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The distance iii many cases was small, about half the applications 

 covering distances of less than five miles. If we omit the record of one 

 apiary which was moved to California, another sent to Pennsylvania, 

 and the shipments of comb to southern Illinois, the average distance 

 was 32.4 miles per application. The average number of colonies to be 

 moved was 18, and the average size of the apiary from which the material 

 came was 52. These figures are surprisingly high when it is recalled 

 that the average Wisconsin apiary contains 16 colonies but this is due 

 to the large number of permits issued to commercial apiaries for the 

 usual spring and fall transportation between outyards and the wintering 

 location. 



The support of the regulations on the part of the average beekeeper 

 has been surprisingly encouraging. Occasionally delays, caused by the 

 loss of applications or permits in the mails and similar incidents, have 

 caused inconvenience, and in at least two cases beekeepers have suffered 

 small financial sacrifices, owing to their desire to move material within 

 twenty-four hours and the obvious impossibility of procuring a permit 

 within that time. In one of these cases the apiary proved on subsequent 

 inspection to be heavily infected, while in the other it was healthy. 



Blanket permits covering more than one sale or movement have been 

 given in only a very few cases. These are to beekeepers who make a 

 business of supplying bees and equipment, as well as producing honey. 

 This is not an extensive business in Wisconsin and it is understood that 

 such permits for the sale of bees or queens will never be given except in 

 annually inspected apiaries surrounded by large areas of clean territory. 



The necessity of making special inspections has required the develop- 

 ment of a special staff of local inspectors of whom 25 have already been 

 appointed. The usual method is that the county beekeepers' association 

 recommends three of its members, who then take a civil service examina- 

 tion in which the primary weight is given to experience and training. 

 In most cases the department has been fortunate in securing men whose 

 apiaries have been infected with American foul brood and who have 

 successfully cleaned it up. Many of these county inspectors are em- 

 ployed only a day or two each season and five had no work at all during 

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We may conclude by answering one question which is always a matter 

 of interest, namely what percentage of the actual sales or movements 

 of bees does the department reach? In order to determine this point 

 and assist in the administration of these provisions, a staff of about 200 

 volunteer correspondents has been developed who report all movements 

 of apiary material of which they hear in their respective neighborhoods. 

 During the season, out of 150 reports, it was found that all but 8 or 10 



