The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-06
BUG PROFESSOR
IS INTERVIEWED
Trevor Kincaid Explains Epi-
demic That Has Seized
Bees.
HE ROUTS BEEKEEPER

HE ROUTS BEEKEEPER
This story has 20 do. primarily.
sith a disclosure OF the manner Ia
ghich Professor Kincaid, Of the
geological department at the Uni
yerslty Of Warrington. routed
1rathy Puyallup beekecper with a
microscope OF 500 diameters.
secondarlly. It will attempt
on the bee diseaGnu
snoUn az Nosema Apis, ana no"
4 proves N at nations OF bees. IKE
nations OF human beings. may cofns
ipon evil days when greed over
axes them
A few weeks ago Pacific coast
were startled Then
Professor Kincaid announced dis
,0yery OF Nosema Apis In the bees
hereabouts, and said that II vas
ravaging bees from here TO Cai-
fOrnia
lie aid the disease was spread
Ing rapidly, and that II II were not
checked. The bee industry on the
Coast might suffer untold damage.
Many beekeepers got erroneous re-
ports Of what the professor had
said
When IL reached the PuysL
lup bee raiser, Il was TO the ef-
al pa.
eiHe coast had become para
Iyxeo. The Puysilup man re-
scented II as a siur on his bees.
He sat down and wrote let
ter 10 the xoologlst.
~ want you 20 know that 49,
bees are NOT psralyzed." he
wrote. in effect, "snd ! chsi-
lenge you TO come down and
kick over my hives, and see
what happens 20 you. You'll
find my bees can get results"
About this time the presi-
den. OF the Pierce County Bee
keepers association invited the
professor TO lecture. The
place was Puysllup. Professor
kinesid tucked his 300 diane
ter microscope under hh arm
and marched south into the
land OF the ~rsthy beekeeper.
"He must have reiterated for
strategic reasons when he saw
me coming with my 42-eenti
meter" says Professor Kin
cslo, "for | didn't see a sign
OF him"
The lecture courses under Pro-
lessor Klncaid at the university are
popular-aimost to record-break-
ing degree. After you've attended
one or two you1l know why
Professor Kincaid is a smallish
nan. with black hair which re-
fuses TO stay brushed. and when
you meet him on the campus he
has a worried. far-awsy look. But
In the lecture room. with his be-
loved bugs and fossils and shells,
he is the magnet OF all eyes. -
He lectures In conversational
tones. and every three minutes be
says something funny. and then
looks surprised when the class
laughs.
After the class is all thru laugh
ms. he starts laughing at the Joke
which he has surprised himself by
sprinEing.
lie laughs on the installment
plaza series OF explosive chuck
as He Il. fr~xg4asskt.
Hence the class laughs again. and
this produces more chuckles, and
SO on. ad minimum.
He is intensely interesting. be-
cause he has a wealth OF SMILES
and modern puns. which he is for
ever applying to the subject at
hand.
But the city editor is testify de-
10 know what all this has
20 do with bees.
A Star man cornered Professor
yesterday afternoon in his
office I'm Science hall. He
old the story OF the bees like this:
The disease kills bees five days
after attacking them. and they dio
N droves outside the hive. Eitr1,r
he bees nave a highly DEVELOPER
system or they feel
hey are going 10 die when away.
and crawl near the hive 10 expire.
None die inside the hive.
The germs soon infect the hon.
~ stored in the hive. however. and
rom the honey the other bees OF
he hive are infected. and either
lie or are reduced in vitality.
1T doesn't take long for bees
rom other hives 10 learn OF the
weakened condition OF their neigh
bors. and then il is the invasion OF
Belgium all over again. The pow.
erful hives invade and rob the
weaker hive when il is not able TO
defend itself.
The powerful hives simply obey
hat impulse of greed common TO
bees and humans But they bring
on themselves. And here
again you have the analogy OF the
nations. The powerful hives carry
away the honey from the weaker
Dnes. and from the honey they CON.
.ract the disease. Thus il spreads
rom colony to colony, and from
ipiary to apiary.
1t is only right that this Is so.
They steal the honey because they
are getting something for nothing
which is the way OF nations.
Honey is the bees medium of OK.
mango. They get money withdrs
working for IL.
Nosema Apis" he resumed.
was discovered first by a German
named lander. in 1905. There was
serious outbreak OF Il turnout
Europe, II evidently was introduc.
I'd here thru iu,nOrtoA ~