Tanuarv, inn. 



lAmerican Bac Joarnal 



considers the orange at Riverside, Cal., 

 to be the freer yielder. He says : 



"There is scarcely a day while the trees are 

 in bloom but that the branches can be shaken 

 so as to wet with nectar the ground under the 

 tree. The oranijc-pickers are always wet all 

 day while they are at work; in fact, teams 

 that are cultivating have to be washed after 

 the day's work is done." 



Is Spider-Plant Tender? 



"The 'spider-plant' or 'flower' is Clconie 

 puugcus. It is a native of the West Indies, 

 and requires stove treatment in this country." 

 — British Bee Journal. 



Is there not some mistake about this? 

 It requires no stove treatment in North- 

 ern - Illinois where it is too cold for 

 peaches. 



Bee-Cultnre and the Government 



In the 1909 Report of the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, ap- 

 pears the following paragraphic sum- 

 mary of the work done in the interest of 

 bee-culture, which shows that substantial 

 progress is being made: 

 Bee-Culture. 



The work on bee-diseases has been con- 

 tinued. Samples have been received from 

 many parts of the country, and the informa- 

 tion gained from this work has b?en of great 

 value, especially in the way of giving informa- 

 tion to State legislatures which are contem- 

 plating the passage of laws providing for a 

 much-needed inspection of apiaries. Notifica- 

 tions of the nature of bee-diseases, especially 

 in cases of new outbreaks, have been of much 

 value in preventing their further spread. 

 New studies have been made of the structure 

 and development of bees, of their activity, ot 

 the status of bee-keeping, and, in co-operation 

 with the Bureau of Chemistry, the Bureau of 

 Entomology has begun work in wax-analysis. 



Kalender Fuer Deutsche Bienen- 



freunde, 1910 



This is the title of a calendar for the 

 year 1910, intended for the use of Ger- 

 man bee-keepers. It is a neat affair of 

 6x41/2 inches bound in cloth, and contain- 

 ing nearly 200 pages, edited by Dr. O. 

 Krancher, who is the editor of Deutsche 

 111. Bztg., at Leipzig. Both paper and 

 printing are excellent. 



For each month there is a page occu- 

 pied by a calendar, the rising and set- 

 ting of the sun being followed by a 

 blank in which to record the temperature 

 of each day. Then follow 2 or 3 pages 

 of instruction for the work of the 

 month, and 3 or 4 blank pages for mak- 

 ing records. Articles by leading Ger- 

 man bee-keepers occupy 85 pages. Es- 

 pecially interesting among these is one 

 by Alex. Schroeder, of Trieste, Austria, 

 who writes in an entertaining manner of 

 his visit to some American bee-keepers. 



For convenient use there is attached 

 to the book a pencil. This might be ex- 

 pected to write good German, coming 

 directly from Germany, but alas, in the 

 fingers of this deponent it will write 

 only English, and none too satisfactory 

 English at that. 



An Appeal to New Jersey Bee-Keep- 

 ers. 

 At the last annual meeting, on Decem- 

 ber 18, 1909, in Trenton, of the New 

 Jersey Bce-Kcepcrs' Association, our 

 Foul Brood Bill was tlioroughly dis- 

 cussed, section by section, and approved, 

 and the membership present detenniiuil 



to do all they can to get the Bill enacted 

 into law at the present session of the 

 Legislature. 



But there remains much to be doneby 

 all other bee-keepers in the State. In 

 the first place, we would like all other 

 members who have not done so to send 

 us their annual dues of 50 cents for 

 191Q, and ask for a printed copy of our 

 Bill. Then wc want all the oilier read- 

 ers of the American Bee- Journal to join 

 our Association, Send us the animal 

 dues of 60 cents, and get a copv of our 

 Bill. 



If there are any readers who can not 

 see fit to join us, we would like to have 

 ihciii write us, enclosing stamp, asking 

 for a printed copy of the Foul Brood 

 Bill, and tell us if there is any disease 

 among their bees, or in their neighbor- 

 hood, or if there are any careless bee- 

 keepers around them, or if there are any 

 box-hives. 



We are asking New Jersey readers to 

 join our Association, as the larger our 

 numbers tlie greater prestige it will give 

 us in asking- for a Bill. If only a few 

 ask for this Bill, it will look as if they 

 were trying to create an office for one 

 of them. Then the Association needs 

 more funds to carry on the work proper- 

 ly. There is considerable expense con- 

 nected with getting a new piece of legis- 

 lation enacted like this, such as postage, 

 printing, telephone costs, traveling ex- 

 penses. It is not fair that this should be 

 borne by a few bee-keepers, as the law 

 will benefit bee-keepers throu.gliout the 

 whole State. 



By the time you read this our Bill will 

 have been introduced. We want every 

 New Jersey reader of the American Bee 

 Journal to write his Senator and Assem- 

 blvmen from his county to support our 

 Bill. Write a short, business-like letter. 

 Explain briefly what foul brood is, that 

 it is a germ disease, how it spreads by 

 infected honey, what danger the care- 

 less bee-keeper is, and how our Bill 

 will eradicate the disease. Compare our 

 interests with the dairyman's interests, 

 and explain that the bee-keeper's prop- 

 erty has as just a claim to protection 

 against contagious diseases as the cattle- 

 raiser has to protection of his herds 

 against contagious diseases, by legisla- 

 tion. (We have laws protecting cattle 

 against contagious disease.) Mention 

 further that California, Colorado, Idaho, 

 Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, New 

 York, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Washington, 

 and Wisconsin, have foul brood laws; 

 that Connecticut and South Dakota 

 passed foul brood laws last winter and 

 other States are trying to do so. 



We would like to ask especially those 

 interested in bees in Essex County, Hud- 

 son County, and Union County, to see, 

 and to write to, their Assemblymen and 

 Senators from their respective counties. 

 Those three counties contain a majority 

 of the members of the Assembly, there- 

 fore we must get them in favor of our 

 Bill. IVilhout the favorable action of 

 the Assemblymen from those three 

 counties, our Bill will fail. 



I trust this will be our last effort, and 

 that we will succeed as, indeed, we will, 

 if each bee-Kccper will do his part. 



.loin onr Association at once. 



.Aluf.rt G. H.\nn, Scc.-Trcas. 



Pittstown, N. J. 



[The following is a copy of the pro- 

 posed New Jersey Foul Brood Bill : — 

 Editor.] 



.■\N .\CT 



For the suppression of contagious or infec- 

 tious diseases among bees in New Jersey 

 by creating the office of Inspector of Apia- 

 ries, to define the duties thereof, and to 

 appropriate money therefor 

 Sec. 1. — Be it enacted by the Senate and 

 General Assembly of New Jersey that the 

 Governor shall appoint a competent .\piarist 

 for a term of three years, recommended by 

 the Executive Committee of the New Jersey 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, as State Inspector 

 of ApiaYies, who shall, if re(|uired, produce 

 a certificate from the Governor that lie has 

 been so appointed. He shall be subject to 

 summary removal for neglect, incompetence, 

 or malfeasance in office on complaint of the 

 New Jersey Bee-Keepers' Association, or of 

 twenty persons who are actual bee-keepers, 

 his successor to serve for the balance of his 

 unexpired term. 



Sf.c. 2. — Said Inspector when notified, in 

 writing, of the existence of foul brood or 

 any other infectious disease of bees by the 

 owner or caretaker of an apiary or by three 

 disinterested taxpayers, shall inspect all re- 

 ported apiaries and all others in the same 

 locality, and if satisfied of the existence of 

 foul brood or any other infectious disease, 

 shall give the owner or person having charge 

 of any such apiary full nistru<:tions as to the 

 manner of treating them. Within a reason- 

 able time rifter making th? first exaniinalioi; 

 the Inspector shall make a second examination, 

 and if the condition of any ot the colonies 

 affected is such as in his judgment renders 

 it necessary, he may personally treat the dis- 

 ease, or, if in his opinion it is necessary to 

 prevent further spread of the disease, and the 

 owner or caretaker neglects or icfuses to treat 

 them according to the ins*rut:tions of said 

 Inspector, then the Inspector may burn or 

 otherwise destroy such diseased bees, combs, 

 or other material that might cause the spread 

 of the infection. 



Sec. 3. — Said Inspector of Apiaries sh?ll 

 have access, ingress and egress lO and froin 

 all apiaries or places where bees arc kept in 

 tl'i^ -t.Ttc a-id any person or persons who shail 

 hinder, resist, impede in any way the In- 

 spector in the discharge of his duties shall 

 on conviction be liable to a fine of not more 

 than $50, or not more than ,'iu days in the 

 county jail. 



Sec. 4. — Said Inspector may, in his discre- 

 tion, order any owner or possessor of bees 

 dwelling in box-hives (being mere bo.xes with- 

 <nit movable brood- frames) in ajiiaries or locali- 

 ties where foul brood or other infectious dis- 

 ease exists, to transfer such bees to movable 

 frame hives within a specified time and in 

 default of such transfer, the Inspector rnay 

 destroy or order the destruction of such hives 

 and bees therein. 



Sec. 5. — Should any owner of, keeper of, 

 or other person having diseased bees or their 

 larvae, or of any infected hives of combs, 

 appliances or utensils for keeping bees, sell, 

 barter, or give away or allow the same to be 

 moved, such person shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor and upon conviction, such person 

 shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than 

 $25. 



Sec. 6. — Should any person whose bees 

 have been destroyed or treated for foul brood, 

 sell or offer for sale any bees, hives, combs 

 or appurtenances of any kind after such de- 

 struction or treatment unless authorized to do 

 so by the Inspector, or should he expose in 

 his bee-yard or elsewhere any infected comb, 

 honey, or other infected thing or conceal the 

 fact that such disease exists among his bees, 

 such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction such person shall be fined 

 not less than $10 nor more than $50. 



Sec. 7. — Said Inspector must read over, de- 

 liver, or have delivered a copy of this act 

 to every owner or keeper of bees before pro- 

 ceeding against him for any violations of this 

 act. 



Sec. 8. — ^The Inspector shall make a full 

 report to the Governor at least once a year, 

 stating the number of apiaries inspected, the 

 nnnihcr fonnil to be diseased, and the number 

 treated and such other information as he may 

 deem important, which report shall be pub- 

 lished in full. 



Sec 9. — There is hereby appropriated out 

 of any moneys in the State Treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated five hundred dollars per 

 year for the suppression of contagious dis- 

 eases among bees in New Jersey. 



The Inspector shall receive five dollars per 



