THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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veiillhe colony from becoming innocula- 

 led with the disease. Beta naphthol is 

 recommended as the best drug for this 

 purpose. In an eight-ounce bottle enip- 

 ly an ounce package of the drug, then 

 pour in just enough wood alcohol to dis- 

 solve the powder, and fill the bottle near- 

 ly full of water. This quantity is just 

 enough for 140 pounds of sugar. The 

 sugar should first be made into a syrup, 

 then the prepared beta napthol added and 

 the whole thoroughly stirred. 



A KICI'ORTKl) ATTKMIT TO IMPORT APIS 

 DORS.\TA. 



The Saturday Evening Post of Phila- 

 delphia is authority for the statement 

 that the Secretary of Agriculture is about 

 to make an attempt to import . some of 

 the giant bees of the Philipines. I sup- 

 pose that by this is meant Apis Dorsata. 

 The article admits that they can not be 

 domesticated, but says that it is expected 

 to turn them loose in the South and 

 allow them to run wild and take care of 

 themselves. I can only repeat what I 

 have said before, that I think this an un- 

 wise move. I fail to see what particular 

 benefit is to arise from turning these bees 

 loose in the South, and it is barely possi- 

 ble that the results might be similar to 

 those that have come about from the 

 turning loose of other things in this coun- 

 try. But we won't worry just yet. This 

 may be only a newspaper story — and the 

 bees are not here yet. 



ARE HXTRKMELV OIJ) COMBS SUITABLE 

 FOR I5ROOD COMBS? 



Mr. W. T. Stephenson, of New Colum- 

 bia, Ills., has been doing a little figuring, 

 and, according to his figures, combs that 

 have been in continuous use as brood- 

 combs for 25 years have j)lastered upon 

 the walls of their cells. 275 cocoons. He 

 believes that so many layers of cocoons 

 must matenally decrease the size of the 



cells; and, conse(|ueutly, the size of the 

 bees. In proof of this view he says that 

 he has in his apiary a hive in which the 

 combs have been in constant use as brood- 

 combs for 12 years, and that the small 

 size of the cells is plainly perceptible; 

 and that the bees of this colony are very 

 small when compared with the bees of 

 other coluiiies. He contends that if we 

 wish for larger bees wiih longer tongues, 

 we better look to the age of our brood- 

 combs. 



li^»^>t>'^^••'^«n 



THE INFLUENCE OF RESOLUTIONS. 



President Root, at the Chicago conven- 

 tion, called attention to the value of reso- 

 lulions or endorsements by State or 

 National associations. He had been be- 

 fore the Ohio legislature in the interest of 

 certain bills, and he there learned the 

 value of such endorsements. When he 

 tried to interest the members in a foul 

 brood bill, and an anti-spraying bill, 

 about the first question asked was, '"Does 

 3'our State organization ask for them?" 

 When they learned that there was no 

 such organization, they manifested very 

 little interest in the measures. Legisla- 

 tors are constantly beset by people who 

 have all kinds of hobbies, or axes to 

 grind; and, as it is impossible to listen to 

 all of their claims, law-makers are com- 

 pelled to confine their attention to mat- 

 ters that emanate from representative 

 bodies rather than from men individually. 

 Resolutions, suitably drawn, go a long 

 ways in influencing legislators. 



Ix-i)OOR Wintering versus out-door 

 wintering is a subject that has received 

 a large amount of discussion. It is large- 

 ly a question of locality. Mr. Root of 

 Gleanings very fairly states the matter 

 when he says that where cold weather 

 lasts nearly all winter, with only an oc- 

 casional day in which the temperature is 

 above the freezing point, he would recom- 

 mend iu-door wintering. Or if the cold 



