THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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forenoon, and .very hot days I put wa- 

 ter in their feeders and they go for it 

 Uke thirsty animals. 



What do you think best to cover the 

 frames with, board, or duck cloth? I 

 mean for winter and spring cover, as 

 well as for summer. 



I have taken off some very nice look- 

 ing honey, but shall not take off the re- 

 maining cases at present, hoping they 

 will be all filled and capped more even- 

 ly than the first. 



Perhaps you can say in the Api all 

 the information I shall need on this 

 subject and not take many lines either. 

 Medfield, Mass. Mrs. A. E. Mason. 



[The queen will take possession of the 

 combs in the top hive and there make it 

 her home unless a queen-excluding board 

 is used betAveen the two hives. 



One of the sets of comljs will be all 

 right to put a ncAV swarm on in the spring. 

 No harm can be done by leaving tlie two 

 hives "double" all winter. 



Your Avay of feeding bees is pretty good, 

 and one interested in bees as you are, 

 must enjoy such a way of caring for 

 them.] 



FOUL BROOD. 



I should like to know how our Ameri- 

 can friends deal with the terrible disease 

 — foul-brood, — also, what their opinion 

 of the Cheshire cure is. — Perhaps mylit- 

 tle experience with this disease may be of 

 interest to some. During the summer 

 months of 1892, I had several colonies 

 affected, and I tried the Cheshire remedy 

 which, as far as my experience goes, is a 

 failure. The first colony I tried the ex- 

 periment on I removed the worst of the 

 brood, (also the honey) and carefully 

 sprinkled all the combs of hive with the 

 solution, two parts of water to one part 

 of pure carbolic, at the same time feed- 

 ing diluted honey and carbolic, (all the 

 landing boards of the other hives were 

 painted with a strong solution of the 

 acid) but despite my exertions the 

 malady grew in the affected hive, till 

 the bees had dwindled very low, and were 

 completely demoralized, at which stage 

 I administered a few strong puffs of 

 sulphur smoke, and closed the hive. 



smothering the bees of course ; later on 

 I had a couple more similiarly affected, 

 and treated them likewise with no bet- 

 ter results ; on other colonies later on I 

 tried salicylic acid and soda, sixteen 

 grains of each to a quart of syrup after 

 previously removing all brood honey 

 etc., and providing a clean hive. — I 

 found this answered best of any and 

 will, I believe, almost always cure foul 

 brood in its early stage, at least in this 

 locality : — I should like to know how 

 you American beekeepers treat this di- 

 sease. Should you, Mr. Editor, consider 

 this worth publishing I shall feel obliged. 

 Springwood, 

 Blue Mts., New South Wales. 

 Geo. Stratton. 



[If but fcAV colonies are infected, it 

 would be better to destroy them entire. 

 The last method you tried is as good as 

 any] . 



A CHAinCTERISTIC LETTER FROM 

 FATHER LANGSTROTH. 



Dayton, Ohio, July 29, 1S92. 



Mr. H. ALLEy, 



Dear Sir : — 



When I asked you to send me a Pu- 

 nic queen to test the race, I expected to 

 use her in the apiary of a Dayton friend ; 

 but he sold all his bees. I therefore re- 

 quested you to send them to my friend, 

 D. A. McCord of Oxford. I was there 

 last week and found them still caged. 

 His apiary is on the turnpike, and he 

 had heard such accounts of their vin- 

 dictiveness, that he did not dare raise 

 any bees of the kind. I will either return 

 them to you, if they live, or send them 

 to any place you may designate. 



I have just received a letter from T. 

 W. Cowan, with three British Bee Jour- 

 nals. I think that when you read the 

 account he gives of these bees as exam- 

 ined by him in Africa, you will not wish 

 to have anything more to do with 

 them. 



You have long been known as the larg- 

 est queen raiser in the country, and I 



