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E. L. Sechrist attended the meeting of the Northern Virginia Bee- 
keepers! Asscciation at Herndon on January 2b. 
E. W, Atkins, formerly field assistant, visited the Bee-Culture 
Office on January 20. Mr. Atkins is now with the G. B. Lewis Company, 
manufacturers of beekeeping supplies. 
A short course in beekeeping was held at Purdue University from 
January 29 to February 1, which was attended by Dr. E, F. Phillips. O 
the evening of Feoruary 1 he addressed the Society of the Sigma Xi and 
the Biological Club of the University on "Beekeeping Investigations and 
their Application." From La Fayette, Ind., he will go to Columbus, Ohio, 
to attend the annual meeting of thé Ohio State Beekeepers!’ Association, 
February 1 to 3, and from there to the annual meeting of the American 
Honey Producers' League at St. Louis, Feb. 6 to 8. At the League meet- 
ing there will be a discussion of the definition of the color grades for 
extracted honey, on which the Bureau of Entomology has been working for 
several months in cooperation with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
There is also scheduled an informal discussion of the regulations to be 
adopted under the Act of August 31, 1922, regarding the importation of 
adult bees. 
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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge 
. The field leaders in the Hessian fly investigations conferred in 
Washington on January 3. Those in attendance were W. H. Larrimer, W. 8. 
Cartwright, 4. F. Satterthwait, J. R. Horton, C. C. Hill, ©. M. Packard, 
J. 5S. Wade, and W. R, Walton. P. R. Myers and W. J. Phillips were pre- 
vented from attending by illness. The conference, as usual, yielded 
valuable results in the coordination of methods and effort. 
C. C. Hill visited Washington recently en route to Raleigh, N. C., 
where he consulted Dr. L. W. Leiby, who is collaborating with him in the 
study of Hessian fly parasites. 
A. F. Satterthwait, in charge of the Webster Groves, Mo., station, 
recently broadcasted a lecture from St. Louis, Mo., telling of the func- 
tion of the Wedster Groves station and its relation to the agriculture of 
the region. This was part of a series of talks arranged by the local 
U. S. D. A. Clud with a view to popularizing the work of the department, 
F. W. Poos, in charge of the Sandusky, Ohio, corn-borer laboratory, 
will shortly visit Charlottesville, Va,, for the purpose of assisting in 
the preparation of a paper on the parasites of the jointworms. 
D, J. Caffrey, in charge of the corn-borer research activities, 
recently prepared material for exhidition at the meeting of the National 

