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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



produced over new brood-combs will be 

 cleaner and whiter than that produced 

 over combs that are one year old, or older. 

 In most localities there would be a h\^ 

 loss in havintj new brood combs built 

 every year. To one who has never tried 

 it, such would seem to be the case in 

 Colorado, but those who are practicing it 

 assert that there is not only not any loss 

 in the numberof pounds of surplus honey 

 produced, hut an actual gain in the supe- 

 rior grading qualit)' of the houev secured 

 and the yiehl of wax from the old combs. 



To secure new brood combs each season 

 and not lessen the crop of surplus honev, 

 at the opening of the honey flow each 

 colony is shaken into a new hive contain- 

 ing onlv foundation starters in the frames, 

 but full sheets of foundation in the sec- 

 tions with a queen e.xcludingzinc between 

 the first super and the brooii chamber. 

 The bees will prefer the full sheets of 

 foundation to the starters and begin to 

 work vigorously in the sections, building 

 comb in the brood chimber only just fast 

 enough to accommodate the maternal 

 capacity of the queen. Bv the close of 

 our long honey season the brood chamber 

 will be filled, and the best possible work 

 will have been secured in the sections. 



To make a success ot this system, colo- 

 nies must be strong and the work must be 

 done at exnctly the right time. It may 

 be said further in its favor that it effect- 

 uallv solves the problem of swarming. 



The apiarist who practices this system 

 m\v laugh at foul brood. It will matter 

 little to him if his bees get a chance now 

 and then to rob a dead colony in some ob- 

 scure back yard that the bee insnector's 

 vigilant eve Ins missed. He will shake 

 them of! of the infected combs about the 

 time the disease would begin to show, 

 and that would settle it for that .season. 



In the light of the latest and best 

 knowledge of the subject, foul brood has 

 lost its terror to the man who reads, 

 thinks and investigates. Its cure is sim- 

 ple and certain, and even comparntive ini- 

 iTiunitvfrom it mav be liad by following 

 this system of building new brood combs 

 every season. 



You will readily see that it is simply the 

 old plan of shaking off the bees into a 

 new hive, and allowing them to build new 

 combs The only new feature is the 

 wholesale way in which it is done. Sup- 

 pose that an apiary of loo colonies is lo- 

 cated in a foul brood district, and foul 

 brood is already present in some of the 

 hives in the yard. Instead of looking 



the colonies over, and trying to decide 

 which are diseased, and treating these, 

 on!}' to find the disease breaking out 

 again and again in other colonies, the 

 wlwle apiarv is treated at the beginning 

 of the honey harvest. Certainly, no foul 

 brood will appear in that apiary until the 

 time comes when bees will rob, and by 

 that time the owner has secured a crop of 

 honey. 



There is one point that Bro. Morehouse 

 did not touch upon so fully as might have 

 been done, and that is that three weeks 

 after shaking off the bees, the brood will 

 all have hatched out, and the resulting 

 bees can be shaken oflF, which gives an- 

 other colony for each ola hive. This 

 leaves the old combs free from brood, 

 and in the right condition for rendering 

 into wax. 



Bro. Morehouse savs this plan is pecu- 

 liarly adapted to Western bee-keeping. 

 Perhaps it is, but I see no reason why 

 it need not be practiced in the East. I 

 am sattsfie I that comb m ly always be 

 built at a profit in the brood nest, and I 

 know of some bee-keepers here in the 

 East who practice this shake-off plan of 

 making increase, simply to solve the 

 swarming problem in out-apiaries that 

 are run for comb honev. H. R. Boardman 

 of East Townsend, Ohio, is one man who 

 practices this plan. 



Bee-keepers have often asked "What 

 is the use of fighting foul brood, it will be 

 left in bee-trees, ami will again fii.d its 

 way into our apiaries?" The above tel 

 exactly how a man may successfully run 

 an apiarv with foul brood all around him. 

 Take courage brethren. 



THE GRE.4T WEST. 



Us Motiiilains and What They are Good For. 



In the opening pages of this issue I 

 have given a little sketch of Colorado and 

 its resources — particularly that of honey. 

 As I intimated there, what is true of Col- 

 orado is practically true of a large share 



