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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist,° in Charge 
Dr. Ragnar Frisch, of the University of Oslo, Norway, at present 
in this country under a Rockefeller fellowship, was a recent visitor at 
the Bee Culture Laboratory. P. E. Crane, of the firm of J. E. Crane 
and Son, commercial honey producers, of Middlebury, Vt., and Prof. 
L. E. Dills, of the University of West Virginia, were also recent visi- 
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During the month of January E. L. Sechrist attended a series of 
meetings relating to beekeeping, which took him to the Pacific Coast, 
His schedule included meetings of various organizations, as follows: The 
Maryland Horticultural Society, at Baltimore, Jan. 3; Heart of America 
Beekeepers' Association, Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 14; Oklahoma Beekeepers' 
Association, Oklahoma City, Jan. 16 and 17; Arkansas Beekeepers’ Associ- 
ation, Little Rock, Jan, 18 and 19; Southern States Conference, consist= 
ing of representatives from Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, at 
Texarkana, Ark., Jan. 20 and 21; the annual meeting of the American Honey 
Producers' League, at San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 25 to 27; and a con- 
ference with marketing specialists, on honey grades, at San Francisco, 
Jan. 28. He made a visit to the Intermountain Bee Culture Laboratory at 
Laramie, Wyo., Jan. 31. His schedule also includes addresses to bee— 
keepers attending the short course given by the University of Illinois 
at Urbana, Jan. 11 and 12, the short course during Farmers' Week at the 
Iowa State College of Agriculture, at Ames, on Feb. 2 to 4, and the short 
course at the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, on February 
8 and 9. 
Jas. I. Hambleton attended the meeting of the Oklahoma State Bee— 
keepers' Association, at Oklahoma City; on Jan. 16 and 17, the meeting of 
the Arkansas State Beekeepers' Association, held at Little Rock on Jan. 
18 and 19, and a conference of delegates representing beekeeping interests 
in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, held at Texarkana, Ark., on 
Jan. 20 and 2l. 
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FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
In the third week in January J. M. Miller visited the Prescott 
National Forest, in Arizona, to inspect the control operations against 
Dendroctonus barberi Hopk., which have been in progress there during the 
winter. 
J. A. Leal reports that he has been in the field a considerable 
part of January making studies of the effect of a sudden drop in ter- 
perature in the latter part of December on broods of the southern pine 
beetle. He states that everywhere there seems to be very high mortality 
of all stages except the egg. 
