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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Aug. 1 



DR. E. F. PHILLIPS INSTRUCTING THE NURSERY INSPECTORS OF 

 OHIO IN THE ART OF BEE INSPECTION. 

 By the new State law the State P^ntomologist is the bee-inspector who, 

 with his deputies, has charge of the work throughout the State. 



FOUL-BROOD 



INSPECTORS 

 OHIO. 



AT WORK IN 



BY B. R. ROOT. 



As our readers probably know, Prof. N. E. 

 Shaw, State Entomologist in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Columbus, Ohio, is 

 now our State foul-brood inspector under 

 the new law. He already had a corps of six 

 or seven men doing nursery-inspection work, 

 and these have 

 since been train- 

 ed to do inspec- 

 tion work among 

 the bees. 



Some few weeks 

 ago. State In- 

 spector Shaw, 

 along with his 

 deputies, met with 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, 

 of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, 

 Washington, D. 

 C, at Medina. 

 Dr. Phillips took 

 them through our 

 bee - yards and 

 showed them col- 

 onies in normal 

 condition. We 

 then drove in an 

 automobile to 

 some points about 

 25 miles distant 



that we heard were in- 

 fected with tlisease. 

 We found a couple of 

 yards where American 

 foul brood was making 

 fearful havoc. While 

 Dr. I'hillips was giv- 

 ing his instructions 

 how to diagno.se and 

 treat, we took occasion 

 to use the camera, and 

 the subjoined views 

 show the inspectors at 

 work. 



i'rof. Shaw and his 

 deputies are universi- 

 ty-trained men, and it 

 was not difficult for 

 Dr. Phillips to instruct 

 them in ttie way of di- 

 agnosing bee diseases, 

 for they readily 

 "caught on." 



Since that time they 

 have been busy in va- 

 rious sections of the 

 State. There are some 

 six or seven of them, 

 and when it is under- 

 stood that they are do- 

 ing nursery-inspection 

 work as well as bee- 

 disease work one can 

 readily see the econo- 

 my to the State at 

 large. There is no reason in the world why 

 the function of nursery and bee-inspection 

 work can not be combined in one man, or, 

 as in this case, in several of them. One 

 does not require to have a practical knowl- 

 edge of the art of handling bees to be an 

 inspector; but under an expert like Dr. 

 Phillips, especially if he is a college man, 

 he will readily catch on to some of the 

 marked symptoms of disease. In any 

 event, all doubtful specimens of brood are 



STUDYING Till-: SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE. 



