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apiary can be cured of Foul Brood by removing the diseased combs 

 in the evening and giving the bees, frames with comb foundation 

 starters on. Then also in the evening feed the bees plenty of sugar 

 syrup and they will draw out the foundation and store the diseased 

 honey which they took with them from the old combs; on the fourth 

 evening remove the new combs made out of the starters and give 

 the bees full sheets of comb foundation and feed plenty of sugar 

 syrup each evening until every colony is in first-class order. Make 

 the syrup out of granulated sugar, putting one pound of water to 

 every pound of sugar, and bring it to a boil. As previously stated, 

 old combs must be burned or made into wax and so must all new 

 combs made during the four days. No colonv is cured of Foul Brood 

 bv the use of any drug. 



All the difference from the McEvoy treatment that I practice, — 

 I dig a deep pit on level ground near the diseased apiary and after 

 getting a fire in the pit such diseased combs, frames, etc., as are 

 to be burned are burned in this pit in the evening and then the fresh 

 earth from the pit returned to cover all from sight. Often I use 

 some kerosene oil, a little at a time being poured on old brood 

 combs or those having much honey in, as they are hard to burn. 

 If diseased combs with honey in are burned on the surface of the 

 soil there is great danger; the honey when heated a little will run 

 like water on the soil and in the morning the robber bees will be 

 busy taking home the diseased honey that was not heated enough 

 to kill germs of Foul Brood. 



I also cage the queen while the bees are on the five or six strips 

 of foundation. It helps to keep the colony from deserting the hive 

 and going to other colonies. 



I do not believe in, or practice burning any property such as hives, 

 bees, beeswax, or honey that can be safely treated and saved. Man} 

 times it is poor economy to save all, and as so many beekeepers are 

 not so situated as to keep all diseased material from robber bees 

 Avhile taking care of it, I take charge of the treatment, using my wax 

 press to save all the beeswax that would have been wasted. 



BEE-KEEPING AS A BUSINESS. 



By O. C. Fuller, CtiUlisquaque Apiaries, Turbotville, Pa. 



The subject of bee-culture as a sole business has been discussed 

 pro and con in the bee papers and bee-keepers' text books until it is 

 about exhausted. Yet how many bee-keepers are making the culture 

 < f bees their sole business in the fullest sense of the term? I think 

 they could be counted on the fingers of one hand. But in taking 

 up this subject we must consider it in the sense we understand 

 it in the language of the bee-keeper. Literally speaking, it would 

 mean that the bee-keepers do nothing but keep bees for a livelihood. 

 As that condition hardly exists we shall have to consider the subject 

 in a little different light, — as one's principal occupation or specialty. 



