California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 14, Number 6, 5 October 1860 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Of the foul brood among bees, tho Union makes the following mention in its Fair report*: A conversation with the different bee owners (Uncloses tho fact that there ia much difference of opinion to tho cause of foul brood. One gentleman who raised bees for sale, remarks that "foul bffoofl* was a disease two thousand years old ; was known about thirty years in the United Btetetl that its cause was unknown; the MMt that could bo dime was to eradicate it by taking the been lT'jm the comb where it was fuund to exist, and keep charging them from ono hive to another until the disease disappeared, liut a particular friend who makes Ins profit by honey, and not from bees, said he had never lost a bee by foul brood, nnd gave his opinion that tho disease was caused by dividing tlie hive. To use hiii own words: ''Men taliu a handful of bees, put them in a hive with ft queen, and call them a -warm ; jo that when the young brood appears the OO.OOT is too small to afford the young ones sufficient heat; they die and putnty, which causes a pestilence that kills off the old ones, an l is called fool brood."

Wk bave been honored by a visit from His Royal Highness, Prince Kauiehuineha, who arrived a day or two since, in the y.ieht Bmm Hooke. The Princu ia oue of tho royal family of the HaWallM lalends, and is true.-ling for liisj^henlTb. lie came hy tho way of Victori a, British CflHßhln, where he tarried a short time. Well, as they have tho Prince of Wales on the olher side of the mountains, why shouldn't we have a live Priuue on this side to visit us?