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class rate for honey shipped in carriers, 

 in that jurisdiction. 



I feel that the jilan of single case 

 shipments should he ciMidemned. 

 whether single or douhle-tier cases are 



The Box-Hive to be Banished from 

 Colorado. 



Xcu's Xotes, published by the Colo- 

 rado Agricultural College, contains a 

 report of their new foul-brood law, and 

 a notice for all bees to be changed from 

 box hives to movable-comb hives. This 

 law goes into efifect July 1, 1912. 



We do not envy Mr. Wesley Foster, 

 state inspector, his position for the next 

 few years, and we shall watch with in- 

 terest the working of the new law. Wc 

 read : 



The bill providing for the inspec- 

 tion of the apiaries of the state for the 

 purpose of controlling foul-brood and 

 other diseases of the honey bee, is now 

 in force. 



All but $2,000 of the appropriation for 

 carrying on this work was vetoed, so 

 that it will be impossible to do more 

 than pay for the supervision of the 

 work at state expense. 



Mr. Wesley Foster, secretary of the 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, has 

 been appointed deputy inspector in 

 charge of the work. The work will be 

 taken up first in those counties that 

 will co-operate by setting aside funds 

 enough to enable a county inspector to 

 assist Mr. Foster in carrying on the 

 work. 



As a measure for the eradication of 

 American foul-brood all colonies lo- 

 cated in hives, boxes, kegs, gums or 

 skeps the combs of which are not mov- 

 able, must be transferred to movable 

 comb hives by July 1, 1912. 



Box hives are the most fruitful 

 sources of contagion to all bees in the 

 community, and for the protection of 

 the industry, this notice, with ample 

 time in which to transfer the bees is 

 given. 



Bee-Journalism in America Today. 



You will pardon me for clipping the 

 following from Gleanings In Bee Cul- 

 ture. I do not so much because of what 

 it savs concerning mv work with the 



Review, but because of the spirit 

 shown : 



" I here never was a time when there 

 was a better and cleaner lot of bee- 

 papers than are being published now. 

 Every one is worth reading. Even if 

 one has only a few bees he will see 

 something in one of the bee-papers thai 

 will save him ten times its cost for one 

 year. In this connection it is a real 

 pleasure to speak of the excellent work 

 now being done by the new editor of 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review. When Mr. 

 Tyrrell first took up the work we felt 

 very sanguine that he would succeed. 

 The late issues of our valued contem- 

 porary go to show that the Rez'iezv is 

 fully equal to, and in some respects 

 ahead of, its former self, and that is 

 saying a good deal, for Mr. Hutchin- 

 son knew, if any one did, how to make 

 a readable, attractive, and beautiful 

 magazine on bees." 



I fully realize how the A. I. Root 

 Co., with the power behind it, could 

 have made my work of continuing the 

 Review very difficult, either by critical 

 comments on the same or by totally ig- 

 noring me. It did neither. How dif- 

 ferent is this from the course taken 

 by many business institutions today. 

 Read this from one of the Review sub- 

 scribers, a president and general man- 

 ager of a large electric railway com- 

 pany : 



"My interest in bee-keeping is only 

 that of an amateur but I like the hobby 

 and the best part of it is the pleasure 

 of reading the bee papers and knowing 

 that there is one business in this world 

 where competitors are not constantly 

 snarling and snapping at each other, 

 and where honesty and character are 

 reflected in the written pages, as they 

 are in all of the bee papers. To a man 

 in my business and more or less public 

 position, who is being continually 

 nagged and attacked by reasonable and 

 unreasonable foes, the bee industry and 

 the attitude reflected in. its papers is as 

 a fresh breeze to the traveler in the 

 sands of the desert." 



Let me say further, that not only is 

 this spirit found among publishers of 

 bee-journals, but I find it extends to 

 the dealers in bee-supplies, and down 



