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GLEANINGS 



BEE CULTURE 



September. 1919 



HEADS "OF GRAINl PPQRiQ rDIFFERENT FIELDS 



Entrance-guard for 

 Prevention of 

 Robbing. 



The accompanying 

 sketch of au entrance- 

 guard is like one made 

 for me by an Italian 

 friend, who kept bees for several years in 

 Italy. He says that such entrance-guards 

 were always used by beekeepers in the lo- 



This entrance-guard for prevention of roliliin<; ex- 

 tends clear across the hive. The wires are % ineli 

 apart. 



cality from which he came, and that they 

 were of great value in preventing robbing. 

 As T have never seen them mentioned in 

 books nor in bee journals, I would like your 

 ojjinion. Frank E. Huff. 



Chicago, 111. 



[This is of interest, altho we believe as 

 good or better results could be obtained by 

 throwing grass loosely over the entrance and 

 dampening it with water. — Editor.] 



Ql= 



Short Cuts in Amerl- I have had a great 

 can Foul-brood. deal of experience 



Treatment. with American foul 



brood, both in my own 

 apiaries and as a bee inspector. It might 

 be said that, to a considerable extent, I have 

 made a business of curing foul brood, as I 



have bought a number of apiaries that were 

 badly diseased and have always been ready 

 to buy any remnant of an apiary, provided 

 the price was such that I could see any profit 

 in it. In this way I have had an excellent 

 opportunity to see how expensive it often is 

 to try to save a little brood or a few combs. 

 While I am not afraid of the disease, I have 

 a wholesome respect for it and regret that 

 soine people believe it an easy and simple 

 matter to control foul brood. 



I have tried practically everj- method for 

 the cure of American foul brood that has 

 been jiroposed for the past thirty years. 

 I have had some success with some of 

 these short methods. I have even been 

 guilty of recommending in the pages of 

 Gleanings at least one of these methods, 

 for which I am heartily sorry. The fault 

 with all of the short cuts is that they 

 are not sure cures, and in the long run it 

 does not pay to use methods that may not 

 only require that you do all your work over 

 again, but perhaps a whole lot more in addi- 

 tion. In a very large proportion of cases 

 the disease will break out again, even tho 

 for a time, perhaps for several months, or a 

 whole season, the colony will appear to be 

 cured. All who are familiar with American 

 foul brood know that when once an apiary 

 is infected to the extent that there has 

 been a considerable amount of robbing of 

 diseased colonies, it frequently requires sev- 

 eral years of the most careful work to get 



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