GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Atwater's home-made wax-press. 



ens the bar. The frame I use has a top-bar 

 iVs wide by % deep, and no saw-cut. There 

 are nearly 10,000 extracting-frames in use, 

 and only once in a very long while, when 

 the wood is cross-grained, can a sagging 

 top-bar be found. This top-bar gives me 

 one row of cells to each frame more than 

 the % top-bar. Next, I get the use of one 

 more cell of comb foundation to each sheet, 

 which, in 1000 frames, is quite an item. 



The illustration shows our method of put- 

 ting in brood foundation. Upon a long 

 board are put three smaller boards that just 

 slip inside the Langstroth frame, and are 

 of a thickness that, when the frame is slip- 

 ped over this smaller board, a sheet of 

 foundation upon this smaller board rests on 

 its upper edge against the center of the top- 

 bar. 



A rubber bulb and glass tube is used to 

 take up the melted resinous wax (by guess 

 one-third resin and two-thirds wax), and 

 this tube is run along the top-bar to fasten 

 the foundation as shown in the illustration. 

 The under board is moistened by means of 

 a sponge to keep melted wax on the sheet 

 from sticking. 



Brantford, Canada. 



VARIOUS METHODS OF TREATING AMERICAN 

 FOUL BROOD 



Rendering Wax Economically from Old Combs 



BY E. P. ATWATER 



The beekeeper who produces extracted 

 honey in a foul-broody locality need not 

 abandon its production for that of comb 

 honey. Some very extensive j^rodueers of 

 extracted honey are continually confronted 

 with the disease, largely as a result of the 

 carelessness or ignorance of the small bee- 

 keepers and box-hive men near by. One 

 man of my acquaintance even thinks it is 

 easier to control the disease when produc- 

 ing extracted lioney than when producing 

 comb honey. 



In the line of equipment one needs al- 

 ways an ample supply of extra hives, 

 frames, and foundation, to cope with any 

 emergency ; a bee-tight room, a steam-boiler 

 not too small ; two powerful wax-presses as 

 shown in the illustration, and a few barrels 

 or galvanized tanks. The bees must be ex- 

 amined in early spring; and any that are 

 badly diseased should be sulphured, and the 

 hives securely closed and stored where no 

 bees can enter. Colonies having but little 

 disease must have the entrances contracted 



