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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



beekeeping material. The honey displayed was a collection 

 representative of Massachusetts production. Samples bottled 

 in uniform bottles were procured from various beekeepers 

 throughout the State. There was also a small collection of 

 out-of-State honey. 



For this meeting, as the principal speaker, Mr. E. R. Root 

 of Medina, Ohio, was obtained, who delivered an address on 

 "The Importance of Honey Production." ^ 



Brood Diseases of Bees. 



Visits have been made to 1,613 apiaries. Some of the apiaries 

 were revisited several times. In some instances, too, visits 

 have been made by "agents." The number of quarantines 

 issued for either American or European foul brood is 63 

 (there were but 14 apiaries in which American foul brood was 

 found). 



Due to the delinquency, or, in some instances, the inability 

 of the beekeeper to master the control of his cases of disease, 

 and, in a few instances, because disease was discovered late in 

 the season — too late to be successfully treated — it has been 

 necessary to hold over in quarantine a limited number of 

 apiaries. Holdovers, it will be noticed, occur from several years 

 back in a few instances. This is explainable from the fact that 

 it has been impossible to revisit some of these apiaries, and 

 from the fact, in some instances, too, that the disease has not 

 been successfully suppressed. In all, there are 61 apiaries still 

 held in quarantine. The tabulation occurs below: — 



Table of Current Quarantines. 



Date. 



European 

 Foul Brood. 



American 

 Foul Brood. 



Totals. 



1912, 

 1915, 

 1916, 

 1917, 

 1918, 



1 



182 



Totals, 



' Published as Circular No. 81 of the Board of Agriculture. 

 2 American foul brood in 1 apiary, also. 



