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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU O- ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Number 97 May, 1922. 






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* JUNO 322 
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BEE-CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 

The bill providing for prohibition of importations of adult 
bees, as a safeguard against the Isle of Wight disease, was intro- 
duced in both Houses of Congress. The hearing before the House Com- 
mittee on Agriculture was held May 4, and following this hearing the 
bill was reported out favorably by unanimous vote of the committee. 
The hearing before the Senate Committee has not been annouced at the 
time of this writing. The bill has received almost unanimous approval 
from the beekeepers of the country, the only opposition which has a- 
risen having come from persons who wish to import queens. It is be- 
lieved that when the provisions of the bill are more clearly under- 
stood the opposition will disappear entirely. 
A. D. Shaftesbury, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, who spent last summer at the Bee Culture Laboratory, has again 
been appointed and will return June 1 to continue work on the factors 
Causing the aging of bees. 
Arrangements have been completed for a study of the colors of 
honey, in cooperation with the Division of Grades and Standards of the 
Bureau cf Markets and Crop Estimates. B. Kurrelmeyer, a graduate 
student at Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed, effective June 
1, to make the measurements of colors. A new type of spectro-photo— 
meter will be used in this work. It is also planned to use the honeys 
examined in other investigations. The pollen content of the honeys 
will be identified py the Microchemical Laboratory of the Bureau of 
Chemistry. Samples of honey are now being received for this. work from 
beekeepers in all parts of the country. The purpose of this work is 
to establish reliable color grades for extracted honey. 
George S. Demuth, formerly apicultural assistant, spent a week 
at the Bee Culture Laboratory recently helping to complete the manu- 
script on wintering bees which was not finished at the time he resigned 
to become editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture. 
Doctor Howard left Washington on May 14 for the purpose of visit— 
ing certain of the western and southern field stations. He started 
direct for Portland, Oreg., and expected on leaving to visit the sta- 
tions at Forest Grove and Klamath Falls, Oreg.; Sacramento and 
