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Unit lutli wuri' nalleil on the iHjarild 1 ini'hex 

 fniin each edge, anil a l-lnch strip of sacking 

 waH laid down tlie center part of the lKjard» 

 \\^ forni more driiiklng-room. 



Tli<^ feeil at llrKt waH oiic-lbird sugar, but 

 later they were ri^'ersed, with a tebleKpoon of 

 tartaric aciid for !,'0 pounds of sugar. 'I'he 

 I'ctMJ was placed in the kegs, and a stream cjf 

 hyrup sulilcient to allow it to run off siiiiie at 

 the opposite end into the trougli. I have 

 fed thefn l.'iOII pounds of sugar made into 

 syrup, and a few colonies will need more, 

 wiiicli I am feeding individually. 



I ili'nik they have sulilcient to winter on, 

 hut I want to/.//""' it, 90 I can better enjoy 

 the winter. A " whole lot is just about right,'' 

 is good advice. 



As a whole, I have no regrets having fed 

 them as I did. The main thing is to give 

 them plenty of drinking space, that they may 

 not crowd one another into the feed. I found 

 when mine were working at their best, the 

 two 14-foot l)oard6 and the trough with fenc- 

 ing lloat was Imrilly .sufficient space. 



Syrup mai-lc 2 parts of sugar to one of water, 

 would be carried away at the rate of about 

 12.5 pounds of sugar to the hour. I used the 

 wash-boiler on the gasoline stove to make the 

 syrup, and fed it as warm as they would take 

 it. 



Before I commenced feeding all were 

 exannned and marked on the front of the hive, 

 its condition as to stores and otherconditions. 

 Two drone-layers and one laying-worker col- 

 ony were found, and their honey distributed 

 to equalize with, so far as they went. 



Before feeding the last 500 pounds they 

 were again examined, and eiiualized by the 

 exchange of frames. I have some 1.500 partly 

 filled sections whic^ I will give them as soon 

 as I take them from the cellar. 



The weather during October was warm and 

 pleasant, jvith but few exceptions. The bees 

 have worked some on sweet and white clover, 

 and dandelions, which are still blooming quite 

 freely. F. W. Hall. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, Oct. 25. 



BEEPOM BOILED 





Bees and Pear-Blight. 



The editor of Uleanings in Bee-Culture 

 comtnents quite fully upon the able article of 

 Prof. Cook, published in this journal on page 

 664, quoting freely therefrotn. assenting in 

 general to the views expressed by the Profes- 

 sor. The following extract from the editorial, 

 however, takes a little different vie-w, and is 

 worthy of careful perusal: 



The question naturally arises, then, "If 

 the local bee-keeepers of Hantord and other 

 infected districts can not by any procedure 

 abate the nuisance, what is thereto be done ?'' 

 If the pear-blight would come anyhow with- 

 out the bees, it it would spread from tree to 

 tree by the agency of other insects, although 

 not nearly so numerous, what possible good 

 can come from persecuting the bee-keeper \ 

 Even it it be admitted that, the bees them- 

 selves are almost the sole means tor the trans- 

 mission of the disease, then there is the stub- 

 born fact that there are many colonies of 

 bees in the rocks and caves that are what 

 would be called in law /cr/p luitiintf, or ani- 

 mals out of the jurisdiction of man, and. 

 therefore, man can not be held responsible 

 for the depredations that they may commit. 



Prof. Cook, in the first quotation above 

 given, suggests or points out a reason why 

 young nursery stock that has never bloomed 

 should be blighted. The virus found in the 

 semi-liquid resinous secretion, he says, would 

 be visited by the bees, and. therefore, the 

 bees would help spread the disease. Right 

 here, it seems to me, we lack proof. I care- 

 fully questioned the bee-keepers and pear- 

 men in the vicinity; and so far as I can re- 

 member no one was prepared to say that bees 

 were ever found on these young shoots — that 



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