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the side. Mani\if not all. of the supposed 

 attacks from the calyx end of the fruit will 

 be found on examination to be made from 

 outside the calyx, and underneath its lobes, 

 and not from the interior of the cavity. It 

 is positive waste to spray apples and pears 

 when in blossom: it is errine. possibly, on 

 the side of safety, to spray very thoroui;hly 

 before the calyx closes. But it is absolutely 

 necessary, in the writer's opinion, to spray 

 very carefully when the first etigs are seen, 

 and to repeat spraying periodically as fruits 

 are swelling, after very heavy rains, or when 

 by any reason whatever there is an untreated 

 surface of the fruit exposed. 



Geii. l>Igrr. France Injured 



On the evening of March 31st, as 

 General Manager N. E. France and 

 wife were mailing the last buggy-load 

 of the pamphlet " Bee-Keepers' Legal 

 Rights." they met with serious injuries 

 through another team running into 

 their buggy, up-setting it, and causing 

 a runaway. \\'e are glad to report that 

 both Mr. France and his good wife are 

 getting along nicely, and doubtless in 

 due time will be as good as new again. 

 At any rate, their hosts of friends will 

 rejoice that they were not more seri- 

 ously injured. 



New Factory of G. B. Lewis Co. 



April 28th we visited again the new 

 factory of the G. B. Lewis Co., of 

 Watertown, Wis. When we were there 

 last fall everything was but in prospect, 

 as only the brick walls of the main 

 building were up. Now 30 or 40 ma- 

 chines are running in the building, and 

 things certainly are humming. Next 

 month we will be able, with the aid of 

 illustrations, etc., to show something of 

 the de%'elopment of a large bee-supply 

 factory from the ground up. The G. 

 B. Lewis Co. were working 13 hours a 

 day, and were still somewhat behind on 

 their orders, but at the rate they were 

 turning out the goods they would soon 

 be caught up. and ready for practically 

 everything that comes to them. But 

 more of this next month. 



Illiuois State Convention Report 



The Qth Annual Report of the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers" Association is ready for de- 

 livery. It will have 224 paijes. About 50 

 copies extra of the cloth-bound edition have 

 been ordered, which new members will re- 

 ceive so long as they last, when they pay the 

 annual fee of Si-oo to the undersigned, which 

 also will make each one a member of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association. 



The Illinois State Association will send a 

 delegate to the next National convention. 

 J.\s. A. Stone, .S'.'i. 



Rt. 4. Springfield. III. 



The above Report is, we believe, one 

 of the largest volumes ever issued by 

 the Illinois Association. It contains, 

 besides other interesting matter, the 

 reports of the 190t> conventions of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 the Chicago-Xorthwestern Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, and also the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. It will be 

 a book worth having, and any bee- 

 keeper who has not yet sent in his $1.00 

 for membership should do so at once 

 in order to get one of the cloth-bound 

 copies. Remember that there are only 

 about r,() available copies, and if you 

 want one of them, you will have to re- 

 mit to Mr. Stone very promptly. The 

 $1.00 will pay your membership fee in 

 both the Illinois State and the National 

 Associations, as mentioned by Mr. 

 Stone. 



Suninier Course in Bee-Keepinjj 



The South Dakota State College of 

 Agriculture and .Mechanic Arts an- 

 nounces a summer session for 1010, be- 

 ginning Wednesday, June 22d and con- 

 tinuing to July 13th. The courses of 

 instruction are open to any one who 

 desires to take advantage of them. The 

 bee-keeping instruction, which is part 

 of the course, w'ill be given along the 

 lines of starting an apiary, increase of 

 colonies, hiving and managing, produc- 

 ing of comb honey, etc. Prof. A. A. 

 Brigham, director of the summer 

 school, will deliver lectures on poul- 

 try culture and bee-keeping. For 

 further information, address A. A. Brig- 

 ham, care South Dakota State College, 

 Brookings, S. Dak. 



A 318" Swarm and Good Colony 



I am sending a picture where I am 

 hiving the largest swarm of bees I ever 

 saw from one 8-frame hive. I got G 



A Big Swarm of Bees. 



gallons of extracted honey, 28 pound- 

 boxes fairly well filled, and this big 

 swarm, although the honey-flow was 

 not very good last year. 



T. M. GuLicK. 

 Edgerton, Minn., Jan. 8. 



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Te.st.s for Wax- Adulteration 



Paraffin and ceresin. I believe, are the 

 main adulterants. If the beeswax is pure, 

 and if you chew a sample you will find it will 

 all granulate in your mouth. If there is any 

 reat amount of paraffin along with it. it will 

 je pasty and act like gum in your mouth. It 

 is a simple test, which I am assured by 

 manufacturers and others, will tell if there 

 is any perceptible amount of paraffin with it. 

 Ceresin. I understand, is the main adulter- 

 ant used in comb foundation. They tell me 

 as good a test as you can make for that— I 

 have never tried it myself— is to take a hot 

 iron and drop a sample of what you know to 

 be pure beeswax on it. and notice the smell 

 ana odor of the smoke; and then take your 

 suspected sample, and if there is a small 

 percentage of ceresin in it you can tell it 

 right away— a very fatty, pungent smoke will 

 come from it.— J. L. BvER. in Caiiiuiiati Bcc 

 fonrnal. 



Short t'ourse in Bee-Keeping 



Circulars are now being distributed 

 for the two weeks' course in bee-keep- 

 ing which comes May 2jth to June 8th, 

 at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



The practical field-work and demon- 

 strations in the handling of bees will 

 be given by Dr. Burton N. Gates, of 

 Washington, D. C. 



Crops for honey bees will be treated 

 by Dr. William P. Brooks. 



Bees, and their relation to the pol- 

 lenation of plants, will be treated by 

 Dr. George E. Stone. 



The origin and evolution of the 

 honey-bee, by Dr. Henry T. Fernald. 



Bee-Keepers' supplies, by Dr. James 

 B. Paige. 



No tuition is charged in the course. 

 Board and room can be secured at 

 reasonable rates. 



A circular and registration card can 

 be secured by writing the Director of 

 Short Course, W. D. Hurd, of Amherst. 

 Mass. 



It is encouraging when agricultural 

 colleges are turning at least a little of 

 their attention to the study of bees and 

 their value as aids to profitable agri- 

 culture and the sweet food-supply of 

 the world. May the good work go on, 

 and may many young men and women 

 take advantage of the opportunity to 

 study the honey-bee and its work. 



National Biscuit Co. and Honey 



The last of March we had a very in- 

 teresting interview with Mr. H. J. 

 Evans, head of the purchasing depart- 

 ment of the great National Biscuit 

 Company, here in Chicago. Naturally 

 the conversation turned on honey, and 

 some surprising statements were made. 



In the first place, the Company uses 

 about 125 carloads of honey annually! • 

 A carload being from 13 to 15 tons, it 

 would make about 3,600,000 pounds. 

 That surely is some sweetness. The 

 larger portion of the honey they pur- 

 chase comes from the Western part of 

 this country, although they do get 

 quite a little from the East, the South, 

 and from Cuba. At the end of each 

 week a report is made to headquarters 

 from all the branches of the Company, 

 and it was found on Saturday, Alarch 

 26, 1910, that there was on hand a total 

 of nearly 2,000,000 pounds of honey. So 

 it will be seen that they seem to have 

 no difficulty in keeping up their supply, 

 even if there was a shortage in the 

 crop in some places last year. 



It is generally supposed that a gallon 

 of extracted honey weighs 12 pounds. 

 Mr. Evans said they never had any 

 honey, from anywhere, that weighed as 

 much as 13 pounds to the gallon. The 

 nearest was 11 pounds WYz ounces, and 

 that was honey from .-Vrizona and Cali- 

 fornia. He thought the average weight 

 would possibly be not over 11 pounds 

 and 10 ounces. 



I asked about honey adulteration. 

 Mr. Evans said there is no such thing, 

 and has not been so far as his Com- 

 pany's experience goes, especially in a 

 wholesale way, as they buy honey. The 

 nearest they ever came to getting adul- 

 terated honey, was in a small lot they 

 purchased some years ago from an 

 Iowa bee-keeper. In testing a sample 

 from the lot, their chemist found cane- 



