368 



November, 1914. 



American line Journal 



ceipt of another study by that able 

 microscopist, Mr. N. E. Mclndoo, of 

 the Bureau of Entomology of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. This paper deals entirely 

 with the morphology of the scent- 

 producing organs. It is accompanied 

 with cuts which give a glimpse of what 

 may be found and is yet hidden in the 

 world of the inlinitesimal. It is prac- 

 tically a closed book to our untrained 

 minds. But the specialist will find in 

 it much food for study. Mr. Mclndoo 

 is hewing a path to fame. We wish 

 him success. 



Foiilbrood I>aws 



.A.re our foulbrood laws adequate ? 

 Do we need to change them .■' Or 

 would we better off without them ? 



Considerable opposition has been 

 offered to the enacting of foulbrood 

 laws in our different States, and we 

 meet a beekeeper now and then who 

 thinks the appointment of inspectors 

 is an infringement on liberty and a 

 useless expense. Even in the Old 

 World, where regulations are much 

 more common and more strict than in 

 the United States, some beekeepers 

 have strenuously objected. 



However, in practice, it has been 

 found that often the persons who ob- 

 ject to inspection are among the few 

 who are too careless or too neglectful 

 to look after their bees. They nat- 

 urally resent intrusion. In the great 

 majority of cases, not only is the 

 inspector well received, but he is 

 usually sent for, and his visit is de- 

 sired by the owner who is in doubt as 

 to the existence of disease in his apiary 

 or in his vicinity. The work of in- 

 spection has in most cases resolved 

 itself into a pleasant visit and the giv- 

 ing of advice which is thankfully re- 

 ceived. There are a few cases where 

 careless owners have refused to act to 

 treat the disease. But they feel them- 

 selves so positively in the wrong that 

 it is not difficult to compel them to 

 take radical measures, when they are 

 fully informed that the law is against 

 them. 



The most dangerous transgressor is 

 the willing but careless apiarist who, 

 after asking for advice and promising 

 to treat his diseased colonies, either 

 does the work in a slovenly manner or 

 neglects a part of it. I was once told, 

 by a rather prominent apiarist, that he 

 who has had the disease in his apiary 

 once can never get rid of it entirely. 

 This was said in reference to American 

 foulbrood. Yet there is no difficulty in 

 curing bees of that disease completely 

 if the proper thorough treatment is 

 followed. This man was either unable 



or unwilling to do thorough work, and 

 there was little wonder that he did not 

 succeed. 



But our foulbrood laws may be very 

 much improved, especially by making 

 them uniform. What is legal in one 

 State is illegal in another. This should 

 not be. The variation exists not only 

 inlaws upon diseases; it extends to 

 almost all human affairs. Marriage and 

 divorce vary, and a young couple that 

 wants to evade the law often does so 

 by moving for p few days to another 

 State. It may take centuries to cor- 

 rect infractions of common sense due 

 to the irregularity of our laws. 



But that we are progressing in the 

 regulations concerning the cure of 

 bee diseases does not permitof a doubt. 

 Every State in the llnion should have 

 a law on this subject. 



in his home at Zurich Aug. 19. We 

 learned this through the British Bee 

 Journal of Oct. 1. He was 70 years old. 



Sugar Syrup 



Here is another testimony, by J. E. 

 Crane, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, in 

 favor of the 2 to 1 proportion of sugar 

 to water in preparing syrup: 



" I have been in the habit for many 

 years of mixing honey with sugar 

 syrup when feeding in autumn to pre- 

 vent granulation ; but the last two 

 y ars I have with some hesitation fed 

 the sugar syrup (2 of sugar to 1 of 

 water) without honey, and found no 

 more granulation, either last spring or 

 the year before, than when honey was 

 mixed with the sugar syrup." 



Mr. Crane is a very safe authority to 

 rely upon. 



Obituary 



Dr. Ulrich Kramer, President of the 

 German Swiss Beekeepers' Society, 

 mentioned in our September issue, died 



National Laboratory 



The new Washington laboratory of 

 bee culture is illustrated by two excel- 

 lent photographs on the front cover of 

 this number. It has been occupied 

 since July 1. Dr. Phillips, apiarist in 

 charge, writes us: 



The laboratory is located in a suburb 

 of Washington named Drummond, 

 across the District line in Maryland. 

 It is located about 7 miles from the 

 center of the city, and the trip can be 

 made easily by electric car (Wisconsin 

 Avenue line, running on F Street). 

 Cars leave 5th and F Streets every 15 

 minutes during the day. At the end of 

 the car line there is a short walk, the 

 laboratory being next to the last house 

 on the right hand side of the only 

 street in Drummond. All mail, tele- 

 grams, express and freight should be 

 sent to the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, as formerly. 



This building was constructed for 

 private residence, but is admirably 

 suited to our needs. We have 11 

 rooms, basement under the entirehouse 

 and an attic, hot water heat, gas, elec- 

 tric lights, water, sewer and all modern 

 equipment. The house is located on a 

 lot of about three-quarters of an acre, 

 giving us abundant room for the api- 

 ary and other outside work. The lot 

 has been beautifully planted by former 

 occupants, so that we have a rather 

 finished establishment, and are not 

 compelled to wait until trees and 

 shrubbery can grow before the place is 

 attractive. 



The establisment of this laboratory 

 in the suburbs marks a large step in 

 advance for the investigations in bee 

 culture of this Bureau. We formerly 

 had offices and laboratories in the city 

 with the apiary 8 miles away. Then 



.SwKEi Ci.ovER Growing on the Farm of L. A. Syverrub at Canton. S. Dak. 

 This field of sweet clover was divided in two parts by a fence, as seen back of cows, early 

 last sprini;. and the cows have kept the clover eaten down, as shown in the foreground, 

 and part of the season they were admitted to this only for one hour per day. They 

 have a Kood blue grass pasture to run on every day. but will eat sweet clover when they 

 can eet it. 



