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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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New Hampshire of Europe." Such an ar- 

 rangement for the difTerent States here 

 would certainly be interesting-, and perhaps 

 profitable. The European governments 

 pay great attention to such things. We 

 thank Mr. Wartmann for sending the maps, 

 of which he himself is the author. 



We have just received a copy of a P^rench 

 bee-journal, published quarterly in Tunis, 

 Algeria, Africa, entitled Bulletin de la So- 

 cietc d'' Apiculture de Tunise. Algeria be- 

 ing an integral part of France, this journal 

 is fully abreast with the times, although it 

 says that bee-keeping there is mostlj' in the 

 hands of the natives. It contains 32 pages 

 the size of this, with a table of contents of 

 great merit, especially good for beginners. 

 Those who can read French will find this 

 journal worthy of particular attention. The 

 French have had control of Algeria since 

 1856. On the northern coast, nearly paral- 

 lel with the shore of the Mediterranean, 

 running a thousand miles west of Tunis 

 (near ancient Carthage), there is a well- 

 equipped railroad, built by French engi- 

 neers. Moi-occo, on the west, has not a 

 mile of railroad, but is still in practical 

 savagery under Mohammedan rule. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mr. York wrote a vigorous protest to the 

 Chicago Tribune relative to Commissioner 

 Jones's misleading statement about the bo- 

 gus nature of white comb honey, as ex- 

 plained in our previous issue. He delivered 

 the article in person, with a section of his 

 own best white comb honey. The Tribune 

 printed a few garbled extracts from the ar- 

 ticle, but in a way that seems more like a 

 defense of its course than an attempt to 

 right a wrong. Doubtless that paper poses 

 as a "friend of American labor," yet it 

 rides rough-shod right over it. But the re- 

 gard the Chicago dailies have for authentic 

 information is shown by their treatment of 

 the canteen question in that place. Bro. 

 York, those sheets ai-e hopeless. As you 

 say, it is "exasperating " to read them. 



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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEE JOURNAL. 

 This journal is holding its own in point 

 of interest, and even gaining a little. The 

 two following editorial items are worth 

 pondering over: 



Tlie only logical outcome of the present great era of 

 trust formation is nationa'. State, and municipal oper- 

 ation of all indtistries dependent upon the concession 

 of special privileges. 



_ '1 he '■ cellar apiaries " in Los Angeles and San Fran- 

 cisco are credited with enormously augmenting the 

 honey crop of California, and greatly to the detriment 

 of producers of honest honey. Here is work for the 

 new h iuey association The glucose-mi.vers should be 

 relentlessly prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 

 No m=rcy should be shown them— nor the adulterator 

 of any other food product. 



A new source of danger to the bees is de- 

 scribed below: 



At the recent meeting of the Utah State Bee-keep- 

 ers' As.sociation a good many bee fatalities are report- 

 ed as resulting from the poisonous fumes exhaled by 



the great smelter-stacks. Both bees and smelters are 

 numerous in the vicinity of Denver, but we have never 

 heard of the latter being fatal t j the former. Possibly 

 a different s\ stem of smelting, employing more viru- 

 lent chemicals, is necessary for the extraction of the 

 precious values from the ores of Utah. The remedy 

 would seem to lie in the use of smoke-consumers ; and 

 their use would need to be compelled by a stringent 

 State statute, as trust corporations have never been 

 known to be influenced except by brute force or self- 

 interest. 



Concerning foul brood in Colorado, the 

 following editorial is strong but interesting: 



In years past, Colorado has, perhaps, suffered more 

 from the ravages of foul brood, in proportion to the 

 number of colonies kept, than any other State The 

 truth is, in some of the districts nearly all the large 

 apiaries were swept away before their owners realized 

 the fatal character of the disease. These men never 

 read a text-book on apiculture nor a bee-journal, nor 

 belonged to a bee-keepers' association, and resisted 

 the bee-inspectors until their bees were dead and their 

 hives a rotten mess of corruption. Most of these fos- 

 silized apiarists have never re-entered the ranks, and 

 the few that did have stepped out into the light and 

 have become progressive apiarists in all that the phrase 

 implies. 



Here is the next paragraph, which is 

 more hopeful: 



While foul brood whipped out many of the original 

 apiarists of the State, it is not considered a serious 

 menace by the intelligent " new blood " that has suc- 

 ceeded them. In the " locality " broadly included in 

 the term Colorado (probably just as applicable to the 

 entire Rocky Mountain region) the character of the 

 honey-flow is such as to permit a system of minage- 

 ment for comb honey that practically renders the api- 

 arv immune from the disease. 



A BURLESQUE ON LONG TONGUES. 

 The Factor of Time in Producing New Varieties. 



BV S. E. MILLKR. 



For some time past, the wheels in my 

 head have been working on a new problem. 

 I have conceived the idea of developing a 

 strain of bees whose tongues will be long 

 enough to reach the nectar in the red-clover 

 blossoms. It shotild not take over three to 

 six months to bring this strain to perfection, 

 and — just think! what an acquisition this 

 would be for the queen-rearer! and it might 

 also indirectly benefit the honey-prodticer. 

 I think it was Dr. Miller who, some years 

 ago, suggested that all jokes should be la- 

 beled. I will, therefore, state that the 

 above is a joke. However, there is a seri- 

 ous side to this question, and it is the .seri- 

 ous side which I propose to discuss. 



The long-tongue discussion has hardly 

 been discussed. There has scarcely been 

 time to rear a tested queen and ascertain 

 the merits of her workers since the discus- 

 sion commenced, until — presto, change! and 

 we have the long-tongtied bees made to or- 

 der, guaranteed to cure or money refunded. 

 If your druggist does not keep them, send a 

 dollar direct to Dr. Long Tongue, golden- 

 banded red-clover queen-breeder. 



