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tracted. The reason of this seems to be 

 that there is not enough difference between 

 the market prices on comb and extracted to 

 warrant a continuation of the production of 

 comb, which really costs more to produce 

 than the market quotations would seem to 

 show. 



This is something of an indication that 

 the public is beginning to have confidence 

 in extracted honey. The practical workings 

 of the pure-food laws, both State and na- 

 tional, have restored confidence in the prod- 

 uct. It is becoming noticeable that extract- 

 ed has a tendency to rise, while comb has 

 remained almost stationary for many years. 

 This fact has given considerable encourage- 

 ment to the production of extracted honey. 

 When we consider also that swarming is an 

 unsolved problem in the production of comb 

 honey, and an easy one in the production 

 of extracted, and that the hive and super 

 equipment is much simpler too, it is not at 

 all surprising that there should be a mark- 

 ed tendency toward the relatively cheaper 

 article that apparently yields a larger return 

 for the investment. 



THE M'EVOY or the FOUNDATION METHOD 



OF TREATMENT FOR BROOD DISEASES; 



"NOT A GREASE SPOT LEFT." 



Referring to our editorial on p. 509 Mr. 

 Wm. McEvoy, author of the McEvoy treat- 

 ment, writes: 



Friend Moot: — The foul-brood treatments are in 

 hot dispute these days, and it is amusing to see how 

 you went for mine in your editorial, Aug. 15. Scarce- 

 ly a grease spot of my treatment is left. In my treat- 

 ment of diseased apiaries in the Province I had the 

 brood saved in nearly every apiary until all hatch- 

 ed that would hatch, and from the brood in nearly 

 all apiaries I increased the number of colonies as 

 well as getting all cured. I also made a big success 

 of getting fine crops for the owners. In 1898 I cured 

 an apiary for .1. B. Hall, «f Woodstock, and saved 

 all the brood that would hatch, and gave him an 

 average of 144 sections of fine comb honey per colo- 

 ny, and his bees had plenty of stores to winter on, 

 and made a perfect cure of every colony. You put 

 It rather strong in claiming that my treatment " in 

 every case means the loss of a lot of good brood " — 

 the very thing I always saved. Wm. McEvoy. 



Woodburn, Ont,. Can., Aug. 22. 



It was not our purpose to discredit the Mc- 

 Evoy or any shaking-foundation treatment 

 for the cure of brood diseases. Our only 

 purpose was to draw attention to the fact 

 that the shaking plan ordinarlv involved 

 the loss of considerable brood; for in most 

 cases the bee-keeper burns up his brood- 

 combs, frames and all. While it is possible 

 to save a good deal of this brood by using 

 perforated metal, in our opinion the great 

 majority, fearing to take the risk of keeping 

 infected material in the apiary, burn it up 

 as soon as discovered. 



Referring to the shaking treatment, vari- 

 ously known as the McEvoy, Quinby, or 

 Jones method, we may say that it is 

 the orthodox method of cure, and until we 

 are absolutely sure of something better, it 

 is the one that foul-brood inspectors and the 

 average bee-keepers should employ. But in 

 spite of this standard treatment, foul brood, 

 both European and American, is spreading 

 in this country — no question about that. 



The Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 

 D. C, has enough evidence to prove that 

 beyond question. While it may be ques- 

 tionable policy to publish some of these new 

 treatments, we have done so simply for the 

 purpose of investigation; and 7/ we can dis- 

 cover a shorter or better plan, we ought to 

 do it. If a trade journal like our own were 

 to suppress any knowledge of possible cures 

 there would be danger of getting into a rut 

 and staying there. 



MOVING PICTURES FOR GLEANINGS; THE 



professor's READING-MACHINE AND 



THE " DONG-FELT WANT." 



The country is surfeited with literature. 

 Much of it is fair, most of it is poor, and 

 some of it good. We should like to read all 

 of the good, of course; but as one noted col- 

 lege professor once said, "Some enterpris- 

 ing Yankee ought to get up a reading-ma- 

 chine by means of which we could digest 

 quantities of literature which now we can 

 not even look at." While the professor's 

 scheme is impracticable, of course, yet the 

 facetious remark expresses a "long-felt 

 want ' ' for some rapid and quick means of 

 getting ideas without the long and labori- 

 ous process of digging them out word by 

 word and line by line from ordinary read- 

 ing-matter. 



Now, the editors of Gleanings hope, in 

 a great measure, to meet this demand by 

 giving every reader of these pages a chance 

 to see howMr. E. D. Townsend and some 

 other prominent bee-keepers do every thing 

 in their yards. In other words, we propose 

 to give our subscribers a chance to see these 

 men at work as they appear every day in 

 the midst of the hoiiey-flow. We propose 

 to give them a chance to see every step in 

 their manipulations from start to finish. 

 This will be shown by a series of moving 

 pictures — or, more exactly, a set of photos 

 showing each separate step. Each pose will 

 be numbered, with a proper line of reading 

 under each one. Thus it will be possible for 

 the reader to learn exactly how Mr. Town- 

 send works, almost at a mere glance. 



These pictures are going to cost us some- 

 thing; bv;t we believe the investment will 

 pay, because the world is full of busy peo- 

 ple who can not afford to take the time to 

 read long articles. Of course we shall pub- 

 lish our regular matter as heretofore; but we 

 will use these " moving pictures " to supple- 

 ment the rest of the journal. 



While in Michigan we caught Mr. Town- 

 send and his men in perhaps To different 

 poses. There are a lot of little "tricks of 

 the trade " that are shown by these snap- 

 shots. An expensive Graflex iXo camera 

 costing $150 was used to do this work; and 

 the reader can imagine, therefore, that 

 Gleanings has in store for him a treat. 



But this is not all. Arrangemenis have 

 been made wnth a number of prominent bee- 

 keepers to secure a series of photos like this, 

 and we are just about to take another trip 

 to secure another bunch of pictures. 



