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GLEAxMNGS IN BEE CULTl'RE. 



May 1 



think Dr. Miller's spliuis make a hive any 

 warmer, nor Mr. Root's wire any colder. 

 B"t if you want brood up to your top-bars, 

 you must do as Mr. A. I. Root advised in 

 his ABC book — get out your blankets and 

 keep your hives warm. I shall have to buy 

 50 supers this year; so please tell us, are 

 the sections in the outside rows on the M 

 super with six fences as well filled as a P 

 super with 8 fences? Henry Asam. 



Carleton, Mich. 



[Sometimes the dent in the side of a queen 

 seems to do no harm. I remember several 

 of our best breeders that had a slight dent 

 somewhere in the abdomen. The queens 

 were verj' prolific, and their bees excel- 

 lent honey-gatherers. So far as I can re- 

 member, they did uniformly good work, and 

 filled out their allotted days. It is quite 

 possible to conceive, however, of a case 

 where the dent may be so deep, like the one 

 you describe, as to cause a permanent in- 

 jury. We book your order, therefore, for 

 another queen. 



The case of Mr. Zay simply shows that 

 he did not know a good thing when he had 

 it. A great many bee-keepers judge a 

 queen by her looks and not by her perform- 

 ance nor by the performance of her bees. If 

 she had been golden yellow, and good for 

 nothing, he possibly would have been very 

 well pleased with her. "Forty-two nice 

 sections " after the 4th of July is not a bad 

 record. 



It is true that warmth of the brood-nest 

 will make a great difl^erence in the amount 

 of brood built in a brood-frame; but Dr. C. 

 C. Miller uses the same kind of single- 

 walled hive that we do, so that his brood- 

 nests are no better protected than ours. 

 But the season of the year makes a very 

 great difference as to how far the brood 

 is built up to the top-bars. If you are in 

 the habit of having double-walled hives 

 throughout, and look 3'our combs over just 

 before the honey- flow, you will find the 

 brood much nearer the top. 



Regarding the relative difference between 

 the M and P super, the one using outside 

 fences and the other not, I can not remem- 

 ber that any specific comparisons have been 

 made between the two supers; but I have 

 noticed this: That fences, when placed be- 

 tween the sides of the super and the side of 

 the brood-nest, have a tendency to make a 

 better filling of the sections on the outside 

 surface. At all events, it has been report- 

 ed that all those supers having outside 

 fences give better- filled outside sections. 

 But the M super, Danzenbaker of ten-frame 

 width, is now supplied with an extra fence, 

 so that the two supers are now on an equal 

 basis. — Ed.] 



CURING FOUL BROOD; ANOTHER SUCCESS- 

 FUL USE OF FORMALIN AS A GERMI- 

 CIDE; HOW TO APPLY, ETC. 



In February 15th Gleanings, C. H. W. 

 Weber speaks of curing foul brood with 

 formalin, and I decided to write you of my 



experience along the same line. Never hav- 

 ing seen foul brood, it secured such a hold 

 in my yard before I discovered it that every 

 hive was more or less affected with it. You 

 can imagine how I felt; and, not knowing 

 exactly what to do, I went to Mr. Couse, 

 secretary of the O. B. K. A., and he kindly 

 came and went over my yard, and recom- 

 mended me to cure them according to the 

 McEvoy plan, which I did; and up till Sep- 

 tember I5th no signs of the disease appeared 

 in any of my hives. 



Another thing, my extracting-corhbs were 

 wet, as I did not place them on the hives 

 after extracting for the bees to clean out, 

 and Mr. Couse said it was a pity to melt 

 them up, and that it would be a good idea 

 to try the formalin on them as recommend- 

 ed by Prof. Harrison. I did so, and no 

 hives on which I placed the combs showed 

 any signs of the disease at last examina- 

 tion, Sept. 15. 



Another fact, I had a set of dry brood- 

 combs that showed foul-brood marks, and I 

 decided to try an experiment on them. I 

 placed them in the fumigating-box, and fu- 

 migated them with l/z oz. of formalin; let 

 them stand over night, and next morning 

 fumigated them again with 1 oz. of forma- 

 lin. I then hived a second swarm on them, 

 and no foul brood appeared up till last ex- 

 amination, about the last of September. 



Now, do not think that I claim said hive is 

 free, for the germs may be still there, and 

 may develop next year. 



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For fumigating the combs I used a super 

 as follows: 



I first tacked felt around the bottom and 

 the top edges of the super. I then nailed a 

 board solid to the bottom of the super, and 

 bored a ^4 -inch hole in the center of the 

 same. Over the hole I tacked a piece of 

 felt 4X4, and cut a hole in the same to cor- 



