REPORT OF THE MEETING OF INSPECTORS OF APIARIES, SAN 
ANTONIO, TEX., NOVEMBER 12, 1906. 
The meeting was called to order in Market Hall at 9.30 a. m. by 
Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the Bureau of Entomology, Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., who addressed the members as fol- 
lows: 
_ Lapies anp GENTLEMEN: Last summer it was my pleasure and 
privilege to visit a considerable number of the men at work on bee- 
disease inspection throughout the United States. After talking with 
them and going with them on inspection trips, it became evident that 
there is a great deal yet to be done in regard to the making of better 
methods of inspection in work against bee diseases, entirely apart 
Trom the scientific aspect of the subject. . 
On the 3d of last August Mr. N. E. France, inspector of apiaries 
for Wisconsin, who is attending this meeting, and Mr. W. Z. Hutchin- 
con, the inspector of apiaries for Michigan, and myself met in Mil- 
waukee, Wis., to talk over certain plans for making bee-disease in- 
spection more effective. A circular letter, addressed to the persons 
now acting as inspectors in the various counties and States of the 
United States, was drawn up, suggesting that they meet in some place 
this fall to take up the work of bringing about more uniformity in 
the methods employed. The meeting of to-day is, the result of that 
circular letter. 
There are several things in work against bee diseases that are not 
at all clear to the bee-disease inspectors and others interested in the 
subject, and we wish to take some of them up for discussion to-day. 
We have with us Dr. G. F. White, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., who has made 
» most thorough scientific study of the cause of bee diseases, and we 
shall first ask him to give his demonstrations and the result of his 
work. After he finishes I shall myself attempt to summarize the 
investigations of bee diseases which have previously been made by 
different men. It is perhaps well to take up the scientific aspect of 
this work first in order to make this clear, and later we shall take up 
_the methods of inspection and treatment and the form of desirable 
Jaws controlling bee diseases. 
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