. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^ (£onr>ention Procccbings Worcester County (Mass.) Convention J Members and friends of the above Association dined and met socially on an afternoon in February, and listened to an address on diseases of bees by Mr. Arthur C. Miller, of Rhode Island. The occasion brought together as many people interested in the busy bee as had ever been congre- gated in Worcester County. At 2:30 o'clock Pres. Drake called the meeting to order, and introduced A. A. Hixon as presiding officer. After re- marks of welcome by Secretary Hixon, of the Worcester Horticult
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^ (£onr>ention Procccbings Worcester County (Mass.) Convention J Members and friends of the above Association dined and met socially on an afternoon in February, and listened to an address on diseases of bees by Mr. Arthur C. Miller, of Rhode Island. The occasion brought together as many people interested in the busy bee as had ever been congre- gated in Worcester County. At 2:30 o'clock Pres. Drake called the meeting to order, and introduced A. A. Hixon as presiding officer. After re- marks of welcome by Secretary Hixon, of the Worcester Horticultural Society, O. B. Hadwen, a veteran horticultur- ist, was introduced. He told of the bee being the first live stock he kept on his farm, and of the profit and pleasure it furnished, besides being of inexhaustible study in Nature. Burton W. Potter, President of the Agricultural Society, said he first kept a colony of bees for pleasure, and to get honey for home consumption, but now he has an apiary of S colonies at his farm. He thought the bee an indispensa- ble factor to plant life and fruit-trees. F. H. Farmer, President of the Massachusetts Apicul- tural Society, and H. H. Jepson, also spoke of the work of the bee and the bee-keepers. Following these introductory remarks the speaker of the afternoon, Arthur C. Miller, was introduced, and spoke as follows on DISEASES OF BEES At the start I wish you to understand that the ailments of bees are not of such a nature as to endanger humanity through eating the honey or handling the bees. Eminent authorities suspect that much that is written of the diseases of bees is fanciful and most of the ailments originate from want of cleanliness or want of food. Bee- keepers are wont to consider their knowledge of the bee as modern, whereas knowledge and practices differ but little from those of two centuries ago. Valuable ideas of early bee-keepers have, as well, been lost sight of. Bee-ailments, as known to-day, may be divided into two cl
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