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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 10, 1900. 



these requisites in a season like the 

 last is the main reason why bee-keep- 

 ers who content themselves with stick- 

 ing' an empty box on their hives get 

 little or no honev. E. S. Lovksy. 



Salt Lake Co.,' Utah. 



Vicious Advice on Spraying Fruit. 



A few weeks ago I received a circu- 

 lar from a prominent manufacturer of 

 spraying pumps, offering to sell at re- 

 duced prices if ordered within 30 daj's, 

 and also stating on an extra slip that 

 he had a secret on spraying which had 

 produced wonderful results where used 

 last season ; and if the extra slip were 

 returned with the order for a sprayer, 

 the secret would be sent with it. 



Being in need of a spraj'er, and hav- 

 ing used one of his manufacture, which 

 I borrowed from a neighbor, and know- 

 ing it to be-good, I took advantage of 

 his offer and ordered one forthwith. 

 The machine was promptly sent, as 

 per his offer, and is all right ; but the 

 wonderful secret is simply vicious 

 and detestable, especially from a bee- 

 keeper's standpoint ; it is simply to 

 give one spraying w/ien the trees are in 

 full bloom. How does that strike you ? 

 Here is what he says : 



" The second spraviugr, and which I consider 

 the most necessary, is to spray the trees when 

 they are in full bloom, using for this applica- 

 tion the Bordeau.K mi.xture, and adding- thereto 

 Paris-g-reeu in the proportion of one pound to 

 160 gallons of Bordeaux mixture. I strongly 

 urge this point of spraying in full bloom, not- 

 withstanding the objections which have been 

 raised to it. Orchards which have been sprayed, 

 which have been given this spraying in full 

 bloom this past year, the results have been 

 simply wonderful, in most cases the trees being 

 overloaded, with scarcely a wormy or scabby 

 apple, pear or plum to be found." 



This is simply an overdrawn picture 

 of the results of such spraying, and 

 the man giving such advice is an 

 enemy to both the bee-keeper and the 

 fruit-grower. Even granting there 

 might be a slight benefit in such spray- 

 ing, which is very doubtful, to say the 



Queens, Bees, Nuclei, Etc. 



Haviner been2VTeers rear- 

 iiitr Queens for the trade on 

 the test plans, will co ntin ue 

 duridgr 1900 to rear the bE'ST 

 we can. 



PRICES: 



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A NICE, SWEET, PLUMP 



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 VKUV. WOVKN WIKK KKNOK CO., AlHtl AN. MU H. 



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least, it would be only a matter of a 

 short time until every bee in the coun- 

 try would be killed, and the fruit- 

 grower would lose the most important 

 factor in the poUenization of his fruit, 

 to say nothing of the loss to the bee- 

 keeper. A. H. Snowberger. 

 Huntington Co., Ind., April 30. 



[We trust our readers will heed the 

 above ; and we would suggest that any 

 manufacturer of spraying outfits who 

 gives such abominable advice as did 

 the one referred to, deserves not to be 

 patronized at all. If the one in ques- 

 tion were an advertiser in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, we would refuse to 

 continue to run his advertisement, and 

 give him a free notice besides, that 

 would likely not help his business very 

 much. — Editor.] 



The Prospects— Good Advice. 



The past winter was not very severe, 

 and bees have wintered first-rate in 

 this vicinity. 



I started into winter with 69 colonies 

 and have 65 now. I had two queenless, 

 one whose queen turned drone-layer in 

 the cellar, died, and left the hive, 

 scarcely a bee alive or dead remaining 

 in the hive. I also lost one weak col- 

 ony in trying to unite it with a queen- 

 less one that was very strong and had 

 quite a little brood. 



White clover, which was eaten down 

 pretty close last summer, owing to dry 

 weather, revived considerable from the 

 effects of rains and warm weather late 

 in the fall ; but the winter was snow- 

 less, and a cold spell of weather in 

 February almost " fist " the clover as 

 the memorable cold spell of February, 

 1899 did. As it is, the indications 

 point to a fair stand of clover except 

 such pastures as were fed down close. 



The alsike has come thru all right. 



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