26 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ON APICULTURE. 
PRESENT EXTENT OF BEE DISEASES IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
The extent of bee diseases in Massachusetts may be readily seen on 
the map. The towns in which they are positively known to occur 
are listed below in black- faced type. Towns in which they probably 
exist are listed in lighter-faced type. 
Table showing the towns in which the bee diseases respectively occur. 
[Black-faced type indicates where disease is positively known to exist. Light-faced 
type indicates that disease is probably present.] 
American foul brood. 
Bristol County: 
Acushnet. 
Freetown. 
New Bedford. 
Westport. 
Essex County: 
Amesbury. 
Salisbury. 
Hampden County: 
Brimfield. 
Ludlow. 
Monson. 
Springfield. 
Wilbraham. 
Hampshire County: 
Belchertown. 
Middlesex County: 
Marlboro. 
Worcester County. 
Brookfield. 
Charlton. 
Leominster. 
Sturbridge. 
Southbridge. 
Warren. 
Worcester. 
European foul brood. 
Berkshire County. 
Great Harris 
ton. 
Lee. 
Sandisfield. 
Sheffield. 
Franklin County: 
Deerfield. 
Greenfield. 
Montague. 
Northfield. 
Hampden County: 
Blandford. 
Brimfield. 
Ludlow. 
Monson. 
Springfield. 
Wilbraham. 
Hampshire County: 
Belchertown. 
Greenwich. 
Worcester County: 
Auburn. 
Bar re. 
Brookfield. 
Charlton. 
Hardwick. 
New Braintree. 
Southbridge. 
Sturbridge. 
Warren. 
Worcester. 
The distribution of these diseases is based, as is explained, on bac- 
teriological findings in numerous samples of suspected brood, sub- 
mitted by the bee keepers during the past year and a half. The 
examinations were made by Dr. G. Franklin White, expert in bacte- 
riology, of this Bureau. In plotting the regions where disease is 
thus definitely known to exist a solid red color has been used. Index 
letters, A for American foiil brood and E for European foul brood, 
show which disease is joresent in each locality. 
Besides these definite data there are in the Bureau of Entomology 
a great number of reports from bee keepers throughout Massachu- 
setts, which, without the definite knowledge from the bacteriological 
examinations, would be of slight significance and importance, but 
which, in conjunction with these findings, are of the greatest value. 
They indicate regions of probable infection, which are shown on the 
map in lighter tone. 
As an illustration, a bee keeper who lives in Acushnet reports, " I 
lost all my bees, thirty swarms, at once." This bare statement is of 
slight import; but taken together with the fact that American foul 
brood occurs in Freetown, it would indicate that American foul brood 
is distributed throughout southern Bristol County. Another illus- 
tration is found in Worcester County. Bacteriological examination 
shows that in Auburn and Worcester both European foul brood and 
American foul brood exist. A bee keeper from Barre reports that in 
