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iccessful with gas in disinfecting stove and by starting a fire and giv- 

 les not in any way prove that it can ing a steady draft it will burn, but if 

 Dt be, nor will ever be done. It you then close the stove air-tight, the 

 lerely proves his non-success. fire will very quickly go out. Why? 



In Chicago alone there has been Because fire depends upon a union of 

 /er a dozen cases of smallpox this the fuel burned with the oxygen of 

 ;ar, besides many cases of other in- the air. Fire is the product of oxygen 

 ctious diseases, but it was prevent- united with the fuel, and you cannot 

 i from spreading, just for the simple even burn a pine shaving without oxy- 

 ■ason that gas does kill the seeds or S^^- It would be just as reasonable 

 )ores of disease germs, when prop- to expect the fire to burn steadily m 

 ly applied. This has been proven an air-tight stove by occasionally lift- 

 ;yond doubt. If it were not so, the i"g the lid and giving a puff with your 

 ipid interminghng of people by hat and closing air-tight again, as 

 odern modes of travel would soon to expect a steady forming of formic 

 luse fearful epidemics over the acid in all parts of the tank by a sim- 

 hole world. But happily for us, as ilar action. 



ion as any one is found to have an It is just as necessary to have a 

 factious disease, the law says the steady flow of oxygen to unite with 

 Duse must be quarantined, and when formaldehyde to produce formic acid 

 le patient is either dead or recover- as it is to have a constant flow of 

 1, the room is disinfected and pro- oxygen to unite with the fuel in your 

 ^^nced safe and free from all dan- stove to make the fire burn; only that 

 ir of disease, and people continue to oxygen is much more active in a high 

 ccupy those same rooms without temperature and is not needed nearly 

 mger. A physician will visit these so fast in producing formic acid as it 

 itients of smallpox or other infec- is in producing fire. The Ohio bee- 

 ous diseases and still mingle with keepers only proved their inability to 

 Kiety without danger of carrying use the gas properly. They never will 

 le disease, by the proper use of for- prove formaldehyde inefficient in kill- 

 aldehyde gas and other means; and ing either germs or spores, because its 

 ; Bacillus alvei and its seeds are of value is firmly established as a germ 

 le same nature, they will succumb and spore destroyer, when properly 



used. 



As I said before, our laws compel 

 the quarantining of people or animals 

 having a contagious disease. Why 

 should not the law do the same in the 

 case of bees? If our government 

 ary. So, although w€ are greatly would apply the same rules and the 

 debted to Mr. Hewitt for his very same amount of energy to stamp out 

 iportant discovery, the time of dis- ^otil brood that it does smallpox, chol- 

 era and other diseases, then this foul 

 brood question would be rapidly set- 

 tled. 

 WilHamsfield, Ills., Dec. 8, 1904. 



I the same treatment. 

 The man who invented the first 

 nt locked musket might have said 

 lat a flint-lock gun was the only 

 nd of a gun that would ever shoot; 

 it modern firearms prove the con 



)veries is not yet ended. As I have 

 lid before, formaldehyde stands at 

 le head as an effective disinfectant, 

 "cause by uniting with the oxygen of 

 le air it produces formic acid, and 

 formaldehyde is of about the same 

 )ecific gravity as air, it will pene- 

 ate where air will. I say this not 

 n my own authority, but because 

 3me of the best authority in the 

 orld says so, and the non-success of 

 le air-tight tanks t-nds to prove this. 

 On page 208 Mr. O. C. Fuller says 

 ; tried formaldehyde, using his 

 nks air-tight, but failed to get good 

 suits; then he raised the lid and 

 nned in the air with his hat, but still 

 iled. If you put some wood in a 



COMB HONEY IN CUBA. 



Something About It from the Pen of 



One of the Most Extensive 



Producers on the Island. 



By C. E. Woodward. 



DITOR HILL:— A reader of 

 your journal wishes to know 

 if comb honey can be produced 

 in Cuba satisfactorily. I answer, 

 yes. Comb honey can be produced in 



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