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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



in accordance with the popular belief. 

 To take a stand in opposition to popular 

 belies is what requires courag'e. 



Mr. Abbott also thinks it "funny" 

 that the National Association should 

 elect as Secretar}' a man holding the 

 views I do upon the subject. There is 

 nothing so very strange about this, as 

 nearly everything the National has 

 done in the last three years has been 

 regarded by Mr. Abbott as "funny." 



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An Easy, Novel Method of Treating Foul 

 Brood. 

 It would seem as though nothing new 

 could be said on the subject of treat- 

 ing foul brood, but when at the Chi- 

 cago and Northwestern convention last 

 fall, Mr. \V. H. H. Stewart, of Emer- 

 son, 111 , described to me a plan of 

 which I had never heard. Nearly all 

 methods include the allowing of all 

 healthy brood to hatch, and the final 

 removal of all hatched bees from the 

 diseased combs. In Mr. Stewart's 

 plan, advantage is tnken of the fact 

 that when a bee flies naturally, and 

 undisturbed, from afoul broody colony, 

 it carries with it no traces of disease, 

 and would not injure a healthy colony, 

 should it enter the colony. Closing up 

 the entrance of an infected colony, bor- 

 ing a hole in front of the hive, and 

 putting on a bee escape— thus forcing 

 the returning bees to enter a nearby 

 hive containing the queen and a comb 

 of healthy brood, is an old, and well- 

 tried, plan of utilizing this idea, but 

 Mr. Stewai-t's plan is simply that of 

 giving the colony a new location, and 

 allowing the returning bees to enter 

 any colonies that they choose— prob- 

 ably those standing near the old stand. 

 The diseased colony is moved in the 

 evening, after the bees have stopped 

 flying. Even if the moving does dis- 

 turb the bees, or cause them to fill 

 themselves with honey, none fly from 

 the hive, and by morning, all has be- 

 come quiet, and all bees leaving the 

 hive will be empty and in a normal 



condition. When such bees return 

 with a load, they go back to the old 

 location, and join some neighboring 

 colony. They are not lost. Other 

 things being equal, a bee is worth as 

 much in one colony as in another- 



In eight or ten days, the hive is again 

 moved to a new location, and left there 

 several days, when it is picked up and 

 carried into the shop. As the bees 

 hatch out, and become old enough to 

 fly, the^' leave the hive, fly to the win- 

 dow, go out through an escape, and 

 probably join some colony in the 

 apiary. 



The combs eventually become free of 

 bees or healthy brood, when they ma3' 

 be rendered into wax after extracting 

 the honey. All this has been accom- 

 plished without any risky shaking off 

 of the bees, or even so much as t/ie 

 opening of a hive. Can anything be 

 more simple or eas}' of accomplish- 

 ments. 



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Send Out Samples of Honey Accompan- 

 ied With Handsome, Appropriate 

 Literature. 



"Stenog.," the proof reader of 

 Gleanings, has a brother in New York 

 City. He has been more or less inter- 

 ested in advertising, for many 3'ears. 

 After reading about the Honey Pro- 

 ducers' League, he wrote me a private 

 letter. It was so full of good things, 

 that I wrote and secured permission to 

 print it. Here is the letter: — 



New York, Apr. 24, 1905, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, 



Flint, Mich. 

 Dear Sir: 



I have been much interested in the 

 report in Gleanings of thegathering of 

 honey men and the discussion as to the 

 best means of getting rid of the surplus. 

 It is a big question. You can hire a 

 man to write advertisements and you 

 can pay the Ladies' Home Journal f6 

 per line; but will this be enough ? 



Personally, I have great faith in ■ 

 sampling. If some means could be \ 

 found whereby every house could be 

 presented with a cute little box con- 

 taining, say an ounce of honey in the 



