. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 696 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. S, 1905 Some one has recently advised usin;^ one ounce of bisul- phide of carbon to every cubic foot. I have never bought this drug by the barrel ; but in small quantities it has cost me 35 cents per pound bottle. At the rate of one ounce per cubic foot, 1 would have had to buy about six bottles, at a cost of about $, to fumigate once. Ten cents' worth of sulphur made a sure thing of the job, and the risk of fire is no more than in the case of bisulphide of carbon. To use the latter is very handy, and I began to t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 696 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. S, 1905 Some one has recently advised usin;^ one ounce of bisul- phide of carbon to every cubic foot. I have never bought this drug by the barrel ; but in small quantities it has cost me 35 cents per pound bottle. At the rate of one ounce per cubic foot, 1 would have had to buy about six bottles, at a cost of about $, to fumigate once. Ten cents' worth of sulphur made a sure thing of the job, and the risk of fire is no more than in the case of bisulphide of carbon. To use the latter is very handy, and I began to think I would use it more exten- sively on that account, but when I found that 1^ ounces of it was not sufficient to kill the moth-larv;f in a stack of five sots of combs, I made up my mind that sulphur was enough cheaper, and better, to pay for the extra trouble. In reality, the trouble with the sulphur is not so verx reat, either. It is not at all necessary—es Mr. Fiace thought it was—to place the combs oi-er the burning sulpuur. It has always been my practice to burn the sulphur on top of the stacks of combs or comb honey. It is surprising how quickly the sulphur fumes will drop clean down to the bottom of the stack, no matter how high this is, and force themselves through all the cracks and crevices. Neither the combs nor the comb honey has to be moved. All that is necessary is to place an empty hive-body on top of a stack, and inside of this put a suitable dish with live coals of fire ; upon this is thrown a handful of sulphur, when the whole is covered up tight with a hive-cover. This has been my way ever since 1 Kept bees. The quantity of sulphur necessary will soon be found out by practice. Two and one-half ounces is sulficient for five sets of combs—perhaps less would do. In fact, for fumigating comb honey this is too much, and would leave a green deposit on the surface of the comb as well as the wood of the section. One and one-half ounces is about what I use wit
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