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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



For this, use a piece of wood of tlie shape 

 and size of a match. Dip this in the last- 

 mentioned solution, and pierce the foul 

 broody cell to its bottom, immersing the 

 piece of wood anew for each cell. For 

 the unsealed brood, sprinkling with the 

 atomizer and the weaker solution is suffi- 

 cient. Every other evening feed about 

 one-third pint of honey, to which are 

 added from 30 to 50 drops of the alcoholic 

 solution, according to size of hive. 



The sprinkling should take place once 

 a week, if not oftener. Mr. H.'s hives re- 

 quired from six to eight applications be- 

 fore he considered them cured. It is bad 

 .policy to take away the queen or to cage 

 her, as it would weaken the swarm too 

 much. In subsequent examinations one 

 will find dead larvae, though they may not 

 exhibit the signs of foul brood. They are 

 evidences of insufficient or faulty feeding 

 and nursing. Mr. H. thinks that the con- 

 stant exposure to the foul vapors of the 

 hive proves deleterious to tlie queen and the 

 bees generally. The young bees especial- 

 ly that act as nurses and at the same time 

 remove the decaying matter, communicate 

 the poison to the brood tliey feed. And 

 as the foul brood fungus may perhaps 

 generate and increase within the body of 

 the living bee, as the trichina does in 

 man, it is well to regenerate the brood by 

 the addition of young bees from healthy 

 hives. When all the above measures have 

 been conscientiously applied, it neverthe- 

 less happens that foul brood will continue 

 to appear. In such cases it may safely be 

 presumed that the ovaries of the queen 

 have become infected. In twenty-five 

 hives treated by Mr. Hilbert, he found 

 three such queens. Instead, therefore, of 

 destroying all queens, it might be well 

 to try them in nuclei hives with clean 

 combs and healthy bees. Mr. H. sum- 

 marizes the matter in the following words : 

 " The absolute cure of foul brood may be 

 efiected by a proper application of sal- 

 icylic acid, by the addition of healthy 

 nurse bees, and by a change of queens, if 

 necessary." 



Mr. H. estimates one ounce of the acid 

 sufficient to cure from five to seven stands. 

 Care must be taken to sprinkle all parts. 

 Respectfully, John P. Bruck. 



Los Angeles, Cal., April 7th, 1876. 



For the' American Bee Journal. 



Extracted Honey. 



In reference to extracted honey and the 

 discussion thereon, I wish to bring for- 

 ward a little of Mr. Heddon's past experi- 

 ence, in proof of ray arguments. 



The reader will remember that we hold 

 that extracted honey does sell and does 



Say, and that bee-culture also pays, while 

 [r. Heddon denies all this. 

 Since Mr. H. seems to doubt our own 



statements in proof of this, we will give 

 him some of his own statements. 



We have gathered Mr. H.'s past writ- 

 ings, and find that his honey crops were 

 as follows : 



Tear. 



Stocks 

 In Spring. 



(1) 1870 I 6 



(2) 1872 I 14 



(3) 1873 I 16 



(4) 1874 I 48 



lbs. Honey. 



523 

 3000 

 4200 

 8500 



stocks 

 in Fall. 



22 



not said. 

 35 

 55 



Until 1874, from his own reports, (5) Mr. 

 H. had never sold his honey less than 

 28 to 30 cts. In Gleanings, Sept., 1874, (6) 

 he said: "As our honey sells at good 

 prices, we have decided to feed sugar 

 syrup this fall for wintering." 



November, 1874, (4) he said : " Started a 

 honey house and met with such good suc' 

 cess that we shall handle 20,000 lbs. ^ e 

 fore next season. Bought the crop of 

 several bee-keepers," etc., etc. 



In August, 187'^, (7) his opinion was 

 that he could expect yet 2,000 lbs. of ex- 

 tracted honey, or else 150 lbs. comb, mean- 

 ing that he could just as easily get 2,000 

 lbs. extracted, as 150 lbs. comb honey. 

 This is entirely in contradiction with his 

 opinion on the matter in A. B. J. for 

 March, 1876, where he says, in substance: 

 " Persons who think that extracted honey 

 at 10 cents, could be produced as profitably 

 as comb honey at 25 cents, are ignorant 

 of the manipulation of small boxes." 

 From his own words, as above, he could 

 produce over thirteen times as much ex- 

 tracted honey as comb honey, that is, if 

 he sold extracted honey at iO cents, he 

 should sell comb honey at $1.80. 



All at once, however, Mr. H. found 

 that honey was a drug on the market, and 

 in September, 1875, (8) he advertised three 

 barrels of extracted honey for sale. Now, 

 Mr. H., one question. 



If in 1874 you could sell 20,000 lbs. of 

 honey, how is it that in 1875 you could 

 not get rid of just three barrels? Have 

 your customers left you ? Or have honey 

 dealers sold adulterated honey to your 

 dealers and beat you out? If that is the 

 case, why not sell your honey cheaper 

 than they can afford to sell theirs, since 

 you say, A. B. J., 1876, p. 30, that bee- 

 keepers can raise the pure article cheaper 

 than they can manufacture it. 



My friend, D. D. Palmer, of Eliza, 111., 

 said in December No. of Oleanings, and 

 in answer to H.'s complaint, that he, 

 Palmer, had made $535.00 out of fifty-five 

 colonies in one season, and thus tried to 

 prove to Mr. H. that bee-culture does pay. 



(1) A. B. J., Vol. VI., p. 118. 



(2) " " Vol. VIII., p. 251. 



(3) " " Vol. X., p. 154. 



(4) Oleanings, Vol. II.. p. 143. 



(5) " Vol. II., p. 9. 



(6) " Vol. II., p. 109. 



(7) " Vol. II., p. 101. 



(8) " Vol. III., p. 128. 



