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T HE DAILY BULLETIN Vol 3. _ College Station, Toree: FAA March 21, 1920. Number 1 AT BROOD DISEASES THREE FROM HERE MANY GRADUATES | ATTEND MEETING = OF AGRICULTURE THE HONEY BEES IN TWO CLASMES Methods of Detecting and Treating Are Discussed by Entomologist Experiment Station C. S. Rude, Assistant Entomologist | | | | | HELD IN DALLAS! NEEDED IN TEXAS Professor S. W. Bilsing Recommends That the Governor Call Extra Session of Legislature Professor 8S. ‘W....Bilsing, Dy of the Experiment Station, addressed | Maurice C. Tanquary, and Director the Entomological Seminar afternoon on the subject of ‘Brood Diseases of the Honey Bee.” There are two classes of diseases affecting the honey bee: Those ef- fecting the adult bees and those that | attack the brood or larvae. Those affecting the adult bees are: Dysen- tary, bee paralysis, Isle of Wright disease, and nosema disease. While these diseases cause considerable weakening of the colonies where they occur, yet they seldom result in as heavy losses to the beekeeper, as do the brood diseases. The brood diseases are, in order of their importance, American foul- brood, European foulbrood, and sac brood. These diseases are widely distributed over America and Eu- rope. In the United States alone, it is estimated that the annual loss is $1,000,000 due to actual death of colonies, not including loss of crops. It is not uncommon to find disease in a yard where the beekeeper feels certain that his bees are alright. Of- tentimes it is cases of this nature that provide the source of infection for a whole neighborhood. The names, American and Euro- pean foulbrood, apply to the country in which the disease, bearing the name, was first seriously investi- gated. The presence of any particular disease can be accurately determined by a bacteriological examination. For practical purposes, certain sets of characters will usually answer. American foulbrood or “foulbrood” as it is sometimes called, attacks the young bees about the time that the larvae stop feeding and is capped over. The first noticeable change is a darkening in color of the larvac and the loss of its smooth rounded appearance. Later the larvae will be found on the lower side wall of the cell in a dryed down glue-like mass that can be drawn out into an elastic-like thread. There is also a very decided glue-like odor accom- panying this disease. The dead lar- vae dries down and forms a scale which adheres tightly to the cell wall. This disease is caused by a spore forming bacterial Bacillus larvae. The spores of this organism are car- ried in the honey; in this way the disease spreads. European foulbrood usually at- tacks the larvae at an early age, while it is still furled up in the bot- tom of the cell. The young larvae take on a yellow color and move about uneasily. At times a ropiness may occur somewhat like that in American foulbrood This is not a Friday | of T. O. Walton, attended the meeting representatives of the commer- |cial and farming interests of Texas who met in Dallas Thursday to dis- cuss plans for handling the pink boll: worm situation and its effects fol- lowing the action taken by Louisi- ana, Arkansas, Alabama and Flori- da, in placing a quarantine against Texas because of the ravages of the pink boll worm. Professor Bilsing recommended to the meeting that the Governor should call an extra session of the Legis- lature to provide adequate legisla- tion for dealing with the pink boll worm, since as he said present laws were not sufficient to handle the situation brought about by the find- ing of the pest twenty-five miles out- side a quardntine district. The present quarantine law only provides for regulations over a district five miles from the nearest infestation. Discussion at this meeting of the situation was made in three ways: First, the calling of extra session of the Legislature by the Governor; second, the inadequacy of the pres- ent quarantine law, and third, the action of other states in quarantin- ing against Texas. BR REGULAR MEETING Brazos Union Lodge A. F. & A. M., Masonic Temple, Bryan, Texas., Monday, March 22, at 8 p. m. J. D. MARTIN, W. M. character of European foulbrood but rather result of a second bacteria coming in. Bacillus pluton produces European foulbrood. This organism does not produce spores. Bacillus alvei, which was for a long time con- sidered to be the causative organism, quite often comes in after bacillus pluton has started and thus causes the irregular characters that were before mentioned. Sacbrood is caused by a fillerable virus which is able to pass through the pores of the finest clay filters. This disease is of little importance as compared to the other two. To treat American foulbrood the bees are moved to new, clean quar- ters and the old hive and equipment destroyed. This is made necessary by the scales which adhere closely to the comb. For European foulbrood the queen is taken out and replaced after a period of days with a young Italian queen. Good beekeeping is the best remedy for this disease. No recommendation is treatment of Sacbrood. made for | Dean Kyle is Recommending Men | for These Positions and Hopes to | Place O:hers | | E. J. Kyle, Dean of the School of Agriculture, is experiencing great difficulty in making recommenda- tions of graduates in agriculture to| fill all the good positions for which | he has requests to commend quali- | fied men. | Since January of this year a num- | ber of such men have been asked for, and in every case Dean Kyle has | tried to comply with the requests | made, in courtesy to the prospective employer and for the benefit of men who have completed courses in ag- riculture at this College. Not in every instance, however, has he becn able to recommend men with the qualifications desired. A large lumber and creosotinz company of East Texas, wants a well qualified man to take charge of a livestock farm which they are de- veloping from cut-over timber lands in Louisiana. They have about ten thousand acres in one tract which tney desire to develop into one great farm. Little of it is in cultivation but they are now engaged in clear- ing and building improvements. They expect during this year to lay in about one hundred and fifty head of breeding cows, twenty-five head of breeding hogs and about one thous- and goats, and then gradually to launch out on a big scale. They of- fer a good salary and ten per cent of increase in profits. The qualities of the man they desire most are, hon- esty, integrity, and practicability, and combined with a technically ed- ucated mind. A school in Texas is in need of a teacher of agriculture in the school, who is capable to give tractor les- sons to the farmers of the section. A firm of lawyers in South Texas is in need of a competent reliable man to look after the renting of lands, collecting rents, distribution of water and collecting of water charges for the properties in their hands as receivers. The Education and Recreation Office of Camp Travis must have a suitable man to take charge of ag- ricultural classes in the Vocational Schools now being held in that camp. Other requests for men to fill positions of various kinds requiring a knowledge of agriculture are in the hands of Dean Kyle. All applications for these positions must have his recommendation be- fore they will receive the considera- tion of the men or firms wanting to employ men. rr ee. LOST—Black Covered loose leaf note book. Please return to R. B. Lattimore, 101 Milner. itin since Friday. m., ORGANIZE BRANCH AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS HERE Students’ Branch of the Society of Agricultural Engi- American neers is Organized For the first time since the war started a branch of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers will be organized here. Tuesday af- 16, Prof. Scoates kindly carried the Junior Agricul- ternoon, March tural engineers out to the Agricul- | tural Engineering farm where the ‘second year two-year men were en- |gaged in breaking the ground. The first meeting of the embryo society was held in the open, close to mother nature. Plans for organization were discussed and a committee consisting of P. T. Montfort, chairman, E. H. Varnell, V. T. Mathews and T. Tur- ner, -was selected to revise the old constitution. The next meeting will be held in the Agricultural En- gineering building on Tuesday after- noon, March 23, at 4 p. m. It is im- portant that everyone interested in this society be present at this time, as officers will be elected and a con- stitution, of which a draft is being prepared by the committee, will be adopted. Steps will be taken imme- diately to renew the charter and af- filiation with the A. S. A. E. Prof. Scoates, head of the Agricultural Engineering Department is a mem- ber of the national council of the mother organization and several other men of the department are members. We sincerely hope that they will not miss a single meeting. am] PRESIDENT BIZZELL ATTENDING A COMMITTEE MEETING IN AUSTIN President Bizzell has been in Aus- As chairman of the educational survey committee ap- pointed by Governor Hobby during a convention of school teachers, and officers in Austin the first part of February, he is attending the first meeting of the committee since their appointment . At this meeting they will work out plans for conducting an educational survey of the State of Texas, for the purpose of preparing a definite educational program that will give the State a uniform educational sys- tem. —- NOTICE AGRONOMISTS ym i — There will be a meeting of the “Texas Branch of the National So- ciety of Agronomy” in Room 314, Administration building, at 6:30 p. Monday, March 22nd. All Agronomists are invited to be pres- ent. Members of the National So- ciety. of Agronomy are requested to attend. The meeting will be over in time for the Science Seminar.
