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bees will not store much diseased honey in their sacks when late careful 

 brushing takes place, and as no brood is started until very early spring, 

 all spores that could be carried have passed through the mature bees and 

 the spring larvae is healthy. American foul brood is strictly a honey 

 disease, and as such great care must be used to keep clean bees from 

 the same. The disease is also in old combs. I am trying a treatise on 

 old diseased combs this winter, and if it works successfully for two sea- 

 sons will place the treatment before the world too. The old McEvoy 

 treatment is good, but all good things always have a better, as man has 

 not reached the state of perfection yet. I have no foul brood in my 

 mating yard. All disease I treat is here in Philadelphia, and my mating 

 yard is 35 miles west of here. 



(We will look with interest for your treatment of American foul 

 brood without shaking the bees from the combs. — Ed.) 



A Successful Lady Bee-Keeper 



By GEO. W. WILLIAMS, Redkey, Ind.. 



'^^^ HERE are a few underlying principles that all the books teach 



\^J us and all the journals constantly reiterate, and we all fully 



believe them to be genuine bee-gospel, yet very few of us practice 



them in their entirety, and hence we fail in a greater or less degree to 



obtain what should come to us in our l)usincss. 



We all believe that young queens are superior to old ones, as a gen- 

 eral thing. 



We all know that our bees winter and spring better by having 

 enough honey in the fall to last them until honey comes again. 



We all know that strong colonies of young bees winter l:)etter than 

 weaker or even equally strong colonies of older bees. 



Here are three points about which we can all agree in a general 

 way, but how many of us have a system by which we can uniformly 

 secure these three things? 



I doubt if many of us do. 



It remains for a little energetic lady to show us how to do it suc- 

 cessfully, secure a good crop of honey every year, and to winter with 

 practically no loss whatever, winter after winter. 



In fact, if she loses more than one it almost breaks her heart. Fre- 

 quently she goes through two successive winters without losing a single 

 colony. 



I am going to call her Mrs. Smith, as that is not her name and will 

 do as well as any other. 



She lives in town, and like the roseate chicken "ads" we are seeing 

 less of lately, she "keeps her birds all on one city lot."' She has about 

 100 colonies, spring count, and she uses 100 more hives in her system. 



She clips all her queens in the spring, thereby "shaking up" the 



