4 AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. January 



spose they have so long mused on an exhaustive description of the meth- 



wishy washy stufif that their palates ods of working out disease germs. 



are spoiled? Beginning at the start he so carefully 



Think of it, the United States with and fully explained his methods of 



its hundreds of thousands of bee- work that everyone felt that he 



keepers sort of half support four lit- thoroughly understood every detail in 



tie papers while Germany has eleven, the investigation. 



Austria six, and France twenty-one, Dr. White said in part: "If your 

 little Belgium has eight, Italy four, cattle were being poisoned in the pas- 

 Norway, Sweden, Russia, Roumania, ture and your neighbor's cattle were 

 Spain, Chili, Canada one each, Switz- not, you would make a careful sur- 

 erland two, and Great Britain four, vey of your neighbor's farm and see 

 And the United States bee-keeper what plants were growing in his pas- 

 struts about with his chest pufifed out ture. Then you would make an ex- 

 and tells what a big smart chap he is. amination of your own farm and 

 Faugh! Go to. would subtract the plants found in 

 "Be not wise in your own conceits." your neighbor's pasture from those 



See you later, Harry. Ta ta. found in yours, and those left in your 



John. own lot you would suspect as being 



the ones causing the poisoning. It 



THE BEE INSPECTORS' MEET- '^ ^° ^'*^ ^^^ investigation of a di- 



ING AT SAN ANTONIO. ^''^ ^ ^''}\]' \P^^"^ ^"^ ^^^ ^^"^^ 



the flora of the healthy apiary and 



also of the diseased apiary and by 



Interesting Information on Maladies jhjg process of elimination and by the 



that Afflict the Bee. examination of a great many speci- 

 mens we arrive at the cause of the 



THE MEETING of bee inspec- disease." 



tors, San Antonio, Tex., Nov. xhe European foul brood is caused 



12, has come and gone. The ^y Bacillus alvei described by Cheyne 



attendance of about fifty persons re- ^nd published in 1885. The cause of 



presented the whole country. No one American foul brood is found to be a 



who attended thought the time ill germ hitherto undescribed but called 



spent. On the contrary everyone there by Dr. White Bacillus larvae. To 



felt at the close of the afternoon ses- isolate this germ Dr. White used a 



sion that it was a day most profitably medium the foundation of which was 



passed; in fact, many expressed them- ^ bouillon made from the larvae of 



selves that it was the best bee meet- the bees. No one else ever used this 



ing at which it had been their privi- medium and so no one else ever dis- 



lege to be present. covered the cause of American fou! 



Dr. Phillips, of the Bureau of Ento- brood, 



mology, Department of Agriculture, These germs are slender, rod-like 



Washington, D. C, called the meet- bodies that grow in length and finally 



ing to order and in his opening re- break into two individuals. This di- 



marks gave the history of European vision occurs every thirty minutes so 



foul brood in this country and also that beginning with one, in one-half 



gave a synopsis of the bee disease hour you will have two, in one hour 



work under consideration by the Bu- four, in one and one-half hours eight, 



reau of Entomology. He then called in two hours sixteen, two and one- 



upon Dr. G. F. White, of the De- half hours thirty-two, three hours six- 



partment of Agriculture, who gave ty-four, three and one-half hours one 



