THE AMERICAN APTCULTURIST. 



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As usual Professor Cook has hit 

 a great many nails square on the 

 head in his description of a house 

 for the apiary. On some of the 

 points, however, we differ. I do 

 not want my house cut up into 

 small rooms, prefer each story all 

 in one room. I have a house, built 

 three years ago, which cost $500 00 

 which suits me better than any- 

 thing I have ever seen or read de- 

 scriptions of. It is two stories, 

 18 X 30 feet, with an all stone 

 cellar under it, 8 feet deep, which 

 cost $225.00. Here, again, I dif- 

 fer with my friend Professor Cook, 

 in so much that I would not again 

 build a cellar, but rather a double 

 wall house above ground, in which 

 to winter bees. Such a room, of 

 the size of my cellar, could be well 

 built for the same cost and would 

 be worth much more in summer, 

 and I believe better and more con- 

 venient in which to winter bees. I 

 have changed mj' views on the sub- 

 ject of cellars vs. houses above 

 ground, in which to winter bees, 

 after having tested several of each. 

 With more time and space I will 

 in future give my reasons and 

 the management which makes the 

 room above ground the safest and 

 best. 



JAMES HEDDON. 



now, and a thirty dollar honey crop 

 to sell over its counters, I should 

 think one ought to appreciate the 

 old saying in vogue in my boyhood 

 days which sounded something like 

 " A fool and his money is soon 

 parted." Bee culture is an humble 

 pursuit, and the cases are very rare 

 where it is safe to invest money 

 by the hundreds of dollars in dead 

 fixtures. For handiness and prac- 

 tical usefulness I woukl prefer a 

 one story house built just as wide 

 as I wanted the widest room to be, 

 and extended in length till I had 

 all the room needed. Such a house 

 might have a good cellar, and yet 

 the cost need not be great. 



G. W. DEMAREE. 



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Having once been a practical 

 mechanic and house builder it is 

 natural that I should feel a deep 

 interest in Professor Cook's plan 

 for building a honey house as de- 

 scribed by him in the " Api," Au- 

 gust issue. 



His plan is unobjectionable so 

 far as the science of house con- 

 struction is concerned. 



The trouble is, the cost of such 

 a building puts it out of the 

 reach of nine out of ten of all the 

 beekeepers in the land, if they are 

 as cautious as I think they are and 

 ought to be. With a five hundred 

 dollar honey house on hand just 



THE MANAGERS COllNER. 



That New Bee Disease.— Some 



two 3'ears ago we described a new bee 

 disease of wliich more or less has been 

 seen in nearly every apiarj' in the 

 United States. At that time we gave 

 our experience with two colonies that 

 were diseased ; and also gave a remedy 

 tliat has been a sure cure and most ef- 

 fective in every case. The remedy is 

 this : The honey-board or cloth that is 

 phiced over the frames is removed and 

 tlien a handful of flne table-salt is 

 thrown over the frames. In order to 

 get the bees to take it quickly, ai)out a 

 pint of water is dashed among the bees 

 and combs. In every case where this 

 remedy has been tested all signs of the 

 disease disappeared in the course of 



