LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
U.S. DerartMent or AGRICULTURE, 
Burrau or Enromowoey, 
Washington, D. C., March 18, 1907. 
Sir: I have the honor to transmit the manuscript of the proceed- 
ings of a meeting of inspectors of apiaries held in San Antonio. Tex., 
November 12, 1906. The meeting together and conference of the per- 
sons interested in the eradication of the diseases which are such a 
drawback to apiculture can not fail to bring out many points of 
importance. In such a meeting the subject is presented in a way 
which is not possible in articles written for journals devoted to bee 
keeping or for publication in other forms. There is no organization 
of inspectors and no funds are available by which these proceedings 
may be published, and since this meeting was to a large extent the 
result of the efforts of members of the Bureau of Entomology, and 
since these men took such an active part in the meeting, it would seem 
fitting that the proceedings be issued as a publication of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. I therefore recommend that this manuscript 
be published as Bulletin No. 70 of this Bureau. 
Respectfully, 
L. O. Howarp, 
Entomologist and Chief of Bureau. 
Hon. James Wiison, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
