Published by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, O. 



H. H. R OT, Assistant Editor. E. R. Root, Editor. A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager. 



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



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



VOL. XL 



JULY 15, 1912 



NO. 14 



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FOUL-BROOD INSPECTION FOR IOWA. 



Mr. Frank C. Pellett, Atlantic, la., is 

 now State Inspector of Apiaries for that 

 State. Mr. Pellett will be glad to receive 

 correspondence from those who can advise 

 him with reference to bee diseases in his 

 State. 



cleaning SECOND-HAND SQUARE CANS. 



In our Heads of Grain department, page 

 553 of tliis issue, will be found an item 

 from ]\Iajor Shallard, of Australia, on how 

 to clean second-hand kerosene-cans so that 

 they m.ay be used for honey. The method 

 described by Mr. Shallard, it would seem, 

 would do the work most thoroughly; and 

 if the cans are not damaged nor rusted they 

 would be practically as good as new. 



THE FOUL-BROOD INSPECTOR FOR TENNESSEE. 



Announcement has come to us that Dr. 

 J. S. Ward has been appointed State In- 

 spector of Apiaries in Tennessee, with head- 

 quarters at Nashville, to fill the vacancy 

 made by the resignation of J. M. Buchan- 

 an, of Franklin. Dr. Ward asks the co- 

 operation of the beekeepers of Tennessee 

 in protecting the honey industry, and espe- 

 cially solicits correspondence as to where 

 disease may be found. 



beekeeping in COLORADO. 



The reader's attention is directed to a 

 very interesting article in tliis issue by Dr. 

 E. F. Phillips, of the Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy, Washington, D. C, on beekeeping in 

 Colorado. Eastern beekeepers will be par- 

 ticularly interested, because the methods 

 they use have to be modified to fit the }ie- 

 culiar conditions that exist in those irrigat- 

 ed and elevated regions. An altitude of a 

 mile, and no rains to speak of, and a sole 

 dependence on melted snow from the moun- 

 tains to water plant life, make it neces- 

 sary for the beekeeper as well as the ranch- 

 er to work on a slightly different plan from 

 that used in other territory. 



BUSY DAYS FOR THE EDITORIAL FORCE; 

 CARNIOLANS. 



These have been busy days for the edi- 

 torial force. The unexpected rush of hon- 

 ey, and swarming, have made it necessary 

 for us to go out into the field and help out 

 the boys. For examjjle, we have had some 

 experience in shinning up trees forty or 

 fifty feet high after swarms — an experi- 

 ence that will not be repeated next year if 

 we know ourselves. Say! those Carniolans, 

 when they get on the swarming ramjDage, 

 violate all rules — abscond without queens, 

 come out at any time of day, stay in the 

 air for hours, and swarm when queens are 

 caged in the hive. They are excellent bees 

 to breed up, and for extracted honey, but 

 no good for comb honey. Fortunately for 

 us, we have only one yard of them. 



MOVING BEES WITHOUT SCREENING) AUTO- 

 MOBILE WAGONS. 



We would call special attention to the 

 article by Geo. J. Van de Vord in this issue 

 on the subject of moving colonies of bees 

 without screening them in the hives. This 

 saves a lot of preliminary work, and ef- 

 fectually eliminates the danger of smoth- 

 ering bees in transit. If an auto wagon is 

 used, there can be no bad spills from stings 

 as sometimes occurs when horses are used. 



Auto wagons are now becoming so cheap 

 that the modern beekeej^er of fair mechani- 

 cal skill with out-apiaries can not afford 

 to be without one. The out-apiary scheme 

 requires quick means of reaching yards with 

 loads of empty and filled supers, and the 

 same wagon can be used for carrying the 

 whole extracting-outfit and a force of men 

 to take care of the honey, extract it, and 

 carry it back home to a place of safe stor- 

 age, away from robbers of the bee kind and 

 robbers of mankind. 



J. E. HAND ON THE SICK LIST. 



Mr. J. E. Hand, producer of fancy comb 

 honey, and successful user of the shallow 

 divisible-brood-chamber hive, inventor of 



