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C. p. UAUANT, Editor. 



DR. C. C. MILLER. Associate Editor. 



HAMILTON, ILL, MAY, 1914 



Vol. LIV.— No. 5 



Editorial 



Comments 



Droue Comb Biiildiug 



If you do not wish your bees to build 

 drone comb, avoid giving einpty space 

 for comb building to a queenless col- 

 ony or to a strong colony that has 

 plenty of comb already built. A nat- 

 ural swarm should be hived on all 

 empty frames or all built comb or foun- 

 dation. Giving a swarm combs already 

 half built is courting the building of 

 drone comb, in the remaining space. 

 Colonies possessing a young queen 

 will build more worker comb than 

 those who have old queens. Near the 

 end of the season, when the queen is 

 tired of laying, the bees will build a 

 great deal of drone comb. The more 

 prolific the queen is, the less drone 

 comb will be built. 



Incorrect Translatiou.s 



The " Notes from Abroad" of our 

 Editor are being translated for Eu- 

 ropean journals. We do not object to 

 it, but we wish them to employ capa- 

 ble translators, so that the meaning of 

 these writings be not misunderstood. 

 In one or two instances the sense is 

 badly distorted. 



A Lesson in Bee-Culture 



We are in receipt of a very neat 

 pamphlet with the title " Lezione Di 

 Apicultura," by Carlo Carlini, of San- 

 tarcangelo Di Komagna, Italy. This 

 bulletin accompanies lessons given on 

 the kinetoscope by its author. This is 

 proving a ve.-y efficient mode of teach- 

 ing bee-culture, the world over. 



The bulletin is a recommendation to 



its author as well as its editor. It is 

 printed neatly on high-grade paper. 

 Mr. Carlini recommends the American 

 methods, and manages to give a large 

 amount of information in a very limited 

 space. Our Italian contemporaries are 

 wide-awake. 



Oldest Member ot the National 



Page 119, 1st column : "Dr. Bohreris 

 now 81 years old, and the oldest living 

 member of the National Association." 

 Does that mean that I am a dead one, 

 or what ?— C. C. Miller. 



Beg pardon, dear Doctor, but we 

 think that in your case there must be 

 some mistake in the reckoning, and 

 that you are a half century younger 

 than you would have us believe. Or 

 have the figures been inverted ? How 

 can a man of 83 be so wide awake .'' 

 Aren't you 38 instead ? 



Swiss Description of Foulbrood 



In the March number of the Bulletin 

 D'Apiculture of Switzerland, Dr. O. 

 Morgentlialer, of the Liebenfeld Bac- 

 teriological Station, gives a description 

 of the several brood diseases, and de- 

 scribes the bacillus larvx of White 

 (American foulbrood) as "ropy and 

 without perceptible odor." On the 

 other hand he speaks of the non-ropy 

 foulbrood as "stinking,'' There is 

 some misunderstanding. Our people, 

 without exception, have recognized the 

 " glue pot smell " in the ropy foulbrood. 



It would be well to look closely into 

 these matters. We call the attention 

 of the Bern bacteriologists to this sub- 



ject. Our Dr. White is, we believe, the 

 first who made a very close study of 

 " bacillus larvae," and ascertained that 

 it could not be reproduced in ordinary 

 bouillons. His " bacillus pluton " must 

 be closely allied to the "bacillus alvei' 

 of Cheshire. The name which he has 

 given to "sacbrood" is very apprc- 

 priate. 



We hope that before long there may 

 be a uniform description of those dif- 

 ferent diseases, on both sides of the 

 ocean. 



Bee-Culture in Siberia 



We are indebted to Mr. Schaffhauser 

 of Indianapolis, for the translation of 

 a letter from the Amur Beekeepers' 

 Association, with headquarters at 

 Blagovestchensk, Siberia, askingfor an 

 exchange of their journal with our.=. 

 Their members are owners of over 

 200,000 colonies of bees. We extend 

 the hand of fellowship to our Siberian 

 brothers. 



Heat Itequired to Destroy Bee- 

 Diseases 



Mr. G. F. White, the eminent bacter- 

 iologist at the Bureau of Entomology 

 of Wasliington, has lately been making 

 active and protracted experiments to 

 ascertain the minimum degrees of heat 

 required to destroy the germs of the 

 different bee-diseases, American foul- 

 brood, European foulbrood, sacbrood 

 and nosema. At the meeting of the 

 New York State Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion, Feb. 10 last, Mr. White gave a 

 short talk upon this subject. He had 

 promised us a paper concerning it, but 

 at the last minute the department de- 

 cided to publish it, instead of giving it 

 at once through the medium of the 

 press. Mr. White explains this to us 

 in a short letter just received. 



As soon as this report is out, we will 



