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plan of work to know definitely whether the amount now avail- 

 able will be sufficient. It would hardly seem to be more feasible 

 for the State to undertake to examine all the bees in Iowa and 

 treat all diseased colonies than to undertake to do the same thing 

 Avith hog cholera or other animal diseases. 



The fact that many bee keepers never examine the brood nests 

 of their hives or know anything of disease and care less, makes it 

 imperative that there be authority to compel proper attention in. 

 cases where there is a serious outbreak of disease. It is the 

 present policy of this office to use the funds available where there 

 is most at stake. 



The past summer the work has been in the hands of three 

 persons : J. W. Stine of Salem, who is the regular deputy, Harry 

 A. Dooley, a student in the University of Wisconsin, who assisted 

 for a short time, and the State Inspector. 



The following is the result of the personal visitation of the three 

 inspectors : 



Apiaries in which disease was found 140 



Apiaries visited 311 



Total number of colonies 6,973 



Number of diseased colonies 483 



Number treated by inspectors 52 



Number destroyed 32 



A considerable portion of the whole number of 483 diseased 

 colonies have been treated by the owners under direction of the 

 inspectors. A number were also destroyed by the owners. 



Total expense of inspection for 1913 — per diem $468.60 



Office and traveling expenses 416.14 



Total $884.74 



EDUCATIONAL WORK. 



The above statement only represents a part of the work accom- 

 plished, however. A constant correspondence has been carried on 

 with enquiring bee keepers and much information has been con- 

 veyed by mail. So effective has been the work accomplished by 

 many bee keepers without assistance, other than instruction as to 

 methods of dealing with disease, that I am now hopeful of accom- 

 plishing much more with the funds available than at first seemed 

 pc-ssible. It is highly desirable that every bee keeper be fully in- 

 fo rmed as to the diseases likely to be met with and the proper 

 treatinent- To that end much information along this line is in- 



