Journals of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, Volume 38

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Página 188 - ... and let them build comb for four days. The bees will make the starters into comb during the four days and store the diseased honey in them, which they took with them from the old comb. Then in the evening of the fourth day take out the new combs and give them comb foundation (full sheets) to work out, and then the cure will be complete.
Página 251 - Fund meets for a period of three years the additional expense of the consolidated school over the cost of the small rural schools which formerly served the locality. The school sections contributed exactly the amount of the former expenditure, and the extra cost is met by the Macdonald fund for three years to enable the people of four provinces to have...
Página 67 - October may be fairly termed a winter month, the mean temperature being but 22'. 5 and the first zero of winter recorded on the average about the 18th. Ice usually begins to run in the Yukon about the second week but it is not until quite the end of the month or early in November that the river is fro/en fast. The temperature on the average during a winter falls to 20°...
Página 188 - ... must be burned or made into wax, on account of the diseased honey that would be stored in them. All the curing or treating of diseased colonies should be done in the evening, so as not to have any robbing done, or cause any of the bees from the diseased colonies to mix and go with the bees of healthy colonies. By doing all the work in the evening it gives the bees a chance to settle down nicely before morning, and then there is no confusion or trouble. This same method of curing colonies of foul...
Página 100 - With wheat a delay of one week beyond the period named has entailed a loss of over 30 per cent ; two weeks, 40 per cent ; three weeks, nearly 50 per cent, and four weeks, 56 per cent of the crop. With oats a delay of one week has caused an average loss of over 15 per cent ; two weeks, 22 per cent ; three weeks, over 32 per cent, and four weeks, about 48 per cent.
Página 188 - All the old foul brood combs must be burned or made into wax after they are removed from the hives, and all the new combs made out of the starters, during the four days, must be burned or made into wax, on account of the diseased honey that would be stored in them.
Página 188 - ... swarm to start the cure with, as it does not pay to spend time fussing with little weak colonies. When the bees are not gathering honey, any apiary can be cured of Foul Brood by removing the diseased combs in the evening and giving the bees, frames with comb foundation starters on. Then also in the evening feed the bees plenty of sugar syrup and they will draw out the foundation and store the diseased honey which they took with them from the old combs...
Página 233 - ... arts and occupations. The great bulk of the pupils attending primary schools under the National Board will have to earn their bread by the work of their hands; it is therefore important that they should be trained, from the beginning, to use their hands with dexterity and intelligence.
Página 187 - If, through carelessness, a colony has become thoroughly victimized by these wax-devourers, the bees and any combs not attacked should be transferred to another hive, after which the old hive should be fumigated with sulphur. Then, by giving one or two of each of the remaining combs to strong colonies, after killing any pupae that may be on them, they will be cleaned and used ; while, by giving the weak colony brood, and, if necessary, a good queen, it will soon recover.
Página 121 - These were preserved, and although sown the next year under unfavorable circumstances, being quite late and in a shady place, it proved at harvest to be entirely free from rust, when all wheat in the neighborhood was badly rusted. The produce of this was carefully preserved and from it sprung the variety of wheat known over Canada and the Northern States by the different names of Fife, Scotch, and Glasgow.

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