THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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liaiul 1)00 supplies, (|Uooiis, beeswax, 

 lielp, tyiiewriters, make exclianges, and, 

 in tact, take care of any want you may 

 have in the buv and sell line. 



Our Frontispiece. 



\N'hat a story the old log cabin, shown 

 in our frontispiece this month, might 

 tell. Note the woodbine climbing over 

 its decaying walls. The windows are 

 gone and the casings are becoming 

 loosened. 



The home of some former settler, it 

 could undoubtedly tell of hardships en- 

 dured and burdens borne. Privations, 

 no doubt, were many, and often the 

 barefoot boys and girls could look up 

 into the tired faces of the father and 

 mother and there read discouragement. 



But through it all there gleamed the 

 bright ray of hope. His discourage- 

 ments, while dififerent from ours, were 

 no doubt no greater. He was literally 

 hewing a home out of the wilderness, 

 and what nobler work can man be en- 

 gaged in than home-building? Health is 

 generally the lot of the pioneer, and 

 around his table there no doubt gath- 

 ered a more happy gathering than can 

 often be found in the finest mansion. 



Knowing Foul Brood. 



Editor York feels that possibly I was 

 a little too severe on the bee-keepers in 

 my September editorial on "Don't Bee- 

 Keepers Know Foul Brood?" Mr. York 

 says : 



"One who has never seen the disease 

 before may be excused if he does not 

 recognize it at first sight." 



But that's not the point. Brother York. 

 The bee-keeper I referred to had colo- 

 nies rotten with the disease, claimed he 

 had read all about the disease so he 

 would be able to recognize it, and then 

 denied having it. If I am not mistaken. 

 Inspector Sanders found extensive bee- 

 keepers, men who read the bee journals, 

 and who must have had the disease for 

 years, either in their apiaries or around 



them, and yet these men denied having 

 this disease. What was wrong, didn't 

 they know the disease, or didn't they 

 want to? 



I have before me a letter from a 

 California inspector, and he says: 



"I am just reading the letter from G. 

 E. Sanders in the September number of 

 the Review, and it confirms my idea 

 about inspection work. Most of the foul 

 brood laws call for information from 

 the bee-keeper in order to get an in- 

 spector to visit an apiary. We had such 

 a bill passed by the last legislature, but 

 it was vetoed by the governor, and I 

 am glad now he did it. We want the 

 inspector to visit all apiaries, informa- 

 tion or no information." 



Single Case Shipments. 



R. B. Slease, of Roswell, New Mexico, 

 comes back at me as follows: 



"In answer to your attack on my ship- 

 ping case talk, will say, no, I do not 

 know that honey can be shipped in sin- 

 gle cases. The bulk of my trade has 

 been from retail merchants and they 

 order anywhere from 1 to 5 cases at a 

 time, and again our freight and express 

 rates are the same on single open cases 

 as they are on crated lots. Again I claim 

 that all honey should be shipped in 

 single cases instead of crated, as you 

 can crate your honeys, put on good hand- 

 holds and fix it up as nice as you please, 

 but the first freight man who has to 

 handle it hooks it on a pair of trucks 

 and when he gets it where he wants it, 

 dumps it ofif the same as any other 

 heavy box, and, smash, goes your honey, 

 while if they are not crated they will 

 set them off by hand instead of dumping 

 the lot. 



"I have shipped hundreds of cases 

 singly and have never had a complaint 

 from single tier cases, while I have had 

 several complaints from crated lots. 

 Then, only last week I happened to be 

 at the depot when some honey arrived 

 from a town down the valley, all crated 

 in good shape, 1:2 cases to the crate. 

 The freight men got the crates on trucks 

 and dumped them on the platform right 

 before my eyes, like a thousand of brick, 

 and then there was some broken honey. 

 If it had not been crated all would have 

 been well, as there was a lot of 2.5 cases 

 in the same car, and not a broken sec- 

 tion when unloaded. 



