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Published by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



H. H. Root, Assistant Editor E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager 



A.' I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manager 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, Ohio, as Second-class Matter 



VOL. XXXVIII 



SEPTEMBER 15, 1910 



NO. 18 



Editorial 



THAT SCHEME OF FILLING 60-LB. SQUARE 

 CANS. 



If the reader failed to take notice of the 

 article by W. C. Evans in Aug. 1st issue, p. 

 489, he should do so now. This is one of 

 the most valuable communications we have 

 ever published, and his trick of filling square 

 cans is so unique and simple that every ex- 

 tracted producer who puts up his honey in 

 cans of this sort should not lose sight of it. 

 We have tested it here at Medina, and knoiv 

 that it works. 



OHIO BEE-INSPECTIOX WORK. 



Chief Inspector Shaw, our State En- 

 tomologist at Columbus, finds he is having 

 more calls to visit apiaries supposed to be 

 diseased than he can answer promptly. He 

 has about ten or twelve men at work. Our 

 Ohio bee-keepers will, therefore, exercise a 

 little patience, as we kno\N^ Prof. Shaw is 

 doing all he possibly can, considering the 

 fact that he has just begun on the problem 

 of eradicating and holding in check bee dis- 

 eases in Ohio. 



honey-crop conditions; prices firm. 



The evidence begins to show, eithfer that 

 there is going to be a greater scarcity of good 

 comb honey. Eastern or Western, than we 

 supposed earlier in the season, or that there 

 is a large amount on the hives which bee- 

 keepers have failed to take off. If this lat- 

 ter is the fact, producers should remember 

 that notv is the time to get good prices. It 

 would be a mistake to dump it on the mar- 

 ket just about the holidays, or a little after. 

 "The early bird is the one that catches the 

 worm." This applies particularly to comb 

 honey. 



While there is not the same scarcity of 

 extracted, yet the crop probably will not be 

 as large as was originally anticipated. In 

 our judgment, prices should be firm on both 

 comb and extracted. 



FOUL BROOD IN BEE-TREES. 



There has been a general feeling that 

 brood diseases are unknown in colonies liv- 

 ing in trees, the idea being based, perhaps, 

 on the assumption that a swarm going into 

 new quarters would not carry the germs of 

 the disease. Whether or not this is true. 



there is no question but that colonies may 

 get foul brood through robbing diseased col- 

 onies, and bees from trees are likely to rob 

 as quickly as those from colonies in hives. 

 In a recent letter Dr. E. F. Phillips made 

 the statement that bee-trees are frequently 

 diseased, and, in regions where disease is 

 epidemic, generally so, this being a serious 

 handicap in cleaning up the trouble. He 

 said further that reports of disease in trees 

 were often received. Dr. Phillips thinks 

 that, by keeping a close watch, the disease 

 in a locality may be kei)t under control; for 

 before long the colonies in the trees die and 

 the combs are destroyed. At any rate, past 

 experience shows that the situation is not 

 hoi^eless, and that the careless bee-keeper is 

 a worse pest than the bee-tree. 



THE ignorance OF THE PUBLIC IN RE- 

 GARD TO APIARIAN MATTERS. 



AVhen legislation is proposed to control 

 shipments of cattle, or whenever rules are 

 adopted in reference to cattle-breeding, etc., 

 the newspapers generally give a pretty ac- 

 curate account of the whole proceedings; 

 but whenever bee-keepers get together and 

 formulate a set of rules, or when legislation 

 is proposed in the effort to control bee-dis- 

 eases, it seems to be the signal for fertile- 

 brained reporters to write up a funny 

 "story" for their respective papers. Per- 

 haps it is because the bees are considered 

 nothing but "hot-tempered bugs " that any 

 reference to them should be considered so 

 ridiculously funny. The following para- 

 graphs from one of the above-mentioned 

 funny stories illustrate the attitude of cer- 

 tain newspapers toward the efforts of bee- 

 keepers: 



Naturally one of the first things to be dene is to 

 malie each bee register. Identification tags could 

 be furnished, and each applicant that expects to 

 engage in the honey-making industry may be com- 

 pelled to pass a rigid examination. One can not be 

 too particular about these things, and should com- 

 pel every bee to respect the new regulations. 



CJueen-bees probably will be encouraged to settle 

 in this State, and swarming prohibited. A compe- 

 tent squad of pan-beaters to cope with the swaim- 

 ing evil will naturally be an important branch of 

 the inspector's staff. Plain-clothes bee detectives 

 will doubtless be immediately detailed to break up 

 the bee gangs that infest the woods. 



There will likely be established certain regula- 

 tions providing for what might be termed interstate 

 bee licenses. As the conditions exist at present, 

 any bee from Pennsylvania or New York can come 

 into the State and gather sweets from the gardens 

 without paying a cent of tax, which is, of course, a 

 great injustice to the local hunting bee. 



It is expected that a delegation of New Jersey 

 bees will wait upon the new inspector and impress 

 this point upon his mind or any other available 

 spot. 



