14 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



ducing. This, you see, friend Burdick, puts a double check on the 

 possible spread of the disease through the candy. 



E. R. Root. 



[As long as we have bee-keepers we will have queen-breeders. 

 Just as long as we have queen-breeders we will have some who will 

 send queens from an infected apiary. I am satisfied that foul brood 

 has been scattered more than we know simply through the queen 

 business. 



Now the Review wants to go on record as saying that under no 

 circumstances should a queen ever he introduced into a colony by using 

 the cage she came in as an introdncing cage. If we can make it plain 

 that the cage is dangerous, and then get after the breeder who has 

 foul brood in his apiary, we can do much to check the spread of this 

 disease. The danger of advising queen breeders to boil their honey 

 lies in the fact that the inexperienced buyer is apt to think that 

 precaution is all that is necessary, although I fully understand that 

 Editor Root meant it as only an additional precaution.] 



79,000 Pounds of Honey From 587 Colonies of Bees. 



OLIVER FOSTER 



^"4 OUR request for particulars concerning the jear in which I 

 V/ made the most money out of bees, reminds me that just now 

 ^ my most vivid impressions are from the year in which I lost 

 the most money in bees— the year just past. Pfowever, it is more 

 agreeable to dwell upon and study the conditions of success than 

 those of failure. 



A rummage through my old account books reveals the fact that 

 the year 1900 was my most profitable year. 



I had 587 colonies Jan. 1, 1900, and ()25 Jan. 1, 1901, showing an 

 increase of 66 colonies. They were located in five apiaries in Bent 

 County, Colorado, in the Arkansas Valley. 



We have harvested 79,000 pounds of honey. All Init about 1,000 

 pounds was extracted. Wax was sold to the amount of $191.50, 

 besides a lot that went into comb foundation. 



FECUIiIAR CONDITIONS. 



What were the peculiar conditions that enabled us to secure 

 such a wonderful result? Well, in the first place, we had a good 

 honey fiow, mostly from alfalfa and chome. The bees were worked 

 on the same system as had been followed in the "Arkansas X'allcy 

 Apiaries'' for several years before, and which has been practiced 

 there by my successors, Clark and Wallinger, ever since. 



The bees were in ten frame standard L size hives, with an 

 average of about three extra bodies containing nine combs each, for 

 the surplus. 



