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increasing demand for instruction in bee-culture consequent upon the rapid expansion of the industry throughout the Dominion has necessitated the issue of a second edition of this Bulletin.

The matter contained in the first edition has been revised and largely added to, and several other subjects of importance are dealt with in this edition.

Beekeepers will be interested in learning that since the Bulletin was in print I have received from Dr. E. F. Phillips, in charge of the Division of Apiculture, United States Department of Agriculture, a report upon specimens of diseased combs collected from the extreme ends of New Zealand, and forwarded by myself to him. The results of the investigation go to prove that we have the milder or “American” form of foul-brood, and not the dreaded “black-brood” prevalent in Europe. Dr. Phillips says, “You are, then, able to say that American foul-brood exists in New Zealand, and that it is caused by Bacillus larvæ.”

It will be well to note when reading section 9 of the Apiaries Act (page 23) that the Act came into force on the 14th September, 1907.

I. HOPKINS.