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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 21, 1904. 



a bonfire of the entire lot, bees and hives? I am in for the best plan, 

 whatever that is, even if I do need some bread and butter. 



Last summer only one colony was affected, and thinliing it was 

 chilled brood, I waited all year to see, and I find the 8, including the 

 firtt one, all in the same condition. 



I gave the credit of this whole thing to a certain queen-dealer, as 

 I sent to him a year ago for a queen, and the colony I gave this queeu 

 to was the first one to show any indication of foul brood, and the only 

 one last year. It looks as if there should be a remedy against infected 

 queens being sent out by queen-breeders, or else they should be ex- 

 posed as a warning to others, as I see my fate too late. Before that I 

 was ignorant of the disease being carried by a queen and a few bees 

 through the mail. 



I ordered supplies for the coming season, amounting to S63.00, be- 

 fore I had taken the bees out of their winter quarters, and of course I 

 cannot afford to lose any more by putting diseased bees in good, new 

 hives, so the case is laid before you for advice. 



Please don't think it is just a scare, and is only chilled brood; if 

 that were the case I think there would be young bees ready to hatch, 

 to the size of the larvrc. All of this, or nearly so, is capped over, and 

 brown and ropy, excepting where it dried to the bottom of the cells. 

 Some hives had only 4 or 5 that could be detected. Iowa. 



Answer. — The quickest way, probably, for you to decide posi- 

 tively whether your bees have foul brood, is to send a sample to the 

 General Manager of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, N. E. 

 France, Platteville, Wis. If you are not a member of that Associa- 

 tion, it would be a wise thing for you to send along one dollar to en- 

 able you to become a member. I think it likely that he would consider 

 it advisable, seeing you have so many cases (supposing of course that 

 it is foul brood), to use the McEvoy treatment, throwing the diseased 

 colonies on foundation when the harvest opens. 



Rendering Combs into Wax— Ant-Proof Honey-House. 



1. Some time ago I got your book, " Forty Years Among the 

 ;." In it [ read about making beeswax by the stove-pan method, 

 ) 307. Result of II4 pounds of old comb: One dro}' of wax; new 



stove-pan spoiled, sevei-al armfuls of wood used, and a lot of one 

 morning's time lost. Same amount of old comb rendered by boiling 

 water and squeezing out gave '4 pound of wax. Your method is no 

 good. When you revise your book, revise out entirely that way of 

 wax-making. 



2. How can I make my honey-house so the ants cannot get into 

 it? I mean how to make the posts and pillars that it rests on so the 

 ants will not climb them. 



Answer in the American Bee Journal. Bon'l answer this by mail. 



MissonRi. 



Answers. — 1. I wonder if you noted the last two sentences on 

 the page you mention, page 307. It is there said that with either solar 

 or dripping-pan extractor, when old combs are melted a good deal of 

 wax remains in the refuse, because the cocoons act much like sponges, 

 and that this is especially so if more than a single thickness of comb 

 is placed for melting. If you had laid a single comb in your pan, you 

 probably would have gotten several times as much from that one comb 

 as from a number of combs mashed together. The truth is that no 

 plan works well with old comb unless you can have pressure, and a 

 great deal of it; and the dripping-pan is not recommended for old 

 combs. Your plan, while better than no pressure, you would proba- 

 bly find very wasteful if you should put the slumgum through the 

 German wax-extractor. The dripping-pan is of value in any case 

 where a solar extractor would be of value. A good many pounds of 

 nice wax were extracted in my dripping-pan not many weeks ago, 

 notwithstanding the fact that I had i German wax-press, but I did 

 not put old combs in the dripping-pan. .So you see that although it 

 may be " no good " to you, it would be of value to others when rightly 

 used. 



2. In the cities they prevent certain insects from climbing trees by 

 having fastened around the tree a band or double Ipand of tin made so 

 as to hold oil. Ants would not pass that. Success is also achieved, I 

 believe, by means of cotton surrounding the posts and constantly 

 kept saturated with some offensive substance, as coal-oil, carbolic acid, 

 etc. Possibly some one will suggest something better. 



Y'our " flu" 7 answer this by mail " is refreshing when so many 

 ask me to answer by mail — a thing I can't possibly do. You're a man 

 after my own heart. 



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Bees in Good Condition. 



The weather continues cold, and the outlook 

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 lar tor a week or two. They are, however, in 

 apparent good condition, and, consequently 

 in no hurry to get out. A. C. F. Bartz. 



Chippewa Co., Wis., March 26. 



Looking for a Good Season. 



Last spring we started in with 10 colonies 

 of bees, including 4 weak ones. When we 

 straightened them up for winter we had -l-t 

 colonies, all in good condition, with hires full 

 of honey. We use the outdoor method of 

 wintering. Our bees were packed iu leaves. 

 Last year was not a [jood one in this locality. 

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