. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1913. 127 American Hee Journal of our products and a creditable pre- mium list. As fast as these results are attained others will be attempted. A bulletin is now in course of preparation by the Agricultural College devoted to oppor- tunities for bee-keeping in Iowa. The lowabee-keepers welcome scien- tific bee-keepers, and desire them to join the association. We fear no com- petition from this kind of men, and feel that our interests are mutual. On the other hand, we already have sev- eral thousand too many shiftless bee- keepers who have a few
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1913. 127 American Hee Journal of our products and a creditable pre- mium list. As fast as these results are attained others will be attempted. A bulletin is now in course of preparation by the Agricultural College devoted to oppor- tunities for bee-keeping in Iowa. The lowabee-keepers welcome scien- tific bee-keepers, and desire them to join the association. We fear no com- petition from this kind of men, and feel that our interests are mutual. On the other hand, we already have sev- eral thousand too many shiftless bee- keepers who have a few colonies in a fence corner where the weeds grow 10 feet tall, and which are not examined from one year to another. Such colo- nies serve to breed moths and foul brood sufficient to keep the careful man on the anxious seat all the time. Watch the Iowa association move into the front row. Every bee-keeper worthy of the name owes it to himself, and the cause of honey-production, to join the society and lend his influence to the work outlined. Atlantic, Iowa. Dead Larvae Among Live Brood BY D. W. \R. IN THE February Bee Journal, com- ment is made editorially on "Dead LarvK Among Live Brood," and "Causes of Many Eggs in a ; Now. strange to say, I have a simi- lar case of each in the same hive. The dead brood has bees hatching all around, apparently healthy, also eggs and unsealed brood in adjoining cells. I have already sent a sample to Wash- ington just as described. The dead brood in this form is not uncommon with me, but never has been fatal, and the temporary weakness is in time overcome and the colony none the worse. It occurs more in weak colo- nies or nuclei that I am building up. There are no symptoms of foul brood so far as I can see, and the depart- ment at Washington may be familiar with the cause. In the hive from which the sample of brood was sent, I at first thought the queen was missing and that a laying worker had developed, as many of
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