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business.  Let's put the infection out 
of business in the bonfire and then 
nobody has any further frars. 
    In closing we wish to say that all 
of our deputy inspectors, numbering 
more than fifty, report the best of 
cooperation on the part of the bee- 
keepers throughout the state this year, 
and this has meant a lot toward the 
success of our work. There was only 
an occasional beekeeper who gave us 
any trouble at all, and these were 
people who misunderstood the policies 
of our department.    While it seemed 
to some of these that we were picking 
on   them  and   not inspecting  their 
neighbor's bees, they felt satisfied when 
they learned that it was because they 
were among the 500 who had made 
application for a permit to sell or 
move bees last year either moving them 
to better pasture or to a fair, and such 
a permit could only be issued after 
the local inspector was satisfied that 
the yard was free from disease. Their 
neighbor, on the other hand, did not 
apply for a permit which necessitated 
an inspection, and unless they were in 
an area clean-up county we could not 
include their neighbors very well with- 
out starting another area clean-up ter- 
ritory, which our funds would, of 
course, not allow. We have endeav- 
ored to simplify our inspection work 
for permits to exhibit at fairs by send- 
ing out form letters to ascertain what 
beekeepers would need them, and thus 
save the state money by avoiding dup- 
lication in travel, and at the same time 
make it possible to issue the permit in 
ample time for the fair in question. 
Too often an application for a permit 
is, not received until the fair is already 
underway, and the beekeepeer feels 
that we have prevented him from ex- 
hibiting when in fact he is to blame 
for not making his application early 
enough, as our applications are always 
given prompt attention. 
 
 
CONFECTIONERY AND 
                 HONEY SECTION 
   Honey Production in Manitoba, 
               Canada. 
 
   Production of honey in this Can- 
adian province during 1930 amounted 
to  10,110,000  pounds, valued   at 
$900,000.    This may be compared 
with an output of 2,000,000 pounds 
in 1922.    There are about 60,000 
colonies of bees kept by 2,856 apia- 
rists in the province, and the total 
value of bees in these colonies is placed 
at $1,200,000.    It is estimated that 
40% of the honey consumed by Wes- 
tern Canada is shipped from Ontario. 
(Assistant Trade Commissioner H. 
W. Barrett, Winnepeg, December 23, 
1930.) 
 
              NOTICE 
   The Bee Culture Laboratory, Wash- 
ington, D.C., and the Field Labora- 
tory at Baton Rouge, La.; Laramie, 
Wyo.; and Davis, Calif., receive many 
requests asking where bee supplies, 
queens, colonies and package bees may 
be purchased. 
    In order to give prompt and im- 
partial advice a mimeographed sheet 
giving the names of dealers in bee 
supplies, queens, package bees and 
colonies will be compiled and listed 
alphabetically by States. Those who 
desire to be included in this list should 
send their name and address to the 
Division of Bee Culture Investigations, 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture, Washington, D.C., indicating 
whether they  handle  bee  supplies, 
queens, packages, etc.  Queenbreeders 
should state the race of bees.  The 
list will be made up the first week in 
May. This list of dealers will be used 
merely for the information of corres- 
pondents and no endorsement as to 
quality and price will be implied. 
                  J. I. Hambleton 
 
 
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