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just in such a way as to land her flat on 

 her back, and so jarring the spinal cord 

 as to produce that pallor and sickness. But, 

 bless you, that is a trifle for a chlhl, though 

 it might be quite serious for you or me. 



There, you see ? She is " throwing up," 

 which is just Nature's vent of relief. Not 

 a bone broken, nor even a particle of skin 

 peeled. The child simply requires quiet 

 rest — no medicine at all. To-morrow she 

 will be ready for another swing, in the tree 

 top. 



But there is where you showed your cool 

 courage in laying her flat on her back, and 

 applying cold cloths to her head. Most 

 mothers, seeing a child pale and motion- 

 less, would have gone wild with fear, and 

 failed to render a particle of help. I hope 

 others will follow your sensible example. 



CONDUCTED BY 



MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. 



Beeville, Texas. 



PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



Iie8»«on No. 6. 



(Continued from page 814.) 

 DISEASES OF BEES. 



Under this head I will take up every- 

 thing known to be a disease of the 

 honey-bee, together with moth-worms, 

 etc. First, I will try to teach you what 

 Foul Brood is. I will only give my own 

 experieiK'e and views on this point, and 

 try to explain, in as short a manner as 

 possible, everything that has come under 

 my own observation ; and to do this 

 properly, it will make a pretty long les- 

 son of itself. 



First, I will call your attention to the 

 fact that foul brood is a catching dis- 

 ease. Where it start(;d, no one as yet 

 has given satisfactory proof. Let this be 

 as it may, this disease has existed, and 

 does exist to-day, and may always be at 



work in some parts of the world, and is 

 to be dreaded by an apiarist. To dis- 

 tinguish foul brood from other kinds of 

 dead brood, I will lead you through a 

 foul-broody colony. 



Now, suppose we open up hive after 

 hive till we come to a real case of foul 

 brood, then I will stop and tell you what 

 it is, and when we get through this les- 

 son I am sure you will know foul brood 

 when you see it. 



Come, let us walk over to Tom's apia- 

 ry a few minutes — he says his bees have 

 foul brood. They are constantly carry- 

 ing out dead brood, and lots of brood 

 dead in his hives ; It has been cool and 

 rainy for some time, and wound up with 

 a frost about a week ago, and Tom is 

 really discouraged and almost ready to 

 enter " Blasted Hopes," or anything else 

 that imagination will let him. But here 

 he is at home to-day. Let us go in 

 and examine his bees, and, if possible, 

 lighten his heart. 



" Good morning, Tom. We have come 

 over to examine your bees, to see if they 

 really have foul brood." 



" All right ; I will get my smoker, and 

 will be very glad indeed to have you ex- 

 amine the whole ' shooting match;' and 

 if my bees have foul brood, tell me what 

 to do," says Tom. 



"Well, here is a colony that some- 

 thing bad is the matter with. See all 

 the dead bees piled out there !" 



"Now," says Tom, "as I open the 

 hive, you all look closely. Take this 

 frame — what does all that dead and rot- 

 ten young bees mean, sinelling so badly, 

 too ?" 



" That's no foul brood, Tom, and hap- 

 pens in almost all apiaries. You see, 

 during that warm spell a few weeks ago, 

 that caused soft maple to bloom right 

 out, the queen just went to work and 

 filled the combs with eggs, and they had 

 too much brood when that cool, rainy 

 weather came ; and then you see, that 

 frost and little freeze at the close of the 

 rainy spell caused the bees to cluster in 

 the center of the brood-nest, and their 

 brood chilled, and now it has turned 

 warm, and the bees are pulling out all 

 the brood that is old enough to bear 

 pulling ; the small larval will have to 

 rot and dry up in the cells, and then the 

 bees will clean the cells all out, and the 

 queen will deposit eggs in them, and 

 soon the colony will be all right again, 

 unless you let them run out of honey, as 

 you see it has reduced their stores to 

 rear those bees that got chilled, and all 

 this is a dead loss to the bee-keeper. 



