GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Surplus loinpartnient for honey, made of berry-boxes 



Some hotels are not all they oui;lit to be; 

 but 1 suspect that, as a rule, they are con- 

 ducted as well as some apiaries I know of. 

 Still, there are some hotels run in connec- 

 tion with a liquor-saloon that are ''away 

 oif," and I should like to give them a little 

 piece of my mind. The proprietor of one 

 asked me, as he showed me to my room, 

 how I was pleased with his house. I could 

 not help telling' him that it would have 

 suited me better if there had been less pro- 

 fanity. 



Tu another town tliere was only one 

 hotel, and this was little better than the 

 covering for a saloon, and well-nigh bare 

 of furniture. I left my bag, and went down 

 street to see if I could find a restaurant 

 where I could get a light supper, but was 

 iii formed there was no restaurant in the 

 town. T protested in one of the stores 

 against such a hotel in a town of that size, 

 but was told they served splendid meals. 



I had noticed some people gathering near 

 a church, and went over there and found 

 tliat a (hnrch supper was being served by 

 well dressed people. I had a sumptuous 

 supper for a very moderate price. During 

 tile night my bed came near falling to 

 pieces; but I got a fair night's rest, and 

 was ready in the morning for that splendid 

 meal I had been assured of at the store, 

 Breakfast was announced; and after wait- 

 ing some time at a table a rather coarse 

 young man came to me with some kind of 

 cereal, and blurted out, *'Do you ever eat 

 such stuff as this?" The rest of the meal 

 was after the same style. 



WRITING ARTICLES FOR LOCAL PAPERS. 



1 have found it helpful to give a few 

 facts to the local press, where there is a 

 lack of interest on the part of beekeepers 

 regarding foul brood, for it has seemed al- 

 most useless to try to control this disease 

 unless the insjjector has the hearty co-op- 

 eration of the beekeepers themselves. Most 

 country editors, and even city editors, are 

 glad to get such items. 1 have also had a 

 lot of red cards printed with these words : 

 "Contagious Disease ! It is unlawful to sell 

 or give away the contents of this hive." 



A CASE WHERE THE DISEASE DID NOT SPREAD. 



In a former article I spoke of centers of 

 infection of foul brood. One such has puz- 

 zled me somewhat. In a city of about 

 20,000 population, where in one yard this 

 aisease was found last year, 1 did not find 

 a single colony alive; but instead I was told 

 by the superintendent that the moths had 

 destroyed them all. I have looked oA'er all 

 the yards of bees near this one, and have 

 failed to find a y trace of disease. It would 

 seem that the disease broke out in this yard 

 and ran its course without spreading, and 

 died where it began. "How did it start?" 

 I liave asked myself many times, and have 

 decided that bottled honey was bought by 

 grocers from our larger cities (such honey 

 containing the germs of foul brood). Some 

 of this honey was in turn bought from a 

 giocer, ar.d all that could readily be remov- 

 ed was consumed, after which a bottle with- 

 out being washed was thrown upon the 

 dumjo, and a single bee might have gathered 

 enough at a single load to start a colony on 

 the road to ruin. 



'In another center of foul brood, where it 

 V as abundant a few years ago, I found it 

 had entirely disappeared, and farmers Avere 

 keeiiing bees without trouble. But I said 

 to myself, "If I throw a stone into a pond 



C. A. McCarty's ducks, Walla Walla, Wash. 



