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niittee has good success the work 

 will be printed in pamphlet form 

 for distribution. The society is 

 aware that this committee — be- 

 cause of the ignorance of the 

 uninitiated in bee culture — has an 

 herculean task before it, but the 

 fact that Dr. N. P. Allen, ex-presi- 

 dent of the National Association, 

 whose energy is untiring, is at the 

 head of the committee, will insure 

 an exhaustive effort to bring the 

 enterprise to a happy termination. 



From information gathered in 

 convention and from private 

 sources, the present has been a 

 wonderful "swarming" season in 

 the middle and southern states. 

 The average production of honey 

 per colony, where swarming was 

 kept in bounds, was at least 100 lbs. 



In my own apiary the swarming 

 fever amounted to a mania ; it 

 looked at one time as though the 

 whole apiary would disband entire- 

 ly. I returned, perhaps, one hun- 

 dred swarms after I had obtained 

 what increase I wanted, and had 

 made preparations for. Every 

 colony in my apiary that could be 

 controlled and kept in reasonable 

 bounds was capable of giving 100 

 lbs. comb, or 150 lbs. extracted 

 honey. 



During the beautiful weather in 

 the latter part of June I extracted, 

 from some hives worked by 

 thoroughbred bees, about 800 lbs. 

 of the whitest and thickest honey 

 I ever saw in all my experience. 

 At that time my bees — orange- 

 banded variety — were working on 

 white and red clover, but I attrib- 

 uted, at the time, the whiteness and 



density of the honey to atmospheric 

 causes. Of this lot I made up 

 my exhibit of extracted honey at 

 the show at the Southern Exposi- 

 tion. It took the first prize for 

 extracted honey. 



Mr. Muth of Cincinnati, perhaps 

 the largest honey dealer in the west, 

 as well as a practical apiarist, 

 examined this premium honey and 

 expressed his belief that it was red 

 clover honey. Others were of the 

 same opinion. The fact that no 

 other plants were yielding honey 

 at the time except white clover and 

 the red clover, as indicated by the 

 bees working on it, and as the 

 samples were too white for white 

 clover honey, it forces the conclu- 

 sion that it was red clover honey. 

 The colonies which produced this 

 fine, thick, white honey will be 

 taken under special care for future 

 experiments. 



Christiansburg, Ky., Sept., 1883. 



FOUL BROOD. 



Bt Henry Alley. 



Very few of the thousands who 

 are engaged in active beekeeping 

 in this country, have the slightest 

 conception of the danger which 

 we are all in of having our entire 

 apiaries annihilated by that dread 

 scourge Foul Brood. The fact 

 that but few beekeepers are ac- 

 quainted with the symptoms and 

 nature of this disease makes the 

 danger all the more imminent. 



True, many articles have been 

 written in the various bee journals 

 upon this subject, from the time 



