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Field assistants who have recently been appointed are W. C. Pierce, 
for service at Baton Rouge, La., E. B. Wiggins, at Estancia. (Ns «Mo Leis 
Odom, at Bay St. Louis, Miss., A. L. Strand, at Walla Walla, Wash., and 
W. J. Gertsch, at Richfield, Utah. 


BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
J. E. Eckert, of the Intermountain Bee Culture Field Laboratory, 
Laramie, Wyo., has been granted leave of absence to attend the gradu- 
ate school of Ohio State University during the coming fall term. 
Dr. Tomi Yoneda, of the Department of Animal Industry, Ministry 
of Agriculture and Forestry, Tokyo, Japan, visited the Bee Culture Lab- 
oratory May 20 to consult with members of the staff on matters relative 
to the production, marketing, and grading of honey. According to Doctor 
Yoneda, an effort will be made in Japan to interest farmers in Keeping 
colonies of bees. 
Pomeae nk. Watson, of Alfred, “N. Y.- formerly connected with the 
Division of Bee Culture Investigations, visited the Bee Culture Labora— 
tory in the latter part of May. Besides his investigations on the arti-— 
ficial insemination of queenbees and research on the composition of bees-— 
wax, Doctor Watson, with the assistance of Mrs. Watson, has developed a 
formula by which honey is utilized in the making of an unusually fine 
grade of assorted chocolate candy. 
Dr. L. M. Bertholf has been appointed Field Assistant, to continue 
investigations at the Bee Culture Laboratory on the effect of various 
wave lengths of light upon the honeybee. At the termination of the tem— 
porary appointment Doctor Bertholf will go to Munich, Germany, to study 
with Prof. Karl von Frisch. of the University of Munich, on a National 
Research Council fellowship. 
Dr. Neale F. Howard, of the Mexican Bean Beetle Laboratory, Colum-— 
bus, Ohio, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on May 13. 
. Dr. W. E. Dunham, of Ohio State University, has been given a tem- 
porary appointment to assist in experiments on the pollination of red 
Clover, to be conducted this summer at Holgate, Ohio, by the Bee Culture 
Laboratory. 
Harley W. Roath, L. E. McDonald, Russell Smith, and Wm. C. North— 
rup have been appointed Field Assistants to help with experiments under 
way at the Intermountain Bee Culture Field Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo. 
Winfred L. Martin, Charles F. Moreland, and Harry H. Laidlaw, jr., 
have been appointed Field Assistants at the Southern States Bee Culture 
Field Laboratory, at Baton Rouge, La. 
