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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



.lAX. 1. 



same, will kill all microbes if used in sutHicient 

 strength. 



2. Allow no bees to get to or from you while 

 working with foul brood. 



3. If you destroy a colony, do it at night witii 

 brimstone. Kill them all. 



If you follow the above you will beat the dis- 

 ease. Southern Illinois is full of it. and has 

 been for ten years. We have treated it for that 

 time with varying success, until we adopted the 

 above treatment, which lias proved successful. 



Enfield, 111., Dec. 15. A. C. Mitoheli,. 



[Our correspondent evidently writes from ex- 

 perience, because his article shows that he has 

 been "' through the mill." We are not surprised 

 that he should condemn all the various acid 

 treatments, of the strength recommended. These 

 " medicine cures" are proving everywhere to be 

 no cure at all. While we know that phenol, or 

 carbolic acid, reduced 5no times, as recommend- 

 ed by Cheshire, will not effect a cure — at least, 

 failed to do so in our case and recorded reports 

 we have read, we see no reason, however, why, 

 when reduced only .50 times, it should not dis- 

 infect the combs. If combs were good, and well 

 wired in good frames, it migiit be advi-^able to 

 wash them in carbolic acid, as described, in- 

 stead of burning. However, if we iiad onlv 

 one or twocoloni(>s that were affected we should 

 hesitate to tiy any thing else than burning.— 

 Ed.J 



THE OLDEST BEES IN THE WORLD. 



HOW HEKS IIAVK JiKKN' PI! KSKK VKI) SIXCK THK 

 TIMK ilF M().Sl';s. 



It is well known, that, in 1881. many royal 

 mummies were found in Esiypt— that is, the 

 embalmed bodies of kings. P'or a good while 

 after that, scholars observed that cartouches 

 and rolls of papyrus were sold on the Egyptian 

 market, bearing the names of kings. As to 

 where the mummy-diggers obtained these, our 

 learned men at Cairo were at a loss to tell. The 

 venders of these curiosities were sought for. It 

 was soon evident that most of them came from 

 three brothers who lived in Dcir (>1-I{ahari. 

 These men were accordingly taken into, custo- 

 dy. During a long examination none of them 

 would reveal the secret. Neither threats nor 

 promises were of any avail in making them set a 

 price on it. The men had to be set free. Soon 

 after that, one of the brothers came to an ol'ti- 

 cer of th(i Egyptian mu.seum of Houlaq, in Cai- 

 ro, and said, " I am iioiv ready to mak(^ a full 

 exposition."' 



"And why iioir for the tirst time?" said the 

 official. 



" Because my brothers have robbed me of the 

 profits of my share." 



The betrayer then conducted I?rugsch H(>y 

 (brother of the celebrated Esiyptologisu to a 

 pit GO feet deep, and showed him a cavity wheie 



there were several mummies of kings well pre- 

 served. For three days and three nights :50()' 

 men, under guard of soldiers, were employed in 

 biinsing the valuable find to the light of day. 

 These mummies, photographs of which were 

 taken, art! in the new museum of Gizeh. It is 

 related that the mummy of Pharaoh (he who- 

 oppressed the children of Israel), that it might 

 not be destroyed on board the steamboat, was 

 put on a little skiff' in tow of the steamer. At 

 the next railroad station the mummy was put 

 on board of a first-class car, and thus the re- 

 mains of Pharaoh were removed to his capital' 

 city some 3450 years after he had ceased to rule. 

 In removing the fokis of linen from about the 

 body, several flowers were found that had been 

 buried with him: and in a cup were found sev- 

 eral tuummied bees — the oldest in the world.. 

 The sizeof these bees is exactly that of Italians^ 

 with brighter yellow abdominal bands. 

 Medina, O. i\.\Ki, R. Mathkv. 



JAKE SMITH'S LETTERS. 



How TO KKKI' MONKV FHOM CANDVINO; SOMK 

 (iOOD INSTKUCTIONS. 



Mr. A. T. (Tlcetilngs:—<ieer -SJr;— Ime glad I 

 made your acquaintenls. Ivelurnt a heep from 

 your paper and your book. The fixtyours I got 

 from you was Isi class, and 1 feel now like I was 

 commenst bcekecpin on the risjht track. My 

 boy Zed, too. he's taken to beeki'epin wonder- 

 full. I wish I cood a node as mutch when I was- 

 his ag(\ lie's rite smart. 



.\bout a mile and a 'j from ih is a nayber 

 who keeps bees, which his name is Short — Jim 

 Short. Only he aint like his name, he's rite 

 tall. He doant beleive in the improoved ways,, 

 and makes fun of what he calls my noo-fangled' 

 ways. But weer good friends, and hc^'s so good 

 harted I like to talk with him. 



Last sumnKM' I found out tliey was a man 

 only S miles from me which keeps bees clear up- 

 to the times. He farms it. but good years he 

 claims he makes more on his bees than enny- 

 thiug on the farm. He is brother to the onner- 

 able .lared Dinant which was in the state legis- 

 later. His 1st name is Henry. I met him at a. 

 ((uarterly meetin over to Stallstown, and when 

 he found out I kep bees he ast me to cum and. 

 see him. I cum, and I had a reel good visit. 

 He knows lots about bees, but he sez there's a 

 heep more he doant know. 



Weave had severl visits back and 4th, and he 

 encurridgc^s me that Ime doin rite well in the- 

 noo plans. He's took dinner evry time with us,, 

 and one day he sez while he was a eatin some 

 hunny, sez he, "That's fine." 



"Yes," sez I: " hev some more." 



"Do," sez my wife. "Make yourself wel- 1 

 come," sez she. And she cut off a rite good 

 hunk and put it onto his plate. If they's enny 

 1 thing more than anuthi-r that pleezes my 



