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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May 15 



We shall be glad to ojjen our columns to a 

 discussion of the same subject. 



After all that is said and done, honey i)ro- 

 duction is a business in itself. The art of 

 sellinfj; at good prices is entirely another 

 business. It is seldom that we find anyone 

 man sufficiently educated in the art of pro- 

 (hxcing and selling both; and it therefore 

 follows that the great majority of bee-keep- 

 ers will have to depend on some one else to 

 do their selling. While this is true, there 

 are many bee-keepers who are doing a fine 

 business during winter in selling their hon- 

 ey in small lots to the local retail trade. 

 " One of the things we have been trying to 

 hammer into the heads of bee-keei)ers is the 

 fact that honey should be sold <arhi. While 

 it can be disjiosed of to advantage in August, 

 September. October, and November, there 

 is not much doing after the middle of De- 

 cember; antl honey that has not already 

 been sold during the holidays is apt to ha\e 

 a slow sale afterward at reduced prices. In 

 view of the fact that white clover gives in- 

 dications of furnishing a Hberal yield this 

 coming summer it would seem advisable, as 

 Mr. Hutch ins(m says, to get the lioney on 

 the market as soon as possible. There are 

 many bee-keepers who wait until it is "con- 

 venient" to take it ofT their hives. They 

 then sell when evcrybochj else is selling, and 

 when prices have a tendency to drop. They 

 thus get into the fiercest kind of competi- 

 tion. "It is the early bird that gets the 

 worm." No honey sells like fresh new hon- 

 ey- _^ 



THE OHIO LEGISLATURE PASSES AN EXCEL- 

 LENT FOUL-BROOD LAW. 



Soon after we had gone to press with the 

 last form of our previous issue, word was re- 

 ceived that our foul-brood bill had j^assed 

 both houses; we stopped the press and 

 squeezed in a one-line notice. From the 

 earlier rejwrts we were fearful that the bill 

 would not even be reported out of commit- 

 tee; but, thanks to the energetic action of 

 Senator Patterson, the father of the bill, 

 and Representative Woods, who had charge 

 of the bill in the house, the bill was not only 

 pulled out of committee in both houses, but 

 it was put on the calendar, and ])assed. 

 The bill is now before Governor Harmon 

 for his approval. We have written him a 

 strong letter urging his sui)i)ort, and so also 

 has the secretary of the Ohio State Board of 

 Bee-keepers, Mr. Henry Reddert, of Cin- 

 cinnati. We have every reason to believe 

 that he will attach his "signature, and the 

 bill become a law. The bill was draftefl 

 originally by Dr. E. F. IMiillips, of the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, Washington, D. C, 

 and then it was modified by the attorney- 

 general to suit local conditions. 



Senator F. N. Patterson and Hon. Frank 

 Woods, both leaders of their respective 

 houses, deserve the s])ecial thanks of the 

 bee-keepers of this State for the i)romi)t and 

 energetic way in which they pushed the 

 bill during the last day or two the Legisla- 

 ture was in session. We were very fortu- 



nate in the selection of our men to handle 

 the bill. Considering the dead lock between 

 (he two houses at the time, we were exceed- 

 ingly fortunate. 



In brief, the new law provides that the 

 Ohio State Board of Agriculture shall estab- 

 lish a Division of Apiary Inspection in the 

 Ohio Department of Agriculture, and shall 

 also ap]ioint a competent entomologist who C 

 shall be chief insi>ector of said division. In ^ 

 this case, the Board will undoubtedly a])- ' 

 l)oint State Entomologist Shaw, who, of his 

 own accord, when we were agitating the 

 question of getting a better law, offered us 

 every assistance in his power. It goes with- 

 out saying, that Prof. Shaw, if appointed, 

 will do his part. 



Among other things, the law provides 

 that the insi)ector or his assistants, when 

 notified in writing, shall examine all report- 

 ed apiaries where disease is supposed to re- 

 side. After the first inspection he shall 

 make a second inspection ten days later. 

 Under the law, no one will be allowed to 

 sell or barter, without the consent of the in- 

 si)ector, any diseased bees or appliances. It 

 is further provided that no ])erson engaged 

 in rearing queens for sale shall use honey 

 for use in making bee candy for mailing- 

 cages unless it has been boiled for at least 

 thirty minutes; that all queen-rearing api- 

 aries shall lie inspected at least twice a year. 



For this year, at least, the Entomologist 

 will not have any sjiecial funds to pay sala- 

 ry and exjienses of special bee-inspectors; 

 but he has kindly consented to have his 

 regular nursery inspectors take on the addi- 

 tional duty of ins])ecting bee-yards. Anoth- 

 er year, when the Department of Agricul- 

 ture makes up its new y:)udget, funds will 

 doubtless be i)rovided to take care of an in- 

 s))ector or inspectors who can devote all 

 their time to inspection work. For the 

 present, at least, we must not make too 

 heavy demands on the chief inspector. It 

 was thought best to get the law jmssed now, 

 in order that localities affected by the dis- 

 ease might ha\e the ]iolice power of the 

 State back of them. It is unnecessary to 

 say that local bee-keepers will see to it that 

 the nursery inspectors, when they do come 

 around, will be supplied with all the tech- 

 nical information they may lack in proper- 

 ly carrying out the provisions of the law. 



TEN-FRAME HIVES VS. EIGHT-FRAME; FALI> 

 OR SPRING FEEDING. 



The following letter, received from one of 

 the veteran bee-keepers of New York, and a 

 man who has been connected with the sup- 

 l)ly business for the last twenty-five years, 

 is of such general interest that we are glad 

 to place it before our readers. 



Mr. /•;. R. Ru<it:—\ liave just received (Ileanings 

 for April IT), and noticed, on p. 241. your editorial In 

 regard to ten-frame hives. I wish to say that the 

 editorial meets my views exactly. When 1 first be- 

 sran keeidner liees I used the ten-frame hives and 

 had [rood success right alone. Aliout tlie time Mr. 

 Ueddon cot out his sectional hive f changed lo the 

 <ielit-frame remilar Dovetailed liive. having about 

 VM) colonies. My luck seemed to leave me: l)ut [ 

 continued witlx the eight-frame for about ten years. 



