GOOD NEWS FOR BEEKEEPERS.
FOUL BROOD EXAMINED.
ONLY A MILD VARIETY. ' From tho. hand of Mr. I. Hopkins, tho Government' be 6 .specialist,, there lias just • been issuixl a : second edition of tho, Department's "Bee Bulletin," , and it contains an important reference to tho Now Zealand: form' of " foul brood " disease.. - ....... . The preface to this edition saysTho . increasing . demand./ for . i instruction in' .boo . Culture consequent upon tne rapid expansion, t of; tho industry throughout,tho Dominion Jias ( . t necessitated the issuo of a second' edition .of this Bulletin. ' The matter contained in the \ first edition has . been revised . and, .largely' added to, and several other subjects'of im-,' portanco are dealt with in this edition'.'; ' keepers. will be IhfereatedV in, learning;' that,, sinco tho bulletin 'was in.-'print'.,! . hayq.;r<y,' .ooiyod.ffom Dr. E. F. /l'liillipo,- ili.charge of ~ tho . Division of Agriculture, United' States . Department of Agriculture, a report on specimens of disease combs collected' from .the,* extremo ends of Now Zealand, arid fohvarded by myself to liim. vTho results of the investigations go to prove that wo' have"tW milder , or ' American ' form 6f foul brood, ; arid :.,iiot„ : tho dreaded ; ! black • brood ''./prevalent' /in ' - Europe. Dr. Phillips savsYou are,, then, ablo to say. that American foul .brood exists, in Now Zealand,: and that it is caused bv, bacillus larvae.' "
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 2
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215GOOD NEWS FOR BEEKEEPERS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 2
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