. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 126 April, 1916. or three yards of bees besides inspec- tion work and the rearing of Italian queens, for which he finds a good de- mand. He rears his queens from im- ported stock, believing such to be more satisfactory than queens reared from American mothers. Mr. Yates, with Messrs, Latham, Coley and Rockwood have, I believe, been the largest exhibitors at the Char- ter Oak Fair and carried off the largest number of prizes in recent years. If there is anything I admire in a beekeeper it is the ability to think for himself. Such a beekeeper is Mr. A.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 126 April, 1916. or three yards of bees besides inspec- tion work and the rearing of Italian queens, for which he finds a good de- mand. He rears his queens from im- ported stock, believing such to be more satisfactory than queens reared from American mothers. Mr. Yates, with Messrs, Latham, Coley and Rockwood have, I believe, been the largest exhibitors at the Char- ter Oak Fair and carried off the largest number of prizes in recent years. If there is anything I admire in a beekeeper it is the ability to think for himself. Such a beekeeper is Mr. A. W. Darby, of Alburgh, Vt., the extreme northwest corner town of the State. Some years ago European foulbrood came down on him from Canada when much less was known about this dis- ease than at present. Yard after yard among his neighbors with hundreds of colonies were wiped out while he carefully studied it, finding its weakest points, and has practically overcome it and succeeded in securing good crops in spite of it. One of his methods of fighting this disease is never to use a queen reared in a hive where the dis- ease exists as colonies with such queen are sure to prove very susceptible to disease. Another is to rear queens for his use from resistant strains of Italian bees. And yet another is to keep his colonies strong, which he has been pretty successful in doing. Mr. Darby has worked out methods adapted to his location, and has been producing chunk honey and selling it successfully. One can hardly visit him without getting some new ideas worth carrying away with him. Mr. E. Clinton Britton, of Canton, Mass., for a number of years president of the Massachusetts Beekeepers' Asso- ciation, has been very successful in wintering large colonies of bees in his attic, from which he has secured crops of honey from early bloom that have surprised those accustomed only to small colonies wintered in the usual way. He has found and proved quite conclusively that if a colony has the s
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