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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



this editorial the possibility that these four and 

 live banded bees ininltt contain some Cyprian blood. 

 He assures us the bees in question are from pure 

 Italian stock, and are not of Cyprian descent. In 

 proof he sends another cage of bees which are in- 

 deed handsome flve-banded bees. Though they 

 resemble very closely some yellow Cyprians they 

 are no doubt of purely Italian origin. 



SENDING SPECIMENS OF FOUL BROOD BY MAIL. 



Every season we have more or less such samples 

 sent in paper boxes, which are often burst open in 

 the mail-bags. The clerk who opens the mail sets 

 the specimen in a certain place until the letter de- 

 scribing it is found. Then the one who examines 

 it to see whether it is real foul brood or not may be 

 careless. They ought not to be in our establish- 

 ment, for foul brood has cost us already more than 

 flOOO, clean cash. The point is, this sending of 

 samples or specimens by mail or express, or any 

 other way, should be stopped. It is very dangerous, 

 and there is not a bit of need of it. We can tell you 

 from description just as well as to see the brood 

 itself ; and our text-books and journals have all 

 described it, over and over. Please do not send any 

 suspicious comb through the mails or in any other 

 way. Let all the bee-journals echo the request. If 

 you are afraid it is in your hives, examine the de- 

 scription in our text-books; then if you are not 

 satisfied, state the matter plainly; write to us or 

 some other competent authority. Meanwhile take 

 every precaution against spreading. It should be 

 treated like scarlet lever, yellow fever, cholera, 

 etc. Stamp it out of existence ; and by no manner 

 of means give a chance of spreading it by your own 

 thoughtlessness or foolishness. 



THE ABC BOOK. 



We have had a great many very kind notices of 

 the ABC book, but never a kinder one, or one that 

 we consider more complimentary, than the one 

 made by Bro. Newman in the American Bee Journal, 

 page 363. The following is the notice: 



The A B C of Bee Culture, by A. f. Eoot, has 

 again been revised and enlarged, and the new edi- 

 tion is now on our shelves. It contains 430 pages, 

 and is profusely illustrated. It is the cheapest, and 

 one of the best — if not the very best — of all the 

 books on apiculture in existence. We congratulate 

 friend Root upon the perfection and excellence of 

 his book. 



This is more highly appreciated, because friend 

 Newman is not only the publisher of a bee-journal, 

 but the author of a most excellent bee-book, and a 

 practical printer besides. Ttiis state of feeling be- 

 tween publishers is indeed pleasant; and this is not 

 confined to publishers of bee literature either. When 

 G. B. Lewis & Co. suffered loss by fire recently, it 

 will be remembered they received messages of con- 

 dolement from other supply-dealers, with oflfers of 

 assistance. As C. C. Miller said recently, it peems 

 as if the mlllenium of brotherly feeling and good 

 will were now among apiculturists. The American 

 Bee Journal is always on time. We never saw one 

 copy in all the hundreds that have coaie to us that 

 was poorly printed— over-i"ked or under-inked. 

 They are always a model in typographical appear- 

 ance. We are in a position to know that it is not 

 an easy thing to be out on time, nor to make every 

 ^number of a periodical an exact duplicate of the 

 others typographically. We do not say this be- 

 cause we desire to reciprocate friend Newman's 

 kindne88,but because it is something for publishers 

 to emul8W:e. 



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