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of whom he is perfectly familiar through 

 long reading of the ancient classics. 



The reader will want to know what 

 this sauce is that will so surely find 

 favor with the advocates of beans and 

 brains. It is this : Down in Ventura 

 county, California, where the bean-vine 

 grows, there the little busy bee gathers 

 nectar from each opening bean-blossom, 

 which it doth store in its waxen cell for 

 the toothsome beans and the delicious 

 brown bread of the Boston epicures. 

 The California bean-flowers need uo 

 longer waste their sweetness upon the 

 desert air, for the coy and winsome 

 maiden with glasses perched upon her 

 nose, will gladly welcome each drop of 

 honey they give forth to the tiny honey- 

 gatherers, that it may find a resting 

 place in the bread and bean basket of 

 the brain workers of the intellectual hub 

 of the universe. 



To Boston's indisputable array of 

 "B's" must be added another. The list 

 will now stand— Boston Brown Bread, 

 Baked Beans, and Bees' Beautiful 

 Honey. Perhaps it might have been 

 well to have included " Brains" in the 

 above list. 



From a late issue of a Ventura paper, 

 we learn that the Ventura bee-keeper is 

 going to follow the bean-flowers up 

 pretty closely with his bees. When the 

 latter have gathered in the entire crop 

 of sage honey, and there is nothing else 

 for them to work upon in the location 

 of the apiary, the apiarist will put his 

 hives upon a wagon and transport them 

 to the vicinity of a bean-ranch. There 

 his bees will "turn themselves loose" 

 among the bean-blossoms. Honey, 

 bright and clear, will be the result. The 

 apiarist will be pleased, and the dweller 

 of the "Hub" will be delighted, when 

 given the right sort of nectar to flavor 

 his favorite dish. 



Our attention was first called to bean 

 honey at the World's Fair, where we 

 saw some very nice samples in the Cali- 

 fornia building ; in fact, at that time, 

 it was the only honey shown in that 

 building that came from this State. This 

 honey was both in the liquid form and 

 in the comb. At first we were a little 

 inclined to be skeptical about the honey 

 being gathered from the source it was 

 credited with coming from. Since then 

 we have learned that bees do gather a 

 fair quantity of this honey, and when 

 all the conditions are favorable, a very 

 large yield may be obtained. 



Mr. M. H. Mendleson is going to try 

 the experiment of moving several hun- 

 dred colonies of his bees from the moun- 

 tains to the valleys where the beans are 



raised. He is confident that he will get 

 a good yield of bean honey. All the 

 honey of this kind that he has seen is 

 very fine, and as clear and white as 

 could be desired. 



JSfow, who will get up a corner in 

 " bean" honey, and undertake to supply 

 the Boston market? Boston will, no 

 doubt, take all the honey that California 

 can produce, and, like Oliver Twist, cry 

 for more. 



North Temescal, Calif. 



I§ Chilled Brood the Cause of 

 Foul Brood Among Bees ? 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY A. D. KELLER. 



I am one of those that did not at first 

 think of answering Mr. McEvoy's article 

 on page 594 of the Bee Journal for 

 May. I presume the question should be 

 thoroughly discussed, as a large number 

 of bee-keepers believe as Mr. McEvoy. 



I have kept bees ever since 1870, and 

 have had as many as 700 colonies at 

 one time ; I also have been foul brood 

 inspector for several years, and I will 

 say that I have not seen a case of foul 

 brood which originated from chilled or 

 dead brood. 



I have experimented considerable with 

 dead brood, by letting it get rotten in 

 warm weather, and then I gave the 

 combs to the bees to be cleaned. I have 

 never seen any foul brood {bacillus alvei) 

 derived therefrom, but I have seen some- 

 thing that had a similarity to it. 



By giving combs containing dead 

 brood to the bees, they do not always 

 absolutely cleanse them of all germs (not 

 bacillus alvei), consequently a few of the 

 larvaj would become diseased, and die, 

 but the first crop of brood only. 



It is impossible for Mr. McEvoy's 

 remedy to cure bacillus alvei, as the 

 spores are sure to be in every place 

 wherever a bee can place its foot inside 

 of the hive, therefore his remedy is not 

 specific. 



I always used Prof. Frank R. Che- 

 shire's remedy, or some of its modifica- 

 tions, which I know is sure and infalli- 

 ble. Mr. Cheshire's remedy may be 

 found on page 644, of the American 

 Bee Journal for 1884. 

 Firth, Nebr. 



[As Prof. Cheshire's method of cure is 

 too long to republish, we would say that 

 we have it in pamphlet form, and can 

 mail a copy to any one interested, for 

 10 cents.— Ed.] 



