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ditions. At one apiary.- at Steveston I .happened in while the rancher was 

 busy bottling the season's harvest for the market, and I had the pleasure 

 of admiring 1800 pounds of beautiful clover honey, which had been 

 gathered by 30 colonies, spring count, an average of 60 pounds to the hive. 



This finished the work for the season. I am glad to say that nowhere 

 did I come across anything that suggested the presence of foul brood. 

 Here and there I found pickled brood, but this is to be found almost any- 

 where at sometime or another and is not contagious. In all I called on 155 

 beekeepers who on April 1 owned 780 colonies of bees, and on October 1 

 1073 colonies. A second visit was made to 117 of them, making a total of 

 272 calls. In addition quite a number of visits were made to ranchers who 

 at one time kept bees, but for various reasons had ceased to be interested. 



As a matter of curiosity I kept a note of the mileage travelled. I find 

 I covered 597 miles in May, 469 in June, 540 in July, 833 in August, 234 in 

 September, 225 in October. Total, 2898 miles. To destinations I travelled 

 by train 989 miles, by steamer 816 miles, by stage 150 miles, by rural 

 tram-car 135 miles, by motor-car 18 miles, by river launch 18 miles. In 

 calling on beekeepers I drove 701 miles, walked 67 miles, and canoed 4 

 miles. The day's drive often reached 25 miles, the average about 18 miles. 



Before concluding I cannot do less than express my grateful appreciation 

 ef the kindness I received on every hand. The inspector was more than 

 welcome, he was a felt want. My great regret is that with so many wanting 

 help and advice I had to cut my visits short, and that I was unable to 

 respond to urgent appeals that came to me from beekeepers outside of the 

 districts I was working. Travelling so much on trains and steamers I came 

 to be known, and was greatly helped by getting the names of beekeepers in 

 various parts of my territory from fellow-travellers. 



In conclusion, the honey crop of 1911, and my estimate of the possi- 

 bilities of the Province indicate that had accomplishment equalled oppor- 

 tunity there would have been no need to import from foreign countries. 

 Furthermore, the home product in the western half of the Province is 

 mainly from clover, and therefore has the flavor to which most of its 

 inhabitants have been accustomed. Much of the imported honey is too mild 

 to suit the taste of those accustomed to the clover honey of Britain, or the 

 clover and basswood of the eastern province*. 



