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10 colonies. The destruction of the basswood timber in that 

 locaUty is partly responsible for this condition, but the 

 presence of bee diseases, allowed to continue almost without 

 any consideration, is the principal cause. On many farms 

 there were from 50 to 250 colonies of bees, now only an oc- 

 casional farmer having 4 to 30 colonies may be found, and 

 in the Greenwood region itself there probably are not more 



FIG. 9.— DISEASE MEANS WASTE 



In two years American foul brood killed 120 colonies which had been producing 

 annually 12,500 pounds of extracted honey. 



than four parties owning individually as high as 100 colonies. 

 As in previous years, the disease appeared again in 1913 and 

 1914, but it is under absolute control and will probably be 

 eradicated the coming season. 



In an old log house at Greenwood there were stored the 

 remains of about 300 colonies of bees. These colonies died 

 with American foul brood eight years ago. The following 

 spring the hives and combs containing about 1,000 pounds 

 of honey were simply piled one above the other in this open 

 log house, where bees, both domesticated and wild, were 



