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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Oct. 1 



AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF 

 DISEASE IN CALIFORNIA. 



The bee-keepers of Stanislaus Co., Cal., 

 are not going to sleep on the question of 

 fighting foul brood. To prevent indiscrimi- 

 nate shipping of possible foul-broody colo- 

 nies, lombs, etc., the following set of rules 

 is sent out: 



NOTICE or SHIPPING, HAULING, OR RECEIVING 

 BEES. 



To all Railroad Station Agents, Shipping and Ex- 

 press Clerks, and Transfer Station Agents in 

 Stanislaus County, California: 



You are hereby notified to observe the following 

 rules in forwarding and in receiving shipments of 

 hives containing bees or empty hives containing 

 combs, which rules are in accord with the statutes 

 of California. 



Any empty hives containing combs, or any hives 

 containing bees, that are shipped or transported in- 

 to this county from any place outside this county 

 having an inspector of apiaries, must be accompa- 

 nied by a certificate from said inspector, showing 

 said bees and hives to be free from disease. 



If no certificate accompanies said shipment, the 

 same must not be delivered to the consignee until 

 the inspector of Stanislaus Co. has been notified 

 and has given release. 



If a certificate as above accompanies said ship- 

 ment, the same may be released: but notify the 

 Stanislaus Co. Inspector of the consignment at once, 

 together with name and address of the consignee. 



If shipped from a place wherein there is no in- 

 spector, then notify me as last mentioned. 



Abfiolutely receive no bees or emiHn hives for ship- 

 ment or transportation to be sent from this county 

 without a certificate signed by the inspector of this 

 county, showing the bees and hives to be free from 

 foul brood or other infectious or contagious dis- 

 eases. A violation of the law in these matters is a 

 misdemeanor, and the law must be complied with. 



Ceres, Cal., May 24. J. G. Gilstrap, 



Inspector of Apiaries for Stanislaus Co. 



consignee at the other end of the line knew 

 he could buy the honey for a little less 

 money, he would be willing to receive it in 

 such containers. The only difhculty is tliat 

 there will not be enough of these section- 

 crates; but if they are saved, in two or three 

 years they will go a long way. 



A cheap and serviceable comb-honey 



SHIPPING-CASE THAT DOES NOT COST 

 A PENNY. 



Mr. H. F. Hagen, of Reno, Nevada, has 

 been using ordinary boxes in wliich 500 sec- 

 tions are packed for shipping comb honey. 

 In other words, he has converted the ordi- 

 nary section crates or boxes into shipping- 

 cases. The length necessarily will be ex- 

 actly rigiit for four rows of sections when 

 filled with honey. The depth may vary, 

 but this can be made up by layers of straw 

 or corrugated paper. Tlie advantage, says 

 Mr. Hagen, of this arrangement, is, that 

 they cost absolutely nothing, and the cleat 

 or framework at the ends of the boxes makes 

 excellent handles for lifting the cases. 

 They will never be laid on their sides be- 

 cause it will not be convenient to turn them 

 over. ^Vhen the two tiers of sections are 

 not quite deep enough to fill out the case, 

 straw can be used to make uj) for the rest 

 of the sjjace to very good advantage. Some 

 straw should be put in the bottom of the 

 box and some on top. When sections are 

 packed in a container like this they are 

 bound to go through in good order. 



We doubt if very many people who buy 

 sections have ever realized that tlie original 

 boxes in which they come can be converted 

 into excellent ship])ing-ea«es. Of course, 

 some markets would not take them; but lo- 

 cally they could be used to very good ad- 

 vantage; and even for long distances, if the 



OHIO S EFFICIENT PURE-FOOD COMMISSION- 

 ER. 



We were very much gratified to receive 

 the news a few weeks back that R. W. Dun- 

 lap, Ohio's efficient pure-food commissioner, 

 was renominated for the third term. In 

 Ohio politics, at least, it is very rare that a 

 public official, no matter how capable he 

 may be, holds more than two terms of office. 

 But Commissioner Dunlap has done such 

 good work that his party renominated him 

 for the third time, and there is good reason 

 to believe he will be re-elected. He has 

 done so well that his name has been prom- 

 inently mentioned as a possible successor 

 to the present very efficient Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Mr. Wilson, Washington, D. 

 C, when he retires. Mr. Dunlap has the 

 indorsement of a number of the best food 

 commissioners of the various States; and a 

 no less person than Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, 

 the United States champion of pure food, 

 has spoken very enthusiastically in his 

 praise. He has done excellent work in en- 

 forcing law, and in getting on to the statute- 

 books other laws that were urgently needed. 

 He has imjiroved the sanitary condition 

 around our dairies; has compelled dealers to 

 sell oysters instead of water and oysters; in 

 fact, he has made the State of Ohio stand 

 at the very front in the line of pure food 

 and honest labeling. Mr. Dunlap has come 

 to be a national figure in the line of pure 

 food; and the people of Ohio will make a 

 great mistake if they do not send him back 

 to Columbus with a greatly increased ma- 

 jority. 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOT A BEE-KEEP- 

 ER'S PARADISE. 



Our California correspondent, Mrs. H. G. 

 Acklin, remarks that a rumor has come to 

 her that some of tiie bee-men of her State 

 are afraid that there will be an influx of 

 Eastern bee-keepers on account of our new 

 California department. We do not think 

 our friends of the Golden State need have 

 any fear along this line. In the first place, 

 we have repeatedly made tlie statement tliat 

 the bee-keepers of Southern California, at 

 least, have only about one good year in five, 

 and a fair year perhaps every three years. 

 The conditions are so very difTerent and so 

 uncertain that any bee-keeper in the East 

 who has any locality at all would do better 

 to stay wliere he is. What makes bee-keep- 

 ing less profitable in California than in 

 many sections of the irrigated regions is be- 

 cause of the uncertainty of the rainfall. 

 After a good year on the coast it very often 

 happens that there will be two years when 

 there will be nothing doing, and lucky is 



