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Published Monthly at $1.00 a Year, by American Bee Journal, First National Bank Building 



C. p. DAD.ANT. Editor. 



DR. C. C MILLER. Associate Editor. 



HAMILTON, ILL., APRIL, 1914 



Vol. LIV.— No. 4 



Editorial 



Comments 



Kducatioual—Houey-Bee Tablet 



We are in receipt, from the New 

 York State Association of Beekeepers' 

 Societies, of a writing tablet for school 

 use showing on its cover the queen, 

 worker and drone, with an explanation 

 on the verso or underside of cover, 

 giving a brief natural history of the 

 bee, a description of the nature of 

 honey, etc. We would suggest that to 

 it be added a few facts concerning the 

 usefulness of bees in fertilizing flowers 

 [ and an explanation of the impossibility 

 of their damaging sound fruit, owing 

 to the peculiar shape of their mandi- 

 bles. 



The spreading broadcast of useful 



information on bees in this manner is 



sure to bear fruits and to increase the 



demand for honey. Such primary 



' methods of teaching facts should be 



I encouraged, and we cannot commend 



! them too highly. The New York State 



■ beekeepers are working efficiently at 



I small cost. 



A New Geriuau Bee-Book 



We are indebted to the author for a 

 copy of a text-book in the German 

 language entitled, " Die Biene und der 

 Breitwabenstock " (The Bee and the 

 Wide Frame Hive). It contains 175 

 pages, with more than 100 illustrations, 

 is written by Franz Richter, the writer 

 of the Rundschau in Bienen-Vater, and 

 • can be obtained for b<i cents by ad- 

 dressing the author at Vienna, X., 

 Kolumbusgasse, Nr. 1. 



It is the first German book, the au- 

 thor claims, frankly to advocate .Ameri- 



can plans, and pleasantly resembles 

 American books by being printed in 

 the same type instead of using the Ger- 

 man type. In Germany, a hive with 

 frames measuring more vertically than 

 horizontally is called Hochwabenstock 

 (high-frame-hive), and one with frames 

 measuring more horizontally than ver- 

 tically is called Breitwabenstock (wide- 

 frame-hive) ; hence the name in the 

 title. The frame in the Richter hive is 

 the Austrian standard : .84 inch shorter 

 than the Langstroth, and .92 inch deeper. 

 Richter quotes Dadant as saying that 

 the Langstroth frame is too shallow, 

 and says that this is remedied in the 

 Austrian frame. 



Mr. Richter makes a pretty big claim 

 for his hive when he says a colony in 

 it will store four times as much as in a 

 Vereinsstaender, the tall liive largely 

 used in Austria. 



In this country the 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth hive is made so narrow that it 

 will not admit a dummy. The Richter 

 hive not only admits one dummy, but 

 two, one at each side. Score one for 

 the Richter hive. 



On page 120 occurs this passage : 

 "The combs should not be too old nor 

 too black, since colonies with such 

 combs are late about developing in 

 spring." One cannot help wondering 

 on what ground such a statement can 

 be made. The book should have a 

 good sale. 



I>octor Cartou on Foiilbrood 



The readers will find among ouv con- 

 tributions a lengthy and very interest- 



ing article on the above subject. Dr. 

 Carton, whose portrait we also pro- 

 duce, is the well-known author of sev- 

 eral learned books on clinical and bac- 

 teriological subjects, probably the most 

 notable of which is entitled, " La Tuber- 

 culose Par .\rthritisme." He is a pupil 

 of Pasteur, the most wonderful bacter- 

 iologist of modern times. He has writ- 

 ten a work in which he asserts that the 

 "three deadly aliments" are alcohol, 

 meat and sugar. The Editor met him 

 in Europe, and received from him a 

 promise to give our readers his ideas 

 concerning "foulbrood." He is a bee- 

 keeper and interested in those ques- 

 tions. Probably few of our readers 

 will entirely agree with the opinions 

 expressed, but they will notice that Dr. 

 Carton advises just the methods fol- 

 lowed in America, and deprecates the 

 use of drugs. In this we will agree 

 with him. 



Doctor Miller, who has read the Car- 

 ton article, has this to say about it : 



It is well that attention should be 

 called to the importance of keeping 

 bees in the best physical condition so 

 that they may resist the encroachment 

 of malign influences, and especially is 

 it well to call attention, as Dr. Carton 

 does, to the danger of substituting 

 sugar for honey as food for bees. He 

 speaks of the " noxious " effect of 

 sugar. He hardly means by that that 

 sugar contains elements actively pois- 

 onous, but rather that sugar has a neg- 

 atively noxious influence because of 

 its lack of certain elements, as iron, 

 which, although present in honey in 

 minute proportion, are exceedingly 

 important. 



Upon one point practical beekeepers 

 will probably not agree entirely with 

 what they will be likely to understand 

 as Dr. Carton's view. He does not say 

 so in so many words, but it sounds a 

 good deal as if he said : "The germs 

 of foulbrood are present everywhere, 

 resisted by colonies of sufficient vigor, 

 but ready at any time to pounce upon 

 and destroy all colonies in a weakened 



