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April, 1912. 



menting with remedies, I am satisfied tliat 

 there are not half a dozen radical cures at 

 tile command of physicians, and some of 

 them the modern serums. Any experienced 

 doctor will confirm the statement that we 

 have no "cure" for rheumatism, eczema, 

 pneumonia, catarrh, cancer, and so on down 

 the list of human ills, andany advertisement 

 claimingr otherwise will come under the 

 above proposed law 



It is but a step from medical advertise- 

 ments to food advertisements. The many 

 " breakfast food " fakirs would have to mod- 

 ify all their literature; and, coming to what 

 interests us most, the corn syrup (glucose) 

 manufacturers would have to quit lying 

 about honey, the only perfect sweet the Lord 

 ever gave to man. 



If the State of Illinois has not yet done 

 anything to suppress this evil of fraudulent 

 advertising. I suggest that the editor of the 

 American Bee Journal send marked copies 

 of this issue to the State legislators, as I 

 shall to those of Iowa. 



I am still ready and willing to donate to a 

 fund, as suggested in my January article. 



Buck Grove, Iowa. .A. K. Bonnev, M. D. 



While this subject is one not directly 

 bearing on bee-keeping, yet it is some- 

 thing in which every bee-keeper is in- 

 terested. There are advertisements in 

 all the bee-papers, but we believe not 

 one of the bee-paper publishers would 

 knowingly accept an advertisement 

 that contained an intentional misrep- 

 resentation. But there are many pub- 

 lications that care more for money 

 than for reputation for truth and hon- 

 esty. The subscribers for such publi- 

 cations should refuse to continue their 

 subscriptions unless the misleading ad- 

 vertisements be eliminated. 



This subject will doubtless soon be 

 considered by the law-makers, and an 

 effective prohibition be enacted and 

 enforced. The tendency of the times 

 seems to be along lines that will make 

 for a higher and better morality, both 

 in private and public life. May the 

 good work be hastened. 



American ^ee Journal 



scriptions to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, at $1.00 e4ch. 



Origin of the First Kiss A contribu- 

 tor to the British Bee Journal gave the 

 following some time ago concerning 

 the "first kiss :" 



"It was a beautiful morning that Father 

 Adam returned to his dwelling and found 

 Eve fast asleep. He bent down over her 

 and observed the bees tiew around her 

 head, alighting on her mouth ! He bent down 

 lower and lower, and at last touched her 

 mouth with his lips, and found that it was 

 so sweet, so sweet!" 



We wonder if most of the "daugh- 

 ters of Eve" wouldn't wake up if bees 

 were alighting on their honeyed lips! 



We suppose this item really belongs 

 in the sister's department, but we feared 

 its "conductress" might object, so we 

 put it here to be on the safe side! 



Everybody's Paint-Book. — On another 

 page we are offering a book entitled 

 " Everybody's Paint - Book," w h i c h 

 would be a good thing for everybody 

 to read who has any painting to do. 

 There are many bee-keepers who paint 

 their hives and also houses and other 

 other buildings, so that we believe any 

 one who is at all interested in the sub- 

 ject of ordinary painting would find 

 "Everybody's Faint- Book" very val- 

 uable. It is bound in cloth, and con- 

 tains important information on the 

 subject of paints and painting. The 

 postpaid price is $l.i)0, or we send it 

 with the American Bee Journal one 

 year— both for $1.70. We also offer it 

 as a premium for sending 2 new sub- 



A Snowbound Apiary. — The picture 

 herewith shows an apiary packed in 

 snow. Its owner has this to say about 

 it: 



lam sending a picture showing a part of 

 my apiary taken about 2 weeks ago. after re- 



A Snowbound Iowa Apiary, 



moval from the cellar. The snow, however, 

 lasted but a few days, and it did not get very 

 cold. 



The bees did very well in this locality last 

 year, considering the kind of season, as it 

 was rather dry. Homer Middleton. 



Eagle Grove, Iowa. Jan. 17, 



The Series of Ten Pictures at the bot- 

 toms of pages in the department of 

 " Contributed Articles " are described 

 as follows : 



No, 1 is a small yard of 30 colonies 

 of bees in Maine, which in 1910 pro- 

 duced 50 pounds of comb honey and 50 

 pounds of extracted honey per colony. 

 The bees are all in chaff hives, are win- 

 tered outdoors, and are well taken care 

 of by the owner. 



No, 2 shows the owner of the fore- 

 going apiary holding a frame of bees. 



No, 3 is a still smaller bee-yard that 

 is also wintered outdoors, 



Nos, 4 and 5 show one of the handiest 

 things in the shape of a comb-cart. It 

 will hold 12 10-frame supers, or with a 

 comb-bo.x the frames from 4 hives. In 

 fact, the comb-box will hold 45 spaced 

 frames. The third wheel takes the 

 weight off the hands and allows getting 

 the handle out of the way of doors, 

 frames, hives and the like. 



No. 6 shows a way of handling a 

 swarm which, perhaps, has not been 

 seen in print. Old, dead mullein-heads 

 are tied to the end of a pole — 5 or 6 of 

 them. This is held under a swarm that 

 has clustered on a limb out of conven- 

 ient reach. The bees are then shaken 

 from the limb with another pole with a 

 hook on it. The dead mulleins look 

 much like a swarm, and some bees will 

 alight on them. The limb is then 

 shaken again and more bees alight on 

 the mulleins. Soon all are there. If 

 you are then careful you can do what 

 you please with the swarm. In this 

 case they were taken back to the hive 

 from which they came. The queen-cells 

 had been removed and there they 

 stayed. 



Nos. 7 and 8 show the extractor, 

 uncapping-can (round), and the like in 

 a large yard. Now all is changed, and 

 a gasoline engine and an 8-frame ex- 

 tractor take the place of the old-fash- 

 ioned ones. 



No. 9 shows the honey-tank in a large 

 yard for ripening honey. Some people 

 think they are not used much, but per- 

 haps they are mistaken about this. The 

 honey ripens in the tank. 



No. 10 is simply a bee-yard and honey- 

 house. The writer seldom looks at 

 this picture but he thinks of the many 

 articles he has read of bee-yards a mile 

 or Xyi miles a part, and telling how 

 much better one bee-yard did than an- 

 other, and drawing the conclusion that 

 the country near one was overstocked. 

 Now here, one side — the eastern — al- 

 ways does better than the other, but I 

 hardly think it is location in the sense 

 of distance from flowers, as there is 

 only a 7-foot path between them; yet 

 these bees winter in the same cellar, 

 and are always put out in the same way 

 without any change whatever. 



Easterner. 





BvR Western ^ Bee-Keeping 



Conducted by Wesley Foster, Boulder. Colo. 



Wintering Conditions in the West 



The snowfall has been heavier than 

 last year, and the winter more severe, 

 but bees are coming through in fair 

 condition. Some report rather heavy 

 losses, while others report none. Pros- 

 pects are good for an abundance of 

 water for irrigation, and with a wet 

 spring alfalfa and sweet clover will 

 make a good start. 



It is my judgment that Western bee- 

 men are losing a good deal by not 

 using the double-walled hive, or at 



least a winter-case. I was talking with 

 my uncle, Oliver Foster, the other day, 

 and he said that he considered our 

 Colorado sunshine as salvation for the 

 bees in winter, and that the south side 

 of the hives should be exposed to the 

 sun so that it would warm the hive 

 quickly after the sun came out. He 

 thought extra protection on the other 

 sides might be all right. 



If a winter-caso could be devised 

 that would lift off and on easily, it 

 might be an advantage, for it could be 



