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bicarbonate of soda. Dissolve \ of an 

 ounce of pure salicylic acid (the ci-js- 

 tal) in 1 ounce of alcohol. Add this 

 to the salt and soda mixture, then 

 raise the temperature near to the 

 boiling point, and stir thoroughly 

 while adding honey or syrup sufficient 

 to make the mixture quite sweet, but 

 not enough to perceptibly thicken, and 

 leave standing for two or three hours, 

 when it is ready for use. An earthen 

 vessel is best. I have tried other acids 

 and alkalies in other forms, but the 

 remedy prepared as directed and ap- 

 plied warm is that which I prefer. 

 Treatment of Bacillns Alvel. 

 Upon removing the cover from the, 

 hive, thoroughly dampen the tops of 

 the frames, and as many bees as are 

 exposed bj' blowing a copious spraj' of 

 the mixture from a large atomizer. 

 Beginning with the outside, lift a 

 frame from the hive and throw a copi- 

 ous spray over the adhering bees on 

 both sides of the comb, shake ofl' part 

 of the bees into the hive, and spray 

 those remaining ; then shake and 

 brush these into the hive ; then blow a 

 copious spray of the warm mixture 

 over and into the cells on both sides 

 of the combs sufficient to perceptibly 

 dampen both comb and frame. In 

 like manner treat all the frames, seria- 

 tim, returning them to the hive in 

 order. From combs containing very 

 much pollen, the honey should be ex- 

 tracted and the combs melted into 

 wax. This extracted honey may be 

 fed with safety, 2.5 ounces of the 

 remedy being added and well stirred 

 into each quart of water. 



All the colonies in the apiary should 

 be given a thorough spraying the first 

 time the treatment is applied, but 

 combs containing pollen need not be 

 removed from healthy colonies. After 

 the first thorough treatment the combs 

 and bees should be thorouglily spra3'ed 

 with the remedy at intervals of two or 

 three days until cured. Three treat- 

 ments after the first thorough appli 

 cation are commonly sufficient ; first 

 one frame being lifted from the hive 

 and sprayed, and the otliers simply set 

 apart, so that the spray may be well 

 directed over and copiously applied to 

 both bees and combs. An essential 

 feature in my method of treatment, 

 whicli I failed to make dul}- significant 

 . and prominent ia my last annual re- 

 port, is that medicated houey or sugar 

 syrup should be continuously fed to all 

 infected colonies while they are con- 

 valescing, for not onlj' must the con- 

 tagion be driven from the organism of 

 the adult bee, and suitable food and 

 tonic given to aid in repairing the 

 ravages of disease, but a constant and 

 even supply of the remedy serves as a 

 preventive and cure for the diseased 

 larvw. 



The honey or syrup should be fed 

 warm, and 2 ounces of the remedj^ 

 should be well mixed in each quart of 

 food, which may be given in feeders, 

 or by pouring over and into emptj' 

 combs, and placing these in the hive. 



To prevent the bees from going 

 abroad for supplies, make a thin paste 

 of rye flour and bone flour, three parts 

 of the former to one of the latter, ad- 

 ding the medicated honey or syrup. 

 Spread this over a small area of old 

 comb and honey in the hive, or feed in 

 shallow pans or wooden butter dishes 

 in the top of the hive or outside in the 

 apiary, under .shelter from rain. I 

 prepare the bone flour bj- burning dry 

 bones to a white ash. The softest and 

 whitest pieces I grind to dust in a 

 mortar, and sift through a very fine 

 sieve made of fine wire-strainer cloth. 

 The coarser pieces of burned bone I 

 put in open vessels witli lumps of rock 

 salt, which I keep half covered with 

 sweetened water, and sheltered from 

 the rain, at all times accessible to the 

 bees. The rapidity with which de- 

 pleted colonies recuperate and become 

 populous is surprising. I have tried 

 supplying the saline, alkaline, and 

 phosphate elements in bee-food by 

 using boracic acid, phosphoric acid, 

 etc., but I find that the bees take 

 kindly to the supplies prepared as I 

 have directed, and the amount con- 

 sumed shows their appreciation and 

 need. Such supplies of food and drink 

 should be kept at all times in the api- 

 ar}', easy of access. I have not found 

 disinfecting of the hives necessary 

 further than to simply dampen the in- 

 side with a copious spray of the rem- 

 edy, and sometimes no care was taken 

 to do even this. 



BEE-HIVES. 



The New Heddon Hive Coii!«id< 

 ered and Criticised. 



Written for the American Dee Journal 

 BY DR. G. L. TINKER. 



In the controversy with Mr. Heddon 

 I have had no ill-will towards him, nor 

 cause for it. Mj- course has been 

 prompted wliolly by a desire to fore- 

 warn the public against a recognized 

 wrong. Mr. Heddon charges that I 

 have done him an " injury." In reply, 

 I will say, that it is better that he 

 should sufler injury than that-the bee- 

 keepers of America should do so by 

 the introduction of such a hive. 



Mr. Heddon devoted a chapter in 

 his book, "Success in Bee-Culture," to 

 the claims for his new hive, alleging 

 that he had used it two years, and that 

 it had been fully tested by himself and 

 " stucVents." 



■The "new principles" set forth 

 were new indeed, and would no doubt 

 have caused a revolution in bee-culture 

 had they proved in practice what they 

 were represented to be. But they did 

 not so prove, and it now remains to 

 be seen if the}- were not wholly theor- 

 etical from the beginning. They were 

 captivating and plausible, and bee- 

 keepers generally accepted them as 

 established facts on Mr. Heddon's 

 statements. 



The feature above all others, that 

 was heralded in advance of the issue 

 ot his book, was the alleged fact that 

 we could "handle hives" if rightly 

 constructed, instead of many frames 

 in all needful work in an apiary. It 

 was confessed at the outset that it 

 would cost about twice as much as 

 other hives, but the advantages were 

 such that the extra cost was a small 

 item in summing up results, for "suc- 

 cess in bee-culture " was over assured 

 to every bee-keeper ! 



Many bought rights, and many more 

 bought hives with genuine Yankee en- 

 thusiasm. Mr. Heddon says over 500 

 got the hives. At last it appeared that 

 the hive was not what it had been rep- 

 resented to be, that it was in fact a 

 fraud. Then reports were called for, 

 but only 58 bee-keepers out of the 500 

 made favorable reports. Over 400 

 were silent as a tomb ! Had the hive 

 been the great success it had been 

 represented to be, can any one believe 

 .tor a moment that all these men would 

 have remained silent ? 



The hive must stand or fall on the 

 claims that have been made for it. 

 First, Mr. Heddon's new super is not 

 a sucTcess. If it was, we would find 

 that all who use his divisible brood- 

 chamber also using his new super. 

 But all do not. A large number of 

 bee-keepers use and prefer Mr. Hed- 

 don's old super on his new hive. That 

 " settles the merits " of the new .super. 

 There remains only his divisible 

 brood-chamber to be considered, and 

 every bee-keeper must now see that it 

 is a failure, if it cannot be handled as 

 represented ; for if it cannot be, why 

 handle 16 brood-frames when 8 can be 

 handled just as quickly, and answer 

 the same purpose ; why be to the extra 

 cost ? It was claimed to be an easy 

 task to shake out the bees and queens 

 from the cases, discover queen-cells, 

 etc. But the bees and queens cannot 

 be shaken out as represented. It can 

 neither be done readily nor easily, and 

 if it could be, we are often unable to 

 see all the queen-cells, as I have found 

 in many instances. As well try to 

 shake the bees out of a case of sec- 

 tions. It can be done, but it is a labor- 

 ious undertaking. 



One of the 58 men who reported 

 favorably on the hive, who lives not 



