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been severely denounced for it, not only 

 by those I never saw, but also by some of 

 my best friends. The amusement comes in 

 thinking of the crawfishing- there may be 

 some of these days. 



Well, here's the latest short cut: If the 

 colony to be treated for European foul 

 brood is not strong, be sure to make it so 

 by adding brood or bees, or both. If the 

 case is severe, remove the queen, and at the 

 same time give a virgin less than 24 hours 

 old or a protected queen-cell of best Italian 

 stock ; or give a young Italian laying queen 

 eight or ten days after dequeening. The 

 bees will do the rest. If the case is mild 

 and a proper queen present, merely cage 

 the queen in the hive and release her in a 

 week or ten days. That's all there is to it. 



" Is there any way of saving any of the 

 combs so they can be used again ? " 



No, if it's American; yes, if it's Euro- 

 I3ean. 



Another correspondent asks, " What do 

 you do to save the combs'? " Nothing. Just 

 use them the same as if there had been "no 

 disease. Vigorous bees with a vigorous 

 queen will clean them out. Spores may be 

 left, and here and there the disease may 

 break out again; but in the long run the 

 loss will be less than if the combs were 

 destroyed, and possibly the returns of the 

 disease will be no more frequent than if all 

 combs are destroyed. In my own apiary I 

 think there were no more fresh outbreaks 

 where the old combs were left than where 

 the bees were thrown upon foundation. 



If the old brood-combs can be safely used, 

 of course combs in supers are all right. 



Marengo, 111. 



A WINTER CASE FOM FOUM COLONIES HAVING A PERMANENT BOT- 

 TOM-BOARD USED THE YEAR ROUND 



BY A. C. AMES 



The greatest fault I have to find with 

 the tenement winter cases used by others is 

 in the confusion which results in moving 

 the bees into them in the fall and out in the 

 spring. In building my case I have elimi- 

 nated this trouble. The bottom serves the 

 double purpose of being the bottom for the 

 hives, and also the bottom of the case. Then 

 by placing hives on this board four to a 

 bottom, more hives can be placed on a small 

 plot of gi'ound, and still give room to work 



the hives. More hives can, of course, be 

 crowded together on the regular bottom, but 

 they would not have the same individuality. 

 1 build my bottoms 38 x 46, with a four- 

 inch alighting-board, which makes the bot- 

 tom 52 inches long. Two 2x4, 52 inches 

 long, serve for the bed timbers, and are 

 placed 8 inches in from the edge. In plac- 

 ing the strips for the hives to rest on I keep 

 the center ones one inch apart, and the 

 outside strips are 16 inches from the inside 



Fig. 1. — A. C. Ames' bottom-board, holding four hives. This is used in connection with his winter-ease, 

 but is also the permanent bottonvboard for the four colonies throughout the season. The notches are for 

 the Boardman feeder-blocks as shown in the next illustration. 



