1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



81 



I noticed at our bee-keepers' meeting held 

 at Amsterdam that not one person ever took 

 any stock in Mr. Alexander's cure for black 

 brood. Any way, I never heard any one ex- 

 press himself favorably; but it is a cure just 

 the same. The secret of it is to keep the 

 queen away from the combs from 10 to 27 

 days. Some cases are different, and the 

 worker bees will make the cure by remov- 

 ing the cause. Don't kill good queens. 

 Don't shake bees on to foundation alone, as 

 over half will swarm out. 



Don't get discouraged. I have had lots of 

 experience during the last seven years; but 

 black brood doesn't bother me any more. 



Northampton, N Y. 



[See editorial comments elsewhere. It 

 will be noted that Mr. Orton lives in a black- 

 brood district, or what was once that, at 

 least, in the State of New York. — Ed.] 



WINTERING OUTDOORS IN WINTER PA- 

 PER CASES. 



Combination paper and wooden winter case being 

 tried out at Medina. 



melt up the combs, otherwise I should have 

 reported before. 



I have " discovered " that it is not neces- 

 sary to kill, remove, or cage a queen when 

 getting rid of black brood if you do not care 

 to increase the number of brood-combs. 



My treatment is this: Take out one half of 

 the brood-combs in a hive, and push up the 

 follower to within a bee-space of the other 

 combs that are left; put on this body, half 

 full of combs, a queen-exclud- 

 ing honey-board, and on top of 

 that another hive- body. Shake 

 every bee off the combs (that 

 were removed) in front of the 

 lower hive body, allowing them 

 to run in; then put the frames 

 in the empty top hive-body and 

 put on the cover. Leave them 

 for ten days; exchange the low- 

 er combs with the upper, brush- 

 ing all bees into the lower hive- 

 body again. Leave two days 

 as before, and at the expiration 

 of that time put all the frames 

 together below. 



Nine times out of ten the col- 

 ony will be cured if the bees are 

 fairly strong in numbers. 



If you are an extracted-honey 

 produ }er it is much easier to rid 

 the yard of black brood than if 

 you are a comb honey producer. 

 The former has only to brush 

 his bees on to extracting-frames, 

 that have been on the hive to be 

 treated, over a zinc five days or 

 more, according to the time of 

 year, and nineteen times out of 

 twenty the colony will be cured 

 the first time; if not, keep alter- 

 nating the combs until they are. 

 1 never had to change m> ire than 

 twice, even in the worst cases. 



BY E. R. ROOT. 



Every winter we are conducting some ex- 

 periments to test various methods of winter- 

 ing outdoors. Ever since the winter paper 

 cases came up for discussion we have been 

 using them in a small way to determine how 

 nearly they would hold their own with the 

 regular standard double-walled chaff -packed 

 hives. Experiments thus far conducted 

 seem to show that the paper cases do not 

 give as good results as the regular standard 



Paper winter case'with chaff, cushion'placed'cri icp. 



