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tion. By our publications, demonstrations and inspectors, practi- 

 cally every beekeeper of Ontario has been repeatedly warned, yet 

 comparatively few have taken heed or will heed until the enemy 

 is upon them, and they have suffered heavy loss. In the infected 

 areas the business has been reduced to the very few who have 

 taken advice and are building up their apiaries again to a paying 

 basis. These few are proving the truth of what has been said and 

 their evidence is of great value in the educational campaign still 

 being waged in advance of the disease. 



No doubt one reason for the indifference to warnings in the 

 E. F. B. counties is the fact that previously no bee disease had been 

 known there. It is only this year that the American and Euro- 

 pean Foul Brood territory begins to overlap, in Victoria County. 

 From now on we can expect an increasing number of cases of the 

 two diseases in one and the same colony. This will no doubt make 

 it necessary to treat all such colonies by requeening for E. F. B., 

 and by shaking for the American variety of disease. 



Fifty-five apiary demonstrations were held in all parts of 

 Ontario with a total attendance of one thousand eight hundred and 

 sixty-one persons. In 1912, the average attendance was 25, in 

 1913 it was 32 and this year 34, showing an increased interest from 

 year to year. 



This report would not be complete without mention being made 

 of the public spiritedness and the hospitality of several who have 

 given their assistance. Fifty-five beekeepers have at considerable 

 inconvenience allowed their apiaries to be used for demonstrations. 

 In many cases their wives and other ladies of the neighborhood 

 have provided refreshments for the demonstrators and for the 

 beekeepers in attendance. Hundreds of other beekeepers have given 

 a hearty welcome and cordial hospitality to the inspectors on their 

 rounds. All this is very much appreciated both by the inspectors 

 and by the department, and goes a long way towards smoothening 

 the path of the public servant which is not always lined with roses. 



Bee Pasturage on the Increase in Florida 



We would call attention to the article by Mr. C. H. Clute, of Palmetto, 

 Fla., in a late issue of the Review. While a little over-enthusiastic, perhaps, 

 Mr. Clute surely believes in his location, and is willing to let others know of 

 his great find, as he thoroughly believes it to be. Personally, we are sure that 

 Manatee County is a great honey country; but it has not yet equaled the re- 

 cords of several counties on the East Coast in former years. Heretofore, 

 much of the county was unoccupied by beemen (we mean Manatee county) 

 everybody seeming to think that Bradentown, and immediate vicinity was the 

 only part of the county worth living in at all! As a result, Mr. Rood, one of 

 the first, and always one of the foremost, beemen of that county, had to take 

 up trucking, because so many apiarists insisted on locating large, and often, 



