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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 29, 1903. 



dred pounds more. I have a home mar- 

 ket for all my honey, at 15 cents per 

 pound, and besides this I was awarded 

 |7.00 premium on 100 pounds of honey 

 at our County Fair. S. B. Smith. 



Millelacs Co., Minn., Oct. 19. 



A Poor Season. 



This has been a poor season here, so 

 much rain and cool weather. My 10 

 colonies of bees averaged only about 

 IS pounds per colony. 



W. W. BOTSFORD. 



Dickinson Co., Iowa, Oct. 18. 



Formalin Gas as a Germ-Killer. 



The bee-papers have not got that 

 right yet about formalin. Formalin is 

 a gas from formaldehyde, and 40 per- 

 cent water, and not necessarily a trade 

 name. The gas does not kill germs, 

 but when the gas comes in contact with 

 the air it oxidizes into formic acid. It 

 is the acid that kills germs. 



When we kill bees with sulphur we 

 also kill germs (almost as good as sul- 

 phur), but the bees are killed by suffo- 

 cation, and the germs are killed by the 

 acid that the fumes and air produce. 

 The germs are plants ; the bees are ani- 

 mal life. Some things will kill one and 

 not even injure the other. I am in 

 hopes that some time we may get a cure 

 that is sure death to germs, and will 

 not cause the bees to miss a meal. 



Prof. Lambotte is said to have 

 made a big mistake, but I think he is 

 not entirely wrong. Bacillus alvei is 

 not the same as bacillus mesentericus, 

 but probably the former cannot become 

 pathogenic without the aid of the lat- 

 ter. J. E. Johnson. 



Knox Co., 111.. Oct. 21. 



Difference in Stopingr— Queen Above 

 Excluder. 



On page SS2, " California " wants to 

 to know why one colony will store and 

 another starve. It may be the kind of 

 flowers they are working on, as well as 

 the kind of bees. Full blood, or nearly 

 full blood. Italians and Carniolans will 

 store a lot of cotton and bitterweed 

 honey. The blacks will store very lit- 

 tle cotton and hardly any 'bitterweed 

 honey. 



On page .553, "British Columbia'' 

 asks about the queen above an excluder. 

 It is not an uncommon thing for queens 

 to do that here ; they get through some- 

 how ; I had 4 or 5 cases of that kind 

 this year. J. S. Patton. 



Hale Co., Ala. 



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Review lor 1903 



JANUARY illustrates and describes a Queen 

 Incubator and Brooder which allows the 

 bees access to the cells and queens at all 

 times. It also contains several e.xcellent 

 articles on the subject of Commercial Or- 

 ganization among bee-keepers. 



FEBRUARY contains a five-page article, per- 

 haps the be&t ever published, on foul brood. 

 It tells how to detect the disease with un- 

 erring certainty, to prevent its spread in 

 the apiarj, to keep it under control, build 

 up the diseased colonies, secure a good crop 

 of honey, and at the same lime securely rid 

 the apiary of the pest, all in one season, with 

 almost no loss. 



MARCH gives the portrait of a veteran bee- 

 keeper of Michigan who manages oul- 

 ap aries 50 miles from home with only four 

 visits a year, averaging a profit ot $150 each 

 visit. He describes his methods in this is- 

 sue of the Review. 



APRIL has a frontispiece of bronze blue show- 

 ing Mr. T. F. Biugham's apiary and win- 

 tering cellar, and Mr. Bingham describes 

 the cellar and its very successful manage- 

 ment, L. Stachelhausen tel.s how to pre- 

 vent bt th natural swarming and increase in 

 an out-apiary, and secure a fine crop of 

 honey. 



MAY illustrates and describes a tank and 

 method for fumigating fuul broody comus 

 with formalin. This is the largest tank 

 and most extensive, successful experiment 

 that has been made. 



JUNE illustrates and describes the use of the 

 cheapest power for bivemaking, wood-saw- 

 ing, feed-grinding, water-pumping, etc.— a 

 power windmill. 



JULY has articles from such men as R. L. Tay- 

 lor and H. R. Boardman on '* End of the 

 Season problems,'" those problems that 

 come up just as the honey harvest is clos- 

 ing and preparations for winter come on 

 apace. Mr. M..Evoy also tells how to treat 

 foul brood after the hooey harvest is over. 



SEPIEHBER has an article from Mr. H. R. 

 Boardmaa, in which he describes his win- 

 tering-cellar above ground, and tells how 

 he succeeds in controlling the temperature 

 and ventilation— sometimes using artificial 

 heat. R. L,. Taylor coatribuies an article 

 on "'Commercial Organization Among Bee- 

 Keepers," in which he -tates the case so 

 clearly that no more argument is needed. 



OCTOBER is prettv nearly taken up with only 

 two ai tides. The first is by R. h. Taylor 

 on "The Cellar-Wintering of Bees." It is 

 an old subject, but Mr. Taylor has the fac- 

 ulty of saying new things on old subjects. 

 He covers the ground very completely, and 

 gives many a useful hint to the man who 

 winters his bees in the cellar. The other 

 article is by the Editor, in which he writes 

 of California as a bee-keeping State, giving 

 eight teautiful illustrations made from 

 photos taken by himself when on his re- 

 cent visit to California. Several of these 

 are full-page. 



NOVEMBFRor December will be a special num- 

 ber in which the editor will describe that 

 paradise for bee-keepers. Northern Michi- 

 gan, using a large number of cuts made 

 from photos that he took last summer while 

 on an extended visit to that region. 



Perhaps you may have in- 

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 ginning of the year — sub- 

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 the back numbers — wait un- 

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 likely you will get them. 



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The price of a queen alone is $1.£0, 

 but I sell one queen and the Review 

 one year for only S2.00. Just at pres- 

 ent, as explained above, as long as the 

 supply of back numbers for 1903 holds 

 out, all new subscribers for 1904 will 

 receive them free. In other words, if 

 you order soon, you can get the Review 

 for 1903 and 1904 and a queen of the 

 Superior Stock next spring,for only $2. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Flint, Mich, 



