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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 9, 1903. 



nese went right on. It my bees ever have foul 

 brood I want every bee-keeper to know it ; the 

 public is interested in all infectious diseases; 

 it has to take its chances of suffering from 

 such diseases; it has to stand the cost of 

 stamping them out, and certiiinly it has the 

 right to be in possession of all available 

 knowledge touching such diseases in the 

 country. Let's have light. 



That Mr. McEvoy worked out— discovered 

 — the best remedy for that dread disease 

 known in this country—that be is probably 

 the best man among us to undertake the woi;k 

 practically alohe, very likely no one will deny. 



Ontario, Canada. S. T. Pettit. 



Making "Good" Candy, Etc. 



The answer to "Ontario," on page 13S, in 

 regard to making " Good " candy can be very 

 much improved, to-wit; 



Take raw extracted honey and stir into it 

 as much finely powered cane-sugar as you 

 may find convenient; and then on a sheet of 

 tin, zinc, or something similar— not porous — 

 work in some sugar of the same kind, knead- 

 ing the mass as you would bread, and when 

 you can't knead very readily any more sugar 

 into the " dough," take a hammer and pound 

 in more. Beat in more sugar very much like 

 we old pioneers used to beat the clay to make 

 the jambs of a fireplace, when we could get 

 no bricks. It is advisable to use uiihj eaiie- 

 nugar. I have never been able to make a 

 good article from the other sugars, and it 

 should be free from ultramarine, and as fine 

 as flour. Confectioners' sugar is fine enough, 

 but it is HO good at all for good "Good" 

 candy. 



Made as above directed this candy will keep 

 indefinitely, even in our dry Colorado climate. 



The past season I used candy thus made 

 that was 7 years old. It had been kept in a 

 tin can, with a cover tight enough to keep 

 out red ants. 



Candy made by the recipe given on page 

 138, may do very well for shipping queens a 

 short distance— and the shorter the better — 

 but it is not only convenient, but quite neces- 

 sary, to have better candy for long distances. 



When I have been unable to get sugar free 

 from ultramarine and other impurities, it has 

 been my practice to boil, adding a very little 

 water, and skim off the scum that will arise 

 from the boiling, then stir while cooling as 

 long as I can — the longer the better; after 

 cooling it should be solid — break it up and 

 run through a common coffee-mill, and more 

 than once, until it is as fine as Hour. It the 

 honey you used is warm, and the weather 

 warm, and you do the work in a warm room, 

 you will do better work and save time, but do 

 not boil it. 



J. E. Chambers (pages 142-8) has evidently 

 thoroughly tested Carniolan bees, and talks 

 straight to the point. I have handled them 

 10 years. They are all right, either North or 

 South, it appears. James H. Wing. 



Prowers Co., Colo., March .=>. 



An Experience witli Bees. 



About 2 years ago I became very much in- 

 terested in tjees, but last season in our section 

 (and I think it was the same in most States) 

 was enough to discourage almost any one who 

 keeps bees, as the season was so wet that the 

 bees could work only about 2 days in a week, 

 and then the days of bad weather would come 

 and they would eat what they had gathered 

 during the pleasant days; and when tall came 

 I found many of them nearly destitute of 

 stores; but I fed them sugar syrup whenever 

 a pleasant day came, but snow came before I 

 could feed them enough to carry them through 

 the winter, and so I put them into the cellar 

 as they were — 36 in number — about Xov. 1.5, 

 and as I live in a very snowy country we have 

 to leave our bees in until about April 15, 

 making about 5 months that they are confined 

 to the cellar, without having a flight. We 

 have over 4 feet of snow here on a level now ; 

 it generally stays until about April 1, at which 

 time the weather warms up, and the snow 

 will usually all be gone about April 15, and 

 then the bees increase very rapidly when 

 placed out. 



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 practical in every issue, especially the ques- 

 tions that Dr. Miller answers. 



I will give a little experience that I had 

 with a red clover queen that I received last 

 summer. I expected the queen about July 1, 

 but it was August 1 when I received her, and 

 as I had never introduced a queen I took 6 

 frames filled with brood and some honey, and 

 placed them in an empty hive, brushing every 

 bee off (they were hybrid bees), and closed 

 the new hive; and the next morning there 

 were several ijees hatched out of the brood 

 and then I placed the new queen in the hive. 

 I think she was the smallest queen I ever saw, 

 not being any larger than my bees, but she be- 

 ing yellow could easily be distinguished, as 

 my bees are nearly black, and so I watched 

 the hive very closely. In about 30 days the 

 bees that came from the hive were about }i of 

 them the same color as the queen, and by fall 

 there was not one of my bees left in the hive, 

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 suppose to be red clover bees, but they had 

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I usually look at my bees once a week, to 

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 above hive I found the colony had died ('.) for 

 want of food, which made me feel very badly. 

 I took out some of the frames and shook the 

 dead bees off on the lloor in search of the 

 queen, and soon found her dead as the rest. 

 I brought her up to show her to my wife, lay- 

 ing the queen on a small piece of paper on 

 the imck of the stove, and iu aljout 10 minutes 

 I looked at her again and she was crawling 

 around, to my surprise. I then went down 

 and brought up the hive and bees, and put it 

 on the back of the stove, where it was real 

 warm, and, to my surprise, the bees all came 

 to life. I at once made some sugar candy for 

 them, and they are doing finely now, queen 

 and all. F. E. Castle. 



Oneida Co., N. Y., Feb ;3a. 



Curing Foul Brood in Texas. 



I noticed an article on pages 796 and 797, 

 entitled, " Bee-Keeping in the Southwest— 

 Cleome and Foul Brood." As no one else 

 seems to do so I will try to help our friend 

 out. As for Cleome, I don't know that I can 

 do him any good; it is a good honey-plant, 

 but I do not think it of value as chicken-feed. 



As for foul brood making its appearance in 

 Texas last year, our friend is mistaken; it was 

 here when I began bee-keeping 9 years ago, 

 and when I began to learn something about 

 bees, I found out that my bees were in bad 

 shape with the disease, and I set to work for 

 a cure. I consulted my "ABC of Bee-Cul- 

 ture," and there found a plan and tried it, 

 but in some cases it failed. About this time I 

 got a copy of Dr. Howards' foul brood 

 pamphlet (which our friend should get), and 

 tried the McEvoy treatment, and got out of 

 trouble. Since that time (which was about 4 

 years ago) my bees have been healthy, and in 

 fine shape. 



I have also done considerable work treating 

 foul brood for my neighljors, and the plan I 

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