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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 31, 1901. 



tares (vetch) from the wheat without destroy- 

 ing the latter. 



Vetch is usually sown with timothy or 

 some other tall-growing plant which aids it to 

 stand up. 



If any of our readers know vetch to !)<■ a 

 nectar-yielder in their locality, we should be 

 pleased to have it reported ; also time of sow- 

 ing, and how to grow it successfully. 



Introducing Queens with Tobacco, 



Editor Hutchinson says, has resulted in occa- 

 sional failures, and he adds: "1 am be- 

 ginning to think that we will never find an 

 infallible method. There will always be some 

 bunglers in the ranks." 



I The Buffalo Convention. I 



I Weekly Budget. I 



Mb. R. a. Hendeuson's Ai'iakt is shown 

 on our first page this week. He is in this 

 (Cook) county. He began last spring with 

 11 colonies, and he says ; "With the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal and ' A B C of Bee-Culture ' 

 as my guide, I increased to 4,5 colonies, by 

 rearing and buying c|ueens; and took off 1.5U0 

 nice, finished sections." Mr. Henderson suc- 

 ceeds because he puts sense and enthusiasm 

 into his work with bees. Of course, his good 

 location makes up the rest, as nothing else 

 could replace the lack of that. 



Mr. A. L. BOTDEN, of the A. I. liootCo., 

 is soon to visit the West Indies — Barbados, 

 Jamaica, Cuba, Trinidad, etc. Also Rambler 

 (John H. Martin) is to " trip it " through 

 Cuba with bicycle, camera, etc. There is no 

 more enterprising concern on the continent 

 than the publishers of Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture. And that elegant periodical shows the 

 wonderful amount of work and expense con- 

 stantly bestowed upon it. It richly deserves 

 all the success with which it is meeting these 

 autumnal days. 



Mrs. Claua West Evans, one of the 

 subscribers of the American Bee Journal, has 

 been nominated as a candidate for superin- 

 tendent of schools for Allamakee Co., Iowa. 

 The local newspaper where she lives, besides 

 giving an excellent picture of the nominc^e, 

 has this to say among other endorsements: 



" Mrs. Evans has the health, energy and 

 ability which fit her for the duties of superin- 

 tendent of schools, and if elected would do 

 her best to meet the requirciiienls of that 

 otlice. As a business woman slir is tliunnigli, 

 honest and reliable. After llic ilcatli of her 

 husband, three 3'ears ago, she a.ssuiucd tlic 

 management of his business, and by reason 

 of study and close application, ranks to-day 

 as one of the most successful apiarists in tlie 

 State of Iowa. She has held various olHces of 

 trust and responsibility in church and lodge 

 wherever residing." 



Some people don't believe in women going 

 into politics. Neither do we — in the kind of 

 politics most in evidence to-day. But some 

 day politics will be cleaner. It would lie 

 cleaner now if only men and women of llic 

 .stamp of Mrs. Evans were allowed to have 

 ollicial power. What is needed is less poli- 

 tics and more manhood and womanhood in 

 our ofHcials— less party blindness and more 

 righteousness in the voters. 



^ Report of the Proceeding's of the Thirty-Second Annual ^ 



^ Convention of the National Bee-Keepers' Asso- ^ 



^ elation, held at Buffalo, New York, ^ 



;$ Sept. 10, 11 and 12, 1901. ^■ 



(Continued from page (.SO.) 



FUMIGATING COMBS WITH BISUI<PHIDE 



Ol' CARBON. 



"How soon may combs that have 

 been fumigated with bisulphide of car- ( 

 bon be given to bees without killing 

 the bees ?" 



Mr. Benton — I have frequently used 

 bisulphide of carbon and used the 

 combs an hour after that; but if you 

 put a whole colony of bees in, there 

 would be a chance of killing the bees. 

 I don't think there is any danger in a 

 few hours. It evaporates very rapidly. 

 Mr. Abbott— I don't think that bisul- 

 phide of carbon would affect anything 

 in 3 minutes after if it is not confined. 

 Bisulphide of carbon won't affect any- 

 thing if it is not confined, and you can 

 pour all the bisulphide you please on a 

 comb in the open air and it will all be 

 gone in three minutes, and I don't see 

 how you could kill the bees without it 

 being confined. 



Mr. Benton — The odor would be dis- 

 agreeable; I don't think it would kill 

 them. 



Mr. Abbott — I use it for keeping the 

 moth from eating up the paste that I 

 paste my papers with. I pour a little 

 in a saucer and in a few minutes the 

 moths are all killed. I do not hesitate 

 to open the can and breathe it, but if 

 it was confined I wouldn't want to stay 

 there. 



Dr. Miller — I would like to ask this 

 question: Does bisulphide of carbon 

 kill the eggs of the bee-moth ? 



Mr. Benton — I think it does. I never 

 have had them develop in combs that 

 were thoroughly subjected to bisul- 

 phide of carbon. I would stack up 

 eight or ten hives and put half a pint 

 of bisulphide in there and let it stand 

 several days; some of those combs that 

 had stood two or three months in hot 

 weather; there were eggs there I know 

 because other combs developed. 



Dr. Mason —I had some extracting- 

 combs that I noticed the worms work- 

 ing in, and I piled them up and put a 

 teaspoonful of bisulphide of carbon in 

 a dish on top of the frames, and in two 

 or three days when I examined them 

 there wasn't a sign of any worms but 

 dead ones. 



Dr. Miller — We have been using sul- 

 phur, and now we are told bisulphide 

 of carbon is better, and we want to 

 know about how much better. Now, 

 in using sulphur, if the combs have in 

 them the larva' of the bee-moth, I wish 

 Mr. Benton would tell us a single word 

 that vfe can use. At any rate, these 

 worms, when they have attained any 

 size — say if they are half an inch or an 

 inch long — you may sulphur them so 

 thoroughly that you will have every- 

 thing green, and those big fellows will 

 still be alive and happy after they come 



out again. Now, will the bisulphide 

 kill those old chaps? 



Dr. Mason — It will kill every one of 

 them, every time. I overlooked a hive 

 this summer that had wormy combs in 

 it, and when I discovered it they were 

 great big fellows, and in an hour's 

 time after using the bisulphide every 

 one of them was dead. 



Mr. Barb — I would like to ask Mr. 

 Benton whether he applies that bisul- 

 phide above or below. 



Mr. Benton — On the top, because it 

 is heavier than the atmosphere. I put 

 an empty super there and set a little 

 tin can in there — perhaps half a pint, 

 or teacupful, for quite a stack of hives. 



Mr. Abbott — Did I understand Dr. 

 Miller to say that sulphur gas will not 

 kill the big worms? I have never 

 seen anything that I could not kill by 

 sulphur gas. Seriously, I think you 

 are laying down a proposition that 

 seems to be contrary to all scientific 

 investigation. If there is anything 

 that breathes that can live in sulphur 

 gas, I have yet to see it. I used to be 

 in the patent medicine business, and 

 we had a vat in which if you had hung 

 anything from an elephant down to a 

 mosquito it would kill it. 



Dr. Miller I don't know of any way 

 to get it sufficiently strong by ordinary 

 means. 



Mr. Case — My business down in 

 Ontario County a few years ago was 

 raising hops. I found a colony of bees 

 one time, when I was drying hops, 

 that the worms had destroyed, and I 

 says, "Now I have a chance to fix 

 you. " So I took the combs that were 

 a mass of worms, and put them into a 

 small sack and put them into that kiln 

 which was perhaps 20 feet square, 

 where we burn all the way from 25 to 

 50 pounds of brimstone in about three 

 or four hours, and I took pains to hang 

 them on the wall with a stick so that I 

 could get them up as near as possible 

 to the ceiling to get the benefit of the 

 brimstone; and I left them there all 

 night and burned the brimstone my- 

 self, and when I took them out in the 

 morning the worms were alive. 



Mr. Abbott— Was that kiln air-tight? 



Mr. Case — There is ventilation at 

 the bottom, but the air is full of 

 brimstone. 



Mr. Hutchinson — Has any one used 

 gasoline for killing moth-larva^ ? 



Pres. Root — We have used it for kill- 

 ing ants. We made holes in the nests 

 and poured gasoline in instead of bi- 

 sulphide of carbon to kill ants. 



Dr. Miller — The statement was made 

 in an obscure (?) journal, (I think it 

 is called Gleanings), the statement was 

 made that it had been used to kill the 

 larvae of the bee-moth, and in connec- 

 tion with that the editor stated that he 

 had used it to kill ants. 



