THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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operator wonders " what makes the 

 bees so cross." 



Each frame should be nailed on a 

 block, and two nails put iu at each 

 corner, or eiirht nails to a frame, then 

 each frame will be a duplicate of an- 

 other. 



We are now making- every prepara- 

 tion for another season's trade. Amonj? 

 the new things to be used in the api- 

 ary is a new queen nursery. Our old 

 style had but eighteen cages, while 

 the new one will have twenty-four. 

 These same cages will answer for 

 shipping and introducing queens as 

 well as for hatching cells and preserv- 

 ing surplus queens. By our system of 

 queen-rearing a nursery of twenty- 

 four cages is equally as valuable as the 

 same number of nuclei. When a fer- 

 tile queen is removed from a nucleus, 

 an unfertile one at the proper age to 

 make the " mating flight" is ready to 

 be introduced; thus it will be seen by 

 such an arrangement, queens can be 

 reared very rapidly, and at half the 

 expense and trouble that most dealers 

 go to. 



ITEMS FROM THE DETROIT CON- 

 VENTION. 



Mr. McLain, echoing the state- 

 ments and opinions of many of the 

 more prominent apiarists of the past 

 and present, said that it was "abso- 

 lutely necessary that the bees have 

 easy access to salt, and that the 

 apiary should be abundantly sup- 

 plied with it at all seasons of the 

 year when the bees are at work in 

 the fields." He further stated tliat 

 the bees must have saline properties 

 when rearing brood and collecting 

 honey and that without these they 

 will become diseased and that when 

 the former cannot be obtained read- 

 ily about the apiary from the soil, 

 and other sources, the bees will 

 resort to the mullein which yields 

 the same abunda,ntly and in their en- 

 deavors to obtain these properties 

 from the mullein, the bees become 

 entangled with the glutinous fibres 

 of the mullein, so often referred to 

 and illustrated in the past. 



Mr. McLain asks, "May this not 

 in a measure at least explain the 

 "new bee disease?" 



The fact, as we stated in the 

 November number of the "Apicul- 

 turist," that salt had cured some bees 

 and to all appearances eradicated all 

 traces of the disease, seems to war- 

 rant this conclusion. 



The British Bee Journal iox De- 

 cember. I St, alluding to this disease, 

 states that, in its opinion, support- 

 ed by actual experiment, the new 

 bee disease of America is none 

 other than the Baccillus delphilis 

 (auct. Gayfoni) of Mr. Cheshire and 

 it further states that "a colony treated 

 carefully with phenol has been en- 

 tirely freed from all traces of the 

 disease." 



The Rev. L. L. Langstroth iu re- 

 sponse to the call for a speech said : 



When he met a beekeeper he felt that 

 he had met a friend. When he first 

 connnenced the study of apiculture 

 with the intention of improving its 

 condition, he could not, with his lim- 

 ited resources, see just how his wishes 

 could be accomplished, but he thought 

 that he would be doing God's work by 

 helping to flow the land with "milk and 

 honey" and he would be glad to see 

 honey as cheap as butter. 



Regarding his invention (the mova- 

 ble frame hive) much more credit had 

 been given him than he could appre- 

 ciate. His ideas had not developed 

 into something practical. Where 

 would he have been but for Moses 

 Quinby and Adam Grimm? His inven- 

 tion was practical and these were 

 practical men to take hold of it; but 

 for this his invention would be of but 

 little use. 



He also stated that the Good candy 

 was given by a Rev. Mr. Schultz of 

 Germany many years ago. If men had 

 known and practically used this candy 

 (or bee food,) ere this many thousands 

 of colonies might have been saved from 

 starvation and much credit is due Mr. 

 Good for bringing it into practical 

 use. 



Mr. Langstroth also stated that he 

 had made no money out of his inven- 

 tion ; he had not the knack of making 

 money. He never had any ill feelings 

 against anyone, for if he had not the 

 money he had what was worth more, 

 the confidence and affection of the bee- 

 keepers. 



