GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Rural camp boys from Sydney, Australia, visiting the apiary of T. G. Adamsou and G. G. Phillips, Neming- 

 ha. New South Wales. (See editorial.) Photo by I. W. Tremaine, of the Sydiiey Technical College. 



eluding honey-boards, but was not at the 

 time of writing satisfied that they were the 

 best practical way of securing results 

 sought. 



About the same time perforated zinc, 

 much as we now know it, came into use, 

 but in full sheets for honey-boards it was 

 unsatisfactory, as it would twist and "buck- 

 le" and not maintain a true bee-space. 



The step of uniting the slats and the 

 strips seems so obvious now that we wonder 

 it was not thought of even before it was. 



The inserting of strips of zinc between 

 the slats was described by Dr. Tinker in 

 Gleanings in 1886, p. 203. James Hed- 

 don writing in Gleanings in 1888, p. ;)94, 

 says after referring to tacking zinc to the 

 surface of the strips: "Then came the 



thought of grooving the edges of the slats 

 and sliding strips of zinc into the gi'ooves 

 as the honey-board was nailed up, which 

 was quicker done, and made a neater and 

 far more atti'active job; and C. E. Boyer, 

 W. Z. H., Dr. Tinker, and myself, all 

 thought of this simple device without the 

 aid of each other; but as Dr. Tinker was the 

 first to publish it to the world, no one op- 

 posed this iDriority nor should they." And 

 on the same page Mr, Heddon suggests 

 making the rows of holes in the zinc in 

 pairs, two rows close together as it is now 

 made. 



To Dr. G. L. Tinker belongs the honor of 

 the modern queen-excluding honey-board. 



Providence, R. 1., July ^8, 1914. 



DANGER OF FOUL BEOOD t, PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE 



BY L. W. CROVATT 



" We have no such thing as foul brood, 

 either of the American or European kind in 

 this, the southeastern section of the coun- 

 try." 



" No ; but you will have, rest assured of 

 that. It is only a question of time." 



I very much fear that I gave a smirk of 

 self-satisfaction when, one day last week, 

 I made the remark in the opening para- 

 graph. Mr. A. Ii'ish, an Englishman of 

 Connecticut, and I were walking on the 

 stx'eets of Savannah. Both of us were hve- 



