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pure carbolic acid, and if it will cure 

 the disease, it will, I should judge, 

 effectually cleanse an infected hive, 

 if thoroughly applied to every part.— 

 J. E. Pond, Ju. 



I think that it would be useless to 

 wash out the hives with carbolic-acid 

 water, at least with a .5 per cent, solu- 

 tion. A good atomizer, like the little 

 "Gem," I should think would be 

 effectual in cleansing liives used with 

 a mixture of equal parts of phenol and 

 alcohol. I have used so strong a mix- 

 ture in the sick-room, but it is a little 

 too pungent. In my practice I have 

 found one part each of carbolic acid, 

 alcohol and water used with the 

 atomizer to be highly effectual in the 

 sick-room in destroying the contagion 

 of typhoid fever, scarlet fever, and 

 diphtheria. My experience has led 

 me to think that if the mixture were 

 used in school-rooms in localities 

 where epidemics of the two latter 

 diseases prevail, there would be no 

 need of closing schools, and the epi- 

 demics would soon abate. Perhaps 

 the same strength of mixture would 

 be strong enough to cleanse hives of 

 the germs of foul brood. — G. L. 

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Conili Honey ts, Extracted Honey, 



17— G. M. DOOLITTLE, (40—95). 



On page 7.59 of the American Bee 

 Journal for 188-5, under the above 

 heading, Chas. Dadant & Son, by an 

 overhauling of my report on page 709 

 of the same volume, endeavor to 

 prove that Doolittle was not cor- 

 rect in his estimate, that with ex- 

 tracted honey at 8 cents per pound, 

 comb honey could be produced at 12 

 cents per pound, with equal profit to 

 the apiarist. Messrs. Dadant & Son 

 should be credited with great tact 

 and skill, for certainly such is shown 

 in their weaving the many minor 

 points in my report into their fabric 

 in such a way as to point toward their 

 20 cents per pound for comb honey, 

 instead of 12 cents as I put it. 



Well, I am very glad that they gave 

 us that article, for it gives me a 

 chance to explain farther regarding 

 that report, than I otherwise should 

 have done, and in doing so I will leave 

 them as near the 20 cents per pound 

 for their comb honey as I possibly can 

 and keep truth on niy side. 



In my report found on page 709, 

 which helped them to draw their con- 

 clusions, I gave the number of colo- 

 nies of bees that I had to start with in 

 the spring, as 40. Twenty of these 

 were good to fair, 10 rather weak, and 

 10 very weak. Of these, 2.5 were set 

 apart for comb honey, 2 for extracted, 

 and 1.3 (the very weakest) for queen- 

 rearing ; hence I had 20 good to fair 

 colonies and 7 weak ones producing 

 honey, 5 of the weak ones being 

 worked for comb honey, and 2 for 

 extracted. Without farther explana- 

 tion all would expect that the 20 good 

 colonies gave more of the comb honey 

 in proportion to their number, than 

 did the weak ones, while the facts in 

 the case are that 2 out of the 5 weak 

 colonies worked for comb honey gave 

 more than the average yield, one 

 giving 139 pounds and the other 128 

 pounds. The reason for this is as 

 follows : 



After I had set apart only the 13 

 weak colonies for queen-rearing, 

 orders began to pour in for queens to 

 such an extent that I saw that I would 

 be " swamped " if I did not make 

 some provision for more nuclei than I 



could possibly make from those 13 

 weak colonies. Accordingly I began 

 to draw bees from all of the strongest 

 colonies, and used them for nuclei 

 upon the plan I gave last .June, taking 

 the brood that they were hived upon 

 from these strong colonies also. These 

 nuclei were built up as fast as pos- 

 sible by giving them a frame of brood 

 occasionally from these .strong colo- 

 nies, so that they constituted the 

 larger part of my increase, as will be 

 seen when I say that in no case was 

 there allowed but one swarm from 

 any of tlie 25 colonies, and two of 

 them did not swarm at all. Thus we 

 have 23 new colonies from the 25 old 

 ones set apart for comb honey, making 

 48. Then we have the IS weak colo- 

 nies built up to good colonies, and the 

 two set apart for extracted honey, 

 making 63, while the next 32, to make 

 the 95 reported, were made of nuclei 

 built up, and others which were 

 doubled up in the fall. 



From the above Messrs. Dadant & 

 Son will see wherein their last para- 

 graph on page 760 of the American 

 Bee Journal for 1885, has no bear- 

 ing on the subject. One other item 

 I wish to explain right here. In that 

 paragraph they speak as though they 

 thought that the queens that were 

 used to produce the comb honey were 

 crowded tor room. This is a mistake, 

 for such queens were not crowded 

 until after the bees were produced 

 which gather the crop. Here is where 

 they touch on one of Doolittle's hob- 

 bies. Nearly all of those queens had 

 15 Gallup frames which they filled 

 with brood and bees, so that when 

 swarms issued they were not the little 

 swarms that Messrs. Dadant & Son 

 speak of as coming from an 8-frame 

 Langstroth hive, but they were rous- 

 ing large swarms, only tliey came a 

 little late in the season, owing to the 

 treatment given the strong colonies 

 which I have spoken of above. 



Now comes in the crowding part. 

 When these large swarms were hived 

 they were given only 5 and 6 frames 

 in the brood-chamber, while all the 

 rest of the hive was filled with sec- 

 tions. In this I believe we have one 

 of the greatest secrets toward the 

 successful production of comb honey. 

 Get ,all the bees you can before the 

 honey harvest, by giving abundant 

 room for the laying-capacity of the 

 queen, and after the honey harvest 

 arrives contract the brood-apartment 

 of all hives, so as to throw the larger 

 part of this force of bees into the 

 sections. 



Again, they speak of the 2 colonies 

 worked for extracted honey produc- 

 ing 388 pounds, which is correct ; but 

 unfortunately for their 20 cent-per- 

 pound theory, I found when preparing 

 the bees for winter, that these 2 colo- 

 nies had used up nearly all the honey 

 in brood-rearing that I had left in 

 their hives when taking away the 200 

 pounds from them, so I had to give 

 them 50 pounds of the removed 200 to 

 insure their wintering ; thus reducing 

 the 388 pounds to 338 pounds. Then 

 the 188 pounds of this 338, which was 

 taked with the extractor, was taken 

 before it was sealed over, or in an 

 unripe state, as I wished it for a par- 



