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(5) By the efforts of the beekeeping section of the bureau the bee- 

 keepers of the country were aroused to the necessity of a gront in- 

 crease in honey, owing to the shortage of sugar. Specialists were 

 sent out, held meetings, addressed more than 25,000 beekeepers, 

 visited the apiaries, and gave persoiial instruction, with the result 

 that the honey crop was greatly increased. Our exports of honey 

 to allied countries increased at least ten times over those of any 

 period previous to the war, and the domestic consumption of honey 

 also greatly increased. 



(6) In medical entomologv the bureau maintained a thorough co- 

 operation with the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army in 

 the matter of experimental work on insect problems. All insect 

 remedies reported to the Medical Department of the Army were 

 referred to the bureau for opinion or for test. The most extensive 

 work was done on the subject of the body louse, and branch labora- 

 tories were established for experimental tests. Experts of the bu- 

 reau were in several cases engaged for special work in concentration 

 camps against insects carrying disease, and at the close of the war 

 one of these experts, who had early entered the Army as a reserve 

 officer, had virtual charge of the great delousing plant at Camp 

 !Mills, through which troops returning from Europe were passed. 



The foregoing six paragraphs include only the broadest outline of 

 the work which, were it to be stated in more detail, would indicate 

 that in very many directions the bureau's services were most im- 

 portant. 



