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CHICAGO, ILL,. JUNE 22, 1905 



VoL XLV— No. 25 



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Hive-Ventilation During Harvest 



A good many bee-keepers prob;ibly fail to 

 get the benefit they might have from a suffi- 

 cient amount of hiye-ventilation during the 

 lime bees are storing. In many cases the 

 hive-entrance is the same in July as it was in 

 March. In March a strong colony may do 

 with not more than one square inch for its 

 entrance; but ten times that amount will be 

 better when the harvest comes, partly because 

 of the greater strength of the colony, and 

 partly because of the greater heat of the sur- 

 rounding atmosphere. 



Those who run their bees for comb honey 

 have perhaps no successful plan for giving 

 ventilation except at the bottom of the hive, 

 either by a large entrance or by raising the 

 hive on blocks at each corner. But in run- 

 ning for extracted honey one need not be so 

 careful where the cool air strikes, and can 

 have an opening at the roof, perhaps by hav- 

 ing the cover shoved forward so as to leave a 

 space of ?4 inch or more. That allows a pas- 

 sage ot air clear through the hive. No need 

 to worry if rain should beat into such an 

 opening. Thii abundant ventilation will 

 make the bees more comfortable, and in some 

 cases — indeed, in many cases — may be the 

 means of preventing swarming. 



Probably not a few who read these lines 

 would be the gainers to go at once and give 

 the air a better chance to get into their hives. 

 If fearful of the effect ot too much fresh air, 

 try it on a few colonies at least. 



Foul Brood and Extracted Honey 



In an article iu the Bee-Keepers' Review, 

 Elmer Todd sayf ; 



The principal causes why foul brood spreads 

 faster in an extracting apiary, is due to ex- 

 tracting from combs containing brood, some 

 of which is, oci-asioaally, diseased, and then 



transferring such combs to healthy colonies. 

 With such management, the extractor also 

 becomes a source of contagion, and might 

 disease a whole apiary it it were not cleaned 

 after extracting, even one set ot combs con- 

 taining brood taken from a diseased colony. 



But he has learned from experience that by 

 using proper precautions, even in a badly in- 

 fected district, one may work just as safely 

 for extracted as for comb honey; and he 

 gives the following instructions: 



Use a queen-excluding zinc between the 

 uppbr and lower stories, thus confining the 

 queen below, and extract from no comb from 

 the lower story, or from any comb containing 

 brood ; also be careful, when filling the upper 

 story for extracting, to use no combs taken 

 from diseased or dead colonies, such as may 

 contain the dried-down scales of the diseased. 

 Do this, and foul brood can be as easily con- 

 trolled as though the apiary were managed 

 for cocnb honey. 



Commenting on the article, Editor Hutch- 

 inson quotes Wm. McEvoy as saying repeat- 

 edly that clean, white combs from the super — 

 combs that had never contained brood — were 

 perfectly sate to use when emptied of honey 

 and cleaned by the bees, and concludes by 

 saying : 



Once we thought it necessary to burn up 

 hives, bees, combs and honey — then, grad- 

 ually, we began to learn to save first one 

 thing, then another, and that honey in the 

 supers is not contanlmated may be the next 

 thing we will learn. 



Doolittle and Pratt on Queen-Rearing 



At a meeting of the British Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, reported in the British Bee .Jour- 

 nal, Mr. F. W. L. Sladen, after giving an out- 

 line ot the " liwarthmore " process of queen- 

 rearing, and giving Mr. Pratt credit for doing 

 a good service to queen-rearing by introduc- 

 ing queen eel. e mounted in wooden cups, re- 

 lated a comparison he had made, as follows ; 



In July and August last year I carefully 

 compared Fratt*s method of rearing the 



