1HE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



out-of-doors take them into a warm 

 room, make a box, with the front and 

 top made of wire cloth, or mosquito 

 netting, adjust it to the entrance, so 

 that the bees must enter it on leaving 

 the hive. This will usually prove an 

 effectual remedy. 



FOUL BROOD. 



Foul brood is the rotting of brood in 

 a hive; the caps of the sealed brood 

 appear indented and shriveled and 

 the larvae and young bees in unsealed 

 cells become putrid, emitting a dis- 

 gusting stench or smell. When the 

 disease has a firm hold, even though 

 it may be possible to care it, I would 

 advise the total destruction by fire of 

 the bees, combs, frames and hives, 

 with everything which might harbor 

 the disease. In its primary stages it 

 can be cured in this way: With an 

 atomizer spray the hives, bees, brood, 

 honey and combs with a solution of 

 salicylic acid, borax and rain water, 

 repeated on the sixth day. Remove 

 the diseased brood from the hive and 

 give them capped honey, if not too 

 far advanced this may give relief. 



There is another plan, which is as 

 follows: Take a clean new hive with 

 new, clean frames, fill it with 

 comb foundation, take and run 

 all the bees out of the diseased hive 

 into the clean one, do this in the even- 

 ing and as soon as the bees are all in 

 close the entrance with wire cloth, 

 keep them confined for forty-eight 

 hours until they have consumed all 

 the honey in their sacks in building 

 comb. At the end of forty-eight 

 hours open the entrance and let them 

 fly if they wish, feed them a little 

 sugar syrup every night for about a 

 week, and if the honey season is ovei, 



or, if this is done during a dearth of 

 honey you should feed them regular- 

 ly so as not to let them starve. I had 

 the disease in my apiary the past sea- 

 son and this is the plan I used to cure 

 it. My bees are a? healthy now as 

 as if they had never had it. 

 Sunny Side, Md. 



[The instructions which friend De- 

 witt gives in the first part of the fore- 

 going article will apply this month 

 only to the more southern localities. 

 Here in the North the hives in many 

 places are still covered with snow and 

 the bees should not be disturbed until 

 spring has unmistakably arrived. — 

 Ed.] 



New Inventions. 



BY JOHN P GATES. 



The question has been asked "Are 

 we drifting from our moorings." 

 I used to think that we should not, 

 but if all bee keepers anchored to one 

 idea there would be no improvements. 

 While it is safe to our own pockets to 

 be conservative, yet no class has done 

 more to advance the interests of the 

 bee-keepers than those who experi- 

 ment, and seem not to be satisfied 

 with* their present condition. Had 

 the inventors of the Monitor been 

 contented with wooden war ships our 

 great American Republic would have 

 been divided. Had we all been con- 

 tent with stage coaches where would 

 our railroads have been ? Had Edson 

 preferred to sit at his telegraph in- 

 strument we 'should now be without 

 his master ideas. This onward impell- 

 ing force in Americans has sought 

 out so many good things in the last 

 fifty years that I have not space to 

 tell them. Some rejoice in real im- 

 provements, well, we can't grind out 

 out a grist of real improvements to 



