. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 382 November, 1915. American Hee Journal to other larvae, I regard it as remotely possible but not probable. I have watched this disease most carefully, and I have seen nothing to bear out such a theory. If that were the case I would expect it to spread with much greater rapidity in a hive, and when more than half the brood was dying of the disease the health of the remaining brood would be unaccountable. With me a diseased colony will last for two or three years; the progress of the disease is at first very slow, and the colony becomes seriously weak
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 382 November, 1915. American Hee Journal to other larvae, I regard it as remotely possible but not probable. I have watched this disease most carefully, and I have seen nothing to bear out such a theory. If that were the case I would expect it to spread with much greater rapidity in a hive, and when more than half the brood was dying of the disease the health of the remaining brood would be unaccountable. With me a diseased colony will last for two or three years; the progress of the disease is at first very slow, and the colony becomes seriously weak only a comparatively short time before it dies or is robbed out. Then the additional fact that, due to the heat of the hive and the delicateness'of the larval tis- sues, putrefaction sets in almost im- mediately after, if not before, the larva is dead, and that the shrinkage of the dead larva is only what we might ex- pect of evaporation at that tempera- ture, would seem to me to preclude such a possibility. Another season I expect to experi- ment further with the disease, intro- ducing to nuclei queens from the worst diseased colonies I can find, only be- ing certain that I do not bring any of the American variety to my yards, and giving the diseased queen theory a final tryout, being confident from past experience as to the result. Having studied and worked for four years with bees having this disease, I simply wish to place in your hands the results of my limited experiments. Kingsley, Pa. ^?-^ The Life of a Bee Inspector- Some of the Fun BY F. DUNDAS TODD. MAYBE my readers think that it is a very serious thing to be a foul- brood inspector, but I want to assure them that there is a humorous side to the occupation, and that I man- age to get a little fun out of it nearly every day. As in all other walks of life, the morsels are so small that they are hardly worth passing on, even if they brought a good healthy grin at the moment. On the other hand, some of them were so big
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