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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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Number 95 

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E, F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
At the annual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomolo- 
gists at Toronto in December, 1921, the Apiculture Section appointed 
a committee to consider what steps should be taken to prevent the in- 
troduction of the Isle of Wight disease of adult bees into the United 
States and Canada. The chairman of this committee, Dr. S. B. Fracker, 
State entomologist of Wisconsin, called a conference on this subject 
which was held March 9 at the Bee Culture Laboratory of the Department 
of Agriculture and in addition to the committee several State officials 
interested in bee-disease control were invited to participate. Those 
in attendance were J. G. Sanders, President of the Association of 
Economic Entomologists and Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, De- 
partment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Penn.; Geo. H. Rea, Pennsylvania 
State College; E. G. Carr, Apiary Inspector of New Jersey; F. Eric 
Millen, Ontario Agricultural College; N. E. Phillips, Massachusetts 
Agricultural College; E. R. Root, Editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture; 
and the specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture 
directly concerned in the problem. 
It was the unanimous opinion of the conference that steps should 
be taken immediately to prevent the importation of adult bees into the 
United States and Canada from all other countries. To this end a letter 
was approved requesting the Post Office Department to exclude queenbees 
from the mails from all countries except the Dominion of Canada, and a 
bill was drafted for presentation to Congress. The following Postal 
Regulation was issued on March 21, 1922. 
"Bees Prohibited Importation in the Regular and Parcel-Post 
Mails from all Foreign Countries except Canada." 
Second Asst. Postmaster General. 
Washington, March 21, 1922. 
"Owing to the prevalence of a serious disease known as Isle of 
Wight disease among adult honeybees in certain foreign countries, the 
importation of honeybees through the regular and parcel-post mails is 
hereby prohibited. 
"Owing to the precautions taken by the authorities in Canada 
to guard against the spread of the disease among adult honeybees in 
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