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TABLE OF CONTENTS 





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Introduction 3 



Bee Disease Control... 3 



History of bee disease 3 



Foulbrood 4 



American foulbrood 4 



European foulbrood 6 



Sacbrood V 



Brood diseases contrasted 9 



Paralysis 10 



Dysentry 10 



Control measures 10 



American foulbrood -- -- - 10 



European foulbrood 12 



Make the colony strong 12 



Making the colony queenless 12 



Requeening 13 



i Sacbrood 13 



Paralysis 13 



Various inspection methods 13 



The work in New Jersey 15 



Inspection and its results 15 



; Education 19 



Educating the beekeepeer direct 19 



I Through the mails 19 



Through the farm demonstrator 20 



Requirements and Possibilities of Beekeeping as a Business -- 20 



Requirements of profitable bee husbandry 20 



The individual 21 



, The location t 21 



The bees 22 



The apparatus 22 



Returns from beekeeping 23 



Financial 23 



Healthful - 25 



Pleasure 25 



Opportunities for profitable beekeeping in New Jersey 26 



Overstocking 27 



Market for increased crops 27 



Beekeeping literature 28 



Publications pertaining to beekeeping issued by the United 

 States Government 29 



