FKlilUARV. 1910 



a L E A N T N S IN BEE CULTURE 



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HEADS OF GRAI?ni?PqQ(rD^FFMENTJ^ 



kooping eureor I spent two years with a man 

 of world-wide reputation. His system of 

 curing American foul brood was to move 

 the colony with diseased cells to an out- 

 apiary, called a hospital, and there cut out 

 the cells as Mr. Kight advises. He never 

 was free from disease during my stay with 

 him. In some cases this treatment might be 

 the means of curing the disease, in others 

 it might not. 



In another instance, I knew of 100 colo- 

 nies of bees gaining access to a tank of 

 diseased honey in the autumn after breed- 

 ing had ceased. Following my advice, the 

 owner examined the colonies frequently in 

 the spring, and, whenever ho found a cell 

 of American foul brood, he cut it out and 

 kept on w'atching to prevent the disease get- 

 ting a start. Yet under even such favorable 

 conditions as these, the beekeeper did not 

 succeed in eradicating the disease by this 

 method- 



The trouble is, one rarely knows when 

 and how the germs have been brought in. 

 My practice has been to destroy every 

 source of infection, and, whenever I have 

 found the disease in one or two colonies in 

 a large apiary of 100 or more, the bees have 

 been brimstoned, the combs burned, and the 

 hives disinfected. E. F. Holtermann. 



Brantford, Ont. 



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On a Roof in This snap-shot shows 



Detroit. one colony of bees on 



the roof above my 

 home near the large Liberty (air-plane) 

 Motor Co. I saw this was a good location, 

 since the flight of the bees would be clear 

 above the street traffic, and there is an 

 abundance of flora in the adjacent fields. 

 So I sent away for a colony. The hive ar- 

 rived all right except for a couj^le of 



Beekecpiiii; on a roof in Detroit. 



broken end-bars and a slight tear in the 

 screen which let a few bees out. With the 

 assistance of the neighbors I hoisted the 

 colony to the roof by means of the clothes- 

 line. At first I feared for the bees on ac- 

 count of the wet and cold, and also insuffi- 



cient stores; but dandelions, followed by 

 fruit bloom,' saved them. They- swarmed 

 once, but I did not lose either the queen or 

 the bees; and after I had cut out queen-cells 

 and given ventilation they gave up swarm- 

 ing. They gathered about 110 pounds of 

 surplus honey, mostly from white clover. 

 In August, from sweet clover and wild 

 flowers, they brought in enough for winter. 

 I packed the hive in a box, surrounding it 

 with newspapers and furniture packing, and 

 placed it near a corner brick wall which 

 serves; as a windbreak. 



Detroit, Mich. Scott Mizenes. 



A coioiiy of Italian bees that built tlipir honie in the 

 open in Posey County, Ind. It was suspended 

 among grapevines and harseweeds, and wa.s half 

 as large as a full-sized barrel. On Dec. -22, 1918, 

 when this colony was put in winter quarters, it was 

 vory strong and had 50 lbs. of honey. 



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Big Results from Tliis spring I started 



Three Colonies. with three colonies. 



Six queens were order- 

 ed from the South to be shipped May 10. 

 Before arrival one colony swarmed. Upon 

 receipt of the queens the parent colony, as 

 well as the two other colonies, was divided 

 into three parts each. This gave me "the 

 makings" of 10 colonies. Later another 

 queen (not ordered) was received. So I 

 robbed nuclei to start a nucleus. This gave 

 me eleven ' ' makings. ' ' All colonies are in 

 ten-frame hives. I had no combs excepting 

 those in the three original brood-chambers, 

 they having been run for comb honey; but 

 I used full sheets of foundation upstairs and 



