Jan. 14, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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fruit-trees take on ft dwarfish appearauee. I 

 saw no pear-blight or evidence of codling 

 moth and similar injurious insects. Price of 

 lands range from .*10 to J50 per acre. 



W. P. Hog ARTY, V. S. A. 

 Wyandotte Co., Kans.. .Ian. 1. 



Pollen and Foul Bpood. 



In every case in which foul brood has been 

 examined by a man competent to undertake it, 

 the pollen of a certain plant is always found. 

 There are pollen-grains of different plants 

 found in the cells of all healthy bees, but in 

 every instance where foul brood has been exam- 

 ined the pollen of this one plant has been dis- 

 covered, and is also found in the stomach of 

 bees that have died of foul brood. Without 

 being .positively certain about the origin of 

 these diseases among bfees. might it not be the 

 case that the pollen which the bees store away 

 furnish nutritive ground for the bacillus 

 growth, which takes its start from this one 

 particular kind of pollen that is always found 

 in connection with the disease? in other 

 words, might it not be the case that stored 

 pollen made a culture-field similar to that of 

 a mushroom bed in which, when a grain of 

 pollen from a certain plant (to me unknown) 

 is introduced, the result is a microscopic 

 growth which spreads through the entire bed, 

 and this causes the disease known as foul 

 brood i In other words, may it not be the re- 

 sult of the pollen of some one plant? 



This would appear to be the probable cause 

 as this characteristic pollen is always found 

 in connection with the disease. I do not state 

 this as a fact, I ask the question in regard to 

 the possibility of such being the case. It 

 would not necessarily mean that wherever 

 this poisonous plant was found that foul 

 brood should of a necessity follow, but it 

 would show that if the conditions were right 

 for the development of the bacilli, and that 

 the introduction of this particular pollen pro- 

 duced the disease, it would be certain that we 

 have found the cause. What do our scienti- 

 fic people think about it * Kane Co. , III. 



Eucalyptus for Arizona. 



After reading Prof. A. .J. Cook's article, on 

 page 760, " Roadside Tree-Planting and Refor- 

 esting," I am of the impression that the 

 eucalyptus or gum-tree would thrive and be a 

 paying investment to the farmers of Salt River 

 Valley, as they have all their irrigating ditches 

 planted with cotton-wood (a very poor wood 

 except for firewood, ) 



I see no reason why the gum-tree would not 

 thrive along the ditches as well, or better 

 than in California, where they plant on the 

 hillside, or "any old place." 



Why not have Prof . Cook " go us one bet- 

 ter," through the " Old Reliable," and inform 

 us of some reliable nusery-men in California 

 where we bee-keepers of Arizona may send 

 for seeds or young plants of the gum-trees 

 that would be true to name, that we might 

 give them a trial? I would like to try them 

 on a small scale, to see how they would stand 

 this climate, and I believe there are others 

 that would be interested. L. E. Redden. 



Miricopa Co., Ariz., Dec. 14. 



[There is nothing to hinder some reliable 

 California dealer or nursery man from adver- 

 tising such seeds or plants in these columns. 

 — Editor.] 



WintepingBees— Other Experiences 



I will give to the readers some of my ex- 

 perience for the last season. I started in the 

 spring with one colony of blacks ; they were 

 very weak, and on July -.'-J I put on one super 

 with -r4i4x4'4 sections, and the bees put in 

 18 full sections of nice honey. On .July 30, 

 I received a choice queen, and on that day I 

 divided them, taking out '2 frames of brood and 

 putting in -Z frames of full combs from hives 

 where the bees had died the winter before. I 

 put in about a (luart of bees and stopped 

 them in tight, let them stand for H days 

 and then introduced the queen, using tol)acco- 

 smoke. On Aug. 30 the first bees flew, and 

 in October the hive was full of bees and full 

 of honey. 



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