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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



with little expense beside his time and the total amount neces- 

 sary to do the work in any one county in any one year would 

 be so small as hardly to be considered. Being on the ground 

 the county inspector could do his work at the most favorable 

 time and his local acquaintance would greatly facilitate his work. 

 There are at present about ten counties where such a county in- 

 spector should be at work during the coming summer. The small 

 expense necessary will be returned a hundred fold in the in- 

 creased honey production of the state. During the past summer 

 the department has tried the experiment of appointing one dep- 

 uty with no work outside his home county. Mr. L. W. Elmore, 

 a bee keeper of Fairfield, has had charge of the work in Jeffer- 

 son county. Because of the fact that he was not compelled to 



Demonstration -n-ork in the Hall apiary at Colo. 



leave his work half finished to rush off to some other quarter to 

 meet insistent demands he has perhaps made more real progress 

 than we have been able to do in other sections. With efficient 

 county inspectors in counties where disease is badly spread, and 

 the state department to look after localities where there is not 

 so much to be done, and to have a general supervision of the 

 work, there is hope that foul brood can be reduced to a point 

 where it will no longer be a serious menace to the bee keeping 

 interests of Iowa. This plan will not only be the most effective, 

 but by far the cheapest plan that at present seems possible. 



