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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 

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Ohio Bee-keepers' Convention. 



We are requested to announce that, in accordance 

 with the adjournment at Toledo, the Ohio Beekeepers' 

 Convention wU meet in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, 

 January 13, 1870, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the City Hotel, 

 where rooms have been offered free for the accommoda- 

 tion of the meeting. A general attendance of Ohio 

 beekeepers is solicited ; and persons engaged or inter- 

 ested in bee culture in other States are cordially invited 

 to be present and participate in the proceedings. 



The Poulbrood Controversy. 



We have received from the Baroness of Berlepsch and 

 Mr. Lambrecht, some additional communications re- 

 specting the foulbrood theories of the latter and Dr. 

 Preuss; but having already published in detail the 

 views of the subject entertained by both parties, we 

 cannot afford to devote further space to discussions in- 

 volving no direct practical results. Mr. Lambrecht, in 

 addition to his theoretical speculations, gave what he 

 regarded as a practical domonstration of the correct- 

 ness of the position assumed by him, and of the efficacy 

 of his curative process. Tins we promptly submitted to 

 the judgment of our readers, stating at the same time 

 that its validity was questioned by those who do not 

 accept the theory. If now Dr. Preuss. or any of his 

 apiarian friends, will favor the beekeeping community 

 with evidence of his ability to cure the disease in accord- 

 ance with his theory of its cause or source, we shall 

 take great pleasure in placing the facts before the read- 

 ers of the Journal, and do so promptly. We desire to 

 see both theories so subjected to the test of actual ex- 

 periment that the issue may clearly and conclusively 

 settle the validity a»d availability of the mejins em- 

 ployed; and we shall certainly not withhold cordial 

 commendation from him whose remedial process suc- 

 cessfully abides this test— and if both prove efflcacions, 

 the benefit accruing therefrom to practical bee culture 



wiU be only the greater and more gi-atifying. It is a 

 homely adage, but none the less pointed, that ''the proof 

 of the pudding is in the eating of it.^' 



4®^ Just as we write this, we receive from an esteemed 

 distant correspondent the following statement of the 

 occurrence of foulbrood in his apiary, and of tlie mode 

 of its origination. Without stopping now to investi- 

 gate the bearing of the facts in this case on the several 

 theories in question— we hope to hear, early, that the 

 malady has been arrested and subdued. 



Mr. Editor :— I have foulbrood in six hives. I am 

 sure of it, although I never saw it before. And the 

 worst of all is, I am confident I produced it myself. I 

 cut a bee tree in September last. The tree was a large 

 oak— mashed up badly. I scooped up out of the hollow, 

 several buckets of comb, dead bees, pollen, &c., intend- 

 ing to have it strained up ; but putting it in a store- 

 room, overlooked it for several days; at the end of 

 which time it was reported to me as being in a state 

 of fermentation. I ordered it, without thinking, to be 

 thrown out— which was done. Passing near the place 

 some hours afterwards, I noticed thousands of bees at 

 work, cai-rying it awav. I did not think of what I had 

 done, until several weeks afterwaros, I noticed in open- 

 ing a hive near this place a horrible stench, unlike any- 

 thine in the odor line I had ever met with before. Upon 

 examination, I found the hive full of dead brood. I ex- 

 amined and found six in the same condition. I removed 

 a comb to a study hive, and placing a very prolific 

 queen in it, found that only a few bees matured of the 

 many hundreds that were sealed up apparently in good 

 condition. This study hive I placed in my parlor window, 

 and the stench arising from it was so great that I could 

 scarcely remai n in the room. I can now distinguish the 

 peculiar odor several feet from the hives affected, al- 

 though there is no young brood at this time in any of 

 them. What shall I do? I have written to Mr. Lang- 

 stroth. He says, burn hives and all. But as these are 

 the only frame hives I have, or have ever seen, I am loth 

 to burn them. I have tnem three miles from any others, 

 and would be glad if you, or any of your readers, could 

 suggest a cure by which I may preserve both bees and 

 hives. I am willing to sacrifice the comb. Our bees 

 are out now almost every day. They are not often con- 

 fined in this latitude longer than a week at any time 

 during the winter. 



W. H. MOKGAN. 



Shell Blutf, Yazoo Eiver, Miss., Dec. 3, 1869. 



Correspondence of the Bee Journal. 



Lima, Ohio, Nov. 22.— Bees have done poorly again 

 this season, it having rained almost constantly up to 

 July 20. But August was good, and bees have generally 

 filled their hives and are in good wintering condition. 

 The Italians swarmed enough, and made some surplus 

 honey; while of the black bees not one stock in twenty 

 have swarmed at all, and made nosui'plus.- S. Sanford. 



Monmouth, Ills., Nov. 22.— We have had a severe 

 snow storm here during the past ten days. To-day it 

 began to thaw. Bees are In fine condition for winter- 

 ing, in regard to the amount of honey. I increased my 

 stock one and one third, and made them average me 

 one hundred and ten (110) pounds to the stand— which 

 I think is doing preity well.— T. G. McGaw. 



Upperville, Va., Nov. 22.— I intended a rather curi- 

 ous present for you a few days ago. A colored man 

 found a swarm of bees which had built a considerable 

 quantity of comb on the under side of a limb of a tree, 

 It must have gone there very early in the spring, judg- 

 ing from the quantity of comb built. I made a glass 

 box, intending to saw the limb off on each side of the 

 comb and fasten it in the box. But unfortunately some 

 one went there, and as a matter of course broke it to 

 pieces. The foliage on the trees prevented it fi'om being 

 found sooner. I should have been pleased if I could 

 hav« procured it all safe, and sent it to you as a curi- 

 osity.— H. W. White. 



JSS'We knew of a similai' instance about twenty years 

 ago, and in that case also the combs were broken and 

 the ewarm destroyed in the attempt to remove it.— Ed. 



