PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



The increasing demand for instruction in bee-culture consequent upon 

 the rapid expansion of the industry throughout the Dominion has 

 necessitated the issue of a second edition of this Bulletin. 



The matter contained in the first edition has been revised and largely 

 added to, and several other subjects of importance are dealt with in this 

 edition. 



Beekeepers will be interested in learning that since the Bulletin 

 was in print I have received from Dr. E. F. Phillips, in charge of the 

 Division of Apiculture, United States Department of Agriculture, a 

 report upon specimens of diseased combs collected from the extreme 

 ends of New Zealand, and forwarded by myself to him. The results of 

 the investigation go to prove that we have the milder or "American" 

 form of foul-brood, and not the dreaded "black-brood" prevalent in 

 Europe. Dr. Phillips says, "You are, then, able to say that American 

 foul-brood exists in New Zealand, and that it is caused by Bacillus 

 larvce." 



It will 1)0 well to note when reading section 9 of the Apiaries Act 

 (page 23) that the Act came into force on the 14th September, 1907. 



I. HOPKINS. 



