1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



907 



ready upon removal of entrance-blocks for 

 colonies which had been bargained for. 

 The majority of those combs were destroyed 

 by the moth. 



I am, of course, quite aware that pollen in 

 combs adds to the danger; but even then, in 

 our more northerly climate at least, the rav- 

 ages of the bee-moth can be kept in check by 

 exposure to light and air. 



MIDDLESEX BEE-KEEPEKS' ASSOCIATION, ON- 

 TARIO, CANADA. 



The Middlesex Bee-keepers' Association 

 had an excellent meeting at the City Hall, 

 London, Ont., on Saturday, May 4, Pi'esident 

 F. I. Miller in the chair. 



W. A. Chrysler, Chatham, gave an instruc- 

 tive address upon the subject "New Condi- 

 tions Appearing in our Honey Markets." 

 Mr. Chrysler thought that many produced a 

 good article, but did not sell it te the best 

 advantage. He considered that there was a 

 great need of developing the home market. 

 Honey should be put up in small packages, 

 properly sealed and labeled. This would 

 help to secure freedom from adulteration, 

 and also save the cost of the wholesale pack- 

 age, which, as a rule, is of no value when 

 emptied. Shipments to distant markets 

 should be made in a cooperative way, and 

 the work of marketing undertaken by a prac- 

 tical man who should bepaid a reasonable sum 

 for his work. 



A committee duly appointed recommend- 

 ed, after deliberation, that members should 

 report to the Secretary, E. T. Barnard, Lam- 

 beth, Ont , honey of which they wished to 

 dispose in distant markets; that the honey 

 should be put up in a uniform retail pack- 

 age, and that, if possible, a carload should 

 be sent. 



Winter reports varied very much. Mr. 

 John McEwen gave the best report. Out of 

 200 colonies he had lost scarcely any. Mr. 

 Holtermann's report gave a trifle higher per- 

 centage of loss. There were various other 

 reports down to a total loss of 60 colonies. 

 D. Anguish's loss was only 10 out of 180 col- 

 onies. The need of sugar-syrup stores, and 

 early feeding and packing, or early setting 

 into winter quarters, was very apparent. 



Mr. McEwen gave an instance where, be- 

 tween apple-bloom and clover, he purchas- 

 ed five colonies of bees, moving them home a 

 distance of four miles. Two days after, he 

 received word that a bunch of bees as large 

 as a man's hat had I'eturned.* 



Mr. McEwen also stated that he had not 

 found it effectual, in the treatment of foul 

 brood, to shake the bees upon combs of seal- 

 ed honey. He had, however, found it effec- 

 tual to feed clean colonies until they stored 

 and sealed combs. The diseased colony was 

 then in the fall shaken into a hive without 

 combs, and left there until some bees starved 

 to death, when the bees were shaken upon 

 previously prepared combs. 



*It would be rather interesting-, in connection with 

 the above, to test the difTerence in distance various 

 colonies, blacks, Italian, Carniolan, etc., will foraye 

 by moving them longer and longer distances, seeing 

 whichjwill return to the old locality the longest.— 

 R. F. H. 



Flax shives were recommended for packing 

 about hives in outer cases. 



The apiarian report of the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College was read, those present 

 thinking it the work of an enthusiastic ex- 

 perimenter in bee-keeping. It was thought 

 that the work was of no value to bee-keeping 

 when they found that the government was 

 pa^'ing for the experiments 



It was then moved by D. Anguish, second- 

 ed by W. J. Robb, "That it is the sense of 

 this meeting that, whilst we are desirous and 

 anxious for experimental work in bee-keep- 

 ing to be conducted at the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College, the woi'k as now conducted is 

 valueless, and that we ask that it be conduct- 

 ed by a competent bee-keeper in touch with 

 the Ontario Agricultural College." Every 

 member supported the motion. 



The Department of Inland Revenue, Otta- 

 wa, was also asked to take annually, during 

 the late fall or early winter, samples of hon- 

 ey, with the object of detecting adulteration. - 

 Besides those already mentioned, Messrs. W. 

 I. Craig, Editor Cdnadian Bee Journal, and 

 Arthur Laing were present. 



FOUL BROOD IN THE TROPICS. 



A Cure that has Some Features to Recom- 

 jneiitl it. 



BY W. W. SOMEBFORD. 



I have been a reader of Gleanings since 

 May, 1884, and am pretty certain that, in 

 that time, I have read many articles on foul 

 brood, besides some books on the same. 



The method which I here present for the 

 consideration of your readers is the McEvoy 

 plan improved — a perfect and sure, and (best 

 of all ) a costless cure — one that puts money 

 into a man's pocket instead of taking it out, 

 and, when finished, leaves his bees in better 

 condition than before treatment, as they will 

 be cured completely, and stay cured — and if 

 they don't? Well, then it costs nothing to 

 cure them again. But that will not have to 

 be done unless they catch it from some other 

 apiary near by. 



Fact No. 1 to remember and paste in your 

 hat is that foul- brood honey must be boiled 

 one or two hours; for any man who says 

 that bringing it to a boil kills the germs of 

 the disease misleads, to say the least, and 

 just such a statement cost me a bee-ranch 

 worth a thousand dollars. So you see I paid 

 for my learning, and hence have no lovefor 

 " scientific liars." 



Fact No. 2 — if you can find one real case 

 of foul brood in your ranch, and it is a big 

 one, there are twenty that you can't find 

 that are very sure to show up in time. Time 

 is all that is wanted — just time, as time lifts 

 foul brood from one stage to another, and that 

 is why we hear so much about different hinds. 



Fact No. 3 is that foul brood runs in stages 

 and works accortling to ages; that is, the 

 violent forms are reached after the disease 

 has accumulated (tgt; and force in action, 

 and, after reaching the fourth year, it is so 



