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BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
George E. Marvin, of the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 
pointed Assistant Apiculturist and reported for duty February 2 at the 
main laboratory of the Division of Bee Culture, Somerset, Md. For the 
past few years Mr. Marvin has been working with Prof. H. F. Wilson, Dr. 
E. B. Fred, and Dr. W. H. Peterson, of the University of Wisconsin, and 
has had wide experience in research dealing with the chemistry and bac-— 
teriology of honey. 
On Mr. Hambleton's trip to the Pacific Coast (as mentioned in the 
Monthly Letter for January) he conferred with the Director and other of-— 
ficials of the Oregon State Agricultural College, Corvallis, with respect 
to cooperative research investigations in apiculture. A similar confer-— 
ence was held with Dean C. B, Hutchison and Prof. W. B. Herms, of the 
University of California, relative to apicultural research in California. 
Final plans were made for the establishment of the Pacific Coast Bee— 
Culture Field Laboratory on the farm of the University of California, at 
Davis. 
On February 5 Mr. Hambleton spoke at the annual meeting of the 
Ohio State Beekeepers' Association, Columbus, Ohio, which was held in con- 
junction with Farmers' Week. On February 11 he addressed the meet— 
ing of the American Honey Producers' League, which was held at the Royal 
York Hotel, Toronto, Canada, in conjunction with the annual meeting of © 
the Ontario Beekeepers' Association, the American Honey Institute, and 
the Association of Apiary Inspectors of America. In spite of the low 
prices of honey and the poor crops of the past season the meetings were 
well attended, particularly by Canadian honey producers. Jas. Gwin, 
Department of Agriculture and Markets, Madison, Wis., was elected presi- 
dent of the American Honey Producers’ League, and V. G. Milum, of the 
University of Illinois, was appointed secretary. 
H. B. Parks, in charge of the Division of Apiculture, Texas Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, generously presented several rare and val— 
uable bee journals to the Beekeeping Library of the Department of Agri- 
culture. Professor Parks has made other important contributions to 
the Beekeeping Library, which shows that while he is engaged in estab— 
lishing a library at the State Apicultural Research Laboratory, San An- 
tonio, Tex., he also has a keen and unselfish interest in the Beekeep— 
ing Library of the Department. 
E. G. Carr, Deputy Bee Inspector, Pennington, N. J., R. S. Filmer, 
Associate Entomologist in charge of research in apiculture at the New 
Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station, and R. Ross Mattis, a 
commercial beekeeper of Riverton, N. J., visited the bee—culture labor-— 
atory on February 26, enroute from Montgomery, Ala., where they attended 
the Southern Beekeeping Conference. 
