. Gleanings in bee culture . leavingSan Luis Potosi the railroad is along theedge of a great valley in which there aremany farms, and a few alfalfa-fields areseen here and there. Getting off at the nu-merous stations I learned that a few colo-nies of bees were kept all along. At .Taralde Berrios I was told that a good many beeswere kept, but that the honey was dark andstrong. The Mexican I was talking to onthe station platform said that some ate thehoney, but not many, and that it wouldnot sell. He said they took the wax to San * Equivalent to 50 cts. in American money. 1911 (^LEAXIXOS IX BKE
. Gleanings in bee culture . leavingSan Luis Potosi the railroad is along theedge of a great valley in which there aremany farms, and a few alfalfa-fields areseen here and there. Getting off at the nu-merous stations I learned that a few colo-nies of bees were kept all along. At .Taralde Berrios I was told that a good many beeswere kept, but that the honey was dark andstrong. The Mexican I was talking to onthe station platform said that some ate thehoney, but not many, and that it wouldnot sell. He said they took the wax to San * Equivalent to 50 cts. in American money. 1911 (^LEAXIXOS IX BKE ClF/l IllK Luis Potosi,and that par-ties there madethe profit on this pointI noticed a 11along the foot-hills a growthof yellow weed—a strongshrubby ])eren-nial somethinglike the yellowdock fromwhich our beesmake a strongyellow honeyin the fall. Iimagine that itis from thisw^eed that thebees along thisvalley makethe bad on,the railroadclimbs out ofthe valley onto a high table-land country,and in places. FIG. o.—NATURAL HONEY-COMB IN YUCCA TRUNKPOTOSI, MEXICO. HIVE, SAN hVlS there were patches a few miles square com-pletely covered by a diminutive did not grow over a foot high, but wasevidently of the genus Helianthus with ourcommon sunflower, and I should think thatbees would do well on it in the fall. About the line of the state of Guanajuato,which is one of the most fertile states of therepublic, among the highlands, I saw thefirst chayotillo plants, but not enough inany one place for a bee location. The chay-otillo plant is, perhaps, Mexicos greatesthoney-plant, and in another article I expectto discuss it and give a picture of it. Mesilla Park, New Mexico. EUROPEAN FOUL BROOD. A Study of the Conditions and Environmentswhich Have a Bearing on the Cure. An Ex-planation of a Great Many Failures. BY F. B. CAVANAGH. Jn Three Chapters. Chapter One. When we located at Hebron, two yearsago, it was with a certain knowledge thatEuropean foul brood
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