Part L] STATE INSPECTOR OF APIARIES. 149 



Bulletin No. lOA of the Apiary Inspection Scries of the Board 

 of Agriculture, is entitled "Sixth Annual Report of the State 

 Inspector of Apiaries for the Year 1915." 



There was distributed to a limited extent a very technical 

 publication ^ by Dr. E. B. Holland of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College Experiment Station which appeals to the spe- 

 cialist and experimenter. 



Meetings. — The usual number of beekeepers' society meet- 

 ings, field days and conventions, of grange meetings and lec- 

 tures before college biological societies, have been given during 

 the current year. Of the meetings held before beekeepers' 

 societies the most notable is the circuit series arranged by the 

 inspector for Mr. C. P. Dadant, editor of the "American Bee 

 Journal," Hamilton, Illinois, who addressed on successive days 

 during the latter part of July and August nine beekeepers' so- 

 cieties in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont 

 and New York. The writer accompanied Mr. Dadant on a 

 part of his engagements, meeting him in Connecticut and go- 

 ing with him throughout Massachusetts and into New York 

 State. It is highly advantageous to the beekeeping interests 

 of the State to utilize prominent apicultural talent by arranging 

 sequential conventions or meetings. It is necessary, however, 

 that some one person act as a booking agent for the many bee- 

 keepers' societies, which service the inspector is glad to render. 

 A similar series of meetings was arranged for Mr. F. C. Pellett 

 of Iowa, who spoke in the east in January. 



Special Exhibitions. — Besides the speaking engagements 

 there have been special demonstrations and exhibits, notably 

 at the Amherst Fair, Greenfield Fair and the National Dairy 

 Show. For the display at the Greenfield Fair, under the aus- 

 pices of this Board, a part of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College exhibit equipment was utilized. At the dairy show in 

 Springfield, of which your secretary has already made mention, 

 the beekeeping display was essentially that of products, and 

 consisted of -honey raised at the college apiary as well as by 

 the beekeepers. 



Bee Disease Investigations. — While not a part of the specific 

 work of the inspection service, the bee disease investigations 



* Detection of Arsenic in Bees. Excerpt, Journal of Economic Entomology, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1916. 



