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Spreading brood too early in the spring 

 may bring about the same results. 



"Well, Tom, I am glad to know that 

 you have no foul brood — it is only a case 

 of chilled brood." 



" Well," says Tom, " I am sure my 

 heart is much lighter now, and I will 

 know next time that I have no foul 

 brood when things turn out as they have 

 this time. I thank you all for the in- 

 formation I have received to-day." 



Now let us jump two months ahead, 

 and this puts us up into July, and I hear 

 that Dick has foul brood badly iu his 

 apiary, and there has been no cool spell 

 this time, and we know that his is not 

 a case of chilled brood. We will inves- 

 tigate and see, as the only way to deter- 

 mine anything is by close inspection. 

 Well, I see Dick is also in his apiary, 

 even if it is hot. 



"Good evening, Dick ; here is a crowd 

 of 'foul brood inspectors' that have 

 come over to see how much foul brood 

 your bees have. When we heard it, we 

 supposed your bees were just about all 

 dead, and here you are extracting and 

 taking off sections." 



Oh, no ! my bees are not nearly all 

 dead ; but my ! the dead brood I find in 

 some of my hives, and I am scared to 

 think it is foul brood, as I have read so 

 much about it. 



"Well, Dick, we have been having 

 very warm weather, haven't we ?" 



" Yes, yes ; and I tell you I almost 

 burn up here on this south hillside, too." 



" We are in a kind of hurry, as nearly 

 all bee-keepers are busy now, but we 

 must take time to look up your foul 

 brood business." 



" All right," says Dick ; " yonder is a 

 hive that half the brood is dead, and the 

 cells are all sunken in, and it smells 

 badly. I am so sick about it, as that is 

 just the way they tell me foul brood 

 acts." 



" Now, see that brood ; see tVie cells 

 all sunken down. Yes, give me that 

 comb, and let me examine it. Well, 

 Dick, you have no more foul brood than 

 Tom's bees had; you see his was chilled 

 brood, and yours is scalded brood. Your 

 hives are here in this broiling sun, and 

 they are very heavy with solid frames 

 of sealed brood, and such sheets of brood 

 afford a great deal of heat itself ; that, 

 together with our very warm weather, 

 has caused some of the brood to die from 

 the heat. 



" Now, this may never be the case in 

 the Northern States, or where the sun 

 does not shine so hot, but here in the 

 South we often have cases of scalded 



brood, but you have no foul brood, Dick, 

 and all will be well as soon as the days 

 are not so hot. See that water on the 

 sealed brood there ? That is to keep it 

 cool. But the bees sometimes fail to 

 keep the temperature down with water, 

 and then we have some scalded brood. 

 You are all right, you have no disease 

 ai all among your bees, and you can tell 

 after this when you have scalded brood, 

 the same as Tom can tell when he has 

 chilled brood." 



"Yes," says Dick, "but somebody 

 says that dead brood causes foul brood — 

 what about it, any way ?" 



" Oh, that's all right, Dick ; any of us 

 are likely to be mistaken in our views, 

 and we may be mistaken it our views in 

 this lesson about foul brood, but I will 

 risk it that you will agree with me be- 

 fore we get through, that foul brood 

 does not start from dead brood. 



Jennie Atchley. 

 (This lessou concluded next week.) 



COWVEWTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1894. '' 



July 19.— Carolina, at Charlotte, N. C. 



A. L. Beach. Sec , Steel Creek, N. C. 



Aug. 1.— Central California, at Hanford. Calif. 

 J. F. Flory, Sec, Lemoore, Calif. 



Aug.16.— East Tennessee, at Whitesburg.Tenn 

 H. F. Coleman, Sec, Sneedville, Tenn. 

 1895. 

 Jan. 28.— Venang-o Co., at Franklin, Pa. 



C. S. Pizer, Sec, FrankHn, Pa. 

 Feb. 8, 9.— Wisconsin, at Madison, Wis. 



J. W. Vance, Cor. Sec, Madison, Wis. 



It^~ In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting.— The Editor. 



North J.merican Bee-Keepers' Association 



Pres.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph, Mo. 



Vice-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser.... Buffalo. N. T. 

 Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York...Chlcag-o, Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' XTulon. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor. .Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111, 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



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