REPORT OF THE MEETING OF INSPECTORS OF APIARIES, SAN 

 ANTONIO. TEX., NOVEMBER L2, L906. 



The meeting was called to order in Market Hall at 9.30 a. m. by 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the Bureau of Entomology, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C., who addressed the members as Pol 

 lows : 



Ladies and Gentlemen: Last summer it was my pleasure and 

 privilege to visit a considerable number of the men at work on bee- 

 disease inspection throughout the United States. After talking with 

 them and going with them on inspection trips, it became evident that 

 there is a great deal yet to be done in regard to the making of better 

 methods of inspection in work against bee diseases, entirely apart 

 from the scientific aspect of the subject. 



On the 3d of last August Mr. X. E. France, inspector of apiaries 

 for Wisconsin, who is attending this meeting, and Mr. AY. Z. Hutchin- 

 son, the inspector of apiaries for Michigan, and myself met in Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., to talk" over certain plans for making bee-disease in- 

 spection more effective. A circular letter, addressed to the persons 

 now acting as inspectors in the various counties and State- of the 

 United States, was drawn up, suggesting that they meet in someplace 

 this fall to take up the work of bringing about more uniformity in 

 the methods employed. The meeting of to-day is the result of that 

 circular letter. 



There are several things in work' against bee diseases that are not 

 at all dear to the bee-disease inspectors and others interested in the 

 subject, and we wish to take some of them up for discussion to-day. 

 We have with us Dr. (J. F. White, of the Bureau of Animal [ndustry, 

 ( . S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, I). (\. who ha- made 

 a most thorough scientific study of the cause of bee diseases, and we 

 -hall first ask him to give hi- demonstrations and the result of his 

 work-. After he finishes I -hall myself attempt to summarize the 

 investigations of bee diseases which have previously been made by 

 different men. It is perhaps well to take up the scientific aspect of 

 this work first in order to make this clear, and Inter we -hall take up 

 the methods of inspection and treatment and the form of desirable 

 kiw - controlling bee diseases. 



