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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 21, 1900. 



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 One boy can do the work of two persons, and 

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Directions.— The Tool Is fas- 

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For grinding Koand - Edge 

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to be hampered with the address on the 

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 in the Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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is one of the most charming summer 

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Its healthful location, beautiful 

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Cement=Coatrng Nails.— The outfit 

 required for preparing the nails is an 

 old frying or stew pan and a little 

 rosin. Place the pan containing the 

 nails on the fire ; stir them to get 

 evenly heated. Try a few at first. 

 Have a little powdered rosin, say one 

 tablespoonful to a pound of nails. 

 When the nails begin to turn blue re- 

 move from the fire and immediately 

 sift the rosin over the nails, stirring 

 till all are smeared with the molten 

 rosin. Now turn them out on a bench 

 or board and spread out thin. You now 

 have the genuine (so-called) cement- 

 coated nails. One pound of rosin is 

 sufficient to coat 100 pounds of nails. 

 Will some brother bee-keeper tell us 

 how he succeeds with this method ? — 

 H. M. Jameson, in the American Bee- 

 Keeper. 



Black Brood in New York. — It seems 

 that this disease is breaking out again 

 in the Empire State, for I hear of its 

 having started up in several localities. 

 The following letter will show that the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, in whose 

 hands rests the responsibility and the 

 the power, largely, to eradicate this dis- 

 ease, is very much interested, and is 

 doing and will do all he can to stem 

 the tide of its ravages : 



Mr. Root:— I will explain here that last sea- 

 son Mr. West was appointed bee-inspector until 

 a civil-service examination was held, which oc- 

 curred Julv 2'>. He past at 95.2; I at 94.2, and 

 W. D. Wright at 93.0, while M. Stevens stood 85. 

 (I THINK these figures are correct.) Mr. Stev- 

 ens, beinp a veteran, too1< precedence over all of 

 us, and Mr. West was also appointed. 



These inspectors did some very effective 

 worli; but the diseased territory was too large 

 to be thoroly inspected without more help, so 

 W. D. Wright and I were appointed by the New 

 Y'ork State Agricultural Commissioner, and 

 ordered to report at the commissioner's office at 

 Albanv for work May 1. We accordingly met 

 Mr. Stevens and Mr. West at that time, and 

 spent two days in consultation with the State 

 officials (who, bv the way, were very kind and 

 courteous to us), as to how the State should be 

 divided, and ways and methods, etc. 



I think it would be well to announce the terri- 

 tory assigned to each inspector, and I enclose a 

 list of alphabetically arranged counties in each 

 inspector's division. All communications in re- 

 gard to diseased bees should be sent to the in- 

 spector in whose division the bees are located. 



May 4, 1900. Chas. Stewart. 



In this connection perhaps it may be 

 well to state that extracted honey from 

 colonies affected with black brood 

 ought to be boiled at least one hour to 

 be safe. Hives should be scalded or 

 burned out, and bee-keepers in the in- 

 fected regions would do well not to ex- 

 change combs. Tools, smokers, bee- 

 gloves, bee-veils, bee-hats, and even 

 the clothing that is used around dis- 

 eased colonies, should be disinfected 

 before working on healthy ones. It 

 should be remembered that both foul 

 brood and black brood are very conta- 

 gious, and the inspectors of the State 

 will do well to urge every precaution. 



The most serious difficulty to be en- 

 countered will be ignorance as to the 

 nature of this contagious disease ", for 

 I learned while in New York that a 

 few bee-keepers who had black brood 

 in the apiary, and knew they had it, 

 took no precaution about exchanging 

 combs, did not wash the hands, much 

 less disinfect smokers or clothing, be- 



