. Gleanings in bee culture . ^ inches higher thanthe front, to give a good fall. With thismuch slant, large pieces of comb, etc., mightpass over unmelted, and so I have a woodengate that swings across the front, comingwithin two inches of the bottom, as is hinged so I can turn it back out ofthe way when I wish to remove the melterfrom the box. In spite of the precautions I have takento confine the heat, I find that the stovemakes the room a little warmer; but prac-tically all of our extracting is done with apower outfit, and a fan is always running,so the higher temperature makes n
. Gleanings in bee culture . ^ inches higher thanthe front, to give a good fall. With thismuch slant, large pieces of comb, etc., mightpass over unmelted, and so I have a woodengate that swings across the front, comingwithin two inches of the bottom, as is hinged so I can turn it back out ofthe way when I wish to remove the melterfrom the box. In spite of the precautions I have takento confine the heat, I find that the stovemakes the room a little warmer; but prac-tically all of our extracting is done with apower outfit, and a fan is always running,so the higher temperature makes no partic-ular difference. Mayfield, X. Y. [The principles of this capping-melter arealong the right line; but we would suggest Gleanings in Bee Culture that 14 inches square of heating surface formelting the capjnngs is hardly enough totake care of two people uncapi)ing. Whena power extractor is used, vinless the combsare kei)t very long in the machine it willtake two people with a knife to keep up. Ql^h^OT WATERKNIFE HEATER. WAX LINESYPHON Such a machine as here shown will becomecongested. The scheme of the wax-sei)ara-tor is the same as that employed by F. , of Australia.—Ed.] EXTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICANAND EUROPEAN FOUL BROOD. BY E. F. PHILLIPS, PH. D. [For a good many years efforts have been madeto photograph diseased brood and reproduce theexact appearance of the cappings, the diseased lar-va*, etc.: but a photograph fails to show clearly thedistinguishing features of disease. In other words,a comb containing chilled or starved brood mayhave all the outside appearances of disease, so thatmany, seeing the photograph only, would be deceiv-ed. The Bureau of Kntoraology of the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture has just issued (May 6,1911) Farmers Bulletin 442, on the subject of TheTreatment of Bee Diseases. The illustrations inthe form of carefully made pen drawings beingahead of any thine we have previously seen, we atonce asked permission to reproduce
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