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VOL. XXXVIII 



AUGU.ST lo, lyiO 



NO. ic. 



Editorial 



WEDDING BELLS. 



The editor of the American Bee Journal 

 was married to Miss Grace Hitchcock, of 

 Kingston, 111., .July 2. CJleanings ex- 

 tends its best wishes and congratulations. 

 Mr. and Mrs. York expect to attend the Na- 

 tional convention at Albany, Oct. 12 and 13. 



A CARLOAD OF BEE-KEEPERS TO THE NA- 

 TIONAL CONVENTION. 



In this connection we should mention the 

 fact that Bro. York is getting up a carload 

 of bee-keepers to go together to Albany from 

 Chicago over the L. S. & M. S. Further de- 

 tails will be given later. Arrangements 

 will doubtless be made for bee-keepers in 

 the vicinity of Toledo and Cleveland to join 

 the Chicago bunch. It will be a jolly crowd. 

 We suggest that those who think they can 

 attend the Albany conveniion and would 

 like to join this crowd, notify (Jeo. W. York, 

 1-16 West Superior St., Chicago. 



Hotel Kenmore, near the Union Station, 

 at Albany, has been selected as headquar- 

 ters of the convention. The meeting will be 

 held in the Council Chamber of the City 

 Hall, Albany. 



EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN FOUL BROOD; 

 SHOULD THESE NAMES BE SHORTENED? 



Elsewhere in this issue, in one of the 

 Straws, Dr. Miller suggests that the names 

 "European foul brood" and "American 

 foul brood " be shortened to "yellow brood " 

 and "foul brood." While the qualifying 

 adjective yellow would be more accurate 

 than "black" as describing the European 

 type of the disease, yet it is not accurate for 

 all stages of that malady. When Dr. Phil- 

 lips suggested the qualifying adjectives 

 "American" and "European" he did so 

 that he might retain the name "foul brood " 

 for both diseases. In view of the fact that 

 many of our State laws mention only foul 

 brood, and no other disease, it would have 

 been a serious mistake to adopt a new name 

 that would have eliminated from the action 

 of our laws one of the most seriou>* diseases 

 that ever got into this country. When we 

 say American foul brood or European foul 

 brood we use names that will be included 

 in any State law. We have already tried to 

 adopt two different names for the disease 

 that first made itself manifest in New York. 



To attempt to adopt still another name at 

 this stage of proceedings woixld be a serious 

 mistake. Already confusion exists, and lo 

 throw in the third name would be to make 

 confusion worse confounded. If we con- 

 tinue to use the names "American" and 

 "European" we shall soon have the at- 

 mosphere cleared up. One of the leading 

 bacteriologists of Europe not only has con- 

 firmed the findings of Dr. White, of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, but has adojited 

 the names European and American foul 

 brood. Some 30,000 copies of the A B C 

 and X Y Z of Bee Culture recognize these 

 names, besides all the government bulletins 

 and thousands and thousands of pages of 

 current bee literature. Even if it were pos- 

 sible to adopt the name "yellow brood," 

 only one word is sa^■ed, and that word can 

 not be a very serious tax on the publisher 

 and his correspondents. Let us stick to 

 these names and thus avoid further confu- 



THE STRENGTH OF THE HONEY-FLOW AND 

 ITS INFLUENCE ON THE SWARMING PROB- 

 LEM AND QUEEN-CELL BUILDING. 



SoJiE years ago, when we were in Texas, 

 we were quite surprised to learn tiat the 

 bee-keepers of that section of the country 

 were not troubled very much with swarm- 

 ing aj'ler the honey-flow had gotten well 

 under way; but they do have plenty of it 

 during the preliminary honey-flows when 

 the yield of nectar is light; but after the 

 mesquite and guajilia come on, the honey- 

 ilow is strong enough to stoj) swarming al- 

 together. Mr. Chalon Fowls, of Oberlin, 

 Ohio, has observed quite the same thing — 

 that a light flow is apt to cause furious 

 swarming, while a heavy one will check it 

 if not stop it altogether. It would, there- 

 fore, be apparent that, when there is plenty 

 of honey to be had, the main idea of a colo- 

 ny is to gather honey, not to increase. 



We have an exemplification of this fact 

 at one of our queen-rearing yards where we 

 have a number of what we call cell-building 

 colonies. Just before the honey-flow, and 

 when we were feeding these cell-builders, 

 he could get all the cells he desired; but 

 after the honey-flow began, it was so heavy 

 that each of them was surfeited with honey. 

 What happened? Cell-building stopped 

 immediately. Said Mr. Pritehard, "When 

 there is a heavy honey-flow I can't do as 

 much with our cell-bililders; and this ex- 

 plains, Mr. Pvoot, why I can not deliver to 

 you as many queens a day as when the 



