for blueberry pollination and then returned to Massachusetts for serving 

 the late-water cranberry bogs. This has made somewhat of a problem in the 

 increased European foulbrood incidence, but these apiary owners are the most 

 efficient users of anti-biotics. The clean up program corrected this damage 

 so that the numbers of colonies found by special inspection in the Fall 

 found no serious build up of this disease. 



Hornet problems were cared for in the usual way. Hundreds of 

 calls were received and instructions given for using Chlordane 50^ to con- 

 trol them. 



Special problems in the keeping of bees in close residential areas 

 were handled by the Chief Apiary Inspector. Pall River, Quincy, Randolph 

 and Ipswich were visited and suggestions made for alleviating this difficulty 

 so that bees could be kept. Instruction and advice was sout^ht by Boards 

 of Health, City Attorney and other officials, and our full cooperation was 

 given. A policy of limiting the number of colonies in such areas was set up, 

 keeping the number at three. The beekeepers were urged to move their other 

 bees to some nearby rural area. 



MRfi;MEC 



