. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 41 direct secretion by the leaves, for we have never seen it where its connection with some insect could not be established. We find in the honey-dew on some leaves a few threads and spores of some fungus. The fungus usually follows a copious secre- tion of honey-dew, on which it lives. Prob- ably in a few days or weeks the leaves now besmeared with' this substance will exhibit a dirty, blackish appearance, as if soiled with soot. This will be due to the develop- ment of the blackish threads of the fungus. The recently introduced
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 41 direct secretion by the leaves, for we have never seen it where its connection with some insect could not be established. We find in the honey-dew on some leaves a few threads and spores of some fungus. The fungus usually follows a copious secre- tion of honey-dew, on which it lives. Prob- ably in a few days or weeks the leaves now besmeared with' this substance will exhibit a dirty, blackish appearance, as if soiled with soot. This will be due to the develop- ment of the blackish threads of the fungus. The recently introduced pear-tree psylla secretes a kind of honey-dew on which a fungus develops. Accordingly, when we find the spurs and small branches of the pear tree presenting this sooty, blackish appearance, we may conclude that this pestilent insect is present. A woolly plant-louse, inhabiting the alder and the beech, secretes such an abundance of honey-dew that a black fungus develops from it to such an extent as to form masses two or three inches broad, and sometimes almost as high. Comb Foitiidiitioii samples have been received at this office from "W. J. Finch, Jr., of Springfield, 111.—both thin and brood foundation. The latter is ex- ceptionally fine, besides the side-walls are a trifle higher, we think, than any we have seen lately. I*ractice ^Vliat Y^oii I*reacli.— An editorial found in the American Bee- Keeper, reads thus: We wish our friends, and especially our fellow editors, would refer to' us as the ^^ Am. Bee-Keeper,^' not the A. B. K., as there are the ^. iJ. /., B. B. J., U. B. J., and X. B. K., and nine readers of every ten will confound A. B. K. with one of these if thus referred to. If the Am. Bee- Keeper contains anything worthy of repeti- tion, please give us full credit for it. That's good, Bro. ' But why can't you " take your own medicine," and give full credit to the American Bee Jour- nal when you take anything from its col- umns. Instead of
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