. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 109 without destroying your colonies. Put a healthy colony into an infected hive, and you will not have to wait long for this colony to be infected, too. I am afraid " a terrible lot of damage "will arise through Mr. Wm. McEvoy's say- ing that an " empty hive never gave the ; (See page 597.) This state- ment of mine is not " guess-work " or "opinion," but experience. It happens, of course, very often that rotten brood and the Bacillus alvei come together, and therefore the opin- ion
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 109 without destroying your colonies. Put a healthy colony into an infected hive, and you will not have to wait long for this colony to be infected, too. I am afraid " a terrible lot of damage "will arise through Mr. Wm. McEvoy's say- ing that an " empty hive never gave the ; (See page 597.) This state- ment of mine is not " guess-work " or "opinion," but experience. It happens, of course, very often that rotten brood and the Bacillus alvei come together, and therefore the opin- ion is often to be found that foul brood only arises if there is rotten brood in the hive; but I am very sorry to say that it is not correct. Bees Getting Water or Nectar. Some time ago Mr. Doolittle wrote in the American Bee Journal that one could not decide whether a bee brings water or nectar, without killing her and examining the honey-sac. I suppose Mr. Doollttle was joking a little bit! If you want to see what a bee carries into the hive, only catch her by the wings, press the abdomen gently with the fingers, but mind that she does not sting you, and sometimes immediately, sometimes after a little more pressure, she will vomit a little clear drop of liquid, as soon as you put one of your fingers close to her mouth. Only taste this drop, and your tongue will easily decide whether it is water or nectar. If I want to know what kind of taste the nectar of a certain flower has, I try to catch a bee, when busy on the blos- som, and by the foregoing method I know it at once, and can afterwards compare it with the nectar of bees just entering the hive. So I know for sure what kind of flowers the bees are gath- ering from. ConTention IVotices. ILLINOIS.—The summer meeting of the Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association win be held at the residence of O. J. Cum- mings, 2 miles northeast of Rockford, Ills., on Aug. 15th, 1893. A good meeting is antici- pated. Everybody is invited.
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