. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 459 He next made a hive with bars on top 1}£ inches wide, and attached comb starters to them. He was astonished when he saw the Langstroth frame, that he did not see the necessity of end and bottom pieces. Dr. Marshall came to Texas in 1854, and in 1855 started an apiary of some 20 colonies. In 1865 he first began to use the Langstroth hive, and in 1866 procured the first Italian queen, and. REV. W. K. MARSHALL. D. n. probably the first that was brought to Texas. With the movable frames, the Italian bee, and with his own discover
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 459 He next made a hive with bars on top 1}£ inches wide, and attached comb starters to them. He was astonished when he saw the Langstroth frame, that he did not see the necessity of end and bottom pieces. Dr. Marshall came to Texas in 1854, and in 1855 started an apiary of some 20 colonies. In 1865 he first began to use the Langstroth hive, and in 1866 procured the first Italian queen, and. REV. W. K. MARSHALL. D. n. probably the first that was brought to Texas. With the movable frames, the Italian bee, and with his own discoveries, and those of others, he commenced progres- sive bee-keeping. At one time his apiary run up to 350 colonies, and he secured, one year, 20 tons of honey. Dr. Marshall took the Amekcian Bee Journal, when first published at Wash- ington, D. C, and, as he supposes, the first, and at that time the only bee- paper published in the United States. ne has written largely on bee-culture, for the home papers, and has been an active member of the Texas State Bee- Keepers' Association. He has been a close observer, and much of his knowledge in bee-culture is the result of his own observation and experience. Though in his 84th year, he is an active worker in bee-culture, and in every other good cause. " Foul Brood " is often the cry when brood has died from some other cause. Ernest Root has been describ- ing some cases of dead brood that ap- peared in two or three colonies in their Shane yard. The cappings were per- forated and sunken, and the dead larvae was of a coffee color, but two decisive symptoms of foul brood were lacking, viz.: ropiness and the " glue-pot ; In one case the queen died, and a cell was given. When the new queen began to lay, her brood was healthy. The other cases of the disease, or whatever it was, finally disappeared of themselves. A bee-keeper a few miles from Medina, reported similar experiences. Mr. Root thinks that this trouble, whate
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