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ever, would ever be so foolish as to at- 

 tempt to keep bees in a field that is al- 

 ready occupied. 



There is one more point: If it is possi- 

 ble to thus drive out an interloper, it 

 proves that there /.s'such a thing as over- 

 stocking. 



THE HONEV MAKERS. 



Aside from text books, and those contain- 

 ing instructions for the management of 

 bees, there are few books upon apicultu- 

 ral subjects. Of those in which the gen- 

 eral public islikelv to be interested, there 

 are few indeed. Much good might be done 

 both to the public and to bee-keepers by 

 the publication of books so written that 

 they would be interesting, and thus would 

 be read, and at the same time would give 

 the public the right kind of information 

 regarding bees, bee-keeping, and honey. 

 It may seem strange, but it is neverthe- 

 less true, that the public is wofully igno- 

 rant and somewhat prejudiced upon these 

 subjects For these reasons we should 

 hail with delight every book that is like- 

 Iv to help fill this empty niche. Of such 

 a character is a book just brought out b}- 

 A. C. McClurg & Co., of Chicago. The 

 title is "The Honey Makers," and the 

 author is Margaret Warner Morley. It 

 is a book of over 400 pages, well illustra- 

 ted, and the price is $1.50. 



This book was the outgrowth of a little 

 book for children that the author started 

 to write, because she needed one, and 

 could not find it. She happened to be in 

 Florida for the winter, "with time and 

 plenty of bees flying. " I'ltimately, three 

 years were spent upon the subject. She 

 found that there was no end to the sub- 

 ject. There was an immense field " un- 

 browsed " by anyone in this country. 

 A year was also spent digging good things 

 out of the literature of all countries. The 

 result was that there was too much mate- 

 rial for a book for children; so she 

 made two books — one for children, 

 called " The Bee People," and one for 

 grown people, " The Honey Makers. " 



Miss Morlej' examined bees with the 

 microscope, aud the illustrations and de- 

 scriptions in the chapter on the structure 

 of the bee are unusually good. 



Part 1 1 is devoted entirely to the litera- 

 ture and history of the bee, and shows 

 that a vast amount of reading and work 

 must have been done in its preparation. 

 There is probably no book in which has 

 been gathered together so much of the 

 poetical and fanciful regarding bees. 

 The author makes no pretentions, of 

 course, to teach bee-keeping, but rather 

 to gather together those things about 

 bees, bee-keeping and honey that are like- 

 ly to be of interest to the general reader; 

 and, for one who is not a practical bee- 

 keeper,she has kept her work wonderful- 

 ly free from errors. Bee-keepers will en- 

 joy this book, even if it does not teach 

 practical bee-keeping. 



extractedT 



BLACK BROOD. 



The new Bee-Disease in York State is not 



Foul Brood. The Name Given it 



is Black Brood. 



Dr. Howard of Texas has made over 

 1000 microscopical examinations of the 

 diseased brood from York State, besides 

 doing a great deal of other work connect- 

 ed with the scientific research of the sub- 

 ject. He finds that it is an entirely new 

 disease, and quite distinct from foul 

 brood. Gleanings for Feb. i gives the 

 following description : — 



Right in the center of a larva three or 

 four days old, as it lies curled up in the 

 bottom of the cell, may be seen a very small 

 yellow spot, about like the head of a brass 

 pin. This spot appears to be right in the 

 center of the coil, for it will be remem- 

 bered that a three-days-old larva lies curl- 

 ed up in a circle; and it is in the middle 

 of this circle, or what may be considered 

 the inside of the body, that the yellow- 

 spot is found. But the larva is still alive, 

 and will contiuue to grow; but the spot 



