Excerpt from Apiculture, Vol. 42: In British Columbia

This finished the work for the season. I am glad to say that nowhere did I come across anything that suggested the presence of foul brood. Here and there I found pickled brood, but this is to be found almost any where at sometime or another and is not contagious. In all I called on 155 beekeepers who on April 1 owned 780 colonies of bees, and on October 1 1073 colonies. A second visit was made to 117 of them, making a total of 272 calls. In addition quite a number of visits were made to ranchers who at one time kept bees, but for various reasons had ceased to be interested.

As a matter of curiosity I kept a note of the mileage travelled. I find I covered 597 miles in May, 469 in June, 540 in July, 833 in August, 234 in September, 225-in October. Total, 2898 miles. To destinations I travelled by train 989 miles, by steamer 816 miles, by stage 150 miles, by rural tram-car 135 miles, by motor-car 18 miles, by river launch 18 miles. In calling on beekeepers I drove 701 miles, walked 67 miles, and canoed 4 miles. The day's drive often reached 25 miles, the average about 18 miles.

Before concluding I cannot do less than express my grateful appreciation of the kindness I received on every hand. The inspector was more than welcome, he was a felt want. My great regret is that with so many wanting help and advice I had to cut my visits short, and that I was unable to respond to urgent appeals that came to me from beekeepers outside of the districts I was working. Travelling so much on trains and steamers I came to be known, and was greatly helped by getting the names of beekeepers in various parts of my territory from fellow-travellers.

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