DECEMBER 1, 1913 



The side hills all about Lyonsville (a 

 short distance from Colerain) are peculiar- 

 ly favorable for gi'owing apples, and they 

 are frequently found growing there in their 

 wild state. The modern apple-grower knows ■ 

 he must have, in order to get the best re- 

 sults, what he calls " air drainage " as well 

 as water drainage. These hills are well 

 adai^ted to both, and hence we find immense 

 quantities of apples are produced naturally 

 and in a cultivated state all over this part 

 of the country. Indeed, this vinegar-plant 

 has developed a demand for apples, so that 

 more and more are being produced. 



We found a beautiful home on the side 

 hill, the factory buildings in convenient 

 reach, and a new up-to-date private water- 

 works plant drawing water from a lakelet 

 higher up on the hill. Mr. Nichols, the bee- 

 man, is certainly a live wire. He is engag- 

 ed, not only in the production of honey, but 

 in the sale of beekeepers' supplies, and dur- 

 ing the off season helps out in the vinegar 

 business. It is but natural that he should 

 continue the supply business, because the 

 senior Gary was an expert maker of foun- 

 dation and a queen-breeder. Langstroth 

 said of him, in a glowing tribute which he 

 paid to his friend in Gleanings for 1886, 

 page 11, that he was the first man to send a 

 queen across the ocean in a single-comb 

 nucleus with a few workers. No small 

 wonder that he should find that he was the 

 man to help him perfect his hiVe. 



The apiary of E. M. Nichols, with Mr. 

 Nichols in the foreground, is shown on the 

 front covel' page of this issue. The first 

 real Langstroth hive that was ever made 

 was jDlaced in this apiary in the very spot 

 where Mr. Nichols is sitting. This apiary 

 certainly enjoys a distinction that no other 

 apiary has or can have. The more distant 

 view shows the home poultry-house and the 

 beeyard over to the extreme right. The 

 whole plant in all its details shows the re- 

 sult of splendid business management. The 

 presiding genius of the whole, Mr. Herbert 

 F. Cai-y, seems to have the faculty of cast- 

 ing his mantle on his sons and son-in-law. 

 At any rate, they have the business so well 

 organized that they turn him out to grass, 

 as he says — that is to say, he and his wife 

 go to Florida every winter. 



NEW FOUL-BROOD LEGISLATION PROPOSED 



BY H. E. HARRINGTON 



On page 138, March 1, the editor of 

 Gleanings tells of a tramp beekeeper 

 spreading bee disease, and speaks of mak- 

 ing laws to control the situation. Well, 

 there are many beekeepers who are not 



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tramps, but farmers, who are doing just as 

 bad if not worse work than this tramp, be- 

 cause their name is legion. They do not 

 pretend to know much about bees, but just 

 keep a few for honey for their table. Their 

 colonies may be reducing each year, but 

 they seem to find a way to account for it, 

 and declare they have no foul brood. They 

 seem to think that if bees have foul brood 

 they will find something in their hives as 

 big as a fire-log. 



The inspector is generally handicapped 

 for funds to pay for the work. With all 

 the laws we have, bee disease has increased 

 throughout the United States as a whole. 



While in Washington and Oregon I be- 

 came convinced that a compulsory law 

 would have to be made before the bee-dis- 

 ease situation could be controlled, just the 

 same as: those States made compulsory 

 spraying laws, by virtue of which a person 

 must spray his fruit-trees, or cause them to 

 be sprayed, or they would be cut down. 

 This law controlled the situation ; and the 

 lesult was perfect fruit that brought high 

 prices. 



I will propose a new law, that a person 

 to keep bees lawfully must have a legal 

 IDermit to do so. The State Beekeepers' 

 Association should have rules compiled or 

 sanctioned by the Bureau of Entomology, 

 Washington, D. C, saying just what treat- 

 ment a healthy colony of bees should receive 

 in a diseased locality — viz., inspection. The 

 said association might propose certain per- 

 sons appointed in certain places as most 

 convenient to grant permits, and the gov- 

 ernor of the State would appoint them. 

 These rules should be so compiled that the 

 api^licant, on signing them, agi-ees to them, 

 thus maldng a contract with the State or 

 county. Literatuie telling how to detect 

 and recognize said disease or diseases, and 

 the treatment for the same, with a lawful 

 permit to keep bees would be given to the 

 applicant, and a small fee charged. If the 

 applicant wants assistance the office could 

 furnish it ; but the applicant should i)ay a 

 fair sum for the work. 



The office should see that he keeps his 

 contract, and if any old neglected cases of 

 disease were found among his bees he 

 should be fined for each case so found. This 

 would go to the office. 



If a person refused to obtain a lawful 

 permit the State could prosecute him and 

 fine him, both spring and fall, for all colo- 

 nies so kept. 



These, in binef, are the main points of the 

 law I would propose made. Of course, 

 changes could be made in it as might seem 

 necessary. The old laws would then be 

 canceled. A small aj^propriation should be 



