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The Maryland State Beekeepers' Association will hold a regular 
summer fiecid meeting at tne Bee Culture Laboratory on the afternoon of 
July 2g. 
The bill to regulate the importation of adult oees passed the 
House by unanimous consent on June 5 and has been referred to the Senate 
Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 
B. Lineburg, a graduate student at Joims Hopkins University, has 
been appointed for the swmaer to conduct work on the responses of bees 
to lights of various wave lengths ané intensities. 
Samples of honeys from all parts of the United States are being 
received for examination with reference to the work which is being done 
on the colors of extracted honeys. So far most of the samcles have come 
from ths southern States but with the advancement of the seacon taey 
are coming in from other points as well. It is expected that during the 
summer several hundred samples will be obtained and measured in this work, 
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CEREAL AND FORAGH INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge 
A. F. Satterthwait, in charge of the Webster Groves, Mo., field 
station, visited Mississippi during the first two weeks of June, for the 
purpose of investigating billbug conditions in that State. Prot. R. W. 
Harned, State entomologist, accompanied Mr. Satterthwait during a portion 
of his tour. 
C. M. Packard, of the Sacramento, Calif., station, has returned 
to Sacramento after a stay of some months at Bird's Landing, Calif., wuere 
he was investigating an outbreak of the Hessian fly. 
P. R. Myers of the Carlisle, Pa., station, visited the Washington 
office on June i2. 
On July 1, 1922, the business office of the corn-borer control 
activities, in charge of L. H. Worthley , will be moved from .Abbot Build- 
ing, Harvard Square, Cambridge, to No. 10 Court Street, Arlington, Mass, 
The headquarters for the research and reguiatory phases of tue corn borer 
work will be housed in the same building after that date. 
Field headquarters of the regulatory work in cormection with the 
corn borer work have been established at 1918 Canton Avenue, Toledo, Ohio, 
and Room 311, Plymouth Building, Cleveland, Onio. 
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