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to what effect disregarding the agreement may have upon the bee- 
shipping industry. Should a clause be inserted in the license 
making it obligatory to cancel contracts at variance with the agree- 
ment, shippers, irrespective of whether. they have signed or not, 
would be compelled to alter any unfilled comtracts in strict accord 
ance with the provisions of the agreement. 
The Giannini Foundation of the University of California has 
Just published Bulletin 555, "Economic Aspects of the Bee Industry", 
by Edwin C, Voorhies, Frank E. Todd, and J. K. Galbraith. The work 
was done in cooperation with the Pacific Coast Bee Culture Field 
Laboratory, Davis, Calif. The bulletin makes available for the first 
time a great mass of data about the beekeeping industry. Although 
the bulletin refers particularly to the beekeeping industry in 
California, it includes much data on the economic aspects of the 
beekeeping industry of the United States. Since this bulletin was 
not published by the Government, those who wish copies should request 
them. from the Giannini Foundation. 
Last year the losses of package bees.in transit from certain 
points in the South were abnormally large, and, since it is exceedingly 
difficult to place the responsibility for such losses, the American 
Railway Express Company has requested the Southern States Bee Culture 
Laboratory at Baton Rouge, La., to investigate the causes of losses 
of package bees enroute from the South to the North. To this end 
the express company is willing to pay railroad transportation and to 
see that any necessary experimental lots of bees are furnished to 
the Government without cost. Warren Whitcomb, who will have charge 
of the work, plans to make some triel shipments during June, the 
month in which the heaviest losses have occurred in the past. 
PLANT DISEASE ERADICATION AND CONTROL 
Phony Peach Eradication 
In central Georgia and Alabama, where the phony peach disease had 
for some time been gradually spreading and becoming more destructive 
to commercial peach growing, the disease was becoming established in 
the wild trees, and in these scattered and unnoticed trees, as well 
as in abandoned orchards, was building up an increasing reservoir of 
regional infection. The Civil Works phony peach eradication project 
was undertaken in December 1933 to develop winter work to meet this 
emergency by clearing out of these heavily infected counties all wild 
or abandoned peach trees likely to be centers of infection of this 
disease. Approximately 900 men have been employed in this project and, 
while the effectiveness of the work in checking the spread of the phony 
disease can be determined only in future years, it is the conviction 
