Gleanings in bee culture . thefncrease in total annual rainfall. Usuallyonly the flat hilltops and ridges and thefertile bottom lands are cultivated. clover on the hillsides is usually cutODPg,. and then allowed to pow up and bloom. This givesan excellent flow oflater honey. Very few coloniesof bees have to befed in the fall, forordinarily the asterflow is sufficient toinsure an abundanceof winter stores. Jefferson Countylias a smaller num-ber of cases of foulbrood per hundredcolonies than anyother county in theState that I have in-vestigated. Both Eu-ropean and Ameri-can are here, b
Gleanings in bee culture . thefncrease in total annual rainfall. Usuallyonly the flat hilltops and ridges and thefertile bottom lands are cultivated. clover on the hillsides is usually cutODPg,. and then allowed to pow up and bloom. This givesan excellent flow oflater honey. Very few coloniesof bees have to befed in the fall, forordinarily the asterflow is sufficient toinsure an abundanceof winter stores. Jefferson Countylias a smaller num-ber of cases of foulbrood per hundredcolonies than anyother county in theState that I have in-vestigated. Both Eu-ropean and Ameri-can are here, but areonly rarely years ago foulbrood was a commontrouble; but aftertheir sad experiencethe beemen are onthe alert, and usevigorous measures wherever a case item that probably contributes largelyto the scarcity of foul brood is the largenumber of bee-hunters and the resultingsmall number of bee-trees. In some coun-ties of this State, everywhere one goes thecrv is, Give us a law that will allow us to. Fig. 2.—Condition of bottom-board under Isle of-Wight disease colony. SEPTEMBER 15, 1913 647 enter upon a mans premises and cut thebee-trees so that we may destroy the sourcesof infection. Here the unwritten law isthat, wherever a man finds a bee-tree, it ishis to cut and rob. 1 feel sure that thiscustom is in a large part responsible for thissmall per cent of foul brood. But this isthe locality par excellence for sac or pick-led brood. I have found it in hundreds ofhives, but it rarely j^ioves veiy serious. On May 23 many colonies were literallyliving from hand to mouth. Spraying whenthe fruit-bloom was open weakened manyyards, and a number of colonies were re-ported to have been killed. There was verylittle locust bloom this year. A very dryperiod, followed by cold rainy days, pre-vented any considerable work on the whiteclover. Beekeepers in general were feelingvery pessimistic in regard to this yearshoney crop; but at this date, June 7, abumper honey c
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