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gards foul brood, but thought there 

 might be many things regarding tlie dis- 

 ease that were not yet fully understood. 

 He even went so far as to hint there may 

 be such a thing as resistance, upon the 

 part of a colony, to the germs of foul 

 brood; even as some individuals show 

 greater resistance than others to the germs 

 of certain diseases. Notwithstanding 

 the cure of many cases of foul brood with- 

 out disinfecting the hive. Prof. Harrison 

 looks upon that practice very much as 

 he does upon occupying, without disin- 

 fecting, the rooms in which patients have 

 died of consumption, typhoid fever or 

 diphtheria. 



Some of us may have believed that we 

 had nearly reached the limit of knowl- 

 edge regarding foul brood, but, since 

 talking with Prof. Harris^on, I am inclin- 

 ed to the belief that there yet remains a 

 wide field for valuable orginal work in 

 this line. 



EXTRACTED. 



LARGE HIVES. 



How the Dadants use them in Producing Ex- 

 tracted Honey, and why they are Un- 

 desirable in Comb Honey 

 Production. 



Mr. C. P. Dadant has been writing for 

 Gleanings a series of articles in which he 

 advocates and defends the use of a large 

 hive. He says that he has found it 

 njore profitable to use a large hive, and 

 I do not doubt his statement, but I have 

 watched with great interest to see' if he 

 were going to tell why — if he would go 

 into the reasons and logic of the matter. 

 In the December issue of Gleanings he 

 explains why he is opposed to the use of 

 a two-story hive, and, incidentally, he 

 brings in the very arguments that Mr. 

 Taylor, Mr. Doolittle, myself, and others, 

 have userl in favor of small, or, at least. 



medium sized brood nests in the produc- 

 tion of comb honey. I am going to copy 

 the article and print in italics the sen- 

 tences that go to sustain the very point 

 for which we comb honey men have been 

 contending. 



Mr. Editor: — I have now come to the 

 hardest position of my argument. 



when Oreek meets Greek, then conies the tug of 

 war. 



But when you and Dr. Miller join Hutch- 

 inson and Taylor and Doolittle against 

 Die, where shall I be ? The worst of it is, 

 you have a chance to talk just as soon as 

 I have done, and so destroy the effect 

 of my arguments. Then the other 

 fellows thrust at me between times. I 

 wonder how much there w'ill be left of 

 what I have to say, by the time you all 

 get through tearing it up Dr. Miller 

 doesn't say nuich; but, although he 

 claims never to know, he always seems 

 to give the hardest arguments in the few- 

 est words. 



No, I can't agree with you in double 

 stories of small hives. Dr. Miller's way 

 of putting the second story under the 

 first is certainly the best; but even that 

 does not satisfy me as well as my own 

 way of having it all in one story, expan- 

 sible at will. Vou must remember that I 

 speak of a hive as long as the Langstroth, 

 or longer, and about a'i inches deeper, 

 with a movable partition-board, or dum- 

 my, and containing lo frames. This 

 hive, as I have alread}' explained, is of a 

 capacity that will about accommodate the 

 most prolific queens. 



Your eight-frame hive is too small; and 

 when it is doul)led, it is too large for the 

 laying of the most prolific queens. If you 

 put the additional story on top, you in- 

 crease the room too much all at once. 

 This has to be done at a time when the 

 bees need all the heat they can generate, 

 Hud a large space above them is not prone 

 to help them, as you will readily recog- 

 nize. Dr. Miller makes the addition at 

 the bottom, and so does away with that 

 objection. The queen will then spread 

 her brood downward. />iit if you are 

 aiiniiig' to raise comb honey, as the queen 

 jfoes do?i'u?c'ard, as a matter of course the 

 bees ivill fill the space above them ivith 

 honey as the brood hatches, and the result 

 ivill be front trventy to an indefinite num- 

 lier of pounds placed in these combs before 

 the sections air touched. So Dr. Miller 

 lays himself more liable than myself to 

 the objection of our critics, that our large 

 hives are not fitted for the raising of comb 

 honey. .\s a matter of course, the same ob- 



