Gleanings in bee culture . andthus spread it so thin that, almost as soonas the inspector is gone, the disease willspring up. It often happen that a single yardis all that is affected in one locality, whilein others it is scattered over a whole town,and in one case over almost one entirecounty. There are some serious problems con-nected with these diseases. Already someStates have forbidden the importation ofcolonies into their borders unless accompan-ied by a certificate that each colony is freefrom disease. This is already causing sometrouble. How about the time when variousStates will
Gleanings in bee culture . andthus spread it so thin that, almost as soonas the inspector is gone, the disease willspring up. It often happen that a single yardis all that is affected in one locality, whilein others it is scattered over a whole town,and in one case over almost one entirecounty. There are some serious problems con-nected with these diseases. Already someStates have forbidden the importation ofcolonies into their borders unless accompan-ied by a certificate that each colony is freefrom disease. This is already causing sometrouble. How about the time when variousStates will jDrohibit the importation of hon-ey from diseased aijiaries? And why shouldthey not do so? Honey is consumed in ourlarger towns, and the containers are thrownon the dump to scatter disease if there wasany in the honey used. The ignorance of a great many beekeep-ers enters into the problem of how to getrid of disease. Many have never heard ofsuch a thing. I have visited several bee-keepers; and as we have opened hive after. The Spencer boys, who are expert at extracting fishfrom the lake and honey from the combs. hive, and have found only webs and cocoonsand filth, the moths have received the exe-cration of the owners, as they have no con-ception of disease. BOYS THAT KNOW HOW TO WORK. It is no easy job to clean up a large yardwhere foul brood has a strong one such yard I found the owner atwork. Hearing a noise in his honey-houseI went in there and found his two sons, oneeleven and the other thirteen, dressed inoveralls. One was uncapping, the otherturning the extractor. Both were workinglike old men. I send their photos as worthyof a place in Gleanings. They live near alake, and it seems evident that they can ex-tract fish from its waters as well as honeyfrom the comb. One beekeeper to whom I wrote, askingif he had had any experience with diseaseamong his bees, replied that he had lostabout half of them during the winter, andwhat he had left were quite weak; but het
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