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from their home apiary and in this way 

 disease may be spread. 



Consequently it is to the interest of all 

 beekeepers to cooperate with one another 

 in an effort to stamp out these troubles. 

 One man working alone can not do much 

 to keep his bees healthy but all beekeep- 

 ers in a neighborhood working in coopera- 

 tion can rid their community of disease 

 and keep it in that condition. Many 

 states have bee inspection laws and proper 

 officers to enforce them but laws are of 

 little effect unless the public is willing to 

 cooperate with the law enforcement offi- 

 cials. As long as the public smiles on 

 "boot-legging," prohibition will not pro- 

 hibit, and as long as a careless beekeeper 

 insists upon keeping bees in inspection 

 proof -box hives and as long as he fails to 

 treat diseased colonies our bee laws will 

 be of little avail in preventing the spread 

 of disease. 



Another brood disease that is not so 

 well understood as the two foulbrood dis- 

 eases, is called "sacbrood." In the past 



