. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 360 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL September disease may reappear within a season or two. Again, it will suddenly appear in some previously free yard far from any infeited territory. How does it get there? I discovered one of the ways this summer. A thrifty apiary in territory never known to be in- fected before and two miles from the nearest known bees, had a stray swarm come to it and establish itself in a vacant hive containing a full set of clean combs. I chanced to disT cover it within ten days of its arrival, and fully half of the larvae showed the diseas
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 360 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL September disease may reappear within a season or two. Again, it will suddenly appear in some previously free yard far from any infeited territory. How does it get there? I discovered one of the ways this summer. A thrifty apiary in territory never known to be in- fected before and two miles from the nearest known bees, had a stray swarm come to it and establish itself in a vacant hive containing a full set of clean combs. I chanced to disT cover it within ten days of its arrival, and fully half of the larvae showed the disease. It was quite evident that a swarm can cai-ry germs of the disease. Perhaps if they had had to build their own combs, they might have got- ten rid of all germs before there was any brood to feed. But any vagrant swarm from an infected hive may wander into our best kept apiaries and bring trouble galore. And if such a swarm joins a weak or queenless colony right m the midst of a lot of clean ones, we can easily see how quickly that apiary would be ruined. And how can we prevent it? I don't know. But I do know it does not worry me the way it did. It is always a bother, but it need rot be a calamity. Rhode Island. SOME HONEY PLANTS OF ALA- BAMA By L. H. Pammel There are great possibilities for beekeepers in the State of Alabama, and there are a large number of honey plants growing in that State. The writer recently spent a week in Alabama, and while there noted the bees, and the flowers they visited. My observations were mostly made at Montgomery and Tuskegee. In the vicinity of Montgomei-y, the chief supply of honey, while there, came from the biennial white sweet clover (Melilotus alba), although I am told that in western Alabama there is much of the annual white sweet clo- ver, known as Hubam. There was some of the yellow ( Melilotus offici- nalis). It took honeybees only a lit- tle over a second to drain each flower of nectar. There was considerable of the small annual yello
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