GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Julius Johansen, of Port Clinton, Ohio, standing under a pear tree loaded with blossoms and bees, 

 apiary is just back of the greenhouse out of sight. 



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to buy it for such occasions. With a little 

 effort honey could easily be made as essen- 

 tial to holiday dinners as cranberries have 

 become already. 



THE DISCUSSION ON FOUL BROOD 

 BY J. w. STINE, Deputy Bee Inspector. 



One of the topics of special interest to 

 those having diseased bees, or who had near 

 neighbors with diseased bees, was the paper 

 en the foul-brood situation in Iowa by Mr. 

 Edward G. Brown, of Sergeants Bluff. He 

 told of a very interesting and practical way 

 of dealing with American foul brood. The 

 plan in brief was as follows : Take the dis- 

 eased colony and shake or brush all the 

 bees from the comb and hive it in a hive 

 with starters. Insert an empty comb in 



f>]aee of one frame, with the starter, thus 

 giving a place for the bees to deposit the 

 diseased honey. As soon as the honey has 

 been deposited, probably by the next morn- 

 ing after hiving, take away the comb of 

 honey and insert a frame with a starter. 

 All the combs built from the starters are 

 saved by this method. 



The beekeepers of Iowa as a whole seem 

 (juite willing to co-operate with the inspec- 

 tors in getting rid of disease among the bees. 

 As a matter of fact, the work of the inspec- 

 tor is educational; and when the beekeepers 

 ire all willing to become educated along 

 apiarian lines, especially with bee diseases, 

 there will not be the need of the field work 

 of the inspector that there is now. 



FRUIT-GROWING SO GENERAL THAT BEES CAN NOT MAKE A LIV- 

 ING : YET THE FRUIT-MEN ARE BUYING MORE BEES 



BY JULIUS JOHANSEN 



On the so-called " Peninsula," Danbury, 

 and Catawba Island, fruit-gi'owing has be- 

 come so general that the farmers there buy 

 their own feed stuff, every available foot of 

 ground being planted to fruit. It is only 

 when an orchard has become too old, and 

 is. consequently, pulled out, that the land is 

 planted to farm crops a few years to in- 



vigorate it. as they say. Then it is planted 

 to fruit again. 



]\Iost of the farms are small — many only 

 ten or twenty acres, with very few above 40. 



Many of these small farmers were also 

 beekeepers on a small scale a few years ago. 

 They kept eight or ten colonies each : and 

 one of whom I knew had 25 or 30. How- 



