analysis. 
TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
¢. G. Woodbury, Director of Raw Products Research, National Can- 
ners Association, visited the pea aphid summer laboratory at Columbus, 
Wis., from July 3 to July 5. 
R. W. Burgess has been appointed Agent, to be located at San Jose, 
Calif., and, in cooperation with the California Experiment Station and the 
California State Department of Agriculture, to work on the problem of the 
vegetable weevil. 
S. E. Crumb, formerly connected with the tobacco-insects field 
laboratory at Clarksville, Tenn., has been transferred to Puyallup, Wash., 
where he has established a new laboratory for the investigation of prob-— 
lems relating to the earwig on the Pacific Coast. 
M. W. Stone, employed by this Bureau at Toppenish, Wash., during 
the seasons of 1926 and 1927, was transferred July 10 from the Plant Quar-— 
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