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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
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A great deal of the work in the early part of the season is necessarily 
devoted to the inspection of the apiaries of queen breeders and shippers 
of package bees. This past season we granted 40 queen breeder’s 
certificates, representing 14,098 colonies of bees. Most of these are 
located in parts of the state that are free from disease and would not 
require an annual inspection merely from the standpoint of foulbrood 
eradication. Therefore, this work, and the considerable amount of in¬ 
spection which is required by people who want to move bees out of the 
state, or from one part of the state to another, decreases very greatly 
the amount of work which is directed specifically toward the eradica¬ 
tion of American foulbrood. 
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The following is a general summary of the inspection work done in 
Texas during the fiscal year ending August 31st, 1922: 
Number of colonies inspected.45,530 
Number of cases of American foulbrood.... 618 
Number of cases of American foulbrood de¬ 
stroyed. 541 
Number of cases of American foulbrood 
treated. 77 
Treating for American foulbrood is discouraged as much as possible 
and destruction urged in its place. We have become convinced that 
destruction is, in general, and in the long run, the cheapest and best 
method of dealing with this disease, and we have great hope that by 
following the present policy we will be able to entirely eradicate Ameri¬ 
can foulbrood in Texas in the not very distant future. The beekeepers 
of the state as a body have endorsed our general policy looking toward 
foulbrood eradication, and it is because of their loyal support and 
cooperation that we hope ultimately to succeed in that effort. 
Mr. S. B. Fracker: I would like to ask whether the number of cases 
given is the number of colonies or the number of apiaries? 
Chairman M. C. Tanquary: It is the actual number of colonies. 
Mr. L. Haseman: Have you had any opposition from the queen 
breeders, when you sent out, say, three queens to any one beekeeper? 
Chairman M. C. Tanquary: Many of the people who have urged 
this particular work are queen breeders themselves. They are strongly 
back of that. I have heard of perhaps one or two who mentioned the 
possibility that we might interfere a little with their work as queen breed¬ 
ers, but when we have explained that our queen breeding is only ex- 
