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One of the 58 men who reported favorably on the hive, who lives not far from here, and obtained his hives direct from Mr. Heddon, recently made a thorough test of the "shake out function " of the hive. Aided by another expert bee-keeper who had charge of the hives the attempt was made to shake out the bees and queens from several hives, without success. The attempt was also made to drive the queens down on the bottom-board with smoke, with no better success. One colony of hybrids were so enraged by the shaking, that the apiarists were driven out of the apiary. At last, our friend, unable to find a queen, or to shake out the bees, gave up the experiment in disgust, and declared that he would transfer the bees to other hives.
The experience of these gentleman is the same as my own, that the "shake out function " is a humbug. Add to this the difficulty from brace-combs, and the divisisible brood chamber has not a thing to recommend it. It becomes at once a complicated, expensive and worthless contrivance.
But Mr. Heddon claims that I have not used _his_ hive, but instead a modified one, and not a divisible brood-chamber at all. Let us see about that. The idea was given out by Mr. Heddon that there was no need of handling brood-frames, but instead, hives. I would make the most of this valuable (?) function of the new hive. So I made it the exact capacity of an eight-frame Langstroth hive. The cases were made very light, of 3% inch stuff, and the frames \(\mathcal{V}_{2}\) an inch more shallow than Mr. Heddon's. Besides, to make sure of the "'shake out function " the top and bottom bars were made only 3% of an inch wide. These cases were illustrated in _Gleanings_. But after all my care in the matter, and numerous trials, I found the "shake out function " to be impracticable to a man of ordinary strength and endurance, even with my little cases.
Mr. Heddon is fond of alluding to what he is pleased to call my " mistakes." But my mistakes, if I have made any, are trivial indeed as compared with the grand mistakes of Mr. Heddon in his unfortunate hive theories. It is human to err, but I must object to one of the most signal failures in the history of apiculture being paraded before the public under the false guise of ''success." Charging me with mistakes will not blind the public to the fact that the principle of his new hive is wrong, and that his theories regarding it are highly deceptive and misleading.
In conclusion I must observe, that Mr. Heddon has made no improvements in bee-hives as alleged ; at least not in the so-called new hive. The Heddon-Langstroth hive with the Heddon-More super have met with favor, but as an '' original inventor '' we shall hope that our friend may yet distinguish himself.
_New Philadelphia, Ohio._
**Foul Brood Cure.**
**Frank R. Cheshire.**
The following'selection was made from Cheshire's work, by the _Bee Keep-er's Guide:_
''Our third head now demands our attention. In what way can we most successfully, if at all, treat and eradicate this pest? Although ever an earnest advocate of curative measures, I am yet at the outset constrained to say that the disease is so sadly infectious that those who are by nature apathetic, or whose occupation will only permit half attention to their bees, may inflict previous wrong upon their neighbors by attempting any cure, as this is likely to be done in a fitful, negligent fashion, keeping the disease languishing, while other stocks are, through it, being made victims. To such I advise, as the kindest course to self and others, the destruction by fire of the combs, and, possibly, even the frames and hives. If the bees are worth saving, make a swarm of them into a skep, and transfer forty-eight hours later into a frame hive. If there be much brood, the case not a very bad one, and the robbing season not at hand, unqueen, cutting out all royal cells eleven days later, and giving from a healthy stock a royal cell just sealed. When the queen hatches--by which time nearly all the worker brood will also have left their cells--make a swarm of them into a skep, and transfer on the second day into a frame hive. The queen will in seven or eight days begin to lay, and probably all will go well. The re-queening removes the possibly infected queen and gives in her place a healthy one, while the delay gives time for the diseased bees to die off before they are required to act as nurses, which is the virtue of the so-called ''Starvation cure.'' The honey in the diseased combs may be melted down, thinned with water, boiled, and used as food, preferably with medication.
The destruction of the hive, however, is never _necessary_, for, after the worst cases, it may be used again with perfect safety, if, having been washed and dried it be scrupulously painted with a mixture of two parts methylated spirit and one part carbonic acid crystals, or one-and-a-half parts good white fluid carbonic acid. This mixture not only rapidly destroys all bacilli and spores, but it glues them down into place, by dissolving the propolis and insinuating itself into every cranny. Other methods are at command, Mr. R. Sproule having contrived a disinfecting apparatus which he finds perfectly efficacious ; by it the vaporizes carbonic acid in team, which is carried through the carpeting by a pipe. The processes of ovening, or prolonged boiling, will also, from what has been said on sterilizing, disinfect the hives and frames. The oven of the kitchener will usually be large enough to receive the latter, and so can render them re-fit for use. I believe, for hives, the process of painting with my mixture, now recommended, will be found most generally useful. But let none depend on a hope that the spores will die by simply leaving the hive empty for a season. I have just tried some of these spores kept sixteen-and-a-half months in a glass tube, and exposed on several occasions to a temperature below frost. Upon introduction into gelatinized meatjuice, they immediately started growing.
The old German plan of giving salicylic acid in food, and spraying with a 1-150 solution of the same I found, many years since, effectual, but necessitating much care and prolonged atten
Bags containing camphor, placed within an infected stock, have been stated to work a cure. They probably are an advantage and might be used in winter ; but in my own \(\cdot\)trials, _Bacillus alive_ has gone on developing and extending its ravages, notwithstanding the presence of the camphor. The so-called coffee cure it cannot be uncharitable to regard as a mere silly whim, which does not deserve to be dignified by discussion.
Carniolans.
Ament our remarks as to the true color of these bees, Mr. Blow writes to us that ''the bees shade off (leaving the yellow bands at Trieste) to the genuine article up in the mountain valleys. I have had over one hundred stocks this spring and I have not one bee that shows yellow markings." He also refers us to his pamphlet, page 37, where he speaks of the bees around Trieste as a ''rather mixed race, being in many cases slightly striped with yellow, quite different to those I saw later on in the mountains." He also speaks of a ''Mr. Doukoupli, residing at Radmansdorf, who possesses a large apiary of Cyprian, Syrian, Ligurian and Carniolan bees ''--all in the same apiary!--''and exports queens to America." Notwithstanding Mr. Blow's remonstrances, this gentleman was unable to see his error. We hope he does not export queens to England! Mr. Blow's ''genuine article," then, in Carniolans, is a bee entirely free from yellow markings. Let us adhere to this, and endeavor to keep the ''genuine article ''pure. The Carniolan colony, of which we spoke in our last ''Hints," continues crowded with bees in its large brood compartment and supers, utilizing every moment of sunshine as energetically as Cyprians, but shows no inclination to swarming, although its neighbors have been indulging the swarming instinct. So gentle, beautiful, prolific and hardworking, is the Carniolan race, that we sometimes feel inclined to wish that our entire apiary consisted of it and none other.
From the American Bee-Journal.
The North American Convention is to be held at Columbus, O., but the time is not yet decided upon. The following from Dr. A. B. Mason on the subject will explain itself :
Several months since I suggested that the place selected for the holding of the next meeting of the North American Bee-Keepers' Society be changed from Toledo to Columbus, Ohio ; and after quite a good deal of correspondence with some of the members of the Society, the Executive Committee decided to take a vote of the Society in the matter.
A circular was prepared by the Committee a short time since, and a copy, with a postal card directed to me, was sent to each member of the Society by the Secretary, stating the reasons for, and desirability of, making the change, with the request that each say on the postal what his or her wish was in the matter. When all but thirteen had voted, I wrote to each of them asking them to vote. All but six have responded, and so far every vote but one has been for the change ; so the next meeting of the Society will be held at Columbus, Ohio.
I have delayed giving this notice so that I might give the time of meeting, but as yet the Executive Committee has not been able to agree on the time.
Last week I sent the plan for the building for the Bee and Honey department of the Ohio Centennial Exposition at Columbus, to the architect. It is to be 36x80 feet in size, and most of the space has been applied for. Applications for space and entries close Aug. 6. A. B. Mason, Pres. N. A. B. K. Society.
August is the best month for Italianizing, because the queens can be purchased cheaper this month than at any other time of year, and your bees will be all good Italian workers for next season. If brood is reared plentifully this month and next the young bees will winter better, and develope more rapidly in the spring;
**Question No. 37.--Is flat bottom foundation as good as other for brood chamber or surplus?**
The bees do not as readily take to it as they do to the other.--J. P. H. Brown.
It is as good for surplus, but I don't consider it as good for the brood chamber.--Frank A. Eaton.
I never used flat bottom foundation for brood chamber. Some say it is preferable for surplus, not leaving a fish bone.--H. H. Flick.
I have had but little experience with flat bottom foundation, but from that little should say that it is just as good. I could see no difference in any way in practical results.--Will. M. Kellogg.
_Oneida, III._
I have never found much difference in it. If the wax is pure and bees are getting honey either one is good enough for my bees. Bees will not work either kind when they are getting no honey to store in it.--Abbott L. Swinson.
I never have used it for '' brood chamber,'' but have used it its in sections and could see no difference in acceptance, but if I remember right they changed the bottom of cell.--H. D. Cutting.
Never used it in brood chamber. Can see no difference in the boxes with some quality of wax, there is more difference in wax ; than there is in the form of cell. Never use thicker than ten or twelve feet to the pound.--W. L. Coggshall.
This is a somewhat mooted question. I myself prefer the regular form. I think the flat bottomed can be run thinner than the other and for that reason may be preferable for surplus. Judging from what I read I doubt if there is enough difference to be noticeable between the two styles.--J. E. POND.
**Question No. 30.--Something singular occurred with one swarm. Put hive on stand and next morning every bee was dead. They were wet and bloated and water was running only.**
**Question No. 37.--Is flat bottom foundation as good as other for brood chamber or surplus?**
This is a somewhat mooted question. I myself prefer the regular form. I think the flat bottomed can be run thinner than the other and for that reason may be preferable for surplus.--J. P. H. Brown.
The only way I could account for this is that in some way the entrance got closed and the bees, in their excitement, worried themselves to death.--H. H. Flick.
They evidently had dysentery ; there may have been several causes, which to give here would be only a guess, not knowing their management before being placed on the stand.--Frank A. Eaton.
I should say they were smothered ; at least that has been the appearance and symptoms of all smothered bees I have ever seen. I have no experience by which to assign any other cause.--WILL. M. Kellogg.
You are ahead of me. I never see anything of the kind and so I am unable to answer your question. They must have eaten something poison. Any dead bees that are full of watery substance, when dead, will be black. --Abbott L. Swinson.
I cannot tell from the data given. It would require an examination to determine, and then one might be at fault. One great trouble with many questions is that so little is stated in them, that it is impossible to do more than merely guess, and guesses are of no value to inquiers.--J. E. POND.
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**The troublous times, which had continued to grow darker and darker, had, for a season, driven from Molly's attention all thoughts but how best to employ her time in helping others. Indeed, the letters received from Ned week by week, telling of the pleasures and frivolities in which his leisure hours were spent, which at another time might have interested her under existing circumstances, jarred upon her sensitive nature and unconsciously she compared the life he lived with that of the whole-souled, noble young clergyman, who thought no labor too arduous if he might benefit those about him and who ever considered his own happiness as secondary to the welfare of others.**
**Brought thus daily in contact with an example of joyous and hearty self forgetfulness at first, a feeling of respect, and then gradually a warmer emotion filled her breast, and at length, to aid the rector in his labors, became her greatest pleasure.**
**It was at this juncture that Ned returned, and at once, under his supervision, the new machinery was placed in the mill and a largely increased force of operatives employed. Those who had been for so long a time idle, but were now again at work, blessed Ned with great volubility and proclaimed him their greatest benefactor, but Molly felt, what she hardly dared acknowledge to herself, that the true hero was the one who had stood by the sufferers in their time of greatest need, and to him, in spite of herself, her allegiance turned.**
**Ned, in the excitement of home coming and amidst the press of business, had perceived no change in Molly's manner towards him, who, with a woman's tact had allowed him no suitable opportunity to speak of anything but general matters.**
**Teddy's remark, Tom's nonsence and Molly's blushing face at Mr. Pierson's appearance on the evening of Nan's return had caused him, at the time, a feeling of jealous surprise, but other matters of interest being condient.**
**stantly brought forward and his mind being worried with the unsettled condition of business, he delayed from week to week to find a favorable opportunity to ask Molly's acceptance of the engagement ring which he had obtained in Paris, and which was a plain circle of gold surmounted by a crest in the form of an Italian bee with diamond eyes.**
**During the summer Gertrude Stearns and Jim Travers were again guests at Mrs. Fry's, but Molly found little time to accompany them on their pleasure trips, sending Nan as her substitute, who had become a prime favorite with all, and especially so with Ned's aunt, who was always cheered by her presence and who kept her as visitor for weeks at a time, declaring that she was like sunshine in the house.**
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