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The Work In Neiv Jersey 



Inspection and Its Results 



The result of inspection in the State as a wlrole will be seen 

 in Table I. 



TABLE I 

 Summary of Apiary Inspection in New Jersey 1912-1916 



Attention is called to the fact that of the 15,847 colonies inspected 

 during the past five years, 2,807, or more than one-fifth, were in 

 boxes, kegs, etc., and hence the ordinary manipulations necessary 

 for honey production or disease control were much restricted, if 

 not entirely impossible. The proportion of American to European 

 foulbrood holds at about the ratio of i to 3. There is noted a 

 steady decrease in the number of colonies found with disease, both 

 American and European, with the exception that there is an in- 

 crease in the number of colonies with European foulbrood for 

 1916. This was caused by a serious outbreak of the disease at 

 two points in Atlantic County which heretofore had been entirely 

 free from disease. 



This outbreak was not discovered until much damage had been 

 done. The damage was made possible because (i) the majority 

 of the hives used were of the immovable frame type and it was 

 extremely difficult to learn the condition of the brood in them, 

 and (2) the beekeepers were not practicing modern methods of 

 bee management. With proper management, which includes Italian 

 queens and movable frame hives, this damage could have been 



