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of the industry in the State. The value of the honey and wax 
produced in New York in 1899 — the year State inspection was 
instituted — is given as $352,795 in the census for 1900. This is 
obviously too low. 
Several States have passed laws for the control of these diseases 
and, in the majority of cases, the results are as good as can be ex- 
pected. The laws are not always all that could be desired. Table 
IX shows the States having inspection and the force at work. 
Table IX. — Status of bee-disease inspection in the United States. 
State. 
Method of inspec- 
tion. 
Number 
of in- 
spectors. 
Principal disease. 
Authority. 
15 
12 
American foul brood 
....do... 
do 
Do. 
Idaho.. 
Divisions of State. 
State 
2 
1 
....do 
Do. 
American foul brood and 
European foul brood. 
American foul brood 
American foul brood and 
European foul brood. 
American foul brood 
.do... 
State bee keepers' as- 
sociation. (No police 
power.) 
Count} 7 
(?) 
1 
2(?) 
1 
2 
Michigan 
State 
Do. 
...do 
Do. 
.do 
Do. 
.do... 
Do. 
do 
(?) 
Law against keeping 
diseased colonies. 
....do 
1 
4 
2 
American foul brood 
European foul brood and 
American foul brood. 
do : 
Divisions of State. 
Ohio 
Do. 
.do .. 
(?) 
Texas 
Divisions of State. 
4 
4 
1 
1 
American foul brood 
do 
Utah 
Do. 
..do... 
..do... 
Do. 
State 
....do 
Do. 
Other States are at work on this same question and it may be 
expected that within a few years the diseases will be controlled as 
much as is possible by inspection. 
Badly proportioned distribution of apiaries. — A present source of 
loss to the industry as a whole is the fact that the available area for 
nectar gathering is not properly covered with apiaries ; in some cases 
it is overstocked, but far more generally there is room for several 
times as many colonies. In pointing out the loss on this account it 
need scarcely be expected that a method for remedying the present 
conditions will immediately follow. 
As apiculture advances, more and more of the available bee terri- 
torv will be covered and, naturally, overstocking will be brought 
on in many cases. By natural growth of bee keeping the present 
lost nectar will probably be brought to the hives. Viewing the ques- 
tion, however, from the standpoint of the industry as a whole, it is 
desirable that this nectar be collected by bees under the manage- 
ment of intensive bee keepers — by men who can get the maximum 
crop from the bees. This can be brought about only by education 
