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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



be turned over to the Secretary of the Association of Economic En- 

 tomologists. The Section expressed its approval of this plan. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Washington, D. C, was elected Chairman and 

 N. E. Shaw, Columbus, Secretary, for the coming year. These selec- 

 tions were recommended to the nominating committee of the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists. 



N. E. Shaw. 



ADDRESS OF THE CHAIRMAN 



By WiLMON Newell, College Station, Texas 



The Section of Apiary Inspection is a comparatively recent devel- 

 opment in the Association of Economic Entomologists. This body 

 was formally organized in Washington, D. C., in December, 1911, under 

 the name of the ^'Association of Official Apiary Inspectors of the 

 United States and Canada." A year later, at the Cleveland meeting, 

 it affiliated with the Association of Economic Entomologists and re- 

 ceived the rank of a section. A short but interesting program of the 

 section was held at the Atlanta meeting a year ago. 



The work of the economic entomologist is mainly one of conserva- 

 tion. It is his province to provide methods of protecting crops, fruits, 

 etc., either in the course of their production or after they have been 

 harvested. The conviction that this constituted the sole field of the 

 economic entomologist was so firmly fixed that even the entomolo- 

 gists themselves did not regard the study of wealth-producing insects, 

 such as the honey-bee, as a legitimate part of their work. 



However, it must be conceded that the study of beneficial insects 

 of every kind constitutes economic entomological work just as surely 

 as does the study of injurious forms. 



It was but appropriate, then, that entomologists, though somewhat 

 tardily, should turn their attention to the development of the bee- 

 keeping industry and to the problems connected therewith. Six Ex- 

 periment Stations, Minnesota, Iowa, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Texas, 

 and Ontario, Can., now operate experimental apiaries for the devel- 

 opment of better methods of beekeeping and the Bureau of Entomology 

 at Washington has done much in recent years to bring the beekeeping 

 industry into the prominence which its importance merits. 



The most important phase of this work has been the protection of 

 bees against infectious and contagious diseases and many states now 

 maintain, through their state entomological departments, an efficient 

 apiary inspection system, not unlike the older system of nursery and 

 orchard inspection. In states where this work has been in other hands 



