. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 107 foundation made of wax rendered from foul broody combs. The article sliows much thou<j;ht aud research, and there are frequent references to scientilic works, but Mr. Jones says :â " Science and practice do not always ac- cord, aud I am williny to believe that they do not in the present instance. I am not prepared to say that the lieat re- quired for the boiliny of honey or wax will kill the foul brood yerms or spores, which may be in them, but I do say that in all my experience, aud I have liad a good deal
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 107 foundation made of wax rendered from foul broody combs. The article sliows much thou<j;ht aud research, and there are frequent references to scientilic works, but Mr. Jones says :â " Science and practice do not always ac- cord, aud I am williny to believe that they do not in the present instance. I am not prepared to say that the lieat re- quired for the boiliny of honey or wax will kill the foul brood yerms or spores, which may be in them, but I do say that in all my experience, aud I have liad a good deal, I have never hud a case <jj' ils return, after siibinittiny tketn to this heat. 1 have often taken foul broody honey and put it into a dish, suspending the dish in boiling water, but not allowiug any water to yet mixed with it. In tliis way I have rendered unfertile all germs of disease wliich were in itâat least there were none ever appeared afterward. I have also made similar tests with wax, with the same results. Wax melted in tlie sun, or at a lower temperature than the boiliny point of water (212°) may, perhaps, not be ivfe from the fertile sixn-es. I should not cire to risk it. My beliefs m this direction have sutfered no chanye since I put myself ou record at the Michiyau couvt-ntion some years ago, as stated by Mr. ; The Pratt Perfection Cage. Last summer I described the Pratt Per- fection queen cage, and, in so doing, I said it was practically the Benton cage. In the Api. for March, Mr. C. W. Costellow ex- plains in what ways it differs. Among other things he says:â " To Mr. Frank Benton is due the credit of giving the idea which led to the coustruc- tion of the best shippiug-and-introducing- cage now ou the market. Benton's cage was figured in 1884. was designed for shipping queens across the ocean aud as such it was a perfect cage, but it was not at all suitable for introducing, and the cost to manufacture was too high ; but to Mr. E-. L.
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