. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March, 1915. American T^ee Jonrnalj there has been little friction. In this way we have to a great extent stamped out American foulbrood. European foulbrood is new among us, but so far we are holding our ground. It is of course a much harder " proposition " to handle. We are yet considerably in the dark as to how the infection is carried. Requeening seems about the only thing to do, and it is much harder to get a man to requeen than it is to tr at or destroy a few col- onies. But we are preaching the doc- trine of requeening as hard as we ca
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March, 1915. American T^ee Jonrnalj there has been little friction. In this way we have to a great extent stamped out American foulbrood. European foulbrood is new among us, but so far we are holding our ground. It is of course a much harder " proposition " to handle. We are yet considerably in the dark as to how the infection is carried. Requeening seems about the only thing to do, and it is much harder to get a man to requeen than it is to tr at or destroy a few col- onies. But we are preaching the doc- trine of requeening as hard as we can, and most of our beekeepers are work- ing along that line. We do not have farmer beekeepers here to any great extent. Almost all of our people are professionals, and are glad to make use of any information in regard to disease and how to com- bat it. The county bee inspector is in close touch with those whom he serves, and the treating and cleaning up is almost altogether under his personal supervision. In fact, he does a large portion of the actual work in treating and destroying, where destroying is necessary. This is very essential where the beekeeper is either inexperienced or careless. California, owing to her mild cli- mate, is a continual battle ground be- tween the producers and the myriads of insect and bacterial pests. Almost every known pest attacks our orchards and the horticulturists fight contin- ually to keep th-m down, and so on through all our productive industries. But the horticulturists, the stockmen and beemen are just as determined in their warfare as are the numerous pests, and we manage to hold our own, but it is at the price of eternal vigi- lance. We have horticultural inspec- tors and live stock inspectors in almost every county. So it was an easy mat- ter to get the supervisors of the coun- ties, where it was necessary, to add a bee inspector to the list. Southern California Notes The outlook for a honey crop the coming season in California is exce
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