The Mabylano Fabm Bureau Fedebation 3 



this requeenln? as possible in an effort to get the work started, the plan 

 being that the beekeeper should buy queens for a small percentage of his 

 colonies, and the extension worker would do the actual work of intro- 

 ducing them. With this initial help and instruction it was felt that the 

 toeekeepera would then be able to finish the job of requeening the re- 

 mainder of the apiary without further help. This plan was just started 

 when it was necessary to abandon it because of injury. This work will 

 be resumed during 1936. Already a number of beekeepers are awaiting 

 notice, from the extension worker, of when to order queens from the south. 



Elimination op Box Hives 



Through direct extension work and its collateral effect, more and more 

 box hives are being transferred over into modern movable frame hives 

 each year. This phase of the work will of necessity progress slowly be- 

 cause of cost of new equipment, but with the extension worker and county 

 leaders constantly demonstrating the increased profits to be derived from 

 modern hives, it can be expected that gradually the box hive will be 

 eliminated through education and not make oft proposed legislation neces- 

 sary. 



Two-Stort Bbood Cha,mbe[b 



In conjunction with this quiet steady drive to eliminate box hives, the 

 value of the two-story brood chamber is always advocated. Much suc- 

 cess has been made in getting beekeepers to use two brood chambers in 

 place of one. The method of attack has been to urge, almost on a sport- 

 ing basis, that the beekeeper try out several colonies with the two brood 

 chambers, and run them in competition with one brood chamber hives. 

 Instruction in colony manipulation under the two chamber method is 

 given and the success from the extension and production standpoint has 

 been gratifying. The greatest drawback to this change in colony man- 

 agement is the lack of enough equipment. 



Educational Wokk on Disblase and Pests 



Work done in the control of the bee diseases and pests is reported fully 

 elsewhere in this report. However, much educational work is accomplished 

 each year in teaching beekeepers to recognize the various bee diseases 

 and pests and how to combat them. Talks were given at beekeepers meet- 

 ings, instructions were given in the apiary and literature has been sent 

 out, all in an, effort to familiarize the beekeepers with the diseases and 

 i)ests before they encounter them, so that should the apiary become in- 

 fested or infected they will be able to recognize the trouble immediately 

 and before the condition has a chance to spread. 



^HE Pollen Basket 



Even since extension work in apiculture was started in Maryland, a 

 need has been felt for some sort of extension paper through which the 

 extension worker could reach every beekeeper on the mailing list period- 



