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The apicultural notes from Mr. McLain form a portion only of his 

 report for the season of 1886, and were excluded from the annual re- 

 port for want of space. The portion on bees vs. fruit is in the main an 

 account of a repetition of the experiments detailed in the Annual Report 

 for 1885. The results are corroboratory, but not absolutely conclusive 

 of the inability of bees to injure fruit, in that the conditions were not 

 varied sufficiently and that the fruits were substantially the same kinds 

 as used last year. 



C. V. E. 



