1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



201 



SO as to make the cure as protitabie as 

 possible, aii<l have every co](jiiy a 

 good, strong one when the ftoasoii 

 closes. 



It is H very easy tliiue i'or one to 

 cure a foul-broody apiary and soon 

 put it in good order, no matter how 

 bad it was when I started to fix it up 

 in good shape to cure it. But I have 

 found it a very hard thing to handle 

 all sorts of men so that they would 

 cure and do as I ordered them. 



When a few colonies in an apiary 

 are found with foul brood at the 

 close of the season, the owner can 

 very easily fix them up all right by 

 reiuoving the combs in an evenhig in 

 October, when the queens have done 

 laying and giving maled corabs from 

 sound, colonies. If the owner has no 

 sealed combs, he must feed until the 

 bees in the sound colonies seal them 

 for that purpose, and then when given 

 to the foul colony the bees won't have 

 any place to store the foul honey they 

 took from the diseased combs, and 

 then they will have to keep it until 

 they consume it; and with no place 

 to start brood, the queen stops laying, 

 and cold weather coming on, the bees 

 will have gotten rid of the diseased 

 honey long before brood is started 

 again. Every bee-keeper should have 

 every fall plenty of combs sealed over 

 like the best of section honey. I have 

 hundreds of them every fall. 



I know of many failures in Ontario 

 where the drug system has been tried, 

 and I have many private letters from 

 several localities in the United States 

 where it has been a complete failure. 

 I never knew one cure made by the 

 drug system and why any man should 

 speak of it as a cure when it is always 



a failure, is something I can't under", 

 stand. 



I will warn all men not to waste 

 their time in tinkering with any kind 

 of drugs in a bee-yard; the best place 

 for such drugs would be in the sea — 

 only it might be a sorry time for the 

 fishes. 



The D. A. Jones' starvation plan 

 will cure every time, but it is too hard 

 on the bees, and completely unfits 

 them for comb-building for a time, 

 by luaking the bees very thin, lean 

 and poor; and the starving sometimes 

 almost ruins some of the queens for 

 life. 



Ontario, Canada. 



From Gleanings) 



MARKETING HONEY. 



A Valuable Article. 



BY K. C. AIKIN. 



This is another subject much writ- 

 ten upon and talked about. However 

 much has been said, the subject is by 

 no means exhausted, and comes up at 

 every convention and will not settle. 



Go with me into any grocery and 

 look at the goods there handled. 

 Every thing in the way of liquids, ex- 

 cept perhaps vinegar, sorghum and 

 honey are so put up that they can be 

 handled by the piece. All solids are 

 either in package form or in such 

 shape that they can very quickly be 

 weighed or counted out. Vinegar, 

 coal oil, and such are measured out it 

 is true; but there is of necessity a 

 vessel in each household for these 

 things and the vessel is taken to be 

 filled again when empty. Just think 

 tt over for yourself and answer the 

 question: Is there a single article in 

 the grocer's line so awkwardly han- 

 dled as extracted honey? I have no 



