1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



693 



When extracting- I give the bees ten Simplicity 

 brood-frames in the brood-chamber, with perforat- 

 ed zinc on top. Tf the queen had full range of the 

 hive, I would have upper and lower stories two- 

 thirds filled with brood. The beauty of it is, I have 

 no queen to look for; no brood, but full frames of 

 honey. H. P. Faucett. 



Dilworthtown, Pa.. Aug-. 6, 1888. 



Eriend F., I am very glad indeed to get 

 both reports. We are glad there are two 

 sides to the matter of flat-bottom founda- 

 tion, and we are also glad to hear that the 

 zinc answers so well the purposes for which 

 it was originally designed. 



A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE FOR FOUL BROOD. 



I have two new chaff hives, a two and a one story, 

 in one of which I placed a super containing section 

 boxes containing some honey used last year, some 

 of them probably over the hives which had foul 

 brood. At the time I did this I did not know I had 

 foul brood. No bees have ever been in the hives. 

 Would it be necessary to boil the hives, or would 

 spraying with dilute carbolic acid do? Or would 

 pouring boiling hot water on them do? If you 

 think boiling would be best, can you tell me what is 

 the simplest means of doing it? Are your bees 

 wholly free from foul brood now? How long have 

 they been so? Would Doolittle's plan, mentioned 

 in his notes at the end of the A B C, be a sure cure 

 for foul brood? Mark W. Moe. 



Denver, Col., Aug. 7, 1888. 



Friend M., if there have been no bees in 

 the hive you speak of, I think a stream of 

 boiling water from a tea-kettle, spattered 

 pretty well around the inside of that hive 

 which contained the crate of honey from 

 the foul-broody colony, would answer. It 

 would probably be perfectly safe to use it as 

 it is ; but to be on the safer side you had 

 better carry out the suggestion as above. 

 Our bees are wholly free from foul brood, 

 and have been for the last three months. 

 Doolittle's plan as given in the comment is 

 all right. 



PERTAINING TO BEE CULTURE. 



THE GOLDEN BEE-HIVE, ONCE MORE. 



R. ROOT:— Inclosed I send you a circular, 

 scattered in this country; and parties are 

 selling farm-rights, and giving a hive for 

 $10.00. What of the hive, and about their 

 right to sell farm-rights? 

 Fairley, Miss., Aug. 2<J, 1888. G. S. Leatherbury. 

 With the above was a two-leaf pamphlet. 

 It is not dated, which is usually the case with 

 such documents, so we have not any idea at 

 all when it was printed. We presume, how- 

 ever, it is not very old. The pamplilet com- 

 mences with a large black head — " A Square 

 Talk to Beginners," and gives some infor- 

 mation in regard to bee culture, winding up 

 with tlie assertion that tlie (iolden hive is 

 the cheapest and most convenient one in 

 the market. Among a lot of testimonials 

 is the following : 



Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, at Lansing, reports over $80 from each 

 swarm of bees kept in the Golden hive last year. 



Now, if I am correct. Prof. Cook did, 

 some years ago, make a report of quite an 

 astounding yield per colony from the bees at 

 the college apiary; but lam quite sure it 

 was nothing like fSO.OO; and, furthermore, 

 Prof. Cook never had any tiling to do 

 with the Golden bee-hive in his lite, and I 

 am quite sure there has never been one of 

 them tested on the college grounds. Again, 

 we have the following : 



Mr. Adam Grimm, of Jefferson, Wisconsin, said, 

 a year ago, that he had $36,000 out at interest, that 

 he had made in five years from his bees. This was 

 net profit, and does not include 1200 colonies of bees 

 on hand, as capital stock. He uses the Golden bee- 

 hive exclusively. 



You see, the statement starts out with a 

 grain of truth. Adam Grimm did secure 

 several thousand dollars by keeping bees ; 

 but the assertion that he used the Golden 

 bee-hive exclusively is one of the most liare- 

 faced falsehoods I ever saw in print. lie 

 used a plain and simple modification of the 

 Langstroth hive, and was as much opposed 

 to patent bee-hives as anybody. Then 

 comes the following : 



Mr. E. Towniy, of W^ooster, Ohio, says: "I pur- 

 chased 10 hives of bees in the old-fashioned gums, 

 for $.50, which I transferred to the new Golden hive, 

 and after dividing I had 30 colonies. From these I 

 sold five hundred and forty-seven dollars' worth of 

 honey; and the increase of my bees, at $.5.00 a col- 

 ony, is worth one hundred more, making me six 

 hundred and forty-seven dollars in one year, from 

 an outlay of fifty dollars." 



This same statement first appeared in 

 H. A. King's '' Bee-keepers' Text-book,'' 

 written 20 or 2-5 years ago. Since that, the 

 same lingo has been copied into various 

 patent-hive circulars ; and quite a few of 

 them have declared that this Towniy used 

 their hive and no other. Now, this Golden 

 bee-bive man has the audacity to say that 

 the result was achieved by the Golden bee- 

 hive. The circular is signed by J. B. Pick- 

 rel, Nashville, Tenu. A string of names is 

 also appended, as indorsing the hives, from 

 Enterprise, Miss. Now, then, friends, we 

 are going to hunt up this J. B. Pickrel, and 

 make him stand up and explain, if it is a 

 possible thing. Please help us to get hold 

 of him, if he is not to be found at Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



Friend L., we are very much obliged to 

 you for sending us this circular, and we 

 should be very glad if you would show this 

 article to every one who has invested or 

 thinks of investing in the Golden hive. In 

 fact, we will mail a copy of this number of 

 Gleanings to every individual that any of 

 our readers know of, who have ever had any 

 thing to do with the Golden hive, or who 

 may be contemplating investing in rights. 

 If any of you think I am mistaken, l', can 

 easily get statements from Prof. Cook or our 

 friend George Grimm, son of Adam Grimm. 

 It is l)ut little better than forgery to take 

 reports like those we have copied, and 

 change them so as to favor some patent hive 

 which the parties had never heard of. Our 

 old readers all know that the Golden bee- 

 hive has been ventilated every little while 

 for ten or fifteen years. Every one who has 

 any thing to do with it seems to be up to 

 tricks of this sort, but we have never got 

 hold of any thing as barefaced before. 



