THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



A Good Report. 



The Hudson Miner, of Hudson, Wy- 

 oming, boosts that location for bee- 

 keeping as follows. It fails to state, 

 however, whether these were natural 

 swarms or artificial. It also fails to 

 say whether the twelve came from the 

 one, or whether from the one and its 

 increase : 



_ Geo. E. Burch, who has the reputa- 

 tion of being one of the best bee men 

 in this part of the country, told us this 

 week that when he started this spring 

 he had only one stand of bees. Now 

 he has saved twelve stands from that 

 one and there are more to follow. 

 Pretty good for one season, isn't it? It 

 has always been said that this is the 

 best country on earth for the bee indus- 

 try and we are inclined to that belief 

 ourselves. 



The Honey Crop in England. 



While we on this side of the water 

 are lamenting a short honey-crop, our 

 brothers across the way are burdened 

 with a heavy crop, but are dissatisfied 

 with the prices ofifered. A correspond- 

 ent in the British Bee Journal says : 



The average apiary has produced a 

 good crop of the precious "nectar ol 

 Heaven," and that not only as regards 

 weight, but quality also. I have not 

 yet seen a single uneatable section or 

 extracted an ounce of unsaleable honey, 

 and I must own up to heartily singing 

 the Doxology at the thought of it. But 

 the spirit of thanksgiving was less ar- 

 dent when I received the handsome of- 

 fer made by a London firm of 6s. per 

 doz. for sections, and 50s. per cwt. for 

 extracted honey, both, of course, of 

 best quality, and it brought the question 

 to my mind — Why sell prime honey, the 

 choicest of all food, at one-third the 

 price of salted butter? Why sell honey 

 at a price that covers it with contempt 

 as compared, for instance, with bacon ? 



Mexico Bee-Men are Evidently Alive. 



This is shown by a prominent four- 

 heading article in the Roswell Morning 

 Star, of Roswell, Mexico, giving a list 

 of prizes ofifered for exhibits at the 

 Products Exposition, which was evi- 



dently managed by the l)ee-men them- 

 selves. We read in part as follows : 



H. C. Barron, at Hagerman, secre- 

 tary of the Bee Men's association, and 

 .A.. J. Crawford, and R. B. Slease, mem- 

 bers of the Bee Men's display at the 

 Roswell Products Exposition, have just 

 completed their list of classes and 

 prizes. 



The Association has not appointed 

 the judge. This will not be done un- 

 til next month. A disinterested man 

 will be named. 



Daily demonstrations by A. J. Craw- 

 ford with full colony of bees in wire 

 cage will show all the manipulations 

 of the apiarist. 



The finest display of bee supplies 

 ever brought together. 



Ribbons will be awarded on all ar- 

 ticles of merit, but cash prizes will be 

 paid only when there is competition. 



A public display — daily from a float 

 showing the accurate, and practical 

 methods adopted by the keepers in ex- 

 tracting honey from the comb and pre- 

 paring the same for market. 



Shipping Honey From Foul Brood 

 Localities. 



J. L. Byer says in Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture : 



British Columbia has the strictest 

 foul-brood act yet enacted, in that it 

 gives power to hold in quarantine any 

 bees being shipped in, even if coming 

 from the sister provinces. It seems to 

 the writer that this is reasonable ; and 

 why should it not apply to honey being 

 shipped in from infested localities? 



But how would you propose to stop 

 it. Friend Byer? Suppose such a law 

 was passed, how would you knozv 

 whether the honey was free from the 

 disease or not unless you knew right 

 wdiere it came from? And wouldn't 

 bee-keepers be more wary than ever 

 about having inspection, if they knew it 

 meant the loss to them of their honev 

 crop if foul brood was discovered 

 among their bees? 



Suppose, Friend Byer, that some bee- 

 keeper near you, with two or three col- 

 onies of bees, allowed your bees to get 

 foul brood by robbing out his diseased 

 colonies. With the disease in vour 



