Published by the A. I. Root Co., Medina, Oliio. 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department. J. T. Calvert, Business Manager. 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, O., as Second-class matter. 



VOL. XVI. 



OCTOBER 1, 1913. 



NO. 19. 



Editorial 



" CASH FOR YOUR HONEY AT YOUR DOOR.'"' 



Do NOT fail to take advantage of the spe- 

 cial offer by N. E. France, as announced in 

 his advertisement on page 20 of this issue. 



Mr. C. E. Palmer, of Ransomville, Ni- 

 agara Co., N. Y., wrote us on June 13, 

 " Bees have been killed by the peck in this 

 locality by spraying with arsenate of lead; 

 and it looks now as if little or no comb hon- 

 ey will be secured this season." 



EMBARGO ON THE SHIPMENT OF BEES IN 

 IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. 



The following telegTam came too late for 

 insertion in our issue for Sept. 15, and 

 hence we are inserting it here at this time. 



On account of prevalence of European foul brood, 

 the bee inspector of Imperial County has quaran- 

 tined against shipping of bees from any of the coun- 

 ties in the southern half of California into this 

 county. This is an absolute quarantine. Any one 

 contemplating shipping here had better get full in- 

 formation and save expense. 



Imperial, Calif., Sept. 11. .J. W. George. 



the TEXAS FOUL-BROOD LAW INOPERATIVE 

 FOR THE WANT OF FUNDS. 



We are advised by Mr. Wilmon Newell, 

 State Entomologist for Texas, that the last 

 legislature which was in special session in 

 July and August did not make any appro- 

 priation for the continuation of foul-brood 

 or educational work. The beekeepers of the 

 Lone Star State are, therefore, without 

 funds for keeping up. their fight against bee 

 diseases during the next two years. This is 

 too bad. 



CARELESSNESS IN STRAINING HONEY. 



The following statement in a letter to a 

 honey merchant in New York State is right 

 to the point. " I have bought honey this 

 year that averaged about one cupful of 

 dead bees to every sixty-pound can, and 

 there was more or less other foreign matter 

 besides." 



A few cans of honey put on the market 

 in such condition will do more to lower the 

 price of honey generally, and to cause sus- 

 picion regarding it, than can be oiSset by all 

 the advertising and painstaking efforts of 

 careful producers combined. Every pound 

 of inferior honey sold huiis the honey busi- 

 ness in general, and the cai'eless producer 

 in particular. 



OUR COVER PICTURE. 



The view on the cover for this issue 

 shows a part of the apiary of George Zaut- 

 ner, located in the city of Albany, N. Y. 

 Mr. Zautner writes that the honey crop, 

 while it is quite light this season, was very 

 good last year. In 1912 his 72 colonies, 

 spring count, produced three tons of honey. 



We ai-e glad to present on page 679 an- 

 other view of the apiary showing also Mr. 

 Zautner and his family. So far as we can 

 recall, this is the largest crop of honey ever 

 produced right in a city. Are there other 

 city beekeepers who can beat it? 



A CORRECTION. 



In giving credit to Professor Baldwin, 

 wlio assisted us in the preparation of mat- 

 ter relating to honey-plants, in the preface 

 to our A B C and X Y Z of Bee Culture, we 

 gave his name as Eugene G. Baldwin when 

 it should have been Edxiyin G. Baldwin, of 

 Deland University, Deland, Fla. Both Mr. 

 Lovell and Mr. Baldwin did excellent work 

 in bee botany for the A B C, and we have 

 expre-ssed our acknowledgment to both the 

 gentlemen; but, unfortunately, we have ob- 

 scured Professor Baldwin's name just 

 enough so his friends do not recognize him 

 as one of the editors in the new work. 



INSURING BEES AGAINST FOUL BROOD IN 

 SWITZERLAND. 



From the Scientific American for March 

 15 we learn that a form of insurance has 

 been in existence for several years against 

 disease (not against winter loss or any other 

 contingency). A few years ago the Swiss 

 Beekeepers' Association decided to establish 

 a system of insurance, to be coyipulsory 

 upon all the members, of whom there are 

 about 7000, each paying a premium of 

 about one cent a hive. In return for this 

 they are guaranteed free treatment of sus- 

 pected colonies, with instruction and assist- 

 ance, and also with compensation to the ex- 

 tent of 75 per cent of the value of hives and 

 combs destroyed by inspectors. 



In December, 1909, the Swiss government 

 decided to take over the inspection and 

 treating of diseased colonies, and the Asso- 

 ciation was thus relieved of the expense. 



