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have not found the alleged losses complicated with disease. 

 "The loss is steady, and yesterday I gave up aU hope of 

 sa\'ing a yard of 10 colonies, which from spring indications 

 should be in good condition. ... If bees are to be kept in 

 this section something must be done/' 



More details from the same source at once followed (June 

 20, 1913): — 



Ooly this momiTTig I am called to do wiiat I can for a market gankner 

 whose colonies are amply siifficient ia number, and a month ago they 

 were in luH strength, but now hardly leave the hive. This is probably 

 because there are none left for the field force. 



The "New England Veteran" - says further in print: — 



One yard of 10 colonies in excellent condition, just begrnoing to work 

 in the supers, was reduced by the second week ia July to two nuclei. 

 These were insi)ected and pronounced free from disease. They had during 

 the summer a loss of 13 queens. Neither care nor expense was spared ia 

 an effort to save them. 



Another apiary of 6 strong colonies was reduced to 5 weak; no swanns 

 nor harvest. Two small apiaries were entirely wiped out. A market 

 gardener reduced from 5 to 2; an apiar.* of 3 reduced to 1 nucleus: . . . 

 5 down to 2; 7 cut to 3. 



This speaks of one small locality- and shows how general the 

 trouble may be in a district. 



Plymoiiih County. 



Inspector Fuller reported from West Bridgewater, in \-isiting 

 an apiary where there had been no winter killing of bees, that 

 where the orchards had been sprayed he found one full colony 

 had been killed, as well as about all the bees of another, and 

 he remarks: "This one will never winter. Other beekeepers 

 also report losses by spraA'ing in the \'icinity. Birds are also 

 reported to have been foimd dead, said to be due to spraying." 



The inspector further writes *, August 19, 1914, Hingham) : — 



Mr. St. V. L. reponed to me that one whole colony of bees died during 

 or shortly after spraying. ha\-ing wintered well. . . . Rev. D. L. S., also 

 of Hingham. is alleged to have lost 6 to S colonies last winter. I should 

 say spr3\-ing is the cause of his trouble, but I am, of course, not positive. 



■ Gleanings in Bee Cultiire." 1914. VoL 42, w>. 91-«S. 



