May, 1915. 



American Hee JonrnaJj 



tions and laws concerning it. So each 

 Canton has its own law, just as our 

 States have. In the French Cantons, 

 Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchatel, compul- 

 sory foulbrood insurance has been es- 

 tablished, but the cost of this ha; been 

 much greater than in the voluntary 

 organization of German Switzerland, 

 amounting to about 30 centimes or (J 

 cents per colony annually. This is due 



»to various causes, the main one being 

 very probably that this was established 

 later and that a greater amount of dis- 



ease was "n existence. Quite a little 

 dissatisfaction has been caused by this. 

 Whether our own people ever con- 

 sider it advisable to organize insur- 

 ances against this disease, we wish to 

 warn them against allowing it to run 

 too long without control. The quicker 

 measures will be taken against foul- 

 brood, the easier it will be to eradicate. 

 Concerted action is necessary. Laws 

 should be passed and enforced in every 

 State. Much has been done already, 

 but much remains to be done 



a honey plant. He considers it one of 

 the best honey plants of the State. 



Miscellaneous ^ News Items 



Watch Out for Robbers. — Use every 

 precaution and watchfulness to prevent 

 robbing. Do not under any circum- 

 stances leave combs of honey out for 

 the bees to clean up. On account of 

 the prevalence of disease in unexpected 

 places, it is never wise to feed honey 

 to bees, and where disease is known 

 to exist it is the worst of folly — Morley 

 Pettit, Provincial Apiarist, Guelph, 

 Ont. 



This is good advice for everybody to 

 follow wherever bees are kept. 



the bees in the husband's absence. 

 Thousands of apiaries, in stricken Eu- 

 rope, must now be cared for by the 

 women, while the men are mowed 

 down in a senseless war. 



Should Be Good Location for Bees 



During the past year the acreage of 

 alfalfa in Allen Co., Kan., has been 

 raised from 2000 to 5000 acres, and more 

 than 2500 acres to sweet clover has 

 been planted where it was never 

 grown before. — Exchange. 



Women Keeping Bees. — To the young 

 wives of soldier beekeepers who have 

 to do the home work during the ab- 

 sence of their husbands at the front, 

 Mr. Mothre, in " L'Abeille Bourgui- 

 gnonne" (French) gives some very 

 seasonable advice on how to care for 



South Dakota. — The annual report of 

 L. A. Syverud, Bee Inspector of South 

 Dakota, is at hand. After giving a 

 general idea of the work done, Mr. 

 Syverud gives considerable promi- 

 nence to the value of sweet clover as 



Bees lor Farm Women. — Report No. 



103 of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, deals with "Social and 

 Labor Needs of Farm Women." Bee- 

 keeping is one of the pursuits advised 

 for farm women. A list of Govern- 

 ment bulletins on beekeeping available 

 for free distribution is given in con- 

 nection. 



Crop Conditions. — Bees here came out 

 of winter very weak, but the prolonged 

 warm spell has had a remarkable effect. 

 Danger of spring dwindling is fast 

 disappearing, under the stimulant of a 

 light honey flow from fruit bloom. 



HONEY-LOCUST TREE IN FULL BLOOM AT THE HOME OF D. M. BRYANT 



Bees Not a Nuisance. — We give here- 

 with the salient parts of the report 

 published in 1890, on the above subject, 

 by Thomas G. Newman, then General 

 Manager of the National Beekeepers' 

 Union, mentioned on page 135 of the 

 April number : 



"To show the value of united action, 

 and the moral weight of the backing 

 of the National Beekeepers' Union, we 

 will make a brief enumeration of the 

 outcome of all the suits against bee- 

 keeping in the United States, which the 

 Union deemed it expedient to defend, 

 and it will be seen that not one has 

 been decided against the bees. 



" The ' Freeborn ' case in Wisconsin 

 was presented in such a manner, backed 

 by the Union, that the judge threw it 

 out of court. 



"In the ' Bohn ' case, in California, 

 the united resistance of the beekeepers 

 of the National was too much for the 

 fruit-growers, and that trouble is now 

 all conquered, the raisin-growers ad- 

 mitting that they were mistaken. 



" The ' Darling ' case in Connecticut 

 was dismissed as soon as it was dis- 

 covered that he was 'backed up ' by 

 the National Beekeepers' Union. 



" The ' Richardson ' case in Indiana 

 was dismissed by the court. 



"The case of ' S. W. Rich,' of New 

 York, was a suit by a disagreeable 

 neighbor, to compel the removal of 

 his home apiary outside of the city 

 limits. He also sued for $1200 as dam- 

 ages for injuries inflicted by the bees 

 upon his person and property. The 

 jury from which every person having 

 bees was excluded, gave him but six 

 cctils to cover wounded feelings and 

 damaged property. 



"The CROWNING VICTORY was 

 obtained in the .-Xrkadelphia case, in 

 Arkansas. There by the enforcement 

 of an unlawful ordinance of the city, 

 Mr. Clark was deprived of his liberty 

 and the constitutional rights guaran- 

 teed to every citizen of the United 

 States. Even granting that it was 

 wrong in Mr. Clark not to obey the 

 city authorities, he should have had a 

 speedy trial by an impartial jury all of 

 which was denied him. Even when re- 

 leased under writ of habeas corpus, he 

 was within three hours re-arrested and 



