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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



slab. The hollow teeth are filled with 

 this so that the food may not lodfre in 

 them and irritate the nerves of the 

 teeth. 



(t) Wax salve for sJdn diseases. — Five 

 parts of white wax, five parts of sper- 

 maceti, five parts of sweet almond oil, 

 are melted together in an enamelled 

 vessel, and are poured ont into little 

 paper boxes, and when cold are cut up 

 into little slixhs.— British Bee Journal. 



TASMANIA. 

 News has come to us from the south. 

 Foul brood has found its way into 

 some of the best apiaries, and has al- 

 ready destroyed or hopelessly weak- 

 ened a large number of stocks. Mr. 

 Lloyd Hood informs us that his small 

 apiary has been almost destroyed with 

 this pest, and his best stocks lost. He 

 states he persevered with the phenol 

 cure, as well as with the salicylic acid 

 mode of treatment advocated by Prof. 

 McLean, of the United States Apicul- 

 tural Station, but without success. 

 Foul brood in his case was evidently 

 accompanied by the disease often 

 noticed in this colony in some cases to 

 precede, in others to exist contempo- 

 raneousl}^ with foul brood itself, for he 

 mentions heaps of dead bees outside 

 the hives every morning. Mr. Hood 

 further informs us, "it is the same 

 tale of disaster all through the South 

 Island with few exceptions." The 

 Marinook Apiary of Mr. Wright, at 

 Glenarchy, has suffered severely, but 

 wliether from bad season or disease is 

 not f^tatad.— Australian Bee Journal. 



[Try cremation for foul brood. 

 It is tlie only remedy. Make a. bon- 

 fire of the entire lot of bees, hives 

 and all — then select other colonies 

 from an apiary in which fonl brood 

 has never invaded. Once more let 

 us advise all not to try an}' exper- 

 iments with a disease, so conta- 

 gious and destructive when it 

 once gets a hold in the apiar3^] 



The manager of the Apicultu- 

 RIST will pay a premium of $5 in 

 cash or in any of the goods adver- 

 tised in our list for the best essay 

 on feeding dry sugar to bees. The 

 experiments to be conducted be- 

 tween April and November, 1888. 



GLEANINGS FROM CORRE- 

 SPONDENCE. 



San Buenaventura, Cal. 

 The honey crop was an entire failure 

 here this season. I have five hundred 

 colonies of bees in two and three story 

 L. -hives; they are full of honey now, 

 but I did not extract a pound this sea- 

 son. IVIy neighbor, Mr. K. Wilkin, ex- 

 extracted about three tons from a 

 small apiary near the coast, but the 

 great apiary (that you see pictured in 

 so many books and papers) gathered 

 scarcely enough to last them till 

 spring. 



G. E. Mkrchh. 



Chillicothe, Ohio. 

 Mr. Alley : 

 The queen you sent me is one of 

 tlie finest and most prolific queens I 

 ever saw and her bees are truly beauti- 

 ful. 



Felix B. Mace. 



Mention, 111. 

 H. Alley, 



Dear Sir : — I am so well pleased 

 with the sample copy of the "Api" 

 you sent me, I cannot resist the temp- 

 tation to subscribe although I now 

 take two other bee papers. 



Yours truly, Edwin Baldwix. 



Sheboygan Falls, Wis. 

 Mr. Alley : 



Thanks for two fine queens, which 

 are safely introduced. I am awfully 

 busy, and fairly at my wits ends, trying 

 to double up, and prepare for winter. 

 Jnst noiv, the control of increase ap- 

 pears the all-important question. Per- 

 haps nert spring, I shall see the matter 

 in a diflereut light. 



Ilespectfully, 



Mrs. H. Hills. 



Lynn, Oct. 6, 1887. 

 Miv. Alley : 

 Dkar Sir: 



I l)ought one dozen of your drone 

 and (luccn-traps last spring, and we 

 think them an extra good article. My 

 husband says he would not be without 

 them for twice their cost. I had eight- 

 een new swarms after getting them 

 and they worked like a charm. I could 

 feel quite easy Avhen I saw the bees in 

 the air, knowing my queen was safe. 

 Mrs. E. a. Hopper. 



