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the slig'htly diseased, or doubtful col- 

 onies for comb hone\', putting- extract- 

 ing combs on all known healthy colo- 

 nies. This should be done at the com- 

 mencement of the honey flow; and by 

 the way, then would be j'our time to 

 "get busy," and shake upon starters 

 of foundation, or otherwise dispose of 

 all diseased colonies that are too weak 

 to g"o to work in the sections. 



York, Neb.. Oct. 21, 1904. 



[While I would not like to publish 

 anything that would lessen the neces- 

 sary caution in treating foul brood, I 

 must agree with Mr. Todd in thinking 

 that the possibilities are very slight 

 for honey in the supers to be contam- 

 inated, if all brood, and brood combs, 

 are kept out of them. When honey is 

 being stored in the supers, everything 

 is covered up with new honey, and even 

 the foul brood itself practically disap- 

 pears in many cases. It is only when 

 the harvest is over, and the old stores, 

 from diseased cells in the brood nest, 

 are again drawn upon, that the disease 



again appears. Time and again have 

 I heard Mr. McEvoy say that clean 

 white combs from the supers, combs 

 that had never contained brood, were 

 perfectly safe to use when emptied of 

 honey and cleaned by the bees. It is 

 quite likely that, in the majority of 

 cases, if not at all times, such honey is 

 free from contamination. I remember 

 that Mr. R. I. Taylor once experi- 

 mented by taking lionej"^ from a foul 

 broody colony (I don't now remem- 

 ber whether it was from the super, or 

 an outside brood comb) and giving it 

 to other colonies without their contract- 

 ing the disease. 



As I have already said, I would cau- 

 tion against recklessness, but there 

 are some things yet to be learned about 

 foul brood, and this may be one of 

 them. Once we thought it necessary 

 to burn up hives, bees, combs and 

 honey — then, gradually, we began to 

 learn to save first one thing, then an- 

 other, and that honey in the supers is 

 not contaminated may be the next 

 thing we will learn. — Ed. Review.] 



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BY WM. M'EVOY. 



^RIEND HUTCHINSON, I have, for 

 -L 3'ears, practiced the same method 

 as Sibbald's, except that I place three 

 combs of brood in the center of a hive, 

 fill out the hive with empty combs, lift 

 the old hive of bees oflP the stand, place 

 the hive of combs with its three combs 

 •of brood in on the old stand, and then 

 move the old hive of bees about on the 

 Heddon plan until I get all the field 

 bees back on the old stand. Sometimes 

 I give a comb with a queen cell about 

 ready to hatch which I took from a 



colony that had swarmed. The old 

 colony I had moved away, as in the 

 Sibbald plan, had the old laj'ing queen 

 to keep it up in bees. All the differ- 

 ence between Sibbald's plan and mine 

 is that he uses one comb of brood, two 

 empty combs, and the rest of the 

 frames supplied with starters, while I 

 use three combs of brood and the bal- 

 ance of the hive is filled out with emptj^ 

 combs. Sibbald's plan is an improve- 

 ment over mine, because it will control 

 swarming better than mine; and also 



