BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTH 



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Fig. 51. 



The wreck that follows an epidemic of disease when left un- 

 treated. 



to various phases of beekeeping. Too few of the beekeepers who 

 must be eventually reached, take bee journals. The newspaper 

 columns of most dailies are open to short articles on such sub- 

 jects, when written by reliable men. This fact is being taken 

 advantage of by some of the extension forces, in order to get 

 the box hive beekeeper thinking and to reading free government 

 bulletins, even when he will not buy bee journals and books. 

 Of necessity the appeal must be to his greater chances of financial 

 success by the change to modern methods and the eradication 

 of diseases. Too much time has been given to patriotic appeals 

 and attempts to reach his sympathy, which, except in war time, 

 are largely preordained to failure. 



No one can estimate the financial loss from epidemics of Euro- 

 pean foulbrood in the Appalachians, where most of the honey 

 is consumed at home. The total would easily reach thousands of 

 dollars. We are a wealthy people, too much given to belittling 

 losses from waste. Every southern beekeeper should get behind 



