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foul brood was a failure with him, and 

 he warns bee-keepers not to be misled 

 by me. I will now appoint Mr. Martin 

 Emigh, of Holbrook, Ont.,the Treasurer 

 of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 to hold the stakes, and I now ask Mr. 

 Randolph Graden to back his opinion by 

 sending $100 to Mr. Emigh to hold, 

 and I will hand him another $100 to 

 hold until we test my methods of curing 

 foul brood. I want Mr. Graden to send 

 to Mr. Gemmill, of Stratford, Ont., the 

 President of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, one of the worst cases of 

 foul brood that he can find, and have 

 my methods of curing that disease 

 tested. If I w,in. Father Langstroth is 

 to get half of the money, and if Mr. 

 Graden wius, he is also to send half of 

 the money to Mr. Langstroth. 



I think that Mr. Muth doesn't believe 

 that I can cure foul brood, or that my 

 methods will cure the real, virulent foul 

 brood. I would like a test case made of 

 some of his sort of foul brood. If he 

 will send one of the worst cases he can 

 get to Mr. F. A. Gemmill, of Stratford, 

 I will put up $150 or $300, that I can 

 get him to cure it ; the winner to send 

 $50 to Mr. Langstroth. 



In the Amebican Bee Joubnal for 

 some time back, I have read several 

 letters from bee-keepers, going for me 

 on this foul-brood question. I have not 

 the time to answer them all just now, 

 but must tell them that I have handled, 

 cured and got cured in the last 17 years, 

 more foul brood colonies, than any 

 other 200 bee-keepers in the world put 

 together. 



NOT SCALDING FOUL-BKOODY HIVES. 



Some of these men are making a big 

 fuss because I don't have the empty 

 hives scalded. I never in all the locali- 

 ties that I have visited, in the Province 

 of Ontario, had an empty hive scalded, 

 except by two men ; one of these men 

 did so on his own account, and the 

 other did it at the bidding of another 

 man. I have had hundreds of foul- 

 broody colonies cured in the same old 

 hives, and will defy any man to get any 

 of these men that I cured foul brood for, 

 to say that the empty hive did him any 

 harm in any way. Empty hives never, 

 no, never, gave the disease ! 



SCOFFING AT SO-CALLED SCIENCE. 



In the American Bee Journal of 

 July 20th, I see that Mr. W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson doesn't agree with me on some 

 points ; but when he says that I scoflf at 

 science, he puts that rather strong. 



I scoffed at a so-called scientist some 

 years ago when he reported that the 

 bee-keepers made the comb honey, and 

 passed it off for bees' honey. 



I scoffed at the opinions held by the 

 so-called scientists on the spraying of 

 fruit-trees with Paris green while in 

 bloom, and I pushed their opinions to 

 the wall, and named a committee for 

 Parliament, to get an Act passed fixing 

 the proper time to do such work. 



I scoffed at the science that told us 

 that bees could make honey out of 

 sugar. I knew if that sort of science 

 got a-going in full blast, that it would 

 ruin the honey-business In a short time. 



I scoffed at the science that told us 

 that foul-broody colonies could be cured 

 of that disease by drugs, which has been 

 a complete failure everywhere in On- 

 tario that it was tried. 



I scoff at the science that teaches that 

 colonies kept full of rotten brood won't 

 sooner or later end in foul brood. 



Woodburn, Ont., Canada. 



The New York State Honey Ex- 

 hibit at the World's Fair< 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY OBEL L. HEB8HI8EB. 



I wish to relieve the editor of any re- 

 sponsibility concerning the facts and 

 figures which form the basis of the edi- 

 torial on the New York State apiarian 

 exhibit on page 137, and I take pleas- 

 ure in hereby acknowledging that I was 

 the source of his information. 



On pages 200 and 201, the editor has 

 gone through the painful operation of 

 being "straightened out" (?). This was 

 not, however, a case where the "crooked 

 was made straight," but exactly the 

 opposite. 



It is well known that the author of 

 the letter on pages 200 and 201, above 

 referred to is noted for his jocularity, 

 but lest some of the readers of the 

 American Bee Joubnal might take his 

 statements seriously, I beg to make a 

 few statements of facts. 



You need not " cut the figures in two " 

 concerning the amount of honey we 

 have on exhibition. I made the state- 

 ment to the editor that we had about 

 5,000 pounds of comb honey and about 

 3,000 pounds of extracted honey on ex- 

 hibition. I made no attempt at absolute 

 accuracy, and he did not so publish it, 

 but said "about " so and so. I did not 

 weigh, have not weighed, and will not 

 weigh the exhibits, and to avoid the ap- 



