August, 1911. 



American ^ee Journal 



231 



nies in this way, and notliin? sliort of a 

 smasli-up will prevent their safe arrival. 



Mr. Hutchinson's reasoning as to 

 the responsibility of the shipper looks 

 reasonable. Of course, there might be 

 a case in which there would be a spe- 

 cial agreement that bees should be 

 shipped at purchaser's risk. For some 

 particular reason the purchaser might 

 want a colony of bees so early in the 

 season that none but old bees would be 

 in the hive; and in that case the ship- 

 per would hardly be willing to ship un- 

 less the purchaser would take all risk. 



Notice that Mr. Hutchinson says that 

 old bees are worse than worthless for 

 shipping. To some this may appear a 



rather strong statement. But it should 

 be considered that the trouble does not 

 end with the loss of the old bees which 

 worry themselves to death. The pres- 

 ence of their dead bodies is a worriment 

 to the remaining bees, which become 

 exhausted with their ceaseless efforts 

 to remove the carcasses. Besides, the 

 worrying activity of the old bees may 

 be conveyed to the younger ones, 

 which of their own accord would re- 

 main quiet. 



But how can one sort out the old 

 bees from a colony? Easily. Move 

 the hive to a new stand, and in a day or 

 two all the field-bees will have returned 

 to the old locality, leaving none but 

 young bees in the hive. 



Miscellaneous ^ News Items 



Death of Geo. E. Hilton It will come 



as a great shock to the many friends of 

 Geo. E. Hilton, of Fremont, Mich., to 

 learn that he passed away the afternoon 

 of July 12, li)ll, as a result of cancer of 

 the stomach, from which he had been 

 suffering for a long time. We will 

 publish a sketch of Mr. Hilton's active 

 life next month. In the meantime, the 

 heartfelt sympathy of all our readers 

 will go out to Mrs. Hilton, and her 

 sons and daughters, in their bereave- 

 ment. 



Our First-Page Pictures. — The fol- 

 lowing will tell something about the 

 pictures on the first page of this num- 

 ber of the American Bee Journal : 



No. 1. — Apiary of W. F. Garrihan 



I bu„'an to take tlie American Bee Journal 

 in iKf)'j. I think Mr. Samuel Wagner was the 

 editor at that time. I was u years old when 

 I began bee-keepine. The first colony I had 

 was in a straw hive, and the next was in the 

 Underhill hive that hung on a wire i»ost. 1 

 had to take off the hive to look at the bees. 

 Then f got the Langstroth hive, and today I 

 have the Danzenbaker hive, 



Conneautville. Pa. W. K, Garrihan. 



No. 2. — Apiary of Ezra Smith 



I am sending a photograph of my bee-yard 

 taken in winter. It is right in the middle of 

 the town, and I don't get as good results as I 

 used to. but the honey is of a better quality. 



New Zealand. March j8. Ezra Smith. 



No. 3 — Apiary of Wm. H. Brubaker 



This illustration shows the very neat api- 

 ary of Wm. H. Brubaker. of Krecport. Ill 

 We requested Mr. Brubaker to send us a 

 little descriptive matter to accompany the 

 picture, but he probably was too busy to 

 send it; at any rate we can not find that it 

 arrived at this office. 



The picture shows Mr. Brubaker himself 

 holding a brood frame. 



There are many very neat apiaries in this 

 part of the country, and surely Mr Brubaker 

 has one of tfiem in the corner of his yard. 



No. 5. — Apiary of Ellis E. Pressler 



The picture I send you is one of my out- 

 yards. 24 miles from here, in the wilds of the 

 lumber region, among the wild red raspber- 

 ries and virgin forest of basswood. Tlie scene 

 is where an old iron furnace stood nearly 

 a century ago. 'I'his is one of Alexander's 

 fairly good locations. This apiary had n- 

 colonies last season when the picture was 

 taken, and 1 will have over 2')0 this season in 

 this yard. The season has been excep- 

 tionally Kood since about May 4th— a con- 



tinual flow. First were cherry, apple, wild 

 cherry, thorn apple, and now raspberry is 

 just beginning to bloom. A super is filled 

 now on nearly every hive, ready to extract, 

 I am busy day and night. 



Eli.is E. Pressler, 

 W^illiamsport. Pa.. May 20, 



Nos. 4 and 6 — Apiary of A, W. Yates, 

 and Connecticut Field-Day in 1910 



One of the photograps I am sending is a 

 small portion of my queen rearing yard, 

 showing tne small mating hives of the Root 

 style. I prefer to use them for one colony 

 with 4 frames and a division-board feeder at 

 one side. The feeder can be filled with 

 moist sugar, and in this way I have small- 

 danger from robbing. My queens are all 

 reared over an excluder in queen-right colo- 

 nies, with a strong force of bees and from 

 grafted queen-cells. Atone time last sum- 

 mer I had 86 cells accepted from a lot of uo 

 grafts, which I consider as good as the aver- 

 age. 



The other picture is of the field-day gath- 

 ering 'June 18. i<jio) at my place, of the Con- 

 necticut Bee-Keepers' Association. It was 

 taken late in the afternoon, after a shower, 

 and a goodly number had gone home; but 

 they had an enjoyable day's outing among 

 the bees. Lunch was served on the basket- 

 picnic plan, in a small grove near by, after 

 which we listened to an address on 

 "Drones." by Arthur C. Miller. 



Carbolic Acid and Foul Brood Treat- 

 ment. 

 I am the foul-brood inspector in this sec- 

 tion of the State, and had a sample on hand 

 to exhibit. We also gave a demonstration 

 of its treatment. One kink 1 have never 

 seen spoken of in our bee-papers in the 

 treatment of this disease, is the use of car- 

 bolic acid to prevent robbing. If all the 

 combs are straight, an<i in frames, I should 

 consider it gross carelessness to do my work 

 in such a manner as to lead to robbing; but 

 with hives of all sorts and descriptions, 

 from soap-boxes to candy-pails 'such as an 

 inspector runs acrossj, it seems impossible 

 to transfer without scattering more or less 

 honey occasionally, therefore I make a 

 strong solution of carbolic acid and water 

 in a sprinkling can. and spray it all around 

 where I am at work, with the result that I 

 am never troubled with bees getting excited 

 from the smell of honey. 



I could hardly do without carbolic-acid 

 water around myapiary ; an entrance stuffed 

 so that only one bee can pass with a cloth 

 sthUrt^n a strong solution is safe from in- 

 truders. Atone time a can of honey was 

 accidentally upset in my honey-house, and, 

 running through the floor with no cellar be- 

 neath, the bees were soon there in force, A 

 liberal use of carbolic-acid water soon drove 

 them away. 



I have taken the American Bee .Journal a 

 good many years, and hope to do so a great 

 many more. Sometimes one number I con- 

 sider worth the year's subscription. 



Hartford, Conn. A. W. Yates. 



Can the Bee be Improved by Breed- 

 ing? — A. L. DuPray sent a letter to the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review in which he raises 

 the question whether acquired charac- 

 teristics in bees can be transmitted 

 through breeding. He says: 



" After all I have read and studied, and in 

 the light of what experience I have had, I am 

 almost forced to the conclusioH that the 

 honey-bee is just the same as when Samson 

 took surplus from the carcass of the lion. 

 Yet, as I have said before, I do not imm'. but 

 I would //-i-t- to know." 



Dr. E. F. Phillips was asked to reply, 

 and closes by saying : 



"When we see what has been done in 

 breeding 5-banded Italians, we are forced to 

 the conclusion that it is possible to change 

 the bee by breeding. If we could but devise 

 a method for control of mating, progress 

 would be more rapid. The 5-banded bee 

 did not exist in the days of Samson's ex- 

 ploits with the Leo bar-frame hive, and it is 

 probable that before as many centuries pass 

 again some further changes in the bee may 

 be seen." 



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Substitute for Pollen Von Burck- 



hanlt says in Prak. VVegweiser that, as 

 a substitute for pollen, flour from the ' 

 legumes, as peas and beans, is greatly 

 superior to that from the grains. The 

 latter contains only 10 to 12 percent of 

 nitrogenous matter, as against 20 to 

 26 percent in the legumes, wliicli more 

 nearly approach natural pollen, with 30 

 to 40 percent. 



Disinfection and the NcEvoy Treat- 

 ment. — Mr. I.Hopkins, of New Zealand, 

 in his Bulletin No. ."i, on foul brood, 

 says : " I have full confidence in rec- 

 ommending to our New Zealand bee- 

 keepers the following modification of 

 the McEvoy treatment;" and as the 

 chief part of the modification, he says: 

 " I certainly, in all cases, strongly rec- 

 ommend disinfecting hives and other 

 implements that have been in contact 

 with diseased colonies." It was this 

 treatment that Mr. D. M. Macdonald 

 advocated, and it is regretted that it 

 was not so understood. While Mr. 

 McEvoy is emphatic that no disinfec- 

 tion is needed. Mr. Hopkins is just as 

 emphatic that it is needed. 



Minneapolis Convention Special Car 



We annouiiceil last month that we had 

 arranged with the t'hicago & North- 

 western railroad for a special car for 

 the use of the bee-keepers tjiat might 

 be able to travel together from Chicago 

 to Minneapolis to the National conven- 

 tion Aug. 80th and 81st. The car will 

 leave the new North-Western Terminal 

 in Chicago at (3:4-5 p.m., Aug. 29th, and 

 reach Minneapolis at 7:')!) a.m. the next 

 day. 



According to the program on an- 

 other page, the first important session 

 of the National convention will begin 

 at 1 ::!0 p.m., in the G. A. Pv. Hall of the 

 Court House. By arriving in Minne- 

 apolis aboutS a.m. it will give a splen- 

 did opportunity for bee-keepers to be- 

 come acquainted during the forenoon, 

 so as to be ready for a lively meeting 

 in the afternoon. 



The round-trip faro from Chicago 

 will be $l(i.OO, witli the return limit un- 

 til Oct. .'ilst, if desired. The sleeping 

 berth rate in the Pullman car is $2.00 

 for a lower berth, or $1. (JO for an upper. 



There certainly ought to be a lot of 



