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summer of 1920 in encouraging and fonvarding the suppression of the 

 grasshopper epidemic by directing the work and supplying directions 

 for treatment. 



At intervals during all this time trips have been made to give special 

 advice in cases of difficulty in orchards, in the flour-mill, in greenhouses, 

 and in several cases where white ants were injuring dwellings. 



During the winter and early spring, arrangements were made for the 

 establishment of observation stations for the purpose of making r-ecords 

 of the time of flight of the second generation of the codling moth. 



During Farmers' Week the entire time was expended in trying to be 

 helpful to visiting farmers both by word, and by explaining exhibits 

 which were planned to educate the growers to new insects or to new facts 

 concerning old pests. 



Yours respectfully, 



R. M. HAIN, 



Extension Specialist in Entomology. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1920. 



REPORT OF EXTENSION WORK IN APICULTURE. 



This has been a good year among the beekeepers of Michigan, especial- 

 ly in an educational way. The old is passing and the new is coming. 

 The ''side line" beekeeper is passing and an increasing number of persons 

 are making beekeeping a specialt3^ The so-called ''box" or crossed-comb 

 hive has been outlawed, and many colonies of bees have been transferred 

 into modern hives. Many beekeepers have been instructed during the 

 year hoAV to treat diseased colonies and to apply better methods. 



At the State Fair at Detroit an exhibit from the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College was made and talks on beekeeping and answers to questions 

 given. 



The greater part of the year was taken up with field work, visiting 

 beekeepers, holding meetings for beekeepers and giving demonstrations of 

 best methods. 



During nine months of the year two hundred and twenty-five farms 

 and owners of bees were visited. Twenty-four county and other meet- 

 ings were held. Twenty-three addresses were given, the whole attend- 

 ance at these meetings being five hundred and sixty-five. For three 

 months during the winter, time was largely given to holding county bee 

 schools, two days in a county. Twenty-five counties were thus visited. 

 The total attendance at these schools was three hundred and eighteen, 

 with three hour sessions each in the morning and in the afternoon, given 

 to the important questions in beekeeping. 



Two meetings of State Beekeepers' Association were attended. 



Two county fairs were visited with exhibits, where many questions 

 were considered. 



Thirty-five counties of the State now have beekeeper's organizations 

 through which meetings and other interests are considered. 



The year began with droutli conditions in many parts of the State 

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