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only had pickled brood. I once made 

 200 pounds of wax in Louisiana and I 

 know now I only had pickled brood. I 

 found thQ same thing at home after- 

 wards, and Mr. France told me it was 

 only pickled brood. I made 200 pounds of 

 beeswax out of it. I supposed European 

 foul brood and pickled foul brood looked 

 alike; I never saw European foul 

 brood. 



Mr. Kildow— Maybe I had better de- 

 scribe European foul brood. 



European foul brood seems to attack 

 the larvae almost as soon as it is 

 hatched from the egg. The first ap- 

 pearance is a little light yellow sub- 

 stance; that substance keeps getting a 

 little darker all the time until the 

 larvae dies; the larvae does not die at 

 first when infected. 



As the grub grows it keeps turning 

 a little more of a dark yellow and stays 

 in its own skin. 



By taking a tooth pick you can lift 

 the whole mass out of the cell. It has 

 that yellow appearance all the way 

 through; the American is more brown 

 and looks more like a mass of soft gdap. 

 Europelan stays in its own skin. 



In that way I think you can tell the 

 difference between the two without 

 much effort. 



European is very seldom capped over, 

 while American in a big majority of 

 cases is capped over — but European is 

 always in its own skin, so that you can 

 take it out, and American foul brood is 

 stringy. 



Mr. Coppin — You might describe the 

 pickled brood, too. 



Mr. Kildow — Pickled brood — that 

 seems to die about the sixth day, 

 along about that time, when the larvae 

 is stretched out full length in the cell, 

 and it will turn black. The larval 

 bees show light brown spots; and the 

 cappings later have small holes in; the 

 cappings are not shrunken, or dark 

 colored, as in foul brood. The dead 

 bee will be first swollen, with a black 

 head dried to a hard bunch, and often 

 turned up; pickled brood has very little 

 or no smell and does not at any time 

 stick to the walls of the cell ; it is never 

 ropy or sticky and is easily pulled out 

 of the cell. The bees will take care of 

 themselves if you properly attend the 

 colony. 



Pres. Kannenberg — Now we have a 

 paper from the National Secretary, 

 which may be read — 

 I am constantly receiving letters 



asking about the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, and the benefit it is 

 to its members. I can not give the 

 time to write a personal letter to each 

 of these inquiries, much as I would 

 like to do so, but I will try and touch 

 in a general way a few of the very 

 many reasons why every producing 

 bee-keeper should join and retain his 

 membership. 



The National is made up of tlie 

 Various state and local affiliated bodies. 

 The membership fee to both is $1.50, of 

 which 50c goes to your local Associa- 

 tion, and $1.00 goes to the National, 

 and pays for a year's subscription to 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review, in addition 

 to the other benefits that membership 

 will give you. 



The Review is controlled by the As- 

 sociation, and is devoted to the inter- . 

 est of the bee-keepers themselves. 



Every producer needs it to keep 

 posted on what is doing in the honey 

 business. We help our members buy 

 their supplies and sell their honey, as 

 you can see by the free list printed in 

 each issue of those who have honey for 

 sale. This list has sold many car loads 

 of honey for our members, and helped 

 those who wished to buy to find what 

 they were looking for. 



We feel sure that we can assist our 

 members more and more as we get 

 a more and more complete enrollment. 

 The educational and social features 

 are not the least of the benefits re- 

 ceived. If any class of people in the 

 world enjoy meeting one another and 

 "swapping yams," more than do bee- 

 keepers, I have yet to find them. The 

 local and state meetings give oppor- 

 tunity for this social function, and 

 the National body has to do with the 

 wider business of a general nature. 



The general prevalence of foul brood 

 is weeding out the "let-alone" bee-keep- 

 ers, and the business is getting more 

 and more into the hands of specialists, 

 and the economical production and 

 marketing of honey is of more and more 

 importance. In all lines of production 

 those interested are using Association 

 methods with great success, especially 

 in "boosting" their products. The bee- 

 keepers have been slow to realize their 

 possibilities in this line, and, as a con- 

 sequence, both the price and consump- 

 tion of honey haye declined when com- 

 pared with similar products. Associ- 

 ated effort will remedy this. 



Gtet your neighbors to join the Na- 



