December, IfilS, 



American l^ee Journal 



with his tongue or pen, and is always 

 engaged in some good-natured con- 

 troversy as to whether or not bees rea- 

 son, or whether they can be improved, 

 or some other of the many perplexing 

 questions that are always before us. 

 The writer and the Doctor cannot 

 agree for 10 minutes at a time, although 

 we are the best of friends. It looks 

 like the only way we can ever settle 

 our differences is in a similar manner 

 to the Arizona contest, but as the 



writer is a poor marksman, he will 

 hardly risk such a challenge. 



Dr. Bonney is a persistent advertiser, 

 and sells his honey at good prices. 

 His favorite means is a comic post 

 card, in some corner of which appears 

 a rabbit and the words '" Eat Bonney 

 Honey." By sending out a batch of 

 these cards at any time he usually finds 

 a lot of customers for his product. 



Atlantic, Iowa. 



A. F. Bonney. 



Bee Diseases 



BY GEORGE VV. BERCAW. 



|Y contact with bee-diseases has 

 been more from observation 

 than from experiment, owing 

 to the fact that none of our 

 many yards has ever been more 

 than lightly affected. Some years ago 

 we purchased an apiary of 100 colo- 

 nies, and among them found a few 

 light cases of foul brood. It being in 

 a very light form, we very readily 



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stamped it out by taking it in hand 

 immediately. 



I do not think any up-to-date bee- 

 keeper needs to feel alarmed if he will 

 only heed the advice given, and take 

 immediate steps to stamp out any dis- 

 ease that may show itself in his yard, 

 and do all in his power to assist some 

 brother beekeeper in his immediate 

 locality who might be so unfortunate 

 as to have disease among his bees. In 

 my travels through different parts of 

 the State I have come in contact with 

 various bee-diseases. I have seen out- 



apiaries, located ofttimes in out-of- 

 the-way places, where the owner visits 

 them about once a year to get the 

 honey, leaving the bees to shift for 

 themselves. Here I usually find old 

 box-built antiquated hives with odd- 

 sized frames, sun-warped covers and 

 sides, with bee-entrances on sides, top 

 and bottom. It is not an unusual thing 

 to find such bee-yards in this State. 

 Not all are affected with disease, but a 

 large percent of them are, and in view 

 of such conditions, easily succumb. 

 Contagious diseases spread very fast 

 among the human family, and this is 

 no less true in insect life; infected 

 bees are as a general rule weak, and 

 are an easy prey to the stronger colo- 

 nies, thereby spreading contagion by 

 reason of the robbing of honey. 



In producing bees and queens com- 

 mercially for shipment, extreme cau- 

 tion should be exercised, taking no 

 unnecessary chances in shipping any- 

 thing from a disease-affected yard or 

 from a locality where it is known that 

 any diseased bees are kept. I would 

 suggest that a// persons owning bees, 

 whether for pleasure or for profit, keep 

 a close watch over them, and in event 

 of anything suspicious call for the in- 

 spector, and do not wait. He will 

 gladly assist you and give all the aid 

 at his command to stamp out disease 

 and prevent its spread. 



The time is at hand when these sug- 

 gestions will have to be handled under 

 a more systematic method, and much 

 good can be accomplished by the earn- 

 est and faithful co-operation of every 

 bee-keeper interested, whether he has 

 one or a thousand colonies. 



Glendale, Calif. 



Weil Preserved Honey — Ex- 

 tracting by Centrifugal Force 



BY DR. A. F. BONNEY. 



THE National Geographical Maga- 

 zine for September, among other 

 things, contains a statement so 

 startling that bee-keepers will 

 no doubt agree that it is utterly 

 false. However, we must remember 

 that conditions of heat and moisture 

 are very different in Egypt from here, 

 that things were sealed and buried 

 deep in the earth. Again, the men who 

 are conducting those excavations are 

 of well known integrity, and have no 

 possible interest to deceive. On page 

 999 I read : 



"The tomb was intact, and the ob- 

 jects it contained were as perfectly pre- 

 served as though they had only been 

 shut up a few weeks before * * * 

 Two beds of fine design decorated with 

 gold occupied another part of the 

 chamber, while a light chariot in per- 

 fect preservation stood in a corner. 



FRESH HONEY 3000 YE.\RS OLD. 



" Most startling of all was the dis- 

 covery of a jar of honey, still liquid 

 and still preserving its characteristic 

 scent after 3000 years. 'One looked" 

 says Mr. Weigal, 'from one article to 



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