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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



November 



answering the questions and giving 

 all details of i\\^ work. Ed.] 



Ed. Am. Bee Keeper, Dear Sir, — 

 In the July number of the Amer- 

 ican Bee-Keeper, page 207, it was 

 stated that Prof. F. C. Harrison of 

 Guelph, Ont., would make Foul Brood 

 the subject of special study. This is 

 refreshing to hear, and no doubt our 

 neighbor bee-keepers on the other 

 side of the line will soon extinguish 

 the malady of Foul Brood by scien- 

 tific treatment. If the doctor does 

 not know the cause of a disease he 

 cannot cure it, so if an inspector of 

 foul brood does not know the cause 

 of it, he is not likely to be able to 

 cure it. A certain inspector has said 

 " the remains of decayed brood is the 

 whole, sole, real and only cause of 

 foul brood. " (American Bee Jour- 

 nal, Vol. 31, page 506.) Now he is 

 greatly mistaken for every well posted 

 man knows something of Bacteria 

 and Baccillus-alvei. 



The other day 1 read in a bee paper 

 than a man expressed himself on this 

 matter in the following language: 

 " If an inspector of foul brood in 

 Canada did not believe in Bacteriaism 

 or did not know the difference in the 

 two types of foul brood, viz: the mild 

 one and the malignant one, then he 

 wonld not disinfect his clothes after 

 he visited a foul brood yard, and 

 would carry the spores of Bacillus- 

 alvei to another sound apiary, and so 

 spread the malady instead of extin- 

 guishing it. " 



The lamented Mr. S. Cornell, one 

 of the most prominent bee men in 

 North America, said: '' If the foul 

 brood inspector advised bee keepers 

 not to disinfect their hives, foul 

 brood will not be 'a thing of the past' 

 in Ontario, and it will be sometime 

 before the foul brood inspector will 

 find his occupation gone for want of 

 hives requiring to be inspected.'' 



"We in the Ignited States have no 

 need of such foul brood inspectors. 

 Your truly, A. Forward. 



(From American Bee Journal.) 



WHERE SHOULD COMB HONLY BE 

 KEPT? 



BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



A correspondent writes me regard- 

 ing his honey sweating, or, as he 

 words it, his " honey in some of the 

 sections has turned watery, apparent- 

 ly, as the comb looks transparent, and 

 there are drops of water or thin sweat 

 standing in many places on the comb.s." 

 Then he wishes to know whether I 

 can explain to the readers of the Bee 

 Journal what the matter is. This is 

 a matter which has been often discuss- 

 ed and written upon, but as it is one 

 that will bear " line upon line, " 

 perhaps it will not be amiss to say a 

 few words more on the subject. 



Only a few days ago there was a 

 man at ray house from one of the 

 Western States, who seemed surprised 

 that I stored my honey in so hot a 

 place, and when asked where he would 

 store it, he said he took the coolest 

 room in the house, supposing that the 

 cooler honey was kept the better for 

 it, the same as for fruit or and other 

 things. Some seem to think that the 

 cause of honey becoming watery is be- 

 cause the bees do not thoroughly ripen 

 it before sealing over; but if they used 

 a little more thought on the subject 

 it would seem that they must see the 

 fallacy of such an idea ; for, whether 

 ripened or not, the honey can only 

 ooze from the cells after being capped 



