SKl'TKMHKK 1, 1915 



709 



Completely equipped hoiiey-hoiise of B. N. Alien, Binningham, Ala. 



will reappear. In the same way, a heavy 

 !ioney-flow will cover up the infected mate- 

 rial; but when this honey is consumed, and 

 the bees get down to the old original stores 

 that were left, foul brood will break out 

 again. In some cases, doubtle&s, the prun- 

 ing cure will be complete; but j-ou can 

 never tell. Some day it may break out 

 again, perhaps a year or so hence. Of 

 course, thcii^ are objections to shaking, 

 chief of which is the cost, the loss of brood, 

 and the destruction of otherwise good 

 combs. By slacking up you saved the 

 brood but you didn't save the combs. Well, 



wlieu the disease bi'oke out again, and the 

 iiives had been shaken, you probably did 

 the correct thing to prune it out; but you 

 would do well to set those " pruned " col- 

 onies in some isolated location, and watch 

 them closely next year when the stores are 

 [tretty well eaten down. 



In this connection, during the honey-llow 

 combs should never be shaken. They should 

 be brushed with long grass or weeds. Tliesc 

 e.\tcmj)orized brushes should then be burned 

 or buried. The c(unb.s may then be stacked 

 \\\) ov hiniu'd. - Ki). ] 



THE HIGH COST OF LABOR, AND SOME OBSERVATIONS BY THE WAY 



BY L. W. BF.NSEN 



1 am wondering who could alford to pay 

 Hve dollars a day for a hired man to work 

 with bees alone. 1 am a hired man myself, 

 aiul T am satisfied with two dollars a day 

 the year round. I have worked for several 

 years in different states. All my employers 

 jtaid what they could afford, and in every 

 case 1 had a home and the work was a 

 pleasure. They furnished me go<;d board, 



and an automobile, to I'ide to outyards. 

 'everything needed was handy. 



If the owner is to pay five dollars a day 

 for lalxir, what is he to make? If T cannot 

 make two dollars for the man I work for, 

 i would rather quit anil give him a ciiaiice 

 to get a b'.'tler man. I have bound wlieat at 

 a dolhir a day — haril work, but no harder 

 than taking olf honey. To work the year 



