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taining the diseased comb, leaving the two 
outside frames, they being filled with sealed 
honey, and replaced with new frames and full 
sheets of foundation comb, which the bees soon 
worked out and rapidly filled with honey, and 
brood looking beautifully healthy, and I began 
to congratulate myselt on having got rid of 
the disease very easily, but was not long in 
finding out my mistake, for, as the first batch 
of brood hatched out, there remained about 
one-third of the cells still closed, which, upon 
examination, proved the disease to be still at 
work in the hive. As it was getting late, I 
decided to leave them till the following season, 
and make a fresh start, and in September I 
removed the bees to a new Langstroth hive, 
with full sheets of foundation, the old hive 
being as badly diseased as ever, and the bees 
very weak, but not discouraged. They set to 
work again, and gradually increased in 
strength, and is now one of the strongest 
hives I have. By this time all the other hives, 
about sixteen, including one Ligurian and one 
hybrid stock, were badly diseased. They were 
all treated in the same way. Some of them 
being very weak were united, until the 
number was reduced to ten, all of which are 
now clean. Occasionally a diseased cell or 
two will appear, but I find very little trouble 
in keeping them healthy by applying to each 
affected cell, with a glass syringe, a small 
quantity of carbolic acid (Calvert’s,) and 
spraying the combs with a spray producer and 
a mixture of warm srrup, with 1-400 of the 
acid, and also feeding with syrup 1-500 — 
which I find the bees take freely when honey 
is not plentiful, but when it is they will not 
touch it in the feeders, but if poured out over 
the combs they gather it up readily; the 
absolute phenol (Calvert’s No. 1,) used by 
Mr. Frank Cheshire, I have not been able to 
procure in Melbourne, so have been using 
carbolic acid by the same maker, which I am 
told is one and the same thing, and can be 
had, together with the syringe and spray 
producer, at any chemist’s, the two latter at 
one shilling each. 
All frames from diseased hives should be 
burnt up, and the hive thoroughly scoured 
with a strong solution of carbolic acid, or 
destroyed with the frames. Gloves, smoker, 
or other appliances, also, should be disinfected 
after manipulating a diseased stock before 
going to a clean one, as I am convinced, with 
my limited experience, that too much care 
cannot be taken to prevent the spread of this 
terrible scourge, for if once introduced into an 
apiary it is certain to spread through every 
stock, whether Italian, black or hybrid. 
Kew. 
T. H. GRANT. 
Notices to Correspondents. 
In reply to Mr. David Ratcliffe’s letter in 
our third number, we may inform him : — That 
common White Box is one of the Eucalyptus 
tribe, its botanical name being “ Eucalyptus 
Leucoxylon.” It is considered a good honey 
producer. 
Seeds of the American Basswood and Fig- 
wort can be obtained from Mr. J. M. Lloyd 
(see advertisement on last leaf) Dundas Place, 
South Melbourne. It is difficult to prevent 
bees building combs joining tops of frames to 
bottoms of section boxes. If the space is not 
more than a quarter of an (inch, and the bottom 
of the section boxes or section box frames are 
slightly greased, very little trouble will he 
experienced. Some use perforated zinc honey 
boards and other contrivances. See reply to 
query 15. 
NEW BOOKS, REVIEWS AND 
EXTRACTS 
FROM [FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
The Australasian Bee Manual , by Hopkins. 
We have been favoured with a perusal of an 
advance copy of this new Bee Manual, and 
have come to the conclusion that it is an 
excellent work, which fully meets a rapidly- 
growing requirement for a bee book adapted 
to Australasian conditions. 
The Manual is an imposing and well-finished 
volume, about the size of Professor Cook’s 
American Manual. The typography, engra- 
vings, paper and general get-up are highly 
creditable to the publishers, and, as regards 
the subject matter and arrangement, we have 
something more to say. 
Of course it would be impossible now- 
a-days to write a book on bee management 
that did not contain much that is con- 
tained in other manuals, and we find a 
certain similarity and parallelism among all 
treatises on bee culture. In the Australasian 
Manual Mr. Hopkins has not hesitated to take 
the best from all the best bee books and 
magazines, fairly acknowledging the authors, 
and adapting and selecting to suit all the 
different conditions to which apiculture in 
Australasia must be subject, and which Air. 
Hopkins’ large experience in beekeeping in 
New Zealand enables him to do with consider- 
able authority. 
