. Gleanings in bee culture . JIAXD BOTTOM-BOARD GIVEN A PRACTICAL A. I. Roofs department. l)artly blackblood the disease returned. I reduced these50 colonies to 2o while using the McEvoytreatment; but the disease reappeared inonly one colony that season. The next season, 1909, the disease brokeout in eight colonies, these being partlyblack blood. The next season there werealso eight colonies diseased. I am satisfiedthat the McEvoy treatment is a permanentone where the queens introduced produceinire Italians of a light color. This was myexperience in my home APIARY OF J. ALLEN
. Gleanings in bee culture . JIAXD BOTTOM-BOARD GIVEN A PRACTICAL A. I. Roofs department. l)artly blackblood the disease returned. I reduced these50 colonies to 2o while using the McEvoytreatment; but the disease reappeared inonly one colony that season. The next season, 1909, the disease brokeout in eight colonies, these being partlyblack blood. The next season there werealso eight colonies diseased. I am satisfiedthat the McEvoy treatment is a permanentone where the queens introduced produceinire Italians of a light color. This was myexperience in my home APIARY OF J. ALLEN SMITH, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA., RUN FOR BULK COMB all the bees kept in this locality are In box hives or nail-ljegs: but bee-keeping in Dixie is rapidly coming to the front, nevertheless. All we need is afew more men like J. J. Wilder. J. Allen Smith. The apiary shown in the cut on pre-ceding page is owned jointly by Mr. J. and myself, ^^e took all precaution])ossible to prevent l^Airopean foul broodfrom getting in this apiary. Having in-spected all surrounding apiaries in 1908 Ihad the nearest diseased apiary promptlytreated, it being about two miles from theFree apiary. In the spring of 1909 Mr. Free was watch-ing carefully for signs of the disease. Hereported, on May 31, that the brood did notappear healthy* in some colonies. I exam-ined the apiary,and found Euro-pean foul broodin 40 colonies outof the 1B5 colo-nies. The tall hiveat the left-handcorner of the pic-ture i^roduced -118lbs. of extractedhoney the previ-ous year, and wasthe first colony
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