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case of sections filled with well drawn 

 comb, has done comparatively nothing 

 in it. 



LANGDON NON-SWAKMING ATTACHMENT. 



Lack of space will permit but a few 

 words touching this invention by way of 

 closing this article. Five of the attach- 

 ments were adjusted to double the num- 

 ber of hives, on the 22nd day of June, 

 since which time IT swarms have issued 

 from these hives ; In each instance thus 

 far the queen was returned to her own 

 hive and the swarm to the sister hive, 

 although it quickly became evident that 

 it was worse than yseless to do so. 



Full details of this line of work may 

 be looked for in my next article, from 

 which I think any intelligent apiarist 

 may easily determine the reason why 

 the attachment has failed in these cases 

 to honor its first name, and whether it 

 can be made practical anywhere. 



Lapeer, Mich. July 4, 1893. 



Colorado Bee-Inspector's Views 

 on Foul Brood. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY J. B. ADAMS. 



I notice on page 15, in Mr. McEvoy's 

 method of curing foul brood, he thinks 

 that dead brood will produce the dis- 

 ease. I have had considerable experi- 

 ence with this most-to-be-dreaded dis- 

 ease of bees for the past seven years, 

 and as bee-inspector of this (Boulder) 

 county the past two years, I have made 

 this disease a special study. I have 

 made several experiments, and I do not 

 believe that Mr. McEvoy can produce 

 the disease in this climate from dead 

 brood. 



A practical apiarist here, of 30 years' 

 experience with bees, thought he could 

 produce it from chilled brood, but he has 

 been compelled to admit it a failure 

 after trying every means in his power. 



I have handled dead brood in all stages 

 of decomposition, with no signs of the 

 disease coming from it. 



Again, Mr. McEvoy says that the 

 empty hives need no boiling, scalding or 

 disinfecting in any way. I do not be-' 

 lieve Mr. McEvoy can run a perfectly 

 healthy colony into an infected hive in 

 this climate, without at least great dan- 

 ger of their taking the disease. Several 

 here have tried it, even cleaning all 

 honey and wax out, and in every in- 

 stance they became diseased. We tried 

 one hive that had been robbed two years 



previously, and it stood open during the 

 time ; it developed in the f^rst brood that 

 was started. 



I think Mr. McEvoy's method of cur- 

 ing is the best I know of, but I would 

 caution inexperienced persons to be very 

 sure that none of the infected honey is 

 conveyed in any way to healthy colonies. 



Longmont, Colo. 



CONVEMTIOM DIRECTORY. 



1893. 



7}ime and place of meetinQ. 



Oct. 11, 12, 13.— North American (Interna- 

 tional), at Chicago, Ills. 

 Frank Benton, Sec, Washington, D. C. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Dr. C. C. Miller.... Marengo, Ills. 



Vice-Pres.— J. E. Crane Mlddlebury, Vt. 



Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York... Chicago, Ills. 



National Bee-Eeepers' Union. 



President— Hon. E. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 



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