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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Given died no good business man not own- 

 ing a widely circulating bee journal, wished 

 to venture his money in the dissemination 

 of a truth against a wide-spread and ener- 

 getically pushed error. The same thing is 

 now being done regarding other important 

 articles of apiarian manufacture. But I 

 have made this article long enough, and will 

 wait to see what others think, 

 DowAGiAo, Mich. Dec. 20, 1893. 



[Friend H. :— There are some phases of 

 bee-keeping that cannot well be discussed 

 without bringing in the intricacies of chem- 

 istry and other sciences, and I am glad that 

 we have in our ranks men who are capable 

 of threading the labyrinths. Then, again, 

 when one naan corrects another I think it 

 well to give proofs and reasons even if a lit- 

 tle space is used in so doing. 



I agree in thinking it best that the discus- 

 sion of side-issues be kept out of class journ- 

 als ; but here is a point : the editors of other 

 scientific journals, and of some other maga- 

 zines, seem to sit in a sort of holy of holies, 

 their individualities shrouded in mystery. 

 They are unapproachable. The editors of 

 our bee journals are just common folks like 

 the rest of us. Most of them are bee-keepers 

 themselves. They attend -the conventions 

 and visit their brother bee-keepers. We get 

 them by the hand and become acquainted 

 with them, and, to a certain extent, are in- 

 terested in them and their joys and sorrows, 

 and I believe we enjoy occasional glimpses 

 of them on the play ground as well as in the 

 workshop. If I am wrong in this belief, or 

 if I have misunderstood the meaning of 

 friend Heddon, no one is more anxious than 

 myself to be corrected. 



Regarding the Given press, I believe that 

 the Roots did give it a trial and failed, but 

 others have succeeded, and, if I remember 

 aright, Ernest Root has told me within the 

 last year or two that at subsequent trials 

 they succeeded better, or else that the suc- 

 cess of others led them to think that their 

 trials were too hasty and imperfect. He told 

 me something of this sort and said that they 

 were thinking seriously of again giving the 

 press a trial with a view to making the ma- 

 chines for sale if they could succeed in mak- 

 ing them work satisfactorily. If I have not 

 reported the matter correctly I shall be glad 

 to be corrected, I sincerely hope that some 

 one will take up the manufacture of the 

 press and of the foundation made on the 

 press. I understand that the Roots are con- 



sidering the possibility of so changing their 

 mills that foundation with a thinner septum 

 can be made on them, but I believe that 

 thinness of septum is not the only point of 

 superiority possessed by the Given founda- 

 tion. — Ed..] 



A Western Man's Experience With Foul 



Brood.— When Hives Need Boiling and 



When They May Not, 



ELMEK TODD, 



( IfC T the end of an editorial on foul brood 

 g} in the August 1893 RtiVie'^', page 23G, 

 you say, "Let's hear from others." 

 I have had four year's experience with it. 

 My favorite c re is the McEvoy method with 

 the exception that I boil the hives then the 

 cure is certain every time. At the time the 

 above mentioned editorial appeared I had a 

 colony infected with it that I h d found 

 about tw weeks befor \ I did ot clean t 

 up when found because ther .- was n ■> honey 

 coming in and no prospects of a y and the 

 colony was strong e"ough t kee^ out rob- 

 bers. Between you and me I believe here 

 is no danger of its spreading, unless it is 

 carried by some carelessness of the bee- 

 'eeper himself, as long ~s a colony can repel 

 r bbers ad th3 hives are not close e:oBgh 

 together for the bees to mix. 



After reading yo r editorial I went to this 

 colony and shoos ^he b^es ofif the C3m':8 ; 

 about one-third into the old hive and the re- 

 main-ier into a new hive on a new sta d. 

 The next day the bees were about equally 

 divided. I bt ano'd queen run in with t e 

 queenless half on the new stand. She was 

 from a colony where the bees had raised a 

 young one and both had been living peace- 

 ably together f:T seven weeks. There v^as 

 no honey coming in when I shook off the 

 bees, so at the end of four da , s, as they had 

 not commenced to draw out he starters, I 

 fed them about one quart of honey i'l two 

 days, and then let them go four days more, 

 a^j t'"e end of which time I shook them off 

 upon full sheets of foundatio". Both halves 

 were handled jast alike, one afer the ther, 

 an "" fed from the same i oney. Now the dis- 

 ease showed in the dir y hive, in its pro- 

 nounced form, in just three weeks fr: m the 

 time the bees were given full sheets of foun- 

 dation. 



