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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



want to? I, too, have had bee-keepers 

 tell me they did not have the disease, 

 only to find their bees rotten with it. It 

 a man don't know the disease, he is open 

 to severe criticism for not knowing. If 



he does know and denies it, no criticism 

 is too severe. It is no disgrace to have 

 foul brood. It is a disgrace not to tr\ 

 to get rid of it. This applies to yoti, no 

 matter where you live. 



SELECTED ARTICLES 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS 



The Temperature for Keeping Honey. 



Editor Hurley says in the Canadian 

 Bee Journal, in reply to a subscriber's 

 question : 



A subscriber asks us if his honey will 

 be deteriorated and its value lessened 

 because of its having gone durmg last 

 winter through a temperature below- 

 zero. If it was well granulated before 

 the frost came on it is probable that it 

 will not be much injured. No wise 

 honey producer, however, will allow his 

 honey to pass through a temperature 

 below 60°. 



Now, I would like to know just why 

 a temperature below zero would not in- 

 jure candied honey, but would that not 

 candied. I suppose, of course, ex- 

 tracted honey is meant. In fact, I 

 should like to know just how below- 

 zero weather injures extracted honey, 

 anvwav. 



Every One His Own Foul Brood 

 Inspector. 



I agree heartily with what Editor 

 Root says in an editorial in Gleanings 

 ill Bee Culture, as follows : 



Foul brood, both European and Am- 

 erican, has gotten an awful start, and 

 it is going to need the combined ef- 

 forts of bee-keepers and inspectors to 

 hold the disease in check. This ismply 

 means that every bee-keeper should f,o 

 over his own hives carefully ; and if he 

 finds disease, apply treatment without 

 waiting for the inspector, who may 



have on his calendar a hundred other 

 calls just as urgent as his. Every in- 

 telligent bee-keeper ought to be his own 

 foul-brood inspector. When, however, 

 he finds that one of his neighbors is 

 negligent and careless, or one who will 

 not administer treatment, then it is time 

 to call in -an inspector. It is at just 

 such times when we need police au- 

 thoritv. 



Mice; How^ to Convert Them Into 

 Friends of the Bee-Keeper. 



That man Crane is a corker. Here 

 we have been killing mice all these 

 years, and Friend Crane, instead of 

 killing them, has set the little pests to 

 work for him. In Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture he tells how : 



Wesley Foster tells us on page S,57 

 of the fondness of mice for the thorax 

 of bees, and the value of bees as bait 

 for catching mice. I have noticed this 

 fondness of the mice for this kind of 

 diet ; but, instead of using the bees to 

 catch the mice, I used the mice to help 

 the bees. Almost every wanter we lose 

 more or less bees in cold weather, and 

 find in such hives some combs filled 

 with dead bees. If such combs are 

 placed in strong colonies during warm 

 weather the bees will, after a time, clean 

 out the dead bees ; but it is a lot of 

 work for them, and I have many times 

 placed such combs where the mice 

 could get on all sides of them, when 

 they soon learn to pull out the dead 

 bees for the choice morsel of the 

 thorax. The mice are not apt to gnaw 

 the combs if they can get on all sides 

 of them. 



