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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



May 



just the right thing, in order that the bees 

 might come out as they did. I make this 

 broad statement, even at tlie very great risk 

 of being called conceited (and I\i hate aw- 

 fully to be called conceited), foi- just a little 

 success. Is it not a thing to be a little " in- 

 flated ■■ over, if you have wintered 200 colo- 

 nies without the loss of a single one V To 

 do it every season would be one of the '• line 

 arts,'" a]id I don't aspire to that : but I do 

 think, friends, that your success in winter- 

 ing, whether it is a favorable season or not, 

 is largely due to doing the hesl you know hoiv. 



LOTS OF BROOD, HUT NONK ■' FOUL."' 



We have had pretty fair weather for the 

 last week or ten days. The maple-bloom is 

 out, and the dandelions are showing their 

 gladsome facts here and there over the lawns 

 and through the apiary. As a consequence, 

 brood-rearing has commenced in real earnest 

 in all our colonies; and the downy yovmg 

 bees, so welcome in the spring, are" (rotting 

 the combs as the latter are pulled out and 

 examined to see whether they bear traces 

 of foul brood. For three weeks now we have 

 not had a sign nor a trace of foul biood, and 

 we really hope that'^A^e shall have little or no 

 more trouble from it. We think this result 

 is largely owing to the fact that the two first 

 colonies which had foul brood this spring 

 were totally destroyed, so that not a single 

 bee was allowed to escape and so get into 

 other colonies. This might have been done 

 by the staivation plan ; and although we 

 were entirely successful last summer in cur- 

 ing the colonies thcmselrcfi which were dis- 

 eased, we were not enabled to keep a few 

 stray bees from entering and propagating 

 the disease in neighboring hives. Our friend 

 D. A. Jones says there is"no need of letting 

 these bees get loose and spread the disease, 

 by the starvation plan. I presume not ; but 

 certain it is, that we did not succeed very 

 well last season. Perliaps we were careless. 

 At any rate, T think now if we had burned 

 our first case of foul brood, even to the last 

 bee, we should have had but little trouble. 



THAT s:\IOKER SAWDUST FUP;L. 



A few days ago Mr. S. told me that he had 

 just learned how to use that kind of sawdust 

 fuel so as to make it last and give good 

 smoke for foui- or five hours, without refill- 

 ing the smoker. Now, dear friends, if any 

 of you have tried to use this sawdust fuel as 

 I described in this department last year, on 

 page .S50, and failed, please keep oii trying 

 if you want to save a good many hours' time. 



OUR STV^AMP APIARY. 



As it would be hardly safe or wise to fill 

 orders from our home ai)iary, althougli we 

 are beginning to believe foul brood is cured, 

 we thought best to locate another apiary. 

 We have accordingly selected our peat 

 swamp. Ten colonies purchased of an A B 

 (' scholar are already there, and we are ex- 

 pecting a couple more loads of bees from 

 friends Rice and Shook, of Seville, some 10 

 miles from Medina. Orders for bees and 

 queens will be tilled from the "Swamp 

 Apiary "^ and from Neighbor H.'s two api- 

 aries. Our fi"iends will not, therefore, need 

 to fear foul brood if they purchase of us. 



Gleanincs in Bee Cclture, 



Published Senii-Mo»thli/. 



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.\NOTHEl{ CANADIAN BEE-.TOURNAL. 



Thkee numbers of the CanacUnti Huncy-Producer, 

 by our old friends E. L. Goold & Co., Brantford, 

 Out., Can., are at hand. The journal is well gotten 

 up, anil the matter is valuable -certainly worth 

 more than 40 cts., the price asked, to any one who 

 has time for more reading-. The only thing that 

 troubles me is, nill the i)copleof Canada support an- 

 other bec-journar:' It seems sad to me to think of the - 

 number that have been started in the United 

 States, only to live a few months or a few years. 

 These ,it)urnals all seem to be worth all the money 

 asked tor them; but the field for periodicals, es- 

 pecially class journals, is constantly overworked. 



ECHiNOFS sph.i-;kocephalus. 

 A WHITER in the Brilish Bee Journal of April 14th 

 does not speak very favorably of the Chapman 

 honey-plant. He says that it is grown in England 

 as an ornamental shrub, is easily cultivated, and in 

 any well-ordered garden it can be kept within 

 bounds. It would seem that the plant in England is 

 liable to spread and make trouble. The same writer 

 says, further, " We do not recommend its extensive 

 cultivation, for it is useless as a fodder- plant, 

 and we doubt if it will answer to grow for honey 

 alone." By the way, have any of the friends ever 

 tried putting- a paper sack over a common thistle to 

 see if it would secrete nectar enough during the 

 period in which it was covered by the sack (24 to 48 

 hours) to be almost dripping with the raw honey, as 

 is the case with the Chapman honey-plant ? 



PRACTICAIi TURKEY-RAISING. 



The above is the title of a very neat, pretty little 

 work giving- full and complete directions for rais- 

 ing tiii-keys. It is written tiy no other than the 

 well-known writer on poultry, Fanny Field. We 

 have not had time to re^■iew it thoroughly; but 

 from turning over the leaves and reatling- here and 

 there a paragraph, we feel sure that it is just about 

 the thing for those who contemplate or who do 

 make a business o)' raising- this savory product for 

 Thanksgiving dinneis. The author has had great 

 success In all departments of ponltry-raising, and 

 is well know as a practical writer among those who 

 are interested in fowls. In turning over the first 

 few pages, we find discussed, " Will it Pay? " "Tur- 



