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GI.EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 15. 



other contagious disease to report the same to 

 the Department of Agriculture, and take such 

 steps for its eradication as the department 

 may direct. The Governor is empowered to 

 appoint one or more experts to carry the law 

 into eflfect. 



In 1897 there were 641,127 colonies of bees 

 in Hungary, of which 197,382 occupied hives 

 with movable frames, and 443,745 were in 

 straw hives. The honey was estimated at 

 6,800,000 lbs., and wax 3,000,000 lbs. 



The editor well says : ' ' There can be no 

 reasonable objection to individual bee-keep- 

 ers making hives for their own use to what- 

 ever style, size, or shape they may prefer ; 

 but it forms part of our mission as editors to 

 guide readers into the methods of manage- 

 ment proved by experience to be best. 

 While allowing perfect freedom for all so far 

 as regards personal preferences, we strongly 

 deprecate any general interference with the 

 size or measurement of the standard frame." 



In the Journal of the Board of Agriculture 

 for June we learn that 4S million pounds of 

 honey was imported into Hamburg, Germany, 

 in 1899. More than half of it came from 

 Chili and Peru. The light crop in this coun- 

 try last summer caused an increase in price 

 there. Complaint is continually made in Ger- 

 many of increasing competition of artificial 

 honey, and measures are being taken by the 

 honey-producers of Germany to obtain prohi- 

 bition of imitations. By the way, why is the 

 manufacture of an injurious adulterant per- 

 mitted in this country, especially when not 

 an ounce of it ever reaches the consumer 

 under its proper name? Glucose is injurious 

 to human health, and every pound of it made 

 represents so much swindle at the expense of 

 the one who last buys it. 



In speaking of foul brood in straw skeps, 

 one writer makes the following observations: 



Foul brood and skeps are the source of all the mis- 

 chief in my neighborhood ; in ffact, foul old skeps 

 have infected my own apiary. Skeps rotten with age, 

 standing on old floor-boards never cleansed or disin- 

 fected, the disease gets in. the owner is ignorant, and 

 knows nothing of foul brood; finally his diseased 

 hives are robbed out, and the di.sease conveyed to 

 stocks kept, as mine are, under sanitary conditions. 

 In skeps the disease can not be detected in its early 

 stages, as in frame hives ; the stock perhaps gets 

 weak, and either dies or is robbed out, or may be the 

 owner " takes it " for the sake of the honey it may 

 contain, exposing the comb for other stocks to clean 

 up. Such a case came under my notice last autumn, 

 and now the owner's one-bar frame hive is affected, 

 and in all probability his three skeps as well. I fear 

 foul brood is going to commit great ravages in the 

 East Riding of Yorkshire. If the skeps in my neigh- 

 borhood could he all destroyed, there might be a 

 chance of stamping out foul brood, but never so long 

 as they exist. 



Foul-broody frames of foundation that have 

 been fumigated with sulphur, and afterward 

 sprayed with a napthol-beta solution, will be 

 quite safe for using again. 



PROCESS FOR BLEACHING COMB HONEY. 



By the Man who First Introduced the Bleaching 

 Process. 



BY L. J. CROMBIE. 



Build a bleaching-house by placing posts 

 2x4 or 4X4 in the ground, 5 feet apart on all 

 sides, making it 10 feet square and 7 feet high. 

 Put on plates and roof. Build up around the 

 bottom with lumber 2 feet high from the 

 ground, making it bee-tight. Put in your 

 shelves between the posts, making them 4 

 inches wide, and placing them 6 inches apart, 

 one above the other. Place these shelves entire- 

 ly around your bleaching-house, then cover the 

 outside, from the lumber at the bottom to the 

 plate, with the lightest house-lining. Seal 



overhead with cloth or lumber. Leave the 

 space between the sealing and roof open so as 

 to keep your house as cool as possible. 



Place a screen-door in one corner, as seen in 

 the sketch. Locate a work table, 3x6, in the 

 center of your bleaching-hotise, for cleaning 

 and packing on. 



The best way to build a sulphuring-box is 

 to take a stovepipe, 8 feet long, with an elbow 

 at one end. Place the pipe under ground 

 about 8 inches deep, letting the elbow come 

 up above ground in one corner of your bleach- 

 ing-house. For Ihe outside end of the pipe 

 take an old coal-oil can and cut a hole in the 

 side sufficiently large to admit the stove- 

 pipe. Cut about half of the top of the can 

 out square to allow you to put in your sulphur 

 and for draft ; then make a box just the size 

 of a super, but four times deeper. Place the 

 box over the elbow on the ground, in the cor- 

 ner of your bleaching-house, as seen in the 

 sketch. 



We are now ready for business. When you 

 take oflF full supers of honey from the hives, 

 carry them into your bleaching-house and 

 place on the sulphuring box ; build up ten or 

 twelve high. Put a heaping tablespoonful of 

 sulphur in an old tin plate or pan, and place 

 it in the oil can and start it to burning. In 



