Oct. 26, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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yeasty, fermented character. He then 

 adds: 



"This peculiar disease (pickled brood we 

 will call it) will go thru an apiary and then 

 disappear of itself, even when no treatment 

 is administered. It seems to be somewhat 

 contagious; but. like influenza and other 

 maladies of a like character, it leaves the 

 patient (the bees) somewhat the worse for 

 wear." 



I'Iniitins' 'I'l-oos tor Honey, ac- 

 cording to " Rambler," in the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review, is not an altogether hopeless enter- 

 prise. Many a hillside has been made bar- 

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 trout-brooks drying up for lack of the trees 

 to shade them, and where the land is uot 

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 and brooks, with advantage to the soil be- 

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 lands being sei apart as Government Parks. 



Clippinis: Queens vs. Qiieen- 



'I'rap!<. — Dr. Mason says in the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Review that the only thing that makes 

 a queen-trap of value is that the presence 

 of the queen in the trap shows that a swarm 

 has issued. But even with dipt queens, he 

 thinks there are certain conditions that 

 make queen-traps desirable, as when colo- 

 nies are kept upstairs where the queen 

 would be injured by falling 10 or 1.5 feet in 

 case of swarming, or where hives are so 

 close together that the returning dipt 

 queen might get into the wrong hive. 



Vitality of Foul-Brood OerniK. 



—Critic Taylor, of the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view, thinks Editor Root has neglected to 

 note the experiments of Prof. Harrison, of 

 Ontario Agricultural College, which exper- 

 iments smti to support Mr. Root's position 

 as to the need of long boiling; but says: 

 " but there is another side, for even scien- 

 tists must reckon with practical affairs;" 

 and concludes. " There thus appears, so far, 

 a considerable interval between practical 

 results and the scientist's results. It re- 

 mains for future investigations to explain 

 and harmonize these apparent differences." 



l»rone-Cell <(tieen-l'ni»s.— H. L. 



Jones, a queen-breeder of Australia, says 

 in Gleanings in Bee-Culture that he cannot 

 imagine how the progressive Yankees, with 

 their love for labor-saving methods and 

 short cuts, can prefer the artificially-made 

 Doolittle cells to the ready-made drone- 

 cells which he has been using, which are 

 just as effective as the Doolittle cups. He 

 has reared thousands of queens with the 

 drone-cells and prefers them to dipt cells. 

 Editor Root replies that with drone-cells 

 the queen-cells must be started in a queen- 

 less colony (in which he is possibly mis- 

 taken), and that it requires little labor to 

 make the Doolittle cups, 1,0U0 being only a 

 day's work. 



H. tj. Jones" I>lan ot Clippina: 

 Queens is thus given in Gleanmgs in 

 Bee-Culture: 



" Grasp the queen by the wings, and place 

 her on the top of your left fore-finger, 

 which she will eagerly grasp; then bring 

 your thumb down on her legs, and you will 

 have her as securely as it in a vise. There 

 will be no danger of her legs getting be- 

 tween the scissors, which should be slipt 

 under the longer wing on only one side. 

 The whole operation takes but a few sec- 

 onds, and the queen can be liberated right 

 on the combs by simply taking the weight 

 off her legs, and she hardly knows that she 

 has been interfered with, as her delicate 

 body has not been toucht." 



Raiiiltler's Kcale. — Rambler de- 

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 scale for weighing hives and bees that he 

 constructed at an outlay of 10 cents and 

 some muscle. A platform large enough to 

 hold the hive is suspended by ropes at one 

 end of a pole sufficiently strong, stakes be- 

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