MAY 1. 1915 



373 



A £2:ood many times 

 one can find a storo- 

 kceper who will al- 

 low an exhibit to be 

 placed in his window. 

 If it is done duvinii' 

 the summer or fall 

 months when a frame 

 or two of bees can 

 be shown with a 

 printed card such as 

 " Find the Queen," i1 

 would serve as a 

 means of attracting 

 attention, and get 

 people to thinking of 

 hone y. Otherwise 

 they would hardly 

 give it a passing 



thought. A great many regard honey as a 

 luxury', and will use it only sparing!}' or in 

 case of colds. I find a good many who use 

 honey and lemon juice for colds, and seem 

 to think it an unfailing remedy. 



One of the illustrations shows our two 

 children who have been sampling our favor- 



Bushels of Krapes grow near the hives. 



ite grape, the Worden. This reminds me 

 that I have never seen honeybees on the 

 blossoms of the grape, but have seen plenty 

 of bumblebees on them. Of course the bees 

 ne\er puncture our grapes, and we have 

 bushels of them growing near the hives. 

 Berlin, Ct. 



INDIANA NOTES ON SPRAYING 



BY S. H. BURTON 



Dr. Miller says, on page 261, that, no 

 matter how intelligent a fruit-grower is, he 

 will spray before bloom, is gone if he is 

 selfish enough, iniless the law prevents him. 

 He also quotes the fruit man as saying that 

 he can't get through spraying in time unless 

 he begins before all blossoms are gone ; that 

 to wait till all blnnm is over there is danger 



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The second Crandall generation is as interested in 

 bees 08 the first. 



that some of the oldest fruit will be wormy, 

 and that, if he sj^rays when two-thirds of 

 the bloom has fallen, and kill all yet in 

 bloom, there will still be more fruit than 

 the trees can mature. " Me for the early 

 spraying." Now, what reply have you? 



Well, the doctor seems to put us fruit- 

 growers all in the same class ; but I for one 

 plead " not guilty " to the above charge. 



A fruit-grower who has given the matter 

 careful and scientific study does not pro- 

 ceed w'ith such feverish haste. A study of 

 the life history of the codling moth reveals 

 the fact that the egg's from' which the larvae 

 develop, that cause the wormy apple, are 

 laid on the leaves and twigs near the young 

 fruit, and not in the blossom end of the 

 api)le, as supposed by a great many fruit- 

 growers. Upon emerging they commence to 

 Teed at once upon the young leaves, and 

 tiradually make their way to the fruit. If 

 arsenate of lead is applied just after the 

 leaf-buds burst, but before the blossom-buds 

 open, it will control 95 per cent of the 

 • odling-raoth trouble, because the young 

 woi-m gets its dose on the poisoned leaf 

 before reaching the apple. 



Too much emphasis has been laid on the 

 after-blossom spray, and not enough on the 

 importance of getting the worm before the 



