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"They should not forget, however, that partial victory has been 
won only by concerted and continued effort, and that, if left unwatch-— 
ed, the weevil situation soon would be as bad as ever. 
"Only eternal vigilance on the part of everyone in bean produc— 
ing sections can bring permanent relief. That this vigilance will not 
be lacking is presaged by the whole-hearted support given the weevil 
control move by organizations and individuals in the past." 
BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
Jay Smith, the well-known queen breeder of Vincennes, Ind., 
visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on October 22 and consulted with mem- 
bers of the Laboratory staff on races of the honeybee and the gas treat— 
ment for combs infested with American foulbrood. Mr. Smith had just 
attended the meeting of the Connecticut State Beekeepers' Association. 
E. L. Sechrist spent some time in October in New York State, where, 
with the collaboration of Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Cornell University, 
cooperating beekeepers were selected for work in that State on the manage— 
ment of bees as related to the cost of production of honey. This is 
part of a similar program which was begun in 1928 in the Intermountain 
States and is now being extended to the region which produces white-clover 
honey. Mr. Sechrist then went to Ohio and Michigan, to begin similar 
work there, while R. S. Kifer, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 
which is cooperating with the Bureau of Entomology on this work, left at 
the same time to select cooperators in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 
On November 17 Mr. Sechrist returned from Ohio and Michigan, where, in co- 
Operation with the Extension Service of those States, he had selected the 
beekeepers who are to keep records for the study of beekeeping manage— 
ment now being inaugurated in the clover honey—producing region of the 
United States. 
Dr. Robert F. Martin, Director of the Department of Markets, 
Service Technique of Agriculture, of Haiti, and Mr. Louis Dejoie, also 
of the Department of Markets, Haiti, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory 
on November 2, in order better to acquaint themselves with the proposed 
United States grades for honey. The Government of Haiti has recently 
established standards for coffee, and honey will be the next product for 
which the Government expects to establish standard grades. Haiti is an 
important honey-producing country, as it abounds with a number of nectar— 
yielding plants from which unusually good honeys are derived. The bee- 
keeping. industry in Haiti has received heretofore little or no assistance 
from the Government, and it is expected that with Government recognitioa 
and assistance the development of the excellent beekeeping resources will 
naturally follow. 
