532 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



investigation of bee diseases will again receive the principal atten- 

 tion of the service and will be enlarged along much the same lines 

 as heretofore, with the addition of further experiments in the treat- 

 ment of both infectious diseases. Several practical problems, such as 

 the production of comb honey and the wintering of bees, will be 

 begun in the hope of devising better methods as well as to make 

 known generally the best methods now employed. The study of the 

 sense organs ol bees will be begun, and a study of Avax secretion 

 will be conducted to learn the conditions under which wax is most 

 rapidly secreted and the activities of the bees during comb building. 



PLANS FOR WORK RECOMMENDED FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 



30, 1913. 



It was my intention to recommend a considerable increase in 

 the estimates for this bureau for the fiscal year 1913, but I am under- 

 stand that it is your desire and the desire of the chairman of the 

 Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives that no 

 increases shall be submitted, and I therefore recommend that the 

 estimates for this bureau be the same as those for the fiscal year 

 1912. 



