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every day "from early morn till 

 eve," and have been obliged, till I 

 got "the trap," to divide when I did 

 not wish to do so, in order that a 

 swarm might not run away in my 

 absence. 



Now all this is changed. I go 

 away in the morning, knowing I 

 shall find my bees at night on my 

 return, just where they were left. 

 My better half is enthusiastic over 

 the "trap," as she does not now 

 have the care and trouble of con- 

 stant watching, that she once did 

 have, and all is serene and pleasant 

 where once were bother and confu- 

 sion. As the name indicates, this 

 trap is useful in more ways than 

 one. It is a great aid in controll- 

 ing fertilization, as any particular 

 drones may be kept from flying at 

 any time, and can be captured 

 without trouble if desired. My 

 advice to every beekeeper, even of 

 only two or three colonies, is to 

 procure at once one or more traps 

 and be happy. 



Foxboro, Mass., June 21, 1886. 



FOUL BROOD: COFFEE AS 



A DESTROYER OF 



PUTREFACTION. 



From Britisli Bee Journal^ June 24. 



The opinions of the treatment of 

 this plague are very various. Some 

 recommend salicylic acid, camphor, 

 etc., and claim to have attained 

 certain cures with them ; whilst 

 a large number of beekeepers deny 

 to these remedies any influence 

 whatever on the course and the dis- 

 appearance of tlie disease, and con- 

 sider the destroying of the infected 

 hives as the only proved means of 

 saving the other hives. 



If it were permitted to make an 

 assertion here, wc should allow our- 

 selves the following one : The for- 

 mer have succeeded in good hoyiey 



years, the latter inhad years. [This 

 is opposed to our experience. — 

 Ed.] 



On this occasion we again refer 

 to our article : — " In good honey 

 years Foul Brood disappears of its 

 own accord." [See page 268, B. 

 B. ./.—Ed.] 



The opinion, which is therein re- 

 presented, that up till now Nature 

 herself is the most eff'ectual comba- 

 tant against foul brood, has been 

 shared already by many exper- 

 ienced beekeepers. The notices 

 which have reached us on this sub- 

 ject prove this. "We shall refer to 

 tliera shortly. Lehzen wrote sev- 

 eral years ago in the Centralhlatt 

 that foul brood appears from time 

 to time in certain neighbourhoods 

 of North Germany, but disappears 

 also of itself again. Were tliis not 

 the case, as Lehzen aflirms, were 

 Nature not able to combat this de- 

 vastating plague, yes, even to ex- 

 tinguish it, the busy bee would 

 alrea.ly long ago have disappeared 

 from the face of the earth. [Like 

 all epidemics which run their course ; 

 but that is no reason why we should 

 apply no remedies. — Ed.] 



After all this, therefore, we stand 

 independent of Dame Nature, some- 

 what helpless in regard to foul 

 brood ; all the more welcome, there- 

 fore, should the following com- 

 munication from Herr Wi'ist of St. 

 Amarin, Upper Alsatia, on " Coff"ee 

 as a Destroyer of Putrefaction." 



When on"September21, 1885, at 

 the general meeting in Colniar, all 

 the means hitherto used for the 

 cure of foul brood were roundly re- 

 jected on all sides as too trouble- 

 some, too expensive, too uncertain, 

 and flre and flame recommended 

 to the expert as the only radical 

 cure. I consoled myself with the 

 hope that our indefatigable scien- 

 tific men would yet succeed in 

 finding a more suitable means. 



As it seems to me now, it has al- 

 ready been found on Alsatian 



