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August, 191 1. 



American Hee Journal 



bee-keepers from the East and South 

 that will meet here in Chicago to go 

 on together in this special car. It will 

 give all a delightful evening in which 

 to become acquainted, and be really 

 the beginning of the 1911 National con- 

 vention all the way from Chicago to 

 Minneapolis. 



We will be glad to reserve berths for 

 any who notify us that they will go in 

 the special car. 



Be sure to read the program as an- 

 nounced by Secretary Tyrrell, on an- 

 other page of this number of the .Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. It promises to be 

 the liveliest and best convention the 

 National has held in many a year. Bet- 

 ter go, if you can possibly do so. 



Difference in Honey Seasons. — Very 

 notable is the difference between one 

 season and another in the same locality, 

 and also the difference in the same 

 year between one locality and another. 

 Allen Latham writes from Connecticut : 



This season is as far different from last as 

 could be had. Last April was fine for bees, 

 but May brouglit starvation, and it was not 

 until the middle of June that bees began to 

 produce honey to their full needs. This 

 year April was the worst I ever experienced. 

 But since early in May there has been a con- 

 tinuous flow of nectar. Brood-chambers are 

 full, and honey is already in supers. But the 

 bees are fewer than last year, having had 

 such a check in April. .Swarms last year 

 April 27; this year late in May. 



Allen Latham. 



In northern Illinois, last year, the 

 honey-flow was good up to about July 

 10, when it was cut square off by the 

 drouth. This 5'ear, April, instead of 

 being the worst ever, was favorable, 

 and there was an abundant i\o\v from 

 fruit-bloom and dandelion, colonies 

 building up in fine shape for the clover 

 that promised big things. The dearth 

 and drouth came, and while there has 

 b"en a continuous flow in Connecticut, 

 the bees have not been getting their 

 living here. But instead of there being 

 fewer bees than last year, hives were 

 never more ecowded in June than this 

 year. 



Canadian Honey Exchange Canadians 



may well be satisfied with the work of 

 their Honey Exchange Committee. Al- 

 though there may not be " millions in 

 it," there are certainly thousands in it, 

 according to M. B. Trevorrow, who 

 says in the Canadian Bee Journal : 



"We ow^ an appreciable rise in honey 

 prices to these reports and the Committee's 

 mode of handling them in judging lioney- 

 values. It is a remarkable fact that before 

 this Committee was appointed the best 

 white extracted honey was selling as low as 

 SH cents per pound, and since its inaugura- 

 tion No. I white extracted honey seldom 

 goes below 10 cents, or 10/2 cents per pound, 

 wholesale." 



When to Protect, in Spring. — Edi- 

 tor Hutchinson seems to have done 

 some thinking on this subject, and 

 said in the Bee-Keepers' Review : 



When bees are first set out in the spring 

 they need no protection. They have little 

 or no brood, and can protect themselves by 

 clustering. If the weather continues warm 

 for 2 or 3 weeks, the combs hll up with 

 brood; then, if there comes cold weather, 

 the bees will, of course, cluster, when all 

 brood outside of the cluster will perish. If 

 the weather turns cold soon after the bees 

 are set out. there is no need of giving' the 

 bees any extra protection: but if it continues 

 warm ear/v in the season, then it is a safe thing 

 to give extra protection against tlie "squaw 

 winter" thai may come. 



The Ohio Foul Brood Law, with which 

 every C)hio bee-keeper should be famil- 

 iar, reads as follows: 



AN .ACT. 



To establish a Division of Apiary Inspection in 



the Ohio Department of Agrieuiturc, and to re- 



/'cai certain sectiom herein named. 



Section I. The Ohio State Board of Agri- 

 culture i'! hereby authorized to establish a 

 Division of Apiary Inspection in the Ohio 

 Department of Agriculture, and to appoint a 

 competent entomologist as the chief inspec- 

 tor of said division, and the necessary assis- 

 tants, who shall, under the direction of the 

 board, have charge of the inspection of api- 

 aries as hereinafter provided; he may in- 

 vestigate, or cause to be investigated, out- 

 breaks of bee-dist-ases. and cause suitable 

 measures to be taken for their eradication 

 or control. 



Sec. 2. The inspector or his assistants 

 shall, when notified in writing by the owner 

 of an apiary, or by three disinterested tax- 

 payers, examine all reported apiaries, and 

 all others in the same locality not reported, 

 and ascertain whether or not the diseases 

 known as .American foul brood or European 

 foul brood, or any other disease which is 

 infectious or contagious in its nature, and 

 injurious to honey-bees in their esii. larval, 

 pupal, or adult stages, exists in such api- 

 aries; and if satisfied of the existence of any 

 such diseases, he shall give the owners or 

 care-takers of the diseased apiaries full in- 

 structions how to treat such cases as, in the 

 inspector's judgment, seems best. 



Sec. ^. The inspector, or his assistant, 

 shall visit all diseased apiaries a secdnd 

 time, after ten days, and. if need be. burn 

 all colonies of bees that he may find not 

 cured of such disease, and all honey and ap- 

 pliances which would spread disease, with- 

 out recompense to the owner, lessee, or 

 agent thereof. 



.Sec. 4. If the owner of an apiary, honey, or 

 appliances, wherein disease exists, shall 

 sell, barter, or give aw'ay. or move without 

 the consent of the inspector, any diseased 

 bees (be they queens or workers), colonies, 

 honey, or appliances, or expose other bees 

 to the danger of such disease, said owner 

 shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less 

 than fifty dollars, nor more than one hun- 

 dred dollars, or imprisoned not less than one 

 month, nor more than two months, or both. 



Sec, 5. For the enforcement of the pro- 

 visions of this .Act. the State Inspector of 

 Apiaries, or his duly authorized assistants, 

 shall have access, ingress, and egress to all 

 apiaries or places where bees are kept; 

 and any person or persons who shall resist, 

 impede, or hinder in any way the inspector 

 of apiaries in the discharge of his duties un- 

 der the provisions of this Act shall, on con- 

 viction thereof, be fined not less than fifty 

 dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, 

 or imprisoned not less than one month, nor 

 more than two months, or both. 



Sec. 6. After inspecting infected hives or 

 fixtures, or handling diseased bees, the in- 

 spector or his aisislants shall, before leaving 

 the premises, or proceeding to any other 

 apiary, thoroughly disinfect any portion of 

 his own person and clothing, and any tools 

 or appliances used by him, which have come 

 in contact with infected material, and shall 

 see that any assistant or assistants with 

 him have likewise thoroughly disinfected 

 their persons and clothing and any tools and 

 implements used by them. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of any person in 

 the State of Ohio, who is engaged in the 

 rearing of queen-bees for sale, to use honey 

 in the making of candy for use in mailing- 

 cages which has been boiled for at least 

 thirty minutes. Any such person engaged in 

 the rearing of queen-bees shall have his 

 queen-rearing apiary or apiaries inspected 

 at least twice each summer season; and on 

 the discovery of theexistence of any disease 

 which is infectious or contagious in its na- 

 ture, and injurious to bees in their egg. lar- 

 val, pupal, or adult stages, said person shall 

 at once cease to ship queen-bees from such 

 diseased apiary until the inspector of api- 

 aries shall declare the said apiary free from 

 all disease. Any person engaged in the rear- 

 ing of queens who violates the provisions 

 of this section shall, on conviction thereof, 

 be fined not less than one hundred dollars, 

 nor more than two hundred dollars. 



Sec. 8. The Ohio Slate Board of Agricul- 

 ture shall make an annual report to the 

 Governor of the State concerning the opera- 

 tions of the Division of Apiary Inspection, 

 which shall give the number of apiaries in- 

 spected, the number of colonies treated and 

 destroyed by the direction of the Chief In- 



spector, and such other information as may 

 be deemed necessarv. 



Sec. q. Sections .sSsi, 5"54. 5855. 5856, 5857. 

 5858, S850. is?68. siha. 5861. 58ti2. 5861. and 5670 of 

 the General Code of Ohio are hereby re- 

 pealed. ^ 



A Hoosier Legislator on Bees It 



seems that the State Legislature of 

 Indiana has a very smart (.'') member 

 who is desirous of changing the order 

 of some things in that State. He does 

 not seem to favor the present plan of 

 bee-inspection, and as a sample of his 

 wisdom in such matters here is his 

 idea of the cause of the loss of bees 

 from foul brood : 



"Indiana does not raise many bees be- 

 cause the climate is not suitable. Durin? 

 the warm spells in winter the bees go out of 

 the hives into the cold. and. returning, are 

 taken sick and succumb with a disease 

 which is very much like tuberculosis in 

 humans." 



This bright, shining light inclines to 

 call himself the "Apple King," and 

 poses also as an expert on horticulture. 

 We are informed that his last crop of 

 apples Were so poor that he turned 

 most of them into vinegar. Perhaps 

 his apples are mostly crabs! We doubt 

 very much if he will succeed in revo- 

 lutionizing things in the legislature. 

 The wonder is how such specimens are 

 ever elected to any office in the gift of 

 the people. Is it possible he is a fair 

 sample of those who elected him ? It 

 seems to be a pretty clear case "Where 

 ignorance is bliss," etc., both as to 

 voters and representative. 



As to Using Figures The following 



comes from Mr. John Phin : 



"75 'Ve.\rs Young." 



In your notice on page 168, of Mr. .Ander- 

 son's age, there is a curious but very com- 

 mon mistake. He is said to have spent his 

 75th birthday carrying out 100 colonies of 

 bees. If that be correct then he was only 7-1 

 years young. If he was 75 years young, that 

 was his 71th birthday. 



This is a very common fallacy which I dis- 

 cussed in my book, "The Seven Follies of 

 Science." 2d edition. It is of more impor- 

 tance than would at first sight appear. A 

 learned professor in one of our colleges 

 wrote a book in which he spoke of the 17th 

 century when he meant the 18th. This was 

 misleading. John Phin. 



Patterson. N. J. 



Among the books that Mr. Phin has 

 written is the " Dictionary of Practical 

 .•\piculture,"and a man who has made a 

 study of using language correctly when 

 speaking of bees may well be supposed 

 to be at home in the correct use of the 

 English language in general, so that 

 whatever he says upon that subject is 

 deserving of attention. 



It does not take much thinking to 

 recognize the reasonableness of calling 

 the day when a man is born the day of 

 his birth, or his birthday. According 

 to that, the first anniversary of his 

 birthday should be called his second 

 birthday, and as Mr. Phin says, when 

 he attains the age of 7.5, he will cele- 

 brate his 76th birthday. 



Unfortunately, the correct use of lan- 

 guage does not depend so much upon 

 what is reascmable as upon what is cus- 

 tomary. The dictionary does not tell 

 us how language ought to have been 

 used in the first place, but how it is used 

 by reputable speakers and writers now. 

 In the Standard Dictionary, the two 

 definitions of "birthday" are; 1. The 

 anniversarv of one's birth. 2. Tiie day 



