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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 7, 1903. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 CONPANY 



144 & 146 E.Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



EDITOR. 



DEPT. EDITORS, 



Dr.C.C.Miller, E.E.Hasty, Em 



L M.Wilson 



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Editor Root is stirring up the Ohio bee- 

 lieepers to form a State organization, having 

 for one of its objects the securing in Ohio of 

 a good foul b'rood law. Success to him in his 

 efforts. 



W. Z. Hutchinson is not practicing migra- 

 tory bee-keeping, but migratory editing. His 

 duties as State Foul Brood Inspector keep 

 him at present wandering over the State of 

 Michigan, and he edits the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view as he goes, so as to give more " go " to 

 his editorials. 



Mrs. Christian Theilmann, of Wabasha 

 Co., Minn., died April 13th, after a short 

 illness, at the age of nearly T7 years. Her 

 maiden name was Angola Schocke. She was 

 born in Westphalia, Germany, .June 11, 1S36, 

 and came to Minnesota in 1854. She was 

 married to Christian Theilmann, Nov. 13, 

 1856. She leaves a husband, two daughters, 

 and three sons, to mourn her departure. In 

 a private letter Mr. Theilmann says his wife 

 " was a true Christian, a loving mother, and 

 a helpmate in the real sense of the word." 

 She suffered with rheumatism more or less 

 for the past 30 years, and was confined to her 

 bed for over a year, when, at last, la grippe 

 and bronchitis caused her death. 



Mr. Theilmann is one of the oldest and most 

 prominent bee-keepers in this country. He 

 has been very successful in the business. A 



local newspaper item says that Mrs. Theil- 

 mann "was a faithful type of the pioneer 

 wife and mother. She came here with her 

 husband, both poor, but not afraid to labor 

 with head, and heart, and hand. They pros- 

 pered to a marked degree, and have been 

 eminently successful in every undertaking, 

 their labors being rewarded with all of this 

 world's goods they needed, and their home 

 blessed with a large family of children, each 

 of whom is doing his duty in life as a good 

 citizen." Surely, this is a good record, and 

 the bereaved family will have the sympathy 

 not only of the friends who knew them inti- 

 mately, but also of bee-keepers everywhere, 

 all of whom are interested in the welfare as 

 well as the sorrows and afflictions of those 

 engaged in the same calling. 



Mr. Thomas Wm. Cowan made us a very 

 pleasant call on April 29, when on his way 

 through Chicago to England from his home 

 in California. He seemed to be in splendid 

 health, and looked forward with pleasure to 

 a year and a half of travel. He has a very 

 pleasant home at Pacific (irove, Calif., and 

 when leaving recently the people of the town 

 gave himself and Mrs. Cowan a farewell re- 

 ception which included practically everybody 

 that could go there. They evidently have en- 

 deared themselves to the people of that 

 locality by their many deeds of kindness and 

 genuine worth. 



Mr. Cowan has practically retired from 

 active work and business, and is able to de- 

 vote iimself to pursuits which yield no finan- 

 cial returns. We trust that Mr. and Mrs. 

 Cowan will have a pleasant and safe journey, 

 and return to their California home much 

 benefited by their trip. 



" Formalin Gas as a Cure for Foul Brood " 

 is the name of a small pamphlet giving the 

 result of persistent experiments made by C. 

 H. W. Weber with this new drug, trying to 

 accomplish what is very much desired in the 

 apiary— a cure for foul brood. As a result of 

 these experiments, Mr. Weber thinks he is 

 now permitted to say, without a doubt, that 

 the foul brood germ can be forever eradicated 

 by formalin gas. It has been substantiated 

 by leading bee-keepers in his community, and 

 bacteriologists and chemists who have re- 

 cently made some very severe tests, but who 

 all unite in saying that formalin gas does the 

 work. The booklet describes and illustrates 

 plainly just how to proceed (including the 

 treatment of the alHicted colony) in e.xtermi- 

 nating foul brood without destroying hives, 

 frames, or combs. Price, postpaid, 25 cents. 

 It can be had from the office of the American 

 Bee Journal. 



Mr. J. T. Calvert, of the A. I. Root & Co., 

 passing through Chicago on a recent trip to the 

 Northwest, spent an hour or so in our oflice. 

 He is looking well and reports a rushing busi- 

 ness, which latter, by the way, is what all the 

 bee-supply (manufacturers are having just 

 now. But the prospects are that there will 

 be a shortage in the supply of sections, as 

 basswood timber is becoming very scarce. 

 The probabilites are that, within a lew years, 

 it will be necessary for bee-keepers to use 

 four-piece sections, as there is practically no 

 other wood except basswood that makes a 



satisfactory one-piece section. But as the 

 tendency seems to be toward the production 

 of extracted honey, perhaps later on there 

 will not be so great a demand for sections. If 

 such should be the ease, the basswood supply 

 will likeiy last a few years longer than seems 

 to be the prospect just now. Still, there are 

 many other uses for basswood, which will 

 help to wipe out the visible supply. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, whom all bee-keepers 

 respect so highly, and many of whom know 

 so well, called on us when in Chicago last 

 week. With the exception of a cough, which 

 has bothered him for a few weeks,^he is in 

 excellent health, and is able to do considei'- 

 able work among the bees as well as much 

 writing. He is one of the few remaining old- 

 time bee-keepers, and rightly merits the title 

 ot "Father Miller." While there may be 

 many Dr. Millers in the world, there is but 

 one Dr. Miller known well to bee-keepers. 

 Not only those who have a personal acquaint- 

 ance with him, but all whc have read his 

 helpful writings on the subject of bees, hope 

 that he may live yet many years to bless the 

 world with his cheerful presence and excellent 

 apiarian advice. 



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