The Semi-weekly leader., 1909-10-09

Gated it will be far removed from our
popular diet of corn pone.
The South has been generally named
as the home of this disease and the inn
preston left that it was another of the
plaques to which we had fallen heir, to
run its course as did yellow fever. With
in the last few weeks comes the an
ern states had 100 cases and the investi-
cation was not half over. Others in
the same section reported number, and
the indications are, that it does not con-
fine itself to any particular section. Mis-
sissippi has no more of it than Illinois
and we do not enjoy the unfavorable
advertising that has been given us re-
Gently.
If it is caused by immature or mould,
ed corn as claimed, our people can soon
get rid of it by raising their own corn for
bread and making sure that it is thor
oughly ripe and dry before being gath
cred. Western corn is usually cut be-
fore being thoroughly dry but not so
here in Mississippi. Let us hope that
it is only one more scarecrow that will
soon vanish. At any rate, it is not con-
fined to the South, but thrives in other
sections of the United States as well.
Bee-keeping in the Delta.
No country can surpass the Yazoo
Delta for the production of honey, which
- the paradise of bee-keepers who fol-
low the occupation on large scale for
profit.
Few have gone into it as an avoca-
tion, as it requires thorough study as a
science with reasonable enthusiasm, cou-
pied with hard work.
The great revolution in Bookkeeping
able frame, by which the bees were made
to build their combs on a frame that
could be moved from the hive, all hives
was caused by the invention of the NOV
being of the same construction so a
frame could be passed to any one Of the
hives Of the apiary. The invention also
of a honey extractor so the honey could
be thrown from the comb by centrifugal
force after the cappings were removed
by a sharp knife are great help.
With such improvements honey can
be harvested on large scale and the
comb removed from the hive many times
during the season and returned to be
filed again, preventing the bees from
building an additional comb, which would
consume much time and great quantities
of honey, to the bee-keeper's loss When,
therefore, the hives were filed with comb
the apiculturist would be complete mas
ter Of the situation, moving the combs
Of honey and at once replacing the same
with combs emptied with the extractor.
Any one who desires to 60 into busi-
ness in this alluviaI country should
handle a large number of hives lnot less
than 1907 and spend at least one season
with a frst-class bee-keeper, as there are
a thousand little things to be learned
by observation.
For books | would only recommend
Langstroth on the Honey Bee, revised
by Charles Dadant, as a practical work.
There are two diseases of bees to con-
tend with, foul brood, which destroys
the old as well as the young bees, and is
very contagious. We have never been
troubled with IT. The other is chilled
or black brood" pronounced BY Prof
Phillips, Of the chronological bureau, as
European foul brood, and is very CON
tagioua. The young bees and larvae
tmaggot stage) become chilled ia the
spring from cold, damp weather and die
when the old bees remove them and the
queen lays the fresh eggs III the, cells
and the colony soon acquires its normal
strength. ! am satisfied that it is not
contagious. Al! the large bee-keepers il
the country have been affected by it, and
Che damage has been from 10 to lis per