THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 17 



placed them in other cages, although they looked as dead as dead 

 could be, but in the warm sunshine they dried off and became as 

 lively as ever. I then soaked some of the hives, combs, bees and 

 brood with very satisfactory results. In other hives 1 caught all 

 the vermine on thin narrow strips of raw lean beef. I know other 

 bee-keepers who used good old-fashioned home-cured strips of raw 

 salt pork with as satisfactory results. 



Another remedy that I found to l)e very good was to smoke the 

 bees until they were apparently nearly dead, give them a good 

 soaking shower bath with the watering pot, fill the hives with clear 

 tobacco smoke, close . it up and let them come out of it at their 

 leisure. Use no rags or wood to smoke either bees or hives. Use 

 only clear tobacco. The stems of tobacco will answer. 



THE £GGS HATCH IN THBEi: DAYS. 



The eggs of the vermin hatch in three days, so on the fourth 

 day give the second dose of tobacco smoke, and if properly done 

 the vermin are done out also. 



I hastened to answer your article so you can use it to help the 

 sufferers, and use it in the January Review. Not quite all of the 

 bee-keepers of the "way back sixties'" are dead. I'm one of those 

 kid-beginners who has seen just forty years of the bee-business. 



Woodbury, Conn. 



[I must confess that some of the remedies proposed above look 

 rather strenuous. Catching the lice on the strips of meat look to 

 me to be the most humane, if it only gets the results. 



I wonder, however, just how dangerous this louse business is. 

 With the importations going on to such an extent it seems that we 

 would have heard more complaint if there was much danger. 

 However, it is well that we should know about it, and how to get 

 rid of it if it does appear. As stated in the December number, it is 

 a new one to me.] 



Using an Automobile in the Bee Business. 



ISAAC BALMER 



^■^OU ask me to write you an explanation regarding those two 

 V^ photos that I showed you at Toronto. The car is a 2-cylin- 

 ^ der, 24-h. p., 5-passenger Jackson touring car. model D, ■$"?800. 

 The body is fastened to the frame with four bolts which are easily 

 removed. The body is hoisted with block and tackle in the barn 

 and allowed to hang there until it is wanted for a little pleasure. 

 A flat Lorry body is put on when required for conveying bee sup- 

 plies to and from the out-yards. One picture shows the last load of 

 planer shavings that I passed through Burlington with, on my way 

 to the out-yard to pack my bees for winter. They are wintered 



