. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN , JOURNAL 155 riend Dr. Phillips, who is better placed than any of us for such work. After reading it the reader will conclude, as we had done already, that there is after all a great benefit in apiary inspection but that that benefit is mainly educa- tional. The practical apiarists who, like myself, kept bees for half a century without ever seeing any foulbrood and all at once found themselves surround- ed with it, have a very deep conviction that, if no fight had been made, the disease would have swept the country before becoming e
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN , JOURNAL 155 riend Dr. Phillips, who is better placed than any of us for such work. After reading it the reader will conclude, as we had done already, that there is after all a great benefit in apiary inspection but that that benefit is mainly educa- tional. The practical apiarists who, like myself, kept bees for half a century without ever seeing any foulbrood and all at once found themselves surround- ed with it, have a very deep conviction that, if no fight had been made, the disease would have swept the country before becoming extinguished. Although far from eradicated every- where, it is so nearly controlled that beekeeping is thriving in spite of an occasional show of the disease. Foul- hrood has been a blessing in disguise, for it has compelled more attention to the business of beekeeping. Sacbrood Dr. G. F. White, the scientist who has first established the bacteriological dif- ference between the two kinds of foul- brood and who has also named " sac- brood" because of the appearance of the dead larva and its resemblance to a sac full of liquid matter, is now giving us a thorough description of sacbrood in Bulletin No. 431 of the United States Department of Agriculture. Decoy Hives The Editor not long ago met an ex- perienced beekeeper, Mr. S. L. Cork, of Peru, 111., who has had considerable experience with the securing of ab- sconding swarms by the use of decoy hives. Mr. Cork says that he has suc- ceeded best by placing the decoy hives in the forks of trees. During the sea- son of 1916, a notable year for natural swarming, he fastened 11 hives in trees in this way, six feet or more from the ground, and in each of these a swarm volunteered to locate. Three hives placed on top of a shed secured only one swarm. It is creditable and easy to understand that bees would naturally look for tree hollows some distance above ground rather than for lower abodes. The Queer) Coming' Here is a st
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