Jan. 10, 1901 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



29 



The white clover was a total failure 

 liere last summer. All the honey our 

 bees stored was from sweet clover 

 -which is very abundant in this locality. 

 The late Mr. Muth, I believe, is given 

 the credit of being the one who cov- 

 ered our clay and stony hills with it. 



Altho I am only keeping bees for the 

 enjoyment I derive from it, I could not 

 have succeeded as I have without the 

 help of the Bee Journal. 



A. W. Macbrair. 



Hamilton Co., Ohio, Dec. 19. 



A Hard Season For Bees. 



Owing to continued wet weather the 

 past season was a hard one for bees in 

 this county, tho nearly all bee-keepers 

 secured a little surplus, and very few 

 had to feed for winter, so we ought not 

 to complain. Some localities had a 

 fair crop. 



From 30 colonies spring count I in- 

 creast to 40 and took off 900 pounds of 

 surplus honey. Only about bOO pounds 

 were tinisht sections, and I had about 

 000 unfinisht sections. 



In most places in this county bees 

 went into winter quarters rather light 

 in bees, but a good quality of stores. 

 Like all good bee-keepers I am looking 

 for a good season next year. 



I like the idea of printing each week 

 on the front page of the Bee Journal a 

 picture of one of the leading bee-keep- 

 ers. I always read an article with 

 more interest when I know what the 

 author looks like. The pictures of the 

 different apiaries from all over the 

 country are also a very interesting fea- 

 ture to me. Keep the pictures coming, 

 even if you have to ask a little more 

 for the Journal. In fact. I think you 

 are giving us a most excellent paper 

 for the price we pay for it. 



O. B. Griffin. 



Aroostook Co., Maine, Dec. 15. 



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Loss Fpom Diseased Brood. 



This has been another bad year for 

 bee-keepers in this part of the country. 

 Foul brood, black brood, or pickled 

 brood— call it what you ma)' — is doing 

 its work. It looks the same as the 

 comb of infected brood shown at the 

 National Bee-Beepers' Convention in 

 Chicago last August. I had nearly 50 

 colonies and nuclei affected with it. I 

 treated them according to the McEvoy 

 plan, but ih; disease reappeared in 

 some colonies, while others dwindled 

 away in spite of my efforts to 

 strengthen them. The "glue-pot 

 smell" was absent in all cases, but the 

 dead brood was sour, and had a very 

 offensive odor after it commenced to 

 turn black. There were only two col- 

 onies in which I detected the "glue" 

 smell, and in which the decayed mat- 

 ter had become ropy. 



I purchased 11 colonies and trans- 

 ferred during fruit-bloom, and at that 

 time there were no signs of the disease. 

 In June I detected the disease among 

 them, and by fall all were dead. I sac- 

 rificed several good colonies trying to 

 build them up. 



Not one of the infected colonies 

 stored any surplus, but twenty colon- 

 ies alongside which were not infected, 

 stored from 20 to 60 pounds per colony 

 of beautiful comb honey. 



The disease first appeared here in 



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