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American Bac Jonrnal 



April, 1910. 



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be replaced in any infected hive before the 

 latter has been thoroughly disinfected. 



.5. In any infected apiary the struggle con- 

 sists essentially in the destruction of the 

 germs of the diseas'e. In view of this, he 

 bees which took the infected hives shall 

 eitlier be killed by brimstone vapors or 

 united in artihcial swarms in swarming 



days after which they may be init upon 

 comb foundation. 



Tlie combs containing brood, or the rem- 

 2r"*''?fwP'^>"'*' shall be destroyed bv 

 ^h!ii 1 'he other combs of diseased hive's 

 shall be melted up. 



^R"'^}' ^U''"' hives as have contained dis- 

 eased colonies shall be destroyed by t^re 

 Wooden hives or utensils that have been in 

 contact with diseased colonies shall be 

 washed with a 10 percent solution of soda in 

 hotwater; they shall then be submitted to 

 the flame of a benzine lamp, or boiled for an 

 hour in a lo percent soda solution. 



If the diseased colonies are located in a 

 house-apiary, all parts of the building that 

 may have been in contact with the disease- 

 floors, tables, supports, etc.-shall also be 

 waslied in a soda solution, or painted with 

 linseed oil paint. The soil in front of the 

 apiary shal be spaded, or in case of impos- 

 sibility. It shall be disinfected. 



•u'^jI f°"' '"■.°'"' inspectors shall be per 

 mitted to examine all the apiaries situated 

 in an infected district, in order to detect the 

 presence of the malady. 



7. Violations of the above law shall be 

 punishable by a fine of from $2 to Sioo ac- 

 cording to the police regulations concerning 

 fR'/^^l"'nu ''"^ regulations of the penal 

 code shall be applicable to those who pro- 

 pagate the disease by malevolence. 



Our Front-Page Pictures 



The following paragraphs tell some- 

 thing about pictures of apiaries shown 

 on the front page this month : 



No. 1 — Apiary of J. J. Hangartner 



Enclosed find a picture of a portion of my 

 bee-yard, and myself standing in the front I 

 have 120 colonies, but last season was the 

 poorest in the past 28- years. I received 

 onlyabout 800 pounds of comb honey. But 

 all the colonies are in good condition. I win- 

 ter my bees out-of-doors, and have lost very 

 few as a resiil t of outdoor wintering. I have 

 all large chaff hives, making them myself as 

 increase demanded, which you will' notice 

 in the picture. J.J. Hangartner. 



-Marion. Wis. 



No. 2 — Apiary of A. Rozell 



. I am sending a small picture of our apiary 

 in Los Angeles County. Now, Mr. Grigsby 

 may hnd just a little fault with me fordoing 

 so, but Mr. Grigsby and I do not think alike 

 on the picture question. I think vou are 

 doing about the right thing, and treating 

 those who have small and large apiaries 

 fairly. 



The picture represents a rather large api- 

 ary, the whole of which is not shown, at 

 least a third not being in view, to the left 

 hand. It may please many bee-keepers to 

 look at this picture, and I would like very 

 much to see Mr. Grigsby 's by the side of it, 

 thus to see how it would "stack up" by the 

 side of his. It would hardly do for manv to 

 liave the Bee Journal devoted entirely to 

 solid reading-we want some variety in its 

 make-up-pictures. advertising, humor, and 

 the work in the apiary. I think. Mr. York, 

 you re on the job " pretty well. 



Los .•\ngeles. Cal.. Nov. 20. A. Rozeli.. 



No. 3 — Apiary of Edwin Corwin 



I am sendini; 3 picture postal cards, two of 

 myself holding a 12-pound swarm of bees, 

 and one of Dr. C. L. Walton, of Chicago, 

 hiving said swarm in my yard. In August 

 there was a great deal of buckwheat sown 

 in my locality, and when the bees com- 

 menced capping the 3 and 4 supers of honey 

 .they would swarm. I wintered 12^ colonies. 

 T he season wasn't good until buckwheat 

 time, and then it was fine— bees stored honey 

 fast. I secured 2000 pounds of extracted 

 and 3U110 pounds of comb honev, besides 

 fighting black brood all summer. I'lie bees, 

 in this locality, have had black brood for 5 

 or 6 years. It has killed some whole apiaries 



No. 4.— Apiary of Chas. Wallin 



I will send you a pictureof my bee-yard 

 which contains 10 colonies. The two " fel- 

 lows" you see in the picture are my brother 

 and myself. M.v dog. Carlo, is close to mv 

 right. The building you see is the living 

 house. I had good returns from my bees the 

 last two years. I have learned a good deal 

 by reading the American Bee Journal 



St. James, Minn. Chas. Wallin. 



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wi uji^dis. iiiids Kiiiuu some wnoie apiaries 

 —James Heddons, at Dowagiac. and lots of 

 others. I am located 6 miles from James 

 Heddon. Euwin Gokvvin. 



Dowagiac. Mich.. Dec. 14, 1000. 



EuwlN CORWIN'S .'\P1AKV AND SwARMS. 



No. 5.— Apiary of Jay Smith 



This picture shows the apiary of Jav .Smith, 

 of Vincennes. Ind. He wrote some time 

 ago that the bees were wintering well on 

 honey-dew. 



No. 6.— Apiary of James B. Trease 



onies " n„"lv 1 Pi'^t'"'''f"^u""' 3P''"'>' of "> f^ol- 



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'sh''ei?o'„^."x^^sh. JAMES B.^Trea!;^:'^ 



No. 7.— Apiary of O. B. Griffin 



j4'l^f'^,iP°*''''i"''5' °f my bee-yard with 

 art of the surplus honey crop still on the 



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hives 

 Caribou. Maine, March 7, 



O. B. Griffin. 



No. 8.— Apiary of H. H. Fay 



This is a picture of the bee-yard of H H 

 i'ay. of Epworth, Iowa. Mr. F. failed to send 

 any descriptive matter to appear with the 

 picture. 



Sweet Clover as a Soil Restorer 



We have received the following from 

 Wm. M. Whitney, of Batavia, 111., dated 

 Feb. 16, 1910 : 



Editor American Bee Journal:-! here- 

 }V)fh enclose a clipping from an article en- 

 titled. Darby s Talk to Farmers." in the 

 Eeb. loth number of the Cincinnati Enquirer. 

 Ut course, all bee-keepers are supposed to 

 know the value of sweet clover as a hone' - 

 plant, but I am inclined to think there are 

 '"u"*j '?'''" bee-keepers" — as some are 

 called-who yet regard it a noxious weed, 

 and treat it as such. Knowing little or noth- 

 ing of Its fertilizing value, they greatly un- 

 derestimate it as a farm product. Experi- 

 ment Stations throughout the country are 

 beginning to catalog it among the most val- 

 uable plants. Strange, isn't it. that it should 

 take so many years to gain recognition? But 

 so It is. and ever has been, with almost 

 everything valbable in life. 



Wm. M. Whitney. 



The clipping enclosed by Mr. Whit- 

 ney reads as follows : 



Sweet clover is fast coming to the front as 

 a soil restorer. Until the last few years it 

 has been classed as a troublesome weed by 

 many. I have been experimenting with the 

 different clovers for several years as to 

 their value as cured hay, grazing, and as a 

 crop to turn under as green manure. As 

 cured hay sweet clover comes second to 

 alfalfa, which is the finest feed we grow in 

 the Ohio 'Valley. As a pasture, sweet clover 

 IS away ahead. On land that is very thin, 

 and on which there is little humus, if sown 

 to sweet clover and blue-grass there will be 

 a good stand of pasture the second season, 

 and if pastured lightly a heavy sod is formed 

 rapidly. Then after the fourth season it 

 may be pastured regularly, and it will con- 

 tinue to improve as a green crop to turn un- 

 der. I have not been able to find anything 

 near its equal. Where sown thickly it 

 makes a very heavy growth to turn under, 

 and as this decays and is converted into 

 humus, the nitrogen-gathering bacteria that 

 live on the roots of the clover, release the 

 nitrogen that was gathered while the crop 

 was growing. 



The bitter taste that sweet clover has is 

 some against it, as all stock do not take to it 

 readily, but this bitterness, caused by a 

 property contained by sweet clover known 

 as cumarin, prevents the stock that feed on 

 the clover from becoming bloated. Hence, 

 anything that makes a good food is a good 

 fertilizer. 



Of course, all who have read the bee- 

 papers during the past 10 or l.j years, 

 know vyhat a fine honey-plant sweet 

 clover is. In some parts of the coun- 

 try it is made into most excellent hay. 

 As noted in the above clipping, it surely 

 is a splendid soil fertilizer and reno- 

 vator. Score a whole lot for the once 

 despised sweet clover! 



Fifty Years a Reader. 



I am sorry to s.ly that my connection with 

 the American Bee Journal must cease with 

 the end of my present subscription. I have 

 read it for 50 years with pleasure and profit; 

 but a malignant cancer will end my life in a 

 few days. With great sorrow I bid you an 

 everlasting farcwelil J. S. Hughes. 



Chiplcy, Fla. 



