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editor of the Progressive. He says that a 

 man seldom inquires nutil he wants to know, 

 and by the time that the replies are gather- 

 ed and printed it is too late for that year. 

 There is another objectioii: to many ques- 

 tions it is impossible to give a correct answer 

 unless it is qualified, and there is not room 

 for much of this. Still, I think these de- 

 partments have conveyed a large amount of 

 useful information. 



The Noeth American Bee-Keepees' As- 

 sociation will hold its 24th annual conven- 

 tion in Chicago, on the 11th, 12th and 13th of 

 October. The meeting will be held at the 

 " Louisaua Hotel," corner of 71st street and 

 Seipp avenue. Comfortable accommoda- 

 tions will be afforded at a moderate price. 

 For a small room two persons pay If) cents 

 each, daily. Larger rooms occupied by two, 

 ifl.OO each. Four persons occupying a room 

 having two beds will piiy 50 cents each. 

 Meals can be obtained at the hotel or at the 

 numerous restaurants in the vicinity. The 

 hotel is only a few minutes' walk from the 

 south entrance of the Exposition. An inter- 

 esting programme is l)eing prepared, and 

 the coming meeting will lie one that few bee- 

 keepers can afford to miss. 

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"Bees Versus Manipulation " is the title 

 that I should give an article contributed to 

 the Canadian Bee Journal by that old vet- 

 eran, G. M. Doolittle. His argument is that 

 a field yields only about so much honey, and 

 that more of it is secured to the bee-keeper 

 if fewer colonies are kept and these so 

 manipulated that they will be in the best 

 condition possible to gather the crop. He 

 assumes that the colony left undisturbed con- 

 sumes just as much honey as the one stimu- 

 lated to the greatest brood production. I 

 think these two assumptions are unwarran- 

 ted, that is, that the yield of nectar is always 

 the same and that the consumption is the 

 same per colony regardless of manipulation. 

 In regard to manipulation or work in the 

 apiary, do nine cents of work whenever it 

 will bring in ten cents of pay, but if this 

 same work can be made to bring in fifteen 

 cents, so much the better, and it is my hon- 

 est conviction that the majority of bee- 

 keepers lose money by not keeping more 

 bees and then adopting such methods 

 as will allow the same amount of work to 

 care for the bees. 



WHAT TO DO WITH FOUL BEOOD. 



A few months ago Gleanings printed what, 

 it seems to me, was the best short article I 

 ever saw upon foul brood. It briefly, clearly 

 and concisely gave the symptoms and told 

 how to get rid of it by putting the bees in 

 new hives, giving cautions as to how it 

 should be handled. Very wisely, the Api. 

 copied the article, and says it is good advice, 

 except that it is better to burn the hives, 

 bees, combs and all. 



If I owned a large apiary, and only a few 

 colonies were affected with foul brood, and 

 I knew that they were the only ones diseased, 

 and that by burning them I should free my 

 apiary of the pest, I should perform the burn- 

 ing act, rather than take the risk of curing 

 the few diseased colonies. If I sfiould find 

 a large proportion of my apiary afflicted 

 with the disease, I should cure the diseased 

 colonies at the risk of infecting the others. 

 I say at the risk of infecting the others, as 

 there is a risk, but an intelligent bee-keeper, 

 who understands the disease and knows how 

 to cope with it, may make the risk a very 

 small one. To destroy a large portion of an 

 apiary, when by perseverence and determin- 

 ation, coupled with knowledge and caution, 

 it can be saved with a very slight loss, is not 

 good generalship. 



The most of my readers know that Mr. R. 

 L. Taylor has had a long and wide experi- 

 ence with foul brood : in fact, he has reached 

 that stage where he no longer fears it. If it 

 comes, he feels that he can handle it to such 

 a certainty that it will not get the start of 

 him. When I was over there last summer, I 

 asked him if his apiary was entirely free 

 from it. He said there were two or three 

 colonies in which it was still present. He 

 added that he might have been entirely free 

 from it had it not been that he had had on 

 hand a large lot of empty combs, and some 

 of them, he knew not which, had contained 

 foul brood, and he wished to use these 

 combs. He preferred to use them and keep 

 a close watch, treating the cases of foul 

 brood as they developed rather than destroy 

 the combs or even melt them up into wax. 

 And this from a man who owns a foundation 



machine. 



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bee-dysenteey, ITS cause and prevention. 



Homeopath "similibus curantur, " 

 Allopath big-pillibu8 banter, 

 Faith-o-path pietas enchanter — 

 And get well on the canter. 



[The following "leader" is an article that I 

 contributed to the American Bee Journal, and 



