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(iJ.EANlNGS l.N BEE CULTURE. 



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A DISEASE OF THE BUOOD THAT IS NOT FOUt, 

 BKOOD. 



1 have harl two cases of diseased lirood, as described 

 liy Milton Hewitt, on page 699. One colony died 

 last winter, and the other seems to have been cured 

 1).\- a change of queen. There was no smell what- 

 ever. The brood seemed to shrivel up, dry, and be 

 lemoved by the bees. A frame of bi-ood, with 

 scaled queen cell, and adhering- bees, taken from 

 the diseased colouy, and given to a queenless col- 

 ony, did not carry the disease with it. Both col- 

 onies were blacks. On page 501 of A. li. J. for 1?83, 

 Mr. H. L. Jeffrey describes a very similar disease, 

 under the name of "Desiccated Foul Brood." He 

 states the disease to be contagious, and much to be 

 dreaded. Perhaps he can gi\'e us further light on 

 this question. 



The editorial in regard to deep and heavy foun- 

 dation, vs. shallow and light, leads in the right di- 

 rection. Hereafter I shall use no foundation in the 

 brood-chamber heavier than eight square feet to 

 the pound. My e.vperiments with foundation during 

 the past two seasons lead me to agree with Messrs. 

 Doolittle and Hutchinson, that "it doesn't always 

 pay," when producing comb honey. Still, I am 

 loth to accept any less perfect work than we get by 

 using the full wired sheets of foundation. 



Mr. Doolittle, I see, has " locked horns " with Mr. 

 Heddon on the question of preventing after- 

 .«warms. I must have gotten the "hang" of the 

 Heddon method, for it works successfully with me, 

 and I can certainly Ho more tolerate the improve- 

 ments (?) suggested by Mr. Doolittle than I can the 

 use of the cumbersome chaff hives. Is not Mr. 

 Doolltttles cause of failure given in his last para- 

 grapli on i)age 700. where he says, "When I could 

 Ik' on hand, etc."? 



It is indeed true, that Mr. Heddon has a system 

 "all his own," and withal so perfect a one that no 

 progressive bee-keeper who becomes familiar with 

 its details will practice any other. 



How to secure the nectar secreted within reach 

 of his apiary with the least possible expenditure of 

 liibor and capital, is the problem that Mr. H. is try- 

 ing to solve; and all his flxturcs, methods, and 

 writings tend to its solution. They should be crit- 

 icised from the standpoint of the specialist only. 



The veteran bee keeper of 15 or 20 years' experi- 

 ence is very apt to become prejudiced and wedded 

 to his own peculiar fixtures and management, and 

 so often views with disfavor the innovations and 

 improvements of this progressive age that we often 

 prefer the judgment of the enterprising apiarist of 

 four or five years' standing to that of the life-time 

 bee-keeper. Dwight Furness. 



Furnessville, Ind., Oct. 18, 188.5. 



is it a fiist-cla.ss good stout wheelbarrow, 

 but when the snow comes (and you know it 

 is coming soon) the Iiandles can "be unscrew- 

 ed, the wheel taken off, a pair of runners put 

 on, and — hurrah boys I ain't that a daisy 

 sleigh? You will see how it is by the pic- 

 tures below. 



SOMETHING FOR THE JUVENILE BEE- 

 KEEPERS. 



A SLEIGH AND WHEEl.UAKKOW ALL IN ONE. 



I'H entennising friends who maunfac- 

 ture tlie •' Bee-keeper's wheelbarrow,'' 

 of whidi we have sold so many, have 

 finally remembered the small people 

 usually found around bee - keepers' 

 homes, and they make us a gas-pipe wheel- 

 barrow, all iron except the box, on ihe same 

 plan of their large wbeejb^rrows. Not only 



THE SAME, CONVERTED INTO A SLEIGH. 



You will notice that the runners are all of 

 iron, and the sleigh stands up so high that it 

 will go through deep snow, if need be : and 

 when you are riding down hill you sit nj) 

 like a'man. instead of being down nearly 

 level with the ground. We use a wheel- 

 barrow here at home a good deal to go to the 

 postoffice : and when there comes a big snow 

 the wh.eelbarrow has to be stowed away 

 somewhere, and the sleigh be got down. 

 Now, with this arraugcement we can have 

 them all in one. If there is sleighing, you 

 are all right; and if there comes a muddy 

 time in winter, you are all right. I don't 

 know how long it takes to make the change, 

 but I presume not very long. 



May be you would like to know what this 

 nice little "implement costs. Well, the price 

 for the wheelbarrow alone, without any 

 sleigh attachment, will be SI. 50; with run"- 

 ners added, 2-3 cts. more. For an order of - 

 at once. 10 per cent off ; o or more at one 

 lime, lo per cent off. Tens or himdreds 

 rates given on application. The handles are 

 of gas-pipe, i inch inside. The weight of 

 the whole complete, is only 9 lbs. 



In regard to the use of such a tool, it 

 seems to me that it ought to be a paying in- 

 vestment in any family where there are 

 small boys; for a" boy only 2i years old can do 

 considerable marketing, and carry a pretty 

 fair load with a little cart or wheelbarrow". 

 You see, we know about tliis at our house, 

 foriIid)er does quite a good many errands 

 wit!) his cart and wheelbarrow. Only day 

 before yesterday he was sent for coal oil, and 

 brought it back all right, and probably did 

 it just as well as a man or woman could have 

 done it. He w ill cai ry cpiite a load of ap- 

 ples, turnips, sugar, or whatever else maybe 

 wanted ; and while it is the tallest kind of 

 fini for him, it saves his mamma a good 

 many weary steps, 



