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happened that disease has promptly been stamped out on its first 

 appearance in an apiary whose owner was alert. With the rank 

 and file of people who only have a few colonies there is no 

 suspicion of anything wrong until the bees are dead and their 

 honey carried away by visiting bees and the disease thus spread 

 far and wide. When the inspector is called into a neighborhood 

 to examine bees in such cases, he is almost sure to be informed 

 that the particular bees which he may wish to examine are all 

 right. Yet in most cases their owners have never examined the 

 brood nest and would be unable to recognize diseased brood if 

 they saw it. The fortunate visit of an inspector has located 

 many cases of disease in apiaries of this kind where but for his 

 coming the disease would have surelj' been spread to surround- 

 ing apiaries. In one case the inspector called at a farm house 

 where he was advised that there were bees. The housewife in- 

 formed him that they had no bees but some empty hives. An 

 examination of the hives disclosed the fact that bees had died 

 of American foul brood, yet the combs and honey were still in 

 the hive. It was in early spring and fortunately it had not been 

 found by the bees from neighboring apiaries. The owner was in 

 the field and when visited by the inspector and informed of the 

 condition promised to burn the whole outfit when he went in at 

 noon. The inspector would have much preferred to do the job 

 himself but the owner insisted that it would be promptly attended 

 to. A man was sent back the following day to see that instruc- 

 tions had been carefully followed, only to find that the hive had 

 been carefully disinfected by burning out the inside, but the 

 honey was left lying on the ground, where it was much more 

 likely to be found by Tjees than had it been left in the hives. As 

 far as the hive was concerned it had been effectively cleaned of 

 the disease but the owner had failed to grasp the fact that the 

 disease is carried from hive to hive in the honey. Very fortu- 

 nately a large apiary near at hand was saved from infection by 

 the opportune visit of the inspector. 



MOVING PICTURES. 



It early became apparent that with the funds available but 

 little progress could be made by personal visitation as seems to 

 be contemplated by the law. With the consent of the executive 

 council a moving picture film of nearly one thousand feet in 



