1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



609 



The failure of the California crop of honey, 

 together with the failure in many localities in 

 the East, will tend to make the total crop of 

 honey not as heavy as was first expected. This 

 should have a tendency to hold prices up. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, in the Review, makes the 

 point that " our preferences must be a choice of 

 evils, or faults, rather." This is very true. It 

 is true of nearly every thing we use in the apia- 

 ry. If we are candid, no hive, no frame, no su- 

 per, no smoker, no any thing, combines all the 

 good features without any bad ones. 



Barteldes & Co., of Denver, Colo., a firm 

 which sells carloads of our goods, write this in 

 reference to size of hives: "Eight-frame hives 

 seem to be the only Kind that are selling. Ten- 

 frame hives are moving very slowly." This is 

 quite a pointer, especially as it comes from a 

 State where large stori< s would come in play if 

 anywhere. 



I NOTICE in an " extra " of the Toronto Sat- 

 urday Globe an interesting article written up 

 by R. McKuight, entitled " Bees and Honey." 

 It is written for the general public, and explains 

 many of the secrets of bee-keeping. It is beau- 

 tifully illustrated by engravings from photo- 

 graphs taken by Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, some 

 of which, or at least copies of them, appeared 

 in the Cosmopolitan. Such articles as these 

 for the public in papers of general circulation 

 do much good in showing how honey is honest- 

 ly produced. 



Writing under (or, rather, over) ?ioms de 

 plume is getting to be quite the fashion nowa- 

 days in the various bee-journals. While we 

 may not like to have these writers hit us occa- 

 sionally behind their covered-up identities, 

 nevertheless what they say has a sort of free, 

 racy independence (if it doesn't hit us) that is 

 quite refreshing. None write more entertain- 

 ingly than Somnambulist in the Procjresssive 

 Bee-keeper. He or she (methinks it is she) often 

 gives new life and light, when clothed in her 

 language, to an idea that is put forth in another 

 journal. 



RAISING QUEENS ON AN ISI.ANI) IN CANADA. 



We learn from the Toronto Olobe that a 

 party consisting of Mr. Edmund Harris, Presi- 

 dent Long Point Company; R. F. Holtermann, 

 President Ontario Bee-keepers' Association, 

 and also an officer of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, and others visited Long Point the 

 other day to inspect it as to the adaptability of 

 the island for bee-keeping. Some forty-five 

 colonies are being kept on the Point by the 



company at present as an experiment. Mr. 

 Holtermann thought the place had great natu- 

 ral advantages for bee-keeping, especially after 

 the basswood blossom opened, and suggested 

 that the island had great advantages for the 

 breeding of qut^ens. Ii is more than likely that 

 Mr. Harris, the President, with his well-known 

 shrewdness and enterprise, will develop large 

 apiaries on the island. The honey, which was 

 sampled by those present, was pronounced first 

 class, and it is the intention to put it on the 

 New York, Boston, and other United States 

 markels. 



AMALGAMATION. 



I AM afraid that this subject of amalgama- 

 tion and reorganization will get to be so stale 

 that some of our friends will skip the articles 

 whenever they see this subject referred to in 

 the headlines. But I want to say just one thing 

 more, as the position of Gleanings is, perhaps, 

 not clearly understood. It does not care wheth- 

 er the North American is amalgamated with 

 the Union or not; it does not care whether 

 either organization is national or international; 

 but as some of our friends have objected stren- 

 uously to amalgamation, it has seemed to me 

 that it would be better to drop that scheme and 

 make the Union such an organization as the 

 great mass of us desire. Again, some object to 

 having the new organisation international. 

 Well, then I would make it national, and I am 

 rather inclined to think that the society whose 

 operations are confined to one country would be 

 more easily managed, and could do more good, 

 than one that tries to cover one or more coun- 

 tries and makes a poor fizzle of it after all. 



Let us decide on something that will be the 

 most acceptable to the majority. If we go to 

 try to splitting hairs on unimportant details we 

 shall surely get nothing. The Canadians are 

 away ahead of us in that they have a flourish- 

 ing society almost national in its character, but 

 which really covers Ontario only. Let us on 

 this side of the line have something big enough 

 to cover the United States only, and one that 

 will answer the purpose of the two existing so- 

 cieties. Having two, as we now do, is expensive 

 and unnecessary while it is perfectly evident 

 that one could do the work of the two. Person- 

 ally I should be glad to see them amalgamated, 

 providing disagreeable complications would not 

 arise. As there is a possibility of that, I say 

 away with amalgamation, and let the Union set 

 about to reorganize itself as soon as it can. If 

 for any reason it seems desirable to continue 

 the North American, let it continue, on the 

 principle of live and let live. 



dead liKOOD — what IS IT? IKtW DISTINGTISHED 

 FROM FOUL BROOD. 



I HAVE several times referred to a malady or 

 disease that somewhat resembles foul brood, 

 but which lacks two of the important symp- 



