THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Explanatory.— The Ugures before the 

 cames indicate the cumber of years that the 

 person has kept bees. Those after, show 

 the number of colonies the writer had in the 

 previous spring and fall, or fall and spring, 

 as the time of the year may require. 



This mark O indicates that the apiarist is 

 located near tne center of the State named; 

 5 north of the center; 9 south; O east; 

 ♦O west; and this 6 northeast; X) northwest: 

 0« southeast; and 9 southwest of the center 

 of the Stat« mentioned. 



For the American Bee JouinaL 



Badly StfliiE! 



WM. F. CLARKE. 



All summer long, with gloves and veil. 



I've kept myaelf protected ; 

 Ynt now must tell a. aorry tale, 



About one spot neglected. 



My nose's tip the veil would touch, 



And oft I speculated. 

 Whether, if bees aaaailed me much— 



(For 1 am sore bee-hated.) 



Sometime or other I might get 



A sting on the projection 

 Of my proboscis, through the net, 



At the veil's intersection. 



It seemed a most unlikely thing, 



That any insect archer 

 Should tbus exactly aim a atlng ; 



So fear took its departure. 



But wise philosophers have taught 

 Truth ia more strange than fable. 



And my delusion came to naught 

 I.ike the old tower of Babel. 



Achilles could not wounded be. 

 Save in one spot-his heel ; 



Yet there, with dire fatality. 

 Was aimed the deadly steel. 



And I. impervious everywhere. 



Save at my nose's tip. 

 Received a wicked dab right there. 



That made me "tear and rip !" 



It was a bright and lovely day. 

 That third of this November. 



But oh I the mischief was to pay. 

 As 1 shall long remember ! 



While I was packing up my bees 

 With forest leaves and chaff, 



And feeling perfectly at ease, 

 Too confldent by half. 



A Parthian arrow hit my nose 



JuBtat its ultimatuTn, 

 And a not mild expletive rose. 



■■ Confound the Dees, I hate 'em !" 



The nasal organ quickly swelled 



To twice its usual size ; 

 While tears of pain and anguish welled 



From both my weeping eyes. 



My none too lovely phiz was shorn 



Of all its scanty beauty : 

 And for ihree days 1 went forlorn. 



Unfit for public duty. 



I now must have a glass-front veil. 



Or a wire face-protector. 

 And prove no more, as in this tale. 



A stupid nose-neglector ! 

 ii^uelph, Ont., Nov. 10, 1886. 



ff'OT the American Bee Journal. 



Curing Foul Brood liy Starvation, 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



AVhy the idea has so generally ob- 

 tained tliat it is necessary tos(a?Te the 

 bees of a foul broody colony for from 

 48 to 72 hours when treating them for 

 cure, on the Jones plan. I cannot con- 

 ceive, unless it is because :Mr. Jones 

 so recommended. It should be re- 



membered that our departed M. 

 Quinby treated foul brood on the 

 Jones plan (less the starving opera- 

 tion) before D. A. Jones thought of 

 bee-keeping, and probably not far 

 from the time he (Jones) was born, he 

 (Quinby) telling us that his Brst case 

 of foul brood was found in 1835, or 

 more than 50 years ago. 



In treating regarding the disease, 

 Mr. Quinby tells us that if a swarm 

 from a foul broody colony, which is- 

 sues naturally during tiie swarming 

 season, is hived in an empty hive, that 

 such swarm will not have the disease 

 afterward, unless contracted by get- 

 ting foul honey from some diseased 

 colony later on in its existence, as 

 the honey carried with them from the 

 parent colony is all consumed in build- 

 ing comb, which destroys the germs 

 of the disease. I have had no experi- 

 ence with the disease since 1872 and 

 1873, but all of my experience at that 

 time proved Mr. Quinby correct in 

 every particular. 



During June of 1872 I noticed a few 

 cells of foul brood in some 4 or 5 colo- 

 nies, but not enough so but what I 

 thought they would swarm, which 

 they all eventually did. These new 

 swarms were hived in clean, empty 

 hives, and never afterward had the 

 disease. In three weeks after the old 

 colony swarmed, all the bees in the 

 old hive were driven out into an 

 empty hive and left to build up, which 

 they did ; and they never had the dis- 

 ease again. In no case were these 

 bees confined to the hive at all, but 

 had their liberty at once, and were 

 busy the next morning gathering 

 honey from the fields. Later on in 

 the season I found the disease in 2 or 

 3 more of my old colonies, and desir- 

 ing to run no risks, I immediately 

 drove the bees from them as before. 

 The season was now so far advanced 

 that I found these colonies would not 

 have time to build comb and secure 

 sufficient stores for winter, so I again 

 turned to Quinby to see what was to 

 be done. On page 219 of his " Mys- 

 teries of Bee-Keeping Explained," I 

 found these words : " On no consid- 

 eration put them (the driven bees) 

 into empty combs, as they would be 

 likely to keep some of the honey for 

 their brood. If it is desirable to put 

 them in a hive containing comb, they 

 may be transferred to it after they 

 have been in an empty one long 

 enough to consume all the honey they 

 have carried with them. If honey is 

 scarce at the time they should be fed." 

 In accordance with this I left them 

 in the hives they were driven into until 

 the first little larvse began to hatch, 

 when the partially built combs were 

 taken away from them and a complete 

 set of combs given. These were soon 

 filled with brood and stores for win- 

 ter, while I had a nice start in the 

 way of comb to hive new swarms upon 

 the next year, or to set up for starters 

 to put in sections, as the combs were 

 beautifully white. Late in the fall I 

 found a few cells of diseased brood in 

 a few more of the old colonies, which 

 were marked, and as soon as it would 

 do in the spring these were also driven. 

 By the way (in this locality), there 

 is no nicer time to examine "for foul 



brood than in October, for in the 

 latter part of that month there is,- as 

 a rule, no healthy brood in the hive, 

 so if capped cells of brood are found 

 scattered here and there in the comb, 

 they are easily seen, while it is not 

 easy to detect such cells at other 

 times. As these last were driven 

 when there was no honey in the 

 flower, I fed thera as directed by 

 Quinby, so that they built comb right 

 along and made profitable colonies 

 during the season. I had now driven 

 all my colonies, which had old combs 

 in the spring of 1872. except 2 or 3, and 

 these were carefully watched, but 

 showed no signs of the disease after- 

 ward, nor have I seen a cell of foul 

 brood since in my own yard or within 

 ten miles of here. 



What I wish to impress on the 

 minds of the reader is that the starva- 

 tion process is not necessary in curing 

 foul brood on the Jones or Quinby 

 plan, and besides being unnecessary, 

 it is a useless waste of both time and 

 labor. Is it not much better to have 

 a square foot or two of nice white 

 comb built in frames by these bees 

 with no labor, on the part of the api- 

 arist, in first putting them in a box, 

 lugging to the cellar or into a dark 

 room, and then out again to return 

 them, say nothing about the discom- 

 fort given the bees V If these frames 

 partly full of combs are not wanted 

 for starters, they will be nicely filled 

 with all worker comb if given to nuclei 

 to complete, or quite a saving will be 

 made over the other process if they 

 are melted into wax, while the dis- 

 comfort given the bees is all done 

 away with. I hope all having foul 

 brood in their apiaries will next year 

 try the plan that I have above detailed, 

 and report upon the working of it. 

 Borodino,© N. Y. 



For the American Bee JouroaL 



Producing Honey for Market. 



C. H. DIBBERN, (200). 



This all-important subject still re- 

 mains in a very unsettled and un- 

 satisfactory condition. I am glad to 

 notice the editorial on page 723, and 

 I think that much could be accom- 

 plished by such a course as is there 

 marked out, and I hope to see that 

 idea pursued. Before that plan will 

 become entirely practicable, however, 

 something more is required. All who 

 produce honey for market must learn 

 to have it in neat, clean, new sections, 

 of uniform size, and I believe the 

 standard one and two pound sections 

 are best for all purposes. It must be 

 scraped of every particle of propolis, 

 and crated in new cases before offer- 

 ing it for sale. 



I believe that all bee-keepers who 

 produce honey for sale, wish to get 

 all they can for it, and that the rea- 

 son why some sell at such very low 

 figures is on account of the lack of 

 information where to sell, and by not 

 having their honey in the best shape 

 — mixed honey, old sections, odd sizes, 

 dirty-looking crates, bulged combs, 

 etc. Of course such a bee-keeper can- 



