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which was written by Mr. Charles Stewart, of Sammonsville, N. \ .. 

 one of the inspectors of thai State. I had the pleasure and prn ilege 

 of spending four week- in the field with Mi - . Stewart last spring, and 

 1 feel that I ran say thai if there an' any good inspectors in the 

 United States one of them i> Mr. Charles Stewart. Mr. Stewart' is 

 exceedingly sorry that he ran not be here, and he requested me t<> read 

 thi- paper to von. 



APIARY INSPECTION IN NEW YORK STATE. 



By ( 'ii \s. Si i w \i: i . 



Inspector, Third l>isiri<i. 



Brother [nspectors: It is with a feeling of regrel that I write 



thi- paper, knowing that it will he impossible for me to be with you 

 at what musl be both a pleasant and profitable meeting. 



It i- hardly accessary for me to describe European foul brood nor 

 to refer to its entrance into New York State, except to say that it was 

 brought in some year- ago by a shipment of bees from one of the 

 Southern States, and just as we were feeling that we had nearly 

 stamped it out and were masters of the situation we discovered that 

 at least one if not two fresh importations had been made in a -eel ion 

 of the State where no trouble of this kind formerly existed. 



I wish to call your attention to the fact that no bee keeper can feel 

 reasonably safe from infection until every State in the Union is 

 under the surveillance of a keen-eyed inspector who knows every spot 

 of disease in his jurisdiction and allows no bees to be shipped out of 

 such territory. Had the inspectors of New York State not adopted 

 this rule, disease would have spread not only all over our State, but to 

 far distant point-, a- many, fearing the loss of their apiaries, were 

 eager to -ell at a sacrifice. In order not to make this rule a hardship 

 to our people, we have made it a practice to find a buyer within the 

 diseased territory competent to cure the disease and so keep our 

 t rouble- wit hin our own family. 



I wish I had the power to paint to you in word- the pathetic 

 picture when four good men and t rue. who had been bee keepers from 

 boyhood and had large interests to protect, took up this work. I 

 have -ecu the face- of strong men blanch with fear or turn crimson 

 with anger at the first vi-it of an inspector, and later, when their bees 

 were saved and their product marketed, the young man sent back 

 to college, their little children cared for, or perhaps the home saved, 

 these -a me men with tear- on t heir cheek would give one a hand clasp 

 that was far more eloquent than word- and possesses a value beyond 



gold. 1 question if there is an inspector present to-day who from a 



mere money point of view would not be letter oil' if he had given 



