CHAPTER VI 



BEE DISEASES 



How would you like to be the family 

 physician to a colony of bees? 



That is the position occupied by Doc- 

 tor G. F. White of the Department of 

 Agriculture — only Doctor White is a sort 

 of physician extraordinary to all the bees 

 in the United States. His job is to study 

 the various diseases of bees and determine 

 their cause and to investigate methods of 

 cure and prevention. 



Doctoring a sick bee is not quite such a 

 fearsome business as it might appear to 

 the beginner, however, because most of 

 the serious bee troubles are not with the 

 adults but with the brood, the larvae. I 

 suppose we might call them "diseases of 

 childhood," and the treatment does not 

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