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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUlvTURE. 



Aug. 15 



honey is tourlied. Tliis ])l;in is :i coiiij^letf 

 sn^l•es.^, avoids waste, ami is tloiic with littk' 

 work. 

 Ceres, C'al. 



[Your method of treatment, so far as I ean 

 see. is all right exee])t that one will lie tak- 

 ing long chances to rely on ten minutes' boil- 

 ing, which, while proving effective possibly 

 nine times out of ten. yet the tenth time the 

 disease might be spread all over the bee- 

 yard from such honey fed back. We had a 

 report of that kind some time ago, when ye 

 editor was most severely scored for even 

 suggesting that ten minutes" boiling of honey 

 would be sutiicient. The complainant aver- 

 red that he had followed my advice, presum- 

 ing 1 knew what I was talking about, and. 

 instead of curing the one or two eases he 

 \vm\ in the yard, he spread foul brood 

 through the whole apiary. If I were to let 

 this go unchallengetl. I am afraid this corres- 

 pondent woi;ld come back at me with clubs 

 and stones. Shortly after this time, elabo- 

 rate experiments conducted by several scien- 

 titic men showed that sometimes it took two 

 hours of boiling, repeated in two or three 

 days, before all the spores of the disease 

 would be killed. It is one thing to kill the 

 spores, another to kill the l^actual living 

 germs. The latter may lie very easily de- 

 stroved bv the application of a little heat. — 

 Ev.] 



3I()MN(; BEES 

 In Hives with Ojien Entrance; 



BY .1. L). COLES. 



In Gleanixcjs for April 1 is an article ask- 

 ing a (luestion aliout moving bees with closed 

 entrance. Having moved hun<lreds of colo- 

 nies. 1 prefer full tlight of bees all the time. 

 A few years ago I moved on the main street 

 here 27 colonies half a mile on a wheelbar- 

 row, two to three colonies at a time, giving 

 l)ees full liberty. In moving two colonies in 

 Florida, in my early experience. I had a hive 

 Vmrst open, and bees tilled the air like a 

 swarm, but did not disturb either myself or 

 horse, but followed the wagon 28 miles in 

 the air. ^^'hen it got dark the bees went in- 

 to the hive. The last two miles was after 

 dark, and not a bee stirring. The next day, 

 when I gave the other colony its liberty, it 

 swarmeil and clustered on a saw-palmetto, 

 and had to be hived. The colony that had 

 its liberty i-arried much l)etter than the one 

 confined. When I am alone I never think 

 of closing the entrance: fVu", to move the l)ees, 

 I have had nuich l)etter results in every way 

 with the o])en door. The trouble is, if a bee- 

 kee])er could always do the work himself 

 without calling outside help it w(mld always 

 be nmch pleasanter, as help often makes 

 trouble instead of averting it. 



Woodstown, N. J. 



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