SEPTEMBER 15. lOlfi 



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Dr. C. C. Miller 



ITMAY STEAWS I Mare„go,,... 



r. C. Chadwick giver- a plan 

 for (ransferring, page 616, that 

 souiuls excellent, and I'm not sure 

 I ever heard of it before. But lie 

 doesn't say what he does with the 

 old eouibs thai in three weeks 

 would be filled with honey. 



A. I. Root, I'm interested in your work 

 with hand cultivator, p. 599. I'm having 

 lots of fun cultivating my roses and gladioli 

 with a wheel-hoe. And to think I've lived 

 till now without ever knowing how much 

 easier it was than a common hoe! 



Fooled again ! When the cold and wet 

 kept bees indoors I thought when bright 

 days came again they might do a rushing 

 business, since clover bloom was still abun- 

 dant. Didn't work that way; and although 

 clover is still booming, 1915 may as well be 

 set doAvn as a rather ]3oor year. [The same 

 in our locality. The clovers were out in 

 bloom the loth of August, but they do not 

 yield honey now, the 23d.— Ed.] 



I WANT to say amen to J. L. Byer's note 

 of warning to beginners, p. 704, about the 

 danger of letting bees run short on stores 

 early in the season. If it goes to the point 

 of having the bees destroy brood, the 

 ruinous results are far beyond what one 

 would estimate. I had one case this year, 

 and the colony was many weeks recovering. 

 In fact, it was practically ruined as a 

 honey-storer. It would have paid well to 

 feed at a dollar a pound. 



P. C. Chadwick thinks it a bad thing to 

 have in spring two to four brood and pollen 

 each side, p. 525. I've often wondered 

 about that. But I haven't dared to inter- 

 fere with it, for that's the regular thing; 

 and when the bees make a rule to do a cer- 

 tain way, isn't there some .good reason for 

 it ? A common thing is to find pollen on 

 the inside of a comb and young brood out- 

 side; and then in an incredibly short time 

 I he ]ioll(Mi disajipcars. May be that's the 

 best — possibly like having dinner all on the 

 table instead of upstairs or down cellar. 



Ai.iiEN Latham writes: " Foul brood has 

 been very bad here this year, and the cag- 

 ing of the queen has failed in many in- 

 stances. I think that will work only when 

 new honey is coming in. All colonies are 

 -retting cured, now that the honey-flow is 

 in progress." 1 suppose he means Euro- 

 pean foul brood. A flow is very helptul in 

 treatment — even a cure in some mild ca.ses; 



but 1 think I've had caging a success in a 

 dearth. [European foul brood is undoubt- 

 edly meant; for Mr. Latham is not a bee- 

 keeper who would claim that caging would 

 cure American foul brood. This only illus- 

 trates the importance of specifying which 

 type of foul brood is meant. Will our cor- 

 respondents please be specific?] 



One op the haidest things I've had to 

 learn (I'm still learning it) is that every- 

 tliing al)out beekeeping all over the world 

 isn't exactly the same as right here at Ma- 

 rengo, 111. In a British Columbia bulletin 

 written by our wide-awake friend F. Dun- 

 das Todd, he says British Columbia differs 

 from almost the whole world in having a 

 spring-building-up season four months long. 

 Clover be.gins to bloom in May, but appar- 

 ently nectar is not secreted until June is 

 past. So with plans that fitted in Ontario, 

 beekeeping was a flat failure; with different 

 plans, fine yields are obtained. [If you 

 traveled all over the country as much as 

 we do, from one -end to the other, from 

 the extreme east to the extreme west, 

 and from the extreme south to the extreme 

 north, you would have it pounded into you 

 pretty thoroughly that there is a veiy mark- 

 ed difference in localities, and that locality 

 explains differences when one knows the 

 exact conditions. Many of those who criti- 

 cise the late E. W. Alexander's methods 

 would be less inclined to do so if they knew 

 the conditions surrounding his locality. — 

 En.] 



J. L. Byer, you have my hearty thanks 

 for entering a protest, p. 617, against the 

 thing that so constantly vexes my soul, the 

 talking about foul brood without saying 

 whether it's American or European. I have 

 my opinion of any editor who will allow 

 anything of that kind to get into print. [If 

 you were an editor you would, perhaps, 

 realize better than you now do the futility 

 of trying to make every correspondent 

 make a direct distinction between the two 

 kinds of diseases. We admit that, as the 

 modes of treatment are different, it is very 

 im]iortant to know what the writer is talk- 

 ing about. We should appreciate it if all 

 our old correspondents, at least, would be 

 careful to prefix the proper adjective, 

 " American " or " European," when they 

 speak of foul brood. — Ed.] 



OoT all kinds of foul brood now. After 

 hovering about within 12 miles the past 

 three or four years, American foul brood 

 has finally concluded to jiay me a visit. 



