April, ’23] 
TANQUARY: TEXAS BEEKEEPING 
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principal honey plants, and the other at Roxton in the black land cotton 
belt of north Texas. Both of these apiaries are in charge of well-versed 
practical beekeepers. The colonies comprising the two yards were 
donated by the beekeepers of those portions of the state in which they 
are located. 
A new feature of the work this past year has been the establishment 
of a small apiary (5 colonies) at each of seven different substations of 
the Agricultural Experiment Station. Some very interesting results 
were obtained with these, especially where new territory was tested. 
At' one of these stations in northwest Texas, so far as we could learn, 
there had never been a single colony of bees in the county, and every¬ 
one told us that bees would either be blown away by the high winds or at 
least starve to death. These 5 colonies were installed as 3-frame 
nuclei about the middle of May. the middle of August, or exactly 
three months afterwards, one colony, in addition to drawing out 21 
frames of foundation, had produced approximately 100 pounds surplus 
of as fine honey as I have ever seen. The other four colonies also had the 
10-frame Langstroth brood-chambers filled with brood and honey and 
all the way from 15 or 20 to 45 or 50 pounds of honey in the supers. 
In two other counties, one of which had previously contained but 
three colonies, and the other but two or three small beekeepers, the 
substation bees did almost as well for the season. This work will be 
continued this coming season and extended to other parts of the state. 
Foulbrood Control 
The second phase of the relationship between the Experiment Station 
and beekeeping in Texas comes through the foulbrood control work 
which is vested in the Chief of the Division of Entomology as State 
Entomologist. The plan for carrying on the work is as follows: 
First, one or two inspectors are sent out from the office .who put in 
practically all of their time in field work during the inspection season, 
which lasts from early in February to about the first of November. 
One of these men, Mr. C. S. Rude, has had general charge of the field 
work during the past three years. In addition there are ten local in¬ 
spectors, located in various parts of the state, who take care of situa¬ 
tions in their respective territories which cannot be handled promptly 
by the men sent out from the office. 
We are very fortunate in Texas in that we have no European foul¬ 
brood, the American being the only form that we have had to deal with 
so far in a regulatory way. 
