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Fourth annual report of the Illinois State Bee Keepers' Association < 1////. 

 Rpt. ///. i:<( Keeper? Assoc, ) »/.'"'/>. /»/<. 192, figs. J7). A list is given of the 

 members of the association, together with copies <»f the constitution and by-laws 

 of the association and laws relating to the protection of bees : i lt.- t i 1 1 s i foul brood. 



The report is chiefly occupied with an accounl of the fourteenth annual ses- 

 sion of the state I..'.- keepers' association and the fourteenth convention of the 

 Chicago-Northwestern bee keepers' association. One of the most importanl Bub 

 jects before the meetings was that of foul brood, discussed by N. E. France 

 (pp. 17-28 and K) 43), li. P. Moore (pp. 38, 39), and .1. Q. Smith (pp. "^ 80). 

 These papers wore discussed by various members of the associations. 



The state inspector of Illinois does not destroy swarms of bees infected with 

 foul brood as long as there is a fertile queen ami bees enough to form a nucleus 

 which can he built up by the addition of brood combs from strong colonies. 

 Various other matters, such as wintering of bees, the use of baby nuclei, mating 



queens, and the manufacture of brick honey are discussed. 



The rearing of queen bees, E. V. Phillips (U. X. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 

 ■'>.'>. i>i>. 82, figs. /?). In order to obtain the host results in apiculture it is 

 necessary to requeen the swarms every 1 to - years, otherwise the queen soon 

 ceases to lay a sulhcient number of eggs 1o maintain a vigorous colony. 



Under natural conditions queens are produced by feeding the larva- on royal 

 jelly. The occasions for queen producing are swarming, supersedure of the 

 queen, and a queenless condition. Various methods have been devised for arti- 

 ficial queen rearing. Artificial starting cells are used for the reason that these 

 may he better controlled and are more satisfactory than natural queen cells as 

 found in the comb. An artificial wax base may he used or a wooden base 

 lined with wax. Before being used for the first time these cells should he 

 daubed with royal jelly on the inside. The larvae should he transferred to the 

 artificial cells within 1 to ."» days after batching. Not all of those artificial cells 

 are accepted by hoes, hut as many as is the case when natural cells are used. 



Italian bees do not accept artificial queen raising as readily as Cyprians or 

 Carniolans. In order to induce the bees to feed larvae in artificial queen cells 

 it may he desirable to use swarm boxes. About the day before the queen was 

 to emerge the cell should he placed in an individual nursery cage so as to pre- 

 vent the different queens from attacking one another. Detailed directions are 

 given regarding all these matters as well as regarding the testing of queens, 

 selection of drones, and other related subjects. 



The enemies of bees, A. Gale I Vgr. Gaz. \. s. Wales, 16 (/.'">•<). No. ■'>. }>/>. 

 £89-492, t'n.1*. 2). — Directions are given regarding the methods of preventing the 

 entrance of bee enemies into the hive. The enemies mentioned in this con- 

 nection include spiders, tarantulas, bee louse, aids, bee moth. etc. 



Treatise on the silkworm and mulberry, E. Maillot and 1". Lambert (Traits 

 sur le vet a sole <ln murier et sur le tnurier. Hontpellier: Coulei & Sons, /.'""»'. 

 I>l>. IX+622, pis. ./, figs. 169). The present volume is an elaborate treatise on 

 the rearing of silkworms and the culture of mulberries. 



The BUbjects discussed include the economic importance of sericulture, silk- 

 worm etrjjs, methods of preserving them, artificial hatching experiments, anat- 

 omy of silkworms, their diseases, the various races of silkworms, and other 

 related insects which produce silk, as well as miscellaneous subjects related t<> 

 the general topic. Especial attention is given to a discussion of mulberry cul- 

 ture (pp. lor. 584). 



A new flagellate parasite of the silkworm, < '. Levadit] (Compt. Rend. Acad. 

 s,-i. [Porta], /// (1905), No. t6, pp. 681-634, figs. 11). — During a microscopic 

 study of a number of silk moths the author discovered Herpetomonos bombycis, 



which is described as a new species, with brief notes on its life history. 



