THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEB. 



May 



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EDITORIAL. 



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To bee-keepers who depend solely up- 

 on white clover for a crop of honey, as 

 many do, next month will tell the tale. 

 Is your dish right side up? 



As a result of the scarcity of bees- 

 wax, prices on foundation have ad- 

 vanced three cents (3) per pound. The 

 W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. are now pay- 

 ing cash 28c. per pound, or 30c. in trade 

 for wax of good quality delivered, 

 freight paid to Falconer, N. Y. See ad- 

 vertisements in another column. 



When this edition of the American 

 Bee-Kecper is wrapped for mailing it 

 will prcotn': an array of national colors 

 befitting its name and date in history. 

 Though from an artistic standpoint, 

 the disproportionate display of red 

 might offend a highly cultivated sense 

 of harmony in the art of color and de- 

 sign. 



Like every other question connected 

 with bee-keeping, early setting out of 

 bees in the spring, as advocated by 

 many of late years, finds opposition; 

 and that based upon unfavorable ex- 

 perience. After reading the experience 

 of others it would be well to locate the 

 "goiden mean" and experiment both 

 ways. In these matters every man must 

 be "a law unto himself." 



A discussion of the wax moth in the 

 American Bee Journal, by Prof. Cook, 

 and C. TheiJmann, elicits the fact that 

 both of these gentlemen are prone to 

 discredit the statement by others, that 

 a species of moth exists which prey up- 

 on solid cakes of beeswax. It is a fact 

 too well known to bee-keepers of tropi- 

 cal countries, that such a destroyer is 

 a reality, and that handfuls of their 

 semi-waxen excrement, particles of web 

 and wriggling atoms of animal life may 

 be gathered from the surface, and 

 about the base of any cake of wax that 

 is exposed for a period of six weeks or 

 longer, during the summer months. 



Foul Brood Inspector Wm. McEvoy, 

 of Ontario, than whom America has 

 no better authority on matters pertain- 

 ing to this disease, in the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review, says: "I have always asserted, 

 and do yet, that foul brood can and 

 sometimes does originate from the rot- 

 ting of uncared-for brood; and believ- 

 ing that to be a fact, I have warned bee- 

 keepers everj'where against the dan- 

 gerous and horribly filthy practice of 

 putting combs containing decayed 

 brood into their colonies for the bees 

 to clean out." 



