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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, in Charge 
Kenneth Hawkins, of the G. B. Lewis Company, Watertown, Wis., con- 
sulted with members of the laboratory on March 13. Mr. Hawkins, through 
the G. B. Lewis Company, has assisted very materially in furthering a 
number of projects of the Division of Bee Culture. He was responsible 
for the recent issue of "Beecause," which is devoted almost entirely to 
the desirability of bringing about standardization in the package-bee in— 
dustry, one of the projects now being undertaken at the Southern States 
Bee Culture Field Laboratory, at Baton Rouge, La. 
George H. Rea, of Reynoldsville, Pa., who is establishing an apiary 
at New Bern, N. C., which will be devoted largely to the production of 
package bees, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on March 22. Mr. Rea is 
particularly interested in the long-distance shipment of package bees, 
and had a number of suggestions to make with regard to the type of cage 
and the kind and quantity of faod necessary for unusually long shipment 
of combless packages. 
W. J. Nolan left March 17 to spend two or three weeks at the South— 
ern States Bee Culture Field Laboratory, Baton Rouge, La., to continue 
his work on queen-rearing and queen—breeding. The establishment of a sub- 
laboratory in the South is making it possible to lengthen the active sea— 
son for a number of research projects which this division is carrying on. 
Dr. Lloyd R. Watson, of Alfred, N. Y., visited the laboratory on 
March 25 and 26, to discuss with members of the staff the results of- his: 
work last year on the artificial insemination of queenbees. Doctor Watson 
has devised a number of new and important changes in his technique which 
are giving much better results than his procedure as last reported. 
Dr. A. P. Sturtevant and J. E. Eckert, of the United States Inter— 
mountain Bee Culture Field Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo., attended the con— 
vention of the Colorado Honey Producers' Association held in Denver on 
March 4 and 5. The fact that this was the thirtieth annual-convention 
of this cooperative association deserves special mention. There are per— 
haps few organizations which are cooperatively handling agricultural pro- 
ducts in this country which can boast of such a successful record. With— 
out doubt one of the reasons for the long and successful existence of this 
organization has been the congenial personality and business-like charac— 
ter of Mr. Frank Rauchfuss, of Denver, who has been its secretary and man— 
ager for the entire period. 
R. H. Richmond, Deputy State Apiarist of Colorado, and Professor of. 
Entomology at the Colorado Agricultural College, visited the Intermountain 
Bee Culture Field Laboratory, at Laramie, Wyo., early in March. 
