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spread of foul brood will be 

 cliecked very much. Some such 

 method must be adopted, or the 

 apiaries of this couutry will soon 

 be auuihilated, and with even a 

 partial destruction of them, down 

 will go the supply business, and 

 the readers of the various bee 

 journals will be few and far be- 

 tween. Let us take hold and 

 stamp out this disease and thus 

 protect the beekeepers against 

 those parties who persist in dis- 

 seniinatino- it. 



BEE CULTURE IN THE 

 SOUTH. 



By G. W. Demaree. 



The honey harvest with us is 

 over for this season. At the best, 

 we can only hope for a fall harvest 

 sufficient to supply our bees with 

 winter stores. 



The flow of nectar was marvellous 

 for a short period, but the harvest 

 was too short for a full crop to be 

 gathered in. There will be no "big" 

 reports from the " sunny south " 

 this time ; nevertheless, "bees have 

 paid " as well as most rural pur- 

 suits. I suppose every progressive 

 apiarist has learned some important 

 lessons during the honey season 

 and has thereby become stronger 

 for future operations. 



Perhaps it will be admitted by 

 this time, that all the energy and 

 applied intelligence of the com- 

 bined bee fraternity have failed to 

 devise a method which will success- 

 fully " suppress swarming." In 



my apiary, I have carefully tested 

 all the methods recommended by 

 practical and theoretical apicultural 

 writers, and they have proved a 

 failure when every point was reck- 

 oned in the count. 



Doubtless many are ready to ask 

 in despair, " Is it possible that my 

 apiary is simply going to run off 

 with me ? Am I to be deprived of 

 the right to decide just how many 

 colonies my yard is to contain ? 

 Am I not to be the master of my 

 own business?" Perhaps not ex- 

 actly so, but I believe I can tell 

 3'ou how to keep your apiary in 

 bounds. 



The editor of "Gleanings" solved 

 this interesting problem some time 

 ago by asking in breathless wonder, 

 why the " friends " did not sell the 

 surplus increase of bees. The dif- 

 ficulty in the way of the practica- 

 bility of this solution is that the 

 " friends " do not own and publish 

 a bee paper in their own individual 

 interest — other people footing the 

 expenses — in which they may "slop 

 over " with advertising ; and for the 

 further reason that if everybody 

 should edit a bee paper in his own 

 interest there would be nobody left 

 to buy bees or to be fools enough to 

 pay the advertising bills of the " lit- 

 tle foxes that spoil the vines." 



Not one honey producer in a 

 hundred is so situated that he can 

 sell bees at a profit sufficient to 

 cover his losses sustained by reason 

 of having his working force scat- 

 tered by swarming right in the 

 midst of the honey harvest. 



After trying every plan hereto- 

 fore suggested — or nearly so — 



