92 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 7 



Report of Section of Apiary Inspection 



The conflict of the meeting of this section with a session of the main 

 association resulted in a very small number of inspectors being present. 

 About ten states were represented. 



Following the address of President Newell on "The Essentials of 

 a Good Apiary Inspection Law" a general discussion of work as 

 conducted in the different states was given. Most of the inspectors 

 spoke of the necessity of educational work in connection with regular 

 inspection duties. Work of this nature is carried on through articles 

 in the county press, illustrated lectures before bee-keepers associations 

 and farmer institutes and by field talks and demonstrations by inspect- 

 ors. In most states the appropriations are meager and the majority 

 of the work is being confined to sections where bee-keeping interests 

 are largest. 



The great demand for bee-keeping literature was evidenced by the 

 remarkable requests for the bulletins recently issued in New York 

 and Tennessee. These bulletins have been sent all over the world. 



General disapprobation of the plan of the meetings which resulted 

 in conflicts was expressed. Doctors Headlee and Britton were ap- 

 pointed as a committee to request the general secretary to arrange 

 for the next meeting of the Section of Apiary Inspection without 

 conflicting with other meetings. 



N. E. Shaw of Ohio, was elected Section Secretary. 



ADDRESS OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SECTION OF 



APIARY INSPECTION 



THE ESSENTIALS OF A GOOD APIARY INSPECTION LAW 



By WiLMON Newell, College Station, Texas 



An efficient law is the first requisite in the eradication of any conta- 

 gious disease, whether of human beings, farm animals or insects. Per- 

 haps the choice of the term "eradication" is not entirety a proper one. 

 Entomologists have for some time recognized the fact that the eradi- 

 cation of an insect, in the sense of destroying all individuals of the 

 species, is an end rarely if ever accomplished by artificial means. At 

 the same time it must be conceded that contagious diseases of animals 

 have been eradicated, in the fullest sense of the word, particularly with- 

 in certain defined areas. In like mamier we have seen the eradication 

 of American foul brood from individual apiaries and occasionall}^ from 

 areas of considerable size: hence it appears that so far as contagious 



