THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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SELECTED ARTICLES 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS 



Why Produce Comb Honey. 



Wesley Foster tells us in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, why the Colorado bee- 

 keepers produce comb honey almost ex- 

 clusively. He says : 



One of the chief reasons for Dr. Phil- 

 lips' visit to Colorado was to find out 

 why we produce comb honey to such an 

 extent. I do not know as he feels sure 

 that he knows just why we do, but I 

 think it is principally because we come 

 nearer getting a fair price for comb than 

 for extracted honey. Comb honey sells 

 more readily for $2.7.5 to $3.00 per case 

 of 24 sections than extracted does at 6>4 

 to lyi cents per pound. And I doubt 

 whether you could persuade many Colo- 

 rado bee-men that 6^^ cents for extract- 

 ed will bring in more cash for labor ex- 

 pended than $2.75 per case or llYz cents 

 per section will for comb honey. I like 

 to produce comb honey because it is 

 cleaner and nicer to handle. 



In speaking of the fall honey flow in 

 Colorado, he also says : 



Bees are "making good" on the fall 

 flow from the third growth of alfalfa, 

 and sweet clover, and are breeding bet- 

 ter than common. Predictions are now 

 that colonies of bees in Colorado will 

 go into winter quarters with a good sup- 

 ply of young bees. Eastern Colorado 

 has had warmer weather through early 

 September than has the Western part 

 of the State. 



Treating European Foul Brood in the 

 Fall. 



Morley Pettit, in reply to a corres- 

 pondent, gives the following in the Can- 

 adian Bee Journal with reference to 

 treating European Foul Brood in the 

 fall: 



In reply to one of our correspondents, 

 who has European foul brood in his bee- 

 yard, the Provincial Apiarist, Mr. Mor- 

 ley Pettit, writes as follows: 



Owing to the nature of European foul 

 brood, which is prevalent in your corres- 

 pondent's neighborhood, there is nothing 

 that can be done for him this fall, ex- 

 cept to advise him to requeen his colon- 

 ies with some good stock of Italian 

 queens. In fact this is about all that 

 can be, and that is necessary to be done 

 for this trouble. 



When we detect the disease in an 

 apiary about the beginning of the swarm- 

 ing time, so that the "shaking" treat- 

 ment can be applied without serious loss 

 to the apiary, we advise that treatment ; 

 but if the disease is detected in the fall 

 we certainly do not advise anything but 

 Italianizing, as that alone will generally 

 cure the trouble. It will at least hold it 

 in check until the next swarming sea- 

 son. There is absolutely no use trying 

 to cure black bees of this disease. The 

 only sure method is the introducing of 

 Italians. 



Finding Queens. 



Here is a problem for some enter- 

 prising bee-keeper-chemist to solve. A 

 contributor to the British Bee Journal, 

 after lamenting on the difficult task of 

 finding queens, wonders if there is not 

 some harmless chemical that could be 

 placed on the queen's back, which would 

 leave a mark easily seen, and still not 

 injure the bee. Here is what he says: 



"Referring to D. M. AI.'s remarks on 

 finding queens (page 386), novices like 

 myself look with dread on the task which 

 has from time to time to be attempted, 

 of finding the queen in an ordinary well- 

 stocked hive. It is not the labor that 

 daunts one, but the probable futility of 

 the search. Surely in these scientific 

 days there must be some harmless chem- 



