THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



one, when they have a foul brood rem- 

 edy to thrust upon the bee public. 



The Canadian remedy, so far as we are 

 acquainted with it, is worse than the dis- 

 ease. No : Americans want no remedies 

 for foul brood from any one. When 

 American beekeepers have that disease 

 in their apiaries they know how to rid 

 the hives ot it. It is done in the easi- 

 est, cheapest and most expeditious man- 

 ner. 



Some of our Canadian friends, partic- * 

 ularly the president of the O. B. K. A., 

 are mad clean through because all 

 the American bee-papers did not pub- 

 lish in full that long sermon on foul 

 brood. 



Allen Pringle, the president referred 

 to above, lets go his pent-up feelings as 

 follows : 



"Now 'brethering' (I mean ye three 

 editors, and doubtless all present), 

 please bear in mind that this is not 

 meant for an attack on you or your pe- 

 riodicals. I attack Brother 'Jonathan,' 

 for I suspect he is to blame. That tre- 

 mendously big brother of ours, armed 

 with the 'McKinley Bill' is just now 

 straightening himself up in our presence 

 and giving us a withering glance — 'on 

 the slant.' These 'sovereign' citizens 

 of his have no doubt caught the infec- 

 tion, and naturally enough imagine that 

 'no good thing can come out of Naza- 

 reth,' or Canada. 



Be that as it may, I repeat and reit- 

 erate, for the benefit of whom it may 

 concern, that we have practically solved 

 the foul-brood question in Canada — 

 that is, so far as its successful treatment 

 is concerned, and that, of course, is the 

 main point ; and we shall charge you 

 nothing for the information of how it 

 was done. Though you may be unwill- 

 ing to import the 'furrin' aricle without 

 a tariff or McKinley-tax, we shall nev- 

 ertheless smuggle it in to you by ' Her 

 Majesty's mail' and 'Uncle Sam's post." 



Brother Newman of the A. B. J. 

 comments on the above in this style ; 



"The imputations that the 'tribunes' 

 — the 'great guns' i. e., the editors of 



the bee-periodicals, we suppose — are 

 too much 'exalted' (in their own estima- 

 tion, of course) to listen to advice from 

 Canada, is absurd, and beneath the dig- 

 nity of ' the President of the Ontario 

 Bee- Keepers Association'." 



Brother Newman got a little fright- 

 ened at the President's remarks and 

 published the whole thing in tne Am- 

 erican Bee Journal of December 9. 

 We think our columns can be filled with 

 more interesting and valuable matter. 

 American beekeepers seem to keep 

 their end up pretty well, and we do not 

 often have to go over the line for any 

 information concerning bee culture. 



PREVENTION OF AFTKH-SVVAKMS. 



Kit Clover, and a good many others 

 who keep bees, would like to know how 

 to prevent or control after swarming. 

 We have found it die easiest thing in the 

 world. Our practice is to destroy all 

 the queen cells at any time within three 

 or four days after the swarm issues. 

 When the cells are worth preserving, 

 they are transferred to nucleus colonies 

 and the queens are reared. A young 

 queen is introduced to the colony and 

 there is no more swarming from that 

 hive that season. Perhaps we should 

 have said that when further increase is 

 not desirable or we had no use for the 

 new swarm, the bees are put back into 

 the hive they issue from, while the queen 

 remains in the trap. 



If a strange queen is introduced, it 

 may be done by the cage system, or by 

 fumigating with tobacco smoke. If by 

 the former method,. the cage may be 

 placed upon the frames, or what is still 

 better, inserted at the bottom corner of 

 one of the brood frames. 



Kit Clover's plan of cutting out the 

 queen cells and then placing the brood 

 and other combs over the new colony 

 with a queen-excluder between the two 

 hives, is good, but not new. Dr. G. L. 

 Tinker we believe was the first bee- 

 keeper to advance that method. 



Of course, if this plan is adopted by 

 any one, we see no way so good to 

 manage to obtain surplus honey as by 



