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instances from my personal experience, not only on my own 

 yards but also in various parts of the State where I have 

 traveled during the last nine years as an inspector, that show 

 the superiority of the Italians where disease prevails. The 

 poorest bees of all to withstand disease are the blacks, particu- 

 larly where the strain is inbred and weak in vitality. 



We have another remedy for foul brood when discovered too 

 late in the season to use the ordinary means of treatment. If 

 you have combs of honey free from the germs of the disease, 

 these may be nsed to replace those in the diseased hive. This 

 should be done after all the brood is hatched, and when spring 

 comes yon will find the brood healthy. The reason of this is 

 that it is so late in the season that no brood is raised, and the 

 germs infecting the larva? are what perpetuate the disease. I 

 once gave this remedy at the National Bee Keepers Associa- 

 tion at St. Louis, and a gentleman from Illinois said that the 

 information was worth many times the cost of his attendance. 



Great good sometimes comes out of trouble. New York 

 State has to-day better bees, better bee keepers, better methods 

 and larger crops than it ever had before. We are more thor- 

 oughly organized, and the box hive man is now a curiosity. 

 Mnch credit is due our Department of Agriculture for the 

 assistance given at a time when it looked as though the means 

 of livelihood of many people would be taken from them, as 

 many men make bee keeping a specialty. The man with only 

 a hundred colonies is not considered a large bee keeper, but 

 it may provide him with the necessaries of life. 



Perhaps I may here further trespass on your patience by 

 saying something in regard to a system of apiaries. I have 

 five arranged in a circle, which I visit either by driving or 

 traveling on steam and electric lines. If I could give all my 

 time to my own work I should nse an auto, as nnmy bee 

 keepers use thom to visit their aj)iaries, — one man traveling 

 twenty-seven miles, where he has an out a]>iary which he runs 

 for extracted honey, and many others a shorter distance from 

 his home. We used to think if we ran an out apiary we would 

 have to keep an attendant there during the swarming season, 

 but we learned later to run it without swarms by having the 



