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carried on under the direction of the Agricultural College Ex- 

 periment Station have concerned your inspector in many ways. 

 The investigational work is closely linked with the field work; 

 through the latter much valuable material is obtained both in 

 specimens and observations. In this report it is usual to refer 

 briefly to the results of this line of disease work, which at pres- 

 ent is temporarily discontinued, Mr. Arnold P. Sturtevant hav- 

 ing resigned to engage in similar research for the Bureau of 

 Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 The results of the investigations, which are of particular im- 

 portance to the beekeepers, and which have been carried on in 

 a number of apiaries both in Amherst and elsewhere, will be 

 reported in a separate publication. 



Financial Statement, November 30, 1916. 



Balance, $0 50 



Respectfully submitted, 



BURTON N. GATES, 

 State Inspector of Apiaries. 



Amherst, Massachusetts, 

 December 5, 1916. 



