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The meeting decided to recommend that the U. S. Post Office Depart- 

 ment shall at once prohibit the introduction of queen bees through the 

 mails from all foreign coimtries except Canada, and that a bill be intro- 

 duced into Congress to prohibit the introduction of adult bees into the 

 United States except for experimental and scientific purposes by the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. Since there is no known Isle of Wight 

 disease in Canada, and since it is hoped and expected that the Dominion 

 of Canada will establish the same safeguards to the beekeeping industry, 

 it is planned not to establish any quarantines or prohibitions against 

 shipments of bees from and to Canada. 



It was the opinion of all those in attendance that the Isle of Wight 

 disease is such a serious menace to beekeeping on this continent, that 

 every possible step should be taken to prevent its introduction, and that 

 all importations of queenbees should be stopped. Pending full legis- 

 lation in this matter, it is hoped that beekeepers throughout the contin- 

 ent will cooperate to the fullest degree by making no attempts to introduce 

 adult bees into the country. Any queen breeder who introduced this 

 disease into the country'- would be doing a great damage to the beekeep- 

 ing industry, and it would be a serious drawback to his future business. 



The committee urges that beekeepers who see any outbreak of any 

 disease of adult bees shall at once send samples for examination and 

 diagnosis to the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. More 

 detailed information concerning this disease will be presented in a future 

 issue of this journal, and in the meantime information may be obtained 

 by writing to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, for 

 a copy of Department Circular 218, entitled "The Occurrence of Diseases 

 of Adult Bees'" for free distribution. 



J. G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa., Chairman 



E. G. Carr, New Jersey. 



F. Eric Millen, Guelph, Canada. 



Committee. 



The Paradichlorobezine Treatment. The control of the California peach borer, 

 Aegeria opalescens Hy. Edw. was successful in the counties of Alameda, Santa Clara 

 and San Benito last fall where it was used chiefly on apricot trees. The problem of 

 rootstocks is a new one which must be considered in this state, but as yet no injury 

 has resulted to the ones treated. 



An infestation of the pear root aphis, Eriosoma languinosa Hartig was completely 

 controlled by the method with no apparent injtuy to 4 year old pear trees on French 

 roots. The latter experiment is^being rapidly enlarged with very interesting results. 



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