1918 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



343 



here are two recipes that will satisfy 

 that longing for something sweet : 

 Hunky Dory 



3 cakes sweet chocolate. 



2 tablespoons rich cream. 



2 cups popped corn. 



1 cup nut meats. 



Break the chocolate into small 

 pieces and melt it over hot water. As 

 soon as it is melted add the cream, 

 corn and nuts. Stir quickly with a 

 silver fork and lift out in small 

 lumps. This makes the sweet choco- 

 late go twice as far. 



Parisian Sweets 



Put through the meat chopper one 

 pound of dates, one pound of figs and 

 one pound of nut meats. Add one 

 tablespoon of orange juice, a little 

 grated orange peel and one-fourth 

 cup of honey or syrup. Mould into 

 balls and roll in chopped nuts, co- 

 coanut or chocolate. This mixture 

 may be packed in an oiled tin, put 

 under a weight until firm, then cut 

 in Hocks. Melted chocolate may be 

 added to the mixture before mould- 

 ing if desired. A little of this would 

 take the place of dessert. 



Treating American Foulbrood 



By M. Wysong 



I HAVE been having bad luck treat- 

 ing American foulbrood this 

 spring. We have been pestered 

 with it for several years; have had 

 a few cases every year. We are un- 

 able to find the source; rather think 

 that it is in some of the many bee- 

 trees in the neighborhood. I have 

 been successful in treating the dis- 

 ease until this spring, but failed com- 

 pletely this time. The method that I 

 use is: Cage the queen for 10 days, 

 then shake the bees in a clean hive 

 with 5 frames of 1-inch starters for 3 

 days; then take the starters out and 

 give them full sheets of foundation. 

 The old brood-hive is on top with 2 

 super-covers, the top one with a Por- 

 ter bee escape; leaving the old hive 

 for about 20 days; leaving the young 

 bees plenty of time to go below. 

 Have never had the disease to re- 

 appear in the same hive until this 

 spring. Last fall I even took the top 

 hive that was partially filled with 

 honey by a colony of American foul- 

 brood and shook the bees in that 

 hive-body, and they came through 

 perfectly clean, as the hive has 

 shown no sign of the disease. This 

 was done after the honeyflow, when 

 the queens were not laying, and 1 

 rather think that that is the secret 

 ot tin- success. 



This spring I had 4 colonies with 

 diseased combs, so treated them as 

 before. I looked in the hive a few 

 days later; saw that tile queens were 

 laying, so did not look at them for 

 several weeks. Imagine my surprise 

 in finding them in worse shape than 

 before treatment. Of course. I was 

 not long in going through the other 

 hives, but found all the hives free of 

 disease. 



I treated them in a good fruit- 

 bloom flow. Now there were no bees 

 that got out of the old hive, as I al- 



ways fasten the two covers on with 

 staples. 



Two of my neighbors had the 

 same experience. 



Did the bees from the old hive car- 

 ry the disease down? (That would 

 be my guess), or did some of the old 

 criminals remember the source from 

 whence they got the honey and do 

 the same thing over? I wonder 

 whether shaking them in a good 

 honeyflow was what caused it. 



Would like to hear from some more 

 experienced man than myself. 



We have had just a fair flow here. 

 Weather conditions were against us 

 for the last two weeks. Everything 

 was very forward here, the basswood 

 bloom was over about one week ago. 

 Usually it does not begin until about 

 the 10th of July here. 



Kimmell, Ind. 



(The most successful method with 

 us is to shake the bees during the 

 honeyflow as soon as possible after 

 the disease is discovered. Of course, 

 if you shake after they have quit 

 breeding, there will be some chance 

 of doing away with the disease be- 

 tween that time and the next spring. 

 But there is always more or less dan- 

 ger of robbing when manipulations 

 are done in a time of scarcity. 



It is quite possible that your bees 

 are getting the disease again from 

 colonies in the woods. In that case 

 it is a good plan to hunt the bee 

 trees. But those would soon run out, 

 on account of the disease. — C. P. D.I 



Bee Hunting in a Hot Air 

 Balloon 



By C. E. Fowler 



YOUR August number just re- 

 ceived, and I started to read it 

 just before dinner, and although 

 very tired and hungry I felt I must 

 skim some of the cream off. I read 

 transferring bees by using sulphuric 



ether, how far bees will go for 

 honey, by L. B. Smith ; then I ran 

 right into a mountain of honey, by 

 Lou Sites. I got so mad at Lou for 

 leaving $400,000,00(1. worth of honey 

 just because a few bees chased him 

 that I immediately asked a friend to 

 lend me his flying machine, but as he 

 could not spare it, he lent me his 

 hot air balloon ; so, after stopping at 

 a drug store to get some sulphuric 

 ether, and calling at Smith's to get 

 some of his strain of bees, I started 

 out to find that mountain of honey. 



Every mountain I would come to 

 I would let out a few bees. Like 

 Noah's dove, most of them returned 

 until finally all the bees in the box 

 got crazy, and when I let them out 

 they started like robber bees for a 

 mountain in the distance. 



At first I thought it was a volcano 

 in full blast, but it was the bees go- 

 ing in and out that fooled me. 



I let loose some of the sulphuric 

 ether and the cloud of bees dwin- 

 dled until they were all lying quietly 

 in a pile on the side of the mountain 

 many feet high. 



Upon examination I found these 

 to be a distinct and entirely new 

 kind of bee (Apis imaginata). In- 

 stead of putting their honey in small 

 cells or long cells like the bees of 

 Jerusalem, they put it in one large 

 sell 100 feet in diameter and one-half 

 mile deep. 



While marveling at this great sell 

 I met John D. Rockefeller on his 

 summer vacation and I made ar- 

 rangements to have him build a pipe 

 line to tide water for half of the 

 honey, but he wanted his share to 

 be the first half, which did not suit 

 me very well, and while we were 

 quarreling over who should have the 

 first half, the bees woke up. John 

 got stung, and I heard the dinner- 

 bell ring. (And the price of honey is 

 still going up.) 



Hammonton, N. J. 



The ( . 1 1 ■ j ' o n i apiary 



