. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Conducted by Wesley Foster. Boulder. Colo. Wintering Conditions and Prospects The excellent fall flow of honey and the high quality of winter stores have given us excellent wintering, and the losses throughout tlie West are small. A few colonies were lost from smoth- ering under the big snow, but //u- sno:v did not smother the bees. The snow melting into a slush ran into and filled the entrances of about 20 of the writer's colonies in one out-yard, and the bees were smothered. If the apiary had been easily accessible this would not have occurred. The
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Conducted by Wesley Foster. Boulder. Colo. Wintering Conditions and Prospects The excellent fall flow of honey and the high quality of winter stores have given us excellent wintering, and the losses throughout tlie West are small. A few colonies were lost from smoth- ering under the big snow, but //u- sno:v did not smother the bees. The snow melting into a slush ran into and filled the entrances of about 20 of the writer's colonies in one out-yard, and the bees were smothered. If the apiary had been easily accessible this would not have occurred. The snow was shov- eled away from the front of the en- trances about 10 days after it fell, and the colonies were then all right, but the damage was done when it began melt- ing rapidly. Breeding has been going on at a rapid rate all through March, and one of my colonies had brood in coinbs on March 15. If things keep up at this rate we will have swarming during fruit bloom. This year, I believe, will prove to be a good " Alexander plan of increase year," at any rate I am going to use it some. Dr. Carton on Foulbrood I plead guilty to being one who does not agree with all of the opinions and scientific deductions of Dr. Carton, because some of them are directly con- trary to my experience with American foulbrood. There is no evidence that I know of to prove that the bacillus larv;e causing American foulbrood affects honey-bees at all detrimentally, except indirectly. American foulbrood is not a bee disease, but a brood dis- ease, and there is not much evidence to show that strength, vigor and dis- ease resistance of adult bees have any effect upon the disease resistance of the Iarv:e. If there is any race or strain of bees or any individual queen whose egg will hatch larv;c, resistant to bacillus larva;, the owner of such a breed or strain of bees has a for tune awaiting him. I would gladly pay $100 for such a queen, and then wouldn't I sell queens ? Dr. Carton seems
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