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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 5, 1905 



nie why. Under our accepted treatments— we call it the 

 ..^cEvoy treatment — you can save your bees in a great many 

 cases. If you go to the Legislature and say, "We can save 

 our bees, but there is a big loss there, and we want to pay 

 the bee-keepers for it." they won't understand it. If you save 

 your hives and bees they can't see where there is much loss 

 at all : and the duty of the inspector is to help you, and give 

 you a money value, of course, in helping you to eradicate 

 the disease and to save your bees and hives. Consequently, 

 they would not give any compensating clause in any law to 

 that effect. I made a minute of every case, and I can tell 

 you the names, number of colonies they have, and the number 

 of hives infected, and what I said. It would take a month 

 if I would attempt to cover that ground. 



Pres. York — Did the foul-brood inspector visit all the 

 bee-keepe'rs in this (Cook) County? 



Mr. jMoore — Not by any means. In Cook County we 

 have from 3.50 to 400 bee-keepers, and my total visits were 

 125 or 135 calls. 



Mr. Wheeler — Did you do any work in helping to get 

 rid of the disease? 



Mr. Moore — I did- everything that was possible. Where 

 there was an opening I made appointments and went back 

 on other days and helped them cure the disease. I spent m 

 some cases half a day with individuals to see the thing was 

 done properly. I am green along side of these people who 

 have made a life study of it; I feel as if I were in the ABC 

 class. I don't want any one to gef the idea that I think I 

 am an authority on this subject, but I want to contribute 

 my information for the general good. The people all over 

 our State are not competent to treat it any more than they 

 are competent to treat a case of diphtheria or typhoid fever, 



Mr. Wilco.x — How much is a diseased colony damaged 

 by treatment? 



Mr. Moore — Every day it is without any treatment? 



Mr. Kimmey — Yes, of course. 



Mr. Moore — I say it is not damaged one cent's worth. 



Mr. Wilco-N: — How much do you have to treat those which 

 are not diseased? 



Mr. Moore — I don't like to answer these questions be- 

 cause it means more experience than I have had, but I give 

 my opinion. I go to a man's apiary and he has 20 or 30 

 colonies. How am I to tell which is diseased? We usually 

 go from May to September. At that time of the year the 

 colonies are prosperous if they ever are. We walk up and 

 down the rows of bee-hives and we talk to the owner and 

 say, "Now. which colony has not been prosperous?" He says, 

 "This one." We open that hive. Something is the matter 

 with tliat colony : it may be queenless, it may be entirely 

 "dead, or it may be nearly dead with foul brood ; and with 

 or without smoke we open it. Almost at a glance, when you 

 get a frame out from the middle of the brood-nest you can 

 tell what you have got. If he suggests this or that hive we 

 always open that. If you are not satisfied with what he sug- 

 gests, say, "All right, I will look around a little." You open 

 one, two or three hives and you have a general view of the 

 situation. When he has 10, 20 or 30 colonies we don't at- 

 tempt for a moment to go through them all. 



Mr. Wilco.x — You treat them all whether they are foul- 

 broody or not? 



i\'Ir. Moore — Under our law we have no power to treat 

 at all; we have simply to give advice. If they allow us to 

 treat we are glad to do so. 



Mr. Wilcox — What I want to find out is whether tliere 

 are any damages to be paid for it? 



Mr. Moore — Whether there ought to be a lawgiving dam- 

 ages to the bee-keeper? There should not, in my judgment. 

 (Continued next week.) 



Conducted by Em.ma M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



Getting Unflnished Sections Cleaned 

 Out 



You will have some sections that are only 

 partly ailed. Don't think of keeping ihem as 

 they are, lo be filled by the bees another year. 

 Even if only a few drops of honey are in them, 

 ihey must be cleaned out thoroughly. Those 

 few drops will granulate and affect the new 

 honey that the bees put in. You must man- 

 age to have the bees empty out this fall— the 

 sooner the better — every last vestige of honey. 

 A good way is to pile up the .sections where 

 the bees can get at them, covering them up 

 close against the entrance of the bees except 

 a little entrance that will allow only one bee 

 to pass at a time. If the bees have full sweep 

 at them, they will pounce upon them in great 

 clusters, and the combs will be torn all to 

 pieces. Not more than 5 to 10 supers should 

 be in a pile. The piles should be where they 

 ate sheltered from the rain, and left for some 

 <lays, until the bees cease visiting them en- 

 tirely. 



Honey Fpeekle-Cure 



'' A good freckle cure is the following: Eight 

 ounces of extracted honey, 2 ounces of glyc- 

 erin, 2 ounces of alcohol, (i drams of citric 

 acid, 15 drops of the essence of ambereris — 

 "The Woman Beautiful," in Chicago Record- 

 Herald. 



work, the sections are still left on with the 

 thought that no harm will come of leaving 

 them, and so they are left in some cases till 

 November. 



Those sections, however, are not just as 

 well on the hive as off. When the bees stop 

 storing in them they are likely very soon to 

 begin carrying down honey out of them to till 

 up the cells left empty "by the young bees 

 hatching out. First, the unsealed cells will 

 be emptied, and a section with a few un- 

 sealed cells looks a good deal better with 

 those cells filled than to have them empty. If 

 the sections are left on long enough, the bees 

 will begin the work of uncapping. 



But carrying down the honey isn't the worst 

 of it, for the honey thus carried down will 

 be a good thing in the brood-chamber, and 

 the emptied sections can be used to advantage 

 another year, provided they are properly 

 cleaned out. The more serious matttr is the 

 glue. At the close of the honey season the 

 bees do a land office business at gluing, and 

 Ihecappings and the edges of the unsealed 

 cells are varnished over with a thin coat of 

 glue — sometimes a rather thick coat. It a 

 section contains foundation that is very little 

 drawn out, or not at all drawn out. it is some- 

 times so badly glued the bees will utterly re- 

 fuse to use it another year. 



Get those sections off. 



Don't Leave Sections On the Hive 



Some of the sisters who are new in the 

 business will doubtless nifike the mistake of 

 U-iiving sections on the hive long after the 

 time they should be olt. In the first place 

 they are left on in the hope that the bees will 

 <lo some storing in them, and then when pos- 

 sibly it is seen that the bees are doing no more 



the comb. It would be interesting to know 

 whether any of the rest of the sisters have 

 found the same experience. If so, they will 

 be likely to say that they can scrape and pack 

 two oases of the old kind as quickly as one of 

 the plain. The more careful handling neces- 

 sary makes the work slower. Then, too, 

 one's feelings count for something, and it's a 

 more nervous job to handle the plain sections. 

 One must also be just a little more careful 

 in setting down a plain section or it will top- 

 ple over — not a very serious matter with the 

 square sections, but quite noticeable with the 

 tall ones. 



Objections to the Plain Sections 



More Lightning-Bug Talk 



It any of the sisters who are doing editorial 

 work undertake to introduce anything about 

 bees, they will do well to submit it first to 

 some one who has a little information in that 

 line. Mrs. Lena Blinn Lewis edits the depart- 

 ment "Our Young People,'' in the Union 

 Gospel News, and she is no doubt an excel- 

 lent woman of veracity in other things, but 

 here's what she tells her young people about 

 bees: 



" A bee that works only at night is found 

 in the jungles of India. It is an unusually 

 large insect. The combs are often 6 feet long, 

 and from 4 to 6 Inches thick." 



Whatever advantages there may be in plain 

 sections, an experience in putting up a few 

 cases of them has emphasized an objection 

 not generally mentioned in print. A woman 

 who was helping expressed it somewhat 

 quaintly by ^aying, "You run your finger 

 into 'em too quick." By that she meant that 

 great care must be taken or the delicate comb 

 will be damaged in handling, because there is 

 so little of the wood at the edges to protect 



lA Pretty Girl and the Honey-Bee 



It is as natural for a girl to make herself 

 pretty as it is for a bee to gather honey. Who 

 would stop either in so sweet an occupation '. 

 — Mme. Qui Vive, in Chicago Record-Herald. 



In accord with the general rule of proceed- 

 ing from the known to the unknown, it might 

 be better to say : It is as natural for a bee to 

 gather honey as it is for a girl lo make herself 

 pretty. 



Maeterlinck's " Life of the Bee."— 



We have a few copies of this book, price, post- 

 paid, SI. 40; or with the American Bee Jour- 

 nal one year— both tor $2.00, iis long as the 

 books last. It is a cloth-bound book, and has 

 427 pages. 



