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VOL. XL 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1912 



NO. 17 



Editorial 



We are i^leased to announce that Mx. F. 

 W. L. Sladen, F. E. S., of Ripple Court 

 Apiary, near Dover, England, has been 

 appointed as assistant in apiculture to 

 the Dominion Entomologist, Dr. Gordon 

 Hewitt, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 Ottawa, Canada. Mr. Sladen has a high 

 reputation as a beekeeper and also as a 

 student of entomology, having studied the 

 wild bees and other hymenoptera in vari- 

 ous parts of the world. We congratulate 

 both Dr. Hewitt and Mr. Sladen. 



CLOVER STILL YIELDING; A BUMPER CLOVER 

 CROP FOR NEXT YEAR. 



Elsewhere we have spoken of the be- 

 lated clover flows in the United States. The 

 clovers are still in bloom, in some localities, 

 and are yielding some honey when the 

 weather turns oft' warm. In fact, there has 

 not been a day in our locality since the 

 last of June when clover did not yield 

 some nectar, jDrovided the bees could fly 

 and the weather was not too cool. We have 

 had less robbing than for many years 

 back. The frequent rains have made every 

 thing yield nectar. As usual, rains have 

 been more or less universal over the north- 

 ern half of the country; and it is apparent 

 that, unless there is a very severe drouth 

 in late fall, or a bad winter-killing later 

 on, there will be an unusual crop of honey 

 from white clover next year*, for there is 

 a heavy growth of clover almost every- 

 where in the North. 



DEATH OF ANOTHER VETERAN BEEKEEPER, 

 LAWYER, AND STATESMAN. 



We are sorry to have to announce the 

 death of the Hon. R. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, 

 Mich., on the 17th of August, at the age 

 of 72 years. Mr. Taylor was one of the 

 leading beekeepers of the country, and for 

 many years director and legal adviser of 

 the National Beekeepers' Association. He 

 was an attorney and statesman of ability. 

 He was not only an ui^-to-date beekeeper 

 but a progressive fruit-gi'ower — a man, in 



fact, who took an ardent interest in all 

 outdoor pursuits. 



He had much to do with shaping the 

 legislative policies of the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association, a warm friend and 

 supporter of the late W. Z. Hutchinson, an 

 admirer of Mr. James Heddon, and a user 

 of his divisible-brood-chamber hive, of 

 which he had at one time upward of 500. 

 He was an occasional contributor to all the 

 bee journals, writing particularly for the 

 Beekeepers' Review. 



At one time he conducted a valuable 

 series of apicultural experiments for the 

 State of Michigan, reporting the results in 

 the Review. He will be missed in the coun- 

 cils of beekeepers, not only in Michigan, 

 but throughout the United States, for he 

 had come to be a man of national promi- 

 nence in the beekeeping world. 



ANOTHER INSTANCE OF HOW THE SPRAYING 

 OF FRUIT TREES HAS DESTROYED THOU- 

 SANDS OF DOLLARS^ W^ORTH OF BEES. 



In this issue, in the department of Bee- 

 keeping Among the Rockies, by Wesley 

 Foster, there is given some pretty con- 

 vincing evidence to show that the spraying 

 of fruit trees with arsenate of lead to de- 

 stroy leaf rollers and the codling moth 

 has resulted in the destruction of an im- 

 mense amount of brood and bees. It is 

 further stated that a Mr. Harvey, of Mont- 

 rose, estimates his loss as over $2000, the 

 result of such spraying. 



While Paris green is often used for the 

 spraying of fruit-trees to kill the leaf 

 rollers and codling moth, arsenate of lead 

 is getting to be more generally used. 

 Whether it is more destructive to bees 

 than Paris green, we do not know; but 

 apparently our leading fruit-growers re- 

 gard it as a very superior substitute for 

 Paris green. It may be admitted that in 

 some cases bees are not killed by the use of 

 these poisons, yet it seems to us that the 

 proof is becoming more and more con- 

 elusive that fearful destruction is and has 



