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honoy How. it will nuan cnnsidcraljlo 

 loss. 1 would rather use smoke uiod- 

 erately, and endure a few stings, than 

 to sustain the loss." 



A National Foul Brood Law. 



W. C. Morris makes a strong plea 

 for a national foul brood law in July 

 American Bee Journal. He believes 

 such a law should have incorporated in 

 it the following: 



"Xo bees should be allowed to be 

 moved from one state to another with- 

 out inspection. All queen-breeders 



should have a clean bill of health from 



the State or National government. • 



No honey from a diseased colony 



should be allowed to be sold. No 



Cuban honey should be allowed to 

 come into this country, as the whole of 

 Cuba is rotten with foul brood. This 

 also applies to any other foreign coun- 

 try where there is foul brood. Bees 



should not be allowed to be kept in 

 box hives." 



He further states that: 'Tn Jamaica, 

 B. W. L, you can not bring a bee into 

 the island ; and queens are changed to 

 new cages by the bee inspector, and 

 the bees and cage burned in the fur- 

 nace of the ship they came over in." 



Two reasons given for not allowing 

 diseased honey to be sold are : "First, 

 foul brood is a filthy disease, and filth 

 and clean honey are not possible. Sec- 

 ond, my neighbor, ]\Irs. Smith, goes 

 to her grocer and buys a bottle of 

 honey, put up by Solomon Isaacs, of 

 New York city, who has bought some 

 diseased New Jersey honey, or some 

 cheap diseased Cuban honey at 5 cents 

 a pound. Mrs. Smith uses all the honey 

 that will run out of the bottle, then 

 throws tlie unwashed bottle in the ash 

 barrel. \-\\& minutes later my bees are 

 cleaning the liottle out. Result : foul 

 brood." 



Here is something for the members 

 of the National Bee Keepers' Associ- 

 ation to think over. 



Entrance Ventilation During Winter. 



It seems a little early to speak of 

 entrance ventilation during winter, and 

 yet that problem will be confronting 

 us in a short time. 



Air. S. D. House brings up a new 

 point in Gleaiiiiigs in Bee Culture, that 

 sounds plausible. It is a little thing, 

 apt to be overlooked, and more im- 

 portant because of that, for it is the 

 little things we are more apt to stumble 

 on. 



The point is, that ventilation should 

 not be given at the center of the en- 

 trance. He gives as his reason that 

 bees form their winter cluster next to 

 the opening, and where this opening is 

 in the center, the cluster is formed on 

 the central frames, with bad results. 

 Here is, in part, what he says : 



"If we observe the condition and 

 position of bees clustered for their 

 winter sleep out of doors, we shall 

 always find them clustered close to the 

 open entrance at the beginning of 

 winter, and that they will not abandon 

 that position except to follow up their 

 stores. If we close the entrance three- 

 fourths its length on one side, say the 

 first of November, the bees will cluster 

 at the side of the hive where the en- 

 trance is open. Usually bee-keepers 

 close the entrance from the two sides, 

 leaving the opening at the center. As 

 the bees will cluster at the open en- 

 trance, or in the center of the hive, 

 they will, before the winter is over, 

 consume the honey in those center 

 combs. They are now compelled to 

 move over to one side or the other, 

 and, later, consume all the honey on 

 that side of the hive. As a conse- 

 quence starvation often takes place, 

 the temperature being too low for the 

 bees to move over several empty 

 combs to get to their honey on the 

 opposite side of their hive. If, on the 

 other hand, the entrance had been 

 placed at one or both corners of the 

 hive, such a condition would not exist. 



