Vol. XIV 



MARCH, 1904. 



No. s 



A NEW YORK APIARY. 



An Apiarist Tells of His Experience and Methods in Treating Foul Brood. 



Other Information. 



BY P. W. STAHLMAN. 



MR. HILL, Dear Sir:— When I 

 read The Bee-Keeper, which 

 comes to me regularly, I cannot: 

 help being interested and benefited 

 by reading the articles which it con- 

 tains. I herewith send you a photo 

 of the apiary of F. G. Hinman, of Gal- 

 lupville, N. Y., of which I was the 

 apiarist this season — 1903. The per- 

 son standing is the proprietor, a man 

 of good business qualHie;-!, a man of 

 his M'ord, and one that admires a 

 tasty-looking apiary, and every pai't 

 of it kept up in order. The person sit- 

 ting on the hive is the writer, "ion 

 will notice I am holding a ramons 

 rabbit dog, but unfortunately the little 

 fellow turned his head .iust as the pic- 

 ture was taken and therefoi'e is no 

 good. 



As you will see, the apiary is located 

 In an apple orchard on quite level 

 ground. The, hives are all in rows, 

 which permits the use of a lawn 

 mower. They are of the L size and 

 the apiary is run for comb honey prin- 

 cipally; but if there are any weak col- 

 onies they are run for extracted 



When I say that bees in this vicinity 

 are kept on business principles you 

 may think I may be throwing a hint 

 that only bees here are run I'ight. But 

 let me tell you when a man keeps bees 

 where the ruins of foul brood have ex- 

 isted for six years (and still exists), he 



must do things pretty near right or the 

 result will be failure every time. The 

 yard in view has been diseased quite 

 badly, but has been rid of the disease 

 and the whole apiary of 126 colonies 

 are in winter quarters in good shape. 

 We have tried all sorts oF cures for 

 foul brood, the formaldehyde cure in- 

 cluded, and as to formaldehyde curing 

 foul brood to perfection, I am not 

 ready to say that it will. We have 

 made tests all along this line, giving 

 double doses and every other wa.v. To 

 cure is easy, but to stay cured is an- 

 other thing not quite so eas.v. We 

 have experimented to our satisfaction, 

 taking all the brood and hone.v from 

 an infected colony and fumigating for 

 11/0 hours, then air the combs well and 

 return to the same bees. M^hich result- 

 ed in doing much good, but did not kill 

 all of the germs, as a little of the dis- 

 ease remained during the entire sea- 

 son. We also treated combs of honey 

 (sealed and unsealed) in the same 

 manner and filled a hive full of such 

 combs and put a swarm on those 

 combs with good re><ults. No signs of 

 disease appeared during the entire sea- 

 son. But the only plan in which we 

 have gi'eat confidence is to tier the in- 

 fected combs of brood over a colony 

 that is slightly affected (but quite 

 strong in bees) and keep the queen out 

 of all the combs above by means of a 



