GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 192^ 



because honey is miscible with the disin- 

 fectant. 



6. The liquid fills every cell immediately, 

 provided the combs, while held in their nat- 

 ural position, are inclined from side to side. 



Residt of Tests With Diseased Combs. 



Combs, which had been treated by this 

 method, were sent to the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. The following report was received: 



"Cultures were made from the dried 

 scales and also from granular material from 

 sealed cells. After subculturing and incu- 

 bation for four or five days, no evidence of 

 spore germination could be demonstrated. 

 "A. P. Sturtevant, 



"Assistant Apiculturist. " 



By soaking combs 48 hours in the purest 

 grade of alcohol, containing 20 per cent of 

 formalin, honeycomb is made just as valu- 

 able as it was before infected. On account 

 of the violent poisons, which adhere to bees- 

 wax, that are used in making completely de- 

 natured alcohol, this kind of alcohol can not 

 be used. 



I have had more than 200 standard Lang- 

 stroth combs, which two years ago were 

 infected, pass through two seasons with no 

 return of disease. Another 200 combs have 

 passed through this last season with no re- 

 turn of infection. 



These experiments have been carried out 

 in my apiary of 150 colonies. This month 

 of October, by most careful examination, I 

 am unable to find a single colony infected 



by American foul brood. In other words, I 

 have thus far had 100 per cent success by 

 using alcoholic formalin as above described. 

 Failure to have colonies free from foul 

 brood, after putting combs disinfected by 

 this method in those colonies, will be due 

 to one or more of tlie following reasons: 



1. Carrying infectious material from a 

 diseased hive, either directly or indirectly, 

 into the healthy colony. The beekeeper 

 should make sure that his hands and tools 

 are free from foul-brood germs, when work- 

 ing with healthy colonies. 



2. Permitting bees to obtain infected 

 honey from a diseased hive while being ex- 

 amined or shaken in the usual way for foul 

 brood. 



3. Storeroom for diseased combs is not 

 bee-tight; consequently, bees are robbing 

 diseased honey. 



4. Bees are robbing infectious honey from 

 sources unknown to the beekeeper. This 

 may be a neighbor 's diseased hive, a weak 

 diseased colony in a bee-tree, or a discarded 

 honey container whose contents came from 

 a diseased colony. 



In conclusion, I wish to extend due credit 

 to the Bee Culture Office, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, Washington, D. C, and to The A. I. 

 Root Company, for the assistance each lias 

 given, particularly for the tests they have 

 made, 



Glendale, Ohio. 



NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING 



Ho'w Local Ne-wspapers Can be 



Used to Best Ad'vantage in Selling 



Honey 



By C. H. Wolfe 



IF every bee- 

 keeper could 

 speak to the 

 whole world face 

 to face each 

 morning and tell 

 the inliabitants 

 thereof the mer- 

 its of honey as 

 a food, and of 

 the desirability of his own honey in par- 

 ticular, there would be no need of other ad- 

 vertising, because there is no selling agency 

 which quite equals the personal contact of 

 the producer with the possible consumer of 

 his product. 



Sucli a course admittedly being impossi- 

 ble, we must devise other methods of reacli- 

 ing the buyer if we wish to reacli more than 

 our immediate neighbors and friends. Road- 

 side signs, exliibits at the county fair, and 

 displays in store windows and food shows 

 are most frequently used to get the atten- 

 tion of honey consumers, and may be made 

 productive of excellent results. The aver- 

 age beekeeper, liowever, can use the col- 

 umns of his local newspaper to good advan- 

 tage in his honey-selling campaign in addi- 

 tion to nil other media. 



There are two chief difficulties tliat pre- 

 vent most beekeepers from using newspaper 



advertising a s 

 profitably as 

 they might. One 

 is their unwill- 

 ingness to spend 

 enough money to 

 m a k e a credit- 

 able showing; 

 the other, a lack 

 of knowledge of 

 tlie best method of using their newspaper 

 advertising appropriation. 

 Kind of Newspaper Advertising Best Suited 

 for Beekeepers. 

 In these days of whole and half-page ads, 

 such space as a beekeeper would be justi- 

 fied in buying is apt to be entirely over- 

 shadowed by the big advertiser. For that 

 reason I have never found the ordinary 

 space or display advertisement very profit- 

 able. I have tried "locals" or short read- 

 ers, and while they do bring results, their 

 expense, if used as liberally as they should 

 be, mounts up pretty fast.' In city papers, 

 where the rate for readers and display space 

 is high, honey advertisers find the use of 

 the want columns brings them the best re- 

 sults for the outlay involved. The want 

 column of your home weekly or daily can 

 be tried oiit at slight cost also, and will 

 bring sales enough to make it pay. 



