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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15 



Taee inspector, into a county having a bee inspector, 

 shall immediately, upon receipt of such bees, cause 

 them to be inspected by a duly authorized inspector of 

 Apiaries; atid if such bees are found to be infected 

 with toul brood or other infectious or contagious dis- 

 ease, such inspector shall proceed to have such disease 

 eradicated, as provided in section two of this act. Any 

 person violating the provisions of this section shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 9.— It shall be unlawful for any person owning 

 or controlling bees within this State, which are known 

 to be infected with foul brood, or other infectious or 

 contagious disease, to remove said bees to a new loca- 

 tion, without first giving ten days' notice to the coun- 

 ty inspector of apiaries, stating when and where he 

 intends moving said bees. Any person violating the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor. 



Sec. 10. — Any person or persons whose apiary is in- 

 fected with foul brood or any other infectious or con- 

 tagious disease, and who sells or offers for sale from 

 such infected apiary any bees, hives, bee-fixtures, or 

 appurtenances, or who shall expose in his bee-yard 

 or elsewhere any infected comb honey, beeswax, or 

 other infected thing, or who conceals the fact that his 

 apiary is so infected, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor. 



Sec. 11. — Any person or persons who shall resist, 

 impede, or hinder in any way the inspector of apiaries 

 in the discharge of his duties under the provisions of 

 this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 11. —This act shall take effect immediately. 



THE USE OF CARBON BISULPHIDE. 



Why it may Prevent Comb Honey from Candy- 

 ing; a Motor Bicycle for Running a Honey- 

 extractor; Siiaflow Brood'ciiambers. 



BY GEO. A. BATES. 



If honey really does not candy in combs 

 that have been fumed w^ith carbon bisul- 

 phide, the reason is easy to guess. The bi- 

 sulphide is a solvent of wax, and its vapors 

 might easily soften the cappings as damp 

 weather softens glue. Then you would ex- 

 pect the soft and therefore adhesive cap- 

 pings to run together wherever the bees 

 have left a crack. That they do leave 

 cracks is shown by the way comb honey 

 absorbs moisture when careful customers 

 put it in the ice-box to keep. Once the cells 

 are sealed tight, there is no mystery about 

 the failure to candy, and the bisulphide 

 would evaporate and leave the wax hard 

 on the very first chance. 



In fuming combs I like to spread a cloth 

 wet with the bisulphide over the top combs. 

 This fills the pile of boxes with saturated 

 vapor almost at once, while it takes quite a 

 while to climb over the rim of a saucer; 

 and as diffusion is going on all the time, it 

 never gets as strong. 



Here in New York the price of carbon bi- 

 sulphide is 12 cents a pound, if you furnish 

 the bottle. This is so much less than the 

 price you mention (35 cents) as being 

 charged by drugstores, it seems as if some- 

 thing ought to be done to bring it within 

 the reach of bee-keepers at a more reason- 

 able cost. 



The above bisulphide is double-refined. 

 The cheaper kind is listed at 7 cents in 50- 

 Ib. lots, and ought to be good enough. 



I am using for hives the 5^4 -inch-deep su- 

 pers, ten-frame, two or three of them for the 

 brood-chamber. Such a hive has many 



good features— one being that, in these shal- 

 low frames, thin surplus foundation can be 

 used. I have been using it for three years 

 now; and another is, that every thing is in- 

 terchangeable. But they are principally 

 useful for "shook" swarms and similar 

 manipulations. Last summer I tried R. C. 

 Aikin's plan on three colonies (Gleanings, 

 335, 1901), with great satisfaction, and this 

 summer ought to be a good test, for the way 

 the bees swarmed was rather exasperating. 

 You don't have to hunt for the queen— just 

 slip in the excluder, and at the end of the 

 ten days there is no chance of mistake as to 

 which side she is on, and she can be set 

 aside to build up for the fall flow, which 

 they did this year to the extent of three 

 stories of brood; but then there has been no 

 lull in the honey-flow at all this year up to 

 date, Sept. 1. If the plan will work this 

 way every year it will suit me better than 

 any kind of brushing. 



Why these doleful wishes that the gaso- 

 line-engine could be controlled so as to run 

 an extractor? I should be quite happy if 

 that were the hardest problem to solve in 

 connection with bee-keeping. A motor with 

 changeable spark-time, like the bicycle- mo- 

 tors, ought to be very satisfactory, if used 

 with a fair-sized fly-wheel and a friction 

 clutch. For that matter, why not use a mo- 

 tor-cycle? It will carry you to the out-api- 

 aries, and do the work when you get there. 

 I have had my lathe running by butting the 

 back wheel of a motor-cycle against the fly- 

 wheel, the bicycle, of course, being raised 

 so that the wheel can turn freely. I expect 

 to do a great deal of sawing on this plan 

 before spring. 



You may say that the expense is prohibi- 

 tive; but that is not necessarily so. Our 

 motor and accessories, not counting the bi- 

 cycle, of course we had that, have not yet 

 cost S30; but it is home-made, and it is not 

 likely that many bee-keepers have the nec- 

 essary tools. Yet a very good cycle-motor 

 can be purchased in New York for $27.50 

 from the Chas. E. Miller Co. An acquaint- 

 ance of mine is using one. We had it here 

 to test, and it seemed very well made in- 

 deed. It ought to be possible to get motor- 

 cycles, second-hand, at a reasonable price 

 before long. 



We have recently been using a 12-horse- 

 power Packard motor carriage by jacking 

 up one rear wheel and putting the fly-wheel 

 of a screw-cutting lathe in contact with it; 

 but it is rather too much of a good thing. 

 A friend in the neighborhood has just built 

 (or altered) an automobile for prospecting. 

 It has a 25 horse-power gasoline-motor, and 

 a pulley at the back of the machine for ex- 

 tracting rock drills or any thing else. The 

 engine-shaft runs straight through to the 

 back of the machine. The greatest objec- 

 tion at present is the lack of a governor on 

 such motors. It takes one person to regu- 

 late the speed and another to do the work. 



Highwood, N. J. 



[I had not thought of the use of a motor 

 bic3xle for running an extractor. Sure 



