No. 4.] STx\TE INSPECTOR OF APIARIES. 



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Other Details of the Season. 



A summary statement of the season's work can be more 

 concisely formulated in a table (Table 3). 



Beekeepers' names taken from the files or discontinued, . . . 236 



New names, 475 



Unhygienic apiaries (not diseased), 326 



Number of apiaries quarantined, 225 



Number of releases, 141 



The activities of the season, while the showing for the amount 

 of work done is good, have been seriously handicapped by the 

 prevalence of rainy weather. It will be recalled that the sum- 

 mer of 1915 was unusually moist, the rainfall for June and 

 July being at least twice normal, and hence handicapped the 

 efforts of the inspectors. It was also a handicap to the bee- 

 keepers in the treatment of diseased colonies. Oftentimes bee- 

 keepers were obliged to wait until the weather cleared before 

 they treated, thereby causing a delay which was not always 

 desirable. 



It sometimes seems to inspectors as though the beekeepers 

 were becoming dependent, and were too frequently requesting 

 calls by the inspectors. Upon reflection, however, this is not 

 the case, but it is indicative perhaps of the interest which the 

 beekeepers take in the work. It is not only requested by the 

 beekeepers, but it is desirable, from the inspectors' standpoint, 

 to be able to make more than one call at many apiaries through- 

 out the State. Provisions for this kind of inspection work 

 have been previously mentioned, and by vote of the State 

 Board of Agriculture a request for additional funds was made 



