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prosper here unless effective measures are adopted to bring such 

 difficulties as are here mentioned under control. 



LEGISLATION NEEDED. 



It is very clear that American foul brood will not be suitably 

 controlled w^ithout laws which define and make mandatory correct 

 methods of prevention and eradication. At least sixteen of the 

 states have such laws at the present time and these provide for 

 from one to fifteen inspectors in each state. 



The best laws of this kind provide not only for inspection, quar- 

 antine, and eradication, but also for instruction. This is in re- 

 sponse to a very natural demand, for the majority of beekeepers 

 are sadly in need of information in regard to apicultural methods 

 and practices. 



It will be some years before apiary inspection work in Mon- 

 tana will require the full time of one man and yet the amount that 

 is needed is badly needed. It is fortunate that the kind of train- 

 ing and information needed for this work is so similar to general 

 economic entomology that one of the regular force of this depart- 

 ment of the agricultural college can do this work in connection 

 with other regular duties as provided in the State Entomologist law 

 of Montana. 



It is, therefore, proposed and recommended that in the near 

 future the work of apiary inspection be regularly taken up by the 

 State Entomologist's office and that legal authority be provided 

 by the next legislature. 



STATUS OF THE SPOTTED FEVER TICK INVESTIGATIONS. 



Following the announcement of Doctor H. T. Ricketts' discov- 

 ery that our common so-called wood tick is responsible for the 

 transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, this office, at the 

 request of the secretary of the state board of health, tcck up a 

 study of this tick and, at the same time, of the other species found 

 m Montana which are of importance in other ways. During the 

 past few years we have received numerous requests for information 

 regarding both the spotted fever tick (DeTDiucentor venustus) and 

 the "elk tick" (D. alhlpictus) as pests of horses and cows. The 

 veterinarian of the agricultural college is much interested in the 



