1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



749 



Mr. N. D. West, who is about 35 miles east 

 of me, says he certainly has in his locality 

 unmistakable foul brood, while Mr. C. H. 

 Ferris, a bee-keeper of 25 years' experience, 

 and inventor of the steam wax-extractor, liv- 

 ing about the same distance west (one of the 

 afflicted), says he has not seen a cell of foul 

 brood ; that it is clearly pickled brood, and 

 calls it a poverty disease, and cites the 85-col- 



As to my use of tall 4x5x1^ sections, I ex- 

 perimented with them in 1885 and '86. The 

 next year, 1887, I changed one-third of my 

 business to them. The following season I 

 changed my entire outfit. I have always ad- 

 vocated their use, my argument being that, 

 from infancy, our eyes have been trained to 

 that form, and it is, therefore, more pleasing. 

 Doors, windows, books, letters, and the, like 





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E. HETHERINGTON, THE MOST EXTENSIVE BEE-KEEPER IN THE WORI^D. 



St'f Edilojials. 



ony apiary of Mr. W. L. Smith, an old-time 

 bee-keeper, which he examined last spring, 

 and found all the colonies badly affected, on 

 recent examination not a trace of it could be 

 found; claims it can not be foul brcod, as 

 that trouble always goes from bad to worse. 

 We have many good practical men who are 

 firm in the belief that the trouble is pickled 

 brood and nothing else. 



are in that form. It is seldom an artist makes 

 a square picture — (4^x4^) — generally rec- 

 tangular in form. I have no knowledge of 

 their prior use, and think they will increase 

 in popularity. 



As to no-drip shipping- cases, I asked one 

 of my men this morning how long 1 had used 

 them. He said he began work for me in 1887, 

 and had never seen any other kind used. 



