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BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
Jas. I. Hambleton attended the meeting of the American Honey 
Institute, at Stevens Hotel, Chicago, on September 24. At this meeting 
Dr. H. &. Barnard, President of the Institute, gave a report of its work 
for the past six months. Although the American Honey Institute has been 
in operation for only a short time it has already done very excellent work 
in increasing the demand for honey. It has succeeded in arousing the 
interest of many bakers' organizations in the use of honey, and has been 
instrumental in arranging honey displays in connection with dietetic meet— 
ings, food shows, and the like. It is working in close cooperation with 
the Bee Culture Laboratory and other Government offices which are inter-— 
ested in the production and utilization of honey. It is financed by the 
Bee Industries Association, an organization of manufacturers and dealers 
in bee supplies, honey bottlers, and beekeepers' organizations. 
E. L. Sechrist has returned from a six weeks' trip in the Inter— 
mountain States, where, among beekeepers who are cooperating in this 
work, he continued studies on problems of honey production. A preliminary 
report has just been issued, dealing with the data obtained during 1928. 
Flans are under way to inaugurate similar studies in the white-clover 
belt. A number of States are anxious to help in the work, and are of- 
fering the Department facilities which will enable it to be undertaken on 
a very comprehensive basis. 
The Mountain States Honey Producers' Association has appealed to 
the Federal Farm Loan Board for assistance which, it is hoped, will be 
useful in stabilizing prices of honey. A. W. B. Kjosness, of Boise, 
Idaho, who is general manager of the Association, came to Washington 
in the latter part of September and presented the Association's case to 
the Federal Farm Loan Board. By invitation, H. C. Clay, of the Bureau 
of Agricultural Economics, and Jas. I. Hambleton attended the meetings 
at which this was done. The presentation was well received, and ifsaGere 
approved, as seems likely, the effect should be very beneficial® in 
this action the Mountain States Honey Producers' Association has taken an 
important step forward, and is leading the way for other associations of 
honey producers which, if organized on a purely cooperative basis, might 
be benefitted by similar action. 
A. W. B. Kjosness, of Boise, Idaho, mentioned in the preceding 
paragraph, and 0. A. Lende, of Minneapolis, Minn., visited the Bee~Cul-— 
ture Laboratory on September 20. 
A paper dealing with honey production in the United States, which 
has been prepared in the Bee Culture Laboratory, will be distributed 
through the Foreign Section of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to 
honey buyers in Germany and other foreign countries who have signified 
a desire to have available, for distribution to the honey trade, literature 
dealing with the types of honey and methods of production in the United 
States. 
