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THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
Muth’s method. Alcohol was the best solvent 
for salicylic acid, for if borax were used for 
the purpose, there was some danger of killing 
.a few of the bees. 
Mr. F. A. Joyner had cured his bees by 
Mu th's method. He had failed with phenol 
in all its forms. 
Mr. S. Bandell had tried McLain’s method, 
and found that the bees took the sweetened 
food, but there was no provision made for re- 
moving the foul brood in McLain’s system. 
Mr. Id. James had not been successful in 
curing his bees by McLain’s method, but by 
Mutli’s method he had been successful. Two 
hives that he had put aside, taking out the 
combs and giving them fresh ones, shows a 
curious case. One was apparently cured, but 
the other was as bad as ever. 
Mr. S. Die kins had tried Cheshire’s plan in 
England with success, but here the disease 
appeared to be more virulent. He had also 
tried Bertrand’s fumigator in England with 
success. 
Mr. C. N. Collinson had experienced foul 
brood, but had burned all the combs and 
frames, given them fresh frames with founda- 
tion, besides cleaning the hives, but from an 
ancient and fishlike smell ’’ in the locality he 
feared that he had not been successful. 
Mr. F. A. Joyner offered comfort to Mr. 
Collison, as he had noticed a similar odor, 
which he discovered to be due to the presence of 
“ Dandelion ” or Cape Marigold. 
Mr. A. E. Bonney said the difficulty of clean- 
ing hives and frames by boiling was aggravated 
by the small size of the boilers in domestic 
use. To get over this he had narrowed his 
hives to one foot. [A member suggested that 
it would have been better to have widened the 
boiler.] 
In answer to a question, Mr. Clough read a 
paragraph from Mr. Cheshire’s work, in which 
he declared expressly that che bacillus of foul 
brood was discovered by him both within the 
body of the queen and within the eggs — these 
eggs are very carefully guarded against out- 
side contamination. 
Mr. Clough, in answer to various questions, , 
said that the boiling of the frames for fifteen | 
minutes would kill all germs of foul brood. As 
to how germs are carried from hive to hive he 
was dubious. He could not understand why a 
person handling a foul frame and going to a 
clean hive should carry it, when by emptying 
a whole colony of infected bees before a clean 
hive with clean frames, &c., the new hive would 
not be infected. 
A Sub-committee was appointed to draft a 
method of cure of foul brood for publication. 
Mr. C. F . Clough exhibited a single-cell bat- 
tery used for heating the wire in wiring comb 
foundation. The idea of fixing foundation to a 
wired frame by aid of the galvanic current had 
occurred to him more than a year ago, when 
he spoke of it to Mr. Ellery, who, he found had 
already been using the method and has since 
published it m American and other beekeemw 
papers. The advantage in this process was that 
the Wire being hot and the wax cold, it aftJi 
firmly. He showed practically how it worked. 
Extracts front foreign Journals, 
INTRODUCING- QUEENS. 
Something New about the Business, 
From the Canadian Bee Journal 
Br .Joshua Bull. 
It is perhaps out of season to speak of intro- 
ducing queens in winter, hut as I have some- 
thing that I wish to say upon this subject a 
little different from anything which I have 
ever read or heard of so far as I can remember! 
in fact, I believe I have made a new discovery 
in this business, and as I could not find any 
time to write about it during the more busy 
summer months, I venture to"do so now, and 
perhaps the best way to convey a clear under- 
standing of the matter will be to give a brief 
account of the circumstances which led to the 
discovery of the principles involved in the 
facts of the case. 
In the summer of 18S5 I removed a couple 
of brown queens from their respective colonies, 
in order to introduce Italian queens in their 
places. Having no further use for those old 
queens I determined to experiment with them 
a little, and see if I could not increase my 
stock of knowledge somewhat, at their 
expense. Accordingly I went to a hive con- 
taining a strong colony of bees, with a vigorous, 
healthy -looking young hybrid queen inside i 
and placing one of those old queens upon till 
alighting board of this hive she walked right 
up to the entrance, the guards smelled at her 
aud gave a sort of royal salute, and she went 
in without halting at all. I waited awhile to 
see if any disturbance would follow but *11 
continued quiet, not the least sign that any- 
thing unusual or unexpected had happened. 
I then passed on to another colony in similar 
condition, so far as I knew at the time, and 
placed the other queen on the alighting board 
as before. The guards rushed at her in au 
instant, and in an agitated manner warned her 
off; she walked around awhile as though 
pondering in her mind what was the best thing 
to do next, and then marched up to the en- 
trance with an air of determination to go in 
regardless of consequences ; but the moment 
she entered the passageway she was seized bya , 
number of the guards and dragged to the 
outer edge of the alighting board (which ra 
about J2 in. wide) and very significantly gi™ 1 
to understand she must leave the premises, 
but she had one wing clipped and could not 
fly and therefore could not leave. It ™ 
really amusing to see the manceuvering o! 
those guards as they marched to and fro about 
the entrance to keep her from going into the 
