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THE AMERICAN hEE-KEEPEi: 



February 



After reading the literature on the 

 subject with great care, think I am jus- 

 tified in saying that the bee has fuller 

 and more complete legal protection 

 than any other domestic animal. Why 

 should this not be so, since, even in 

 its wild state, untrained or directed 

 by men, the bee is led by its very in- 

 stinct to labor for the benefit of hu- 

 manity? Certainly no wild animal 

 works for men as the bee does, and no 

 domestic animal has accomplished so 

 much without direct harness or guid- 

 ance. — Prof. H. W. Collingwood. 



Foul brood laws in every state should 

 be demanded by bee-keepers. It is not 

 necessary to wait until the disease has 

 a strong foothold. It is much better to 

 keep the disease out than to try to 

 eradicate it after it has begun its work. 

 Most commendable work has been done 

 by the inspectors of foul brood in 

 Canada and some of the states where 

 foul brood had taken up its residence. 

 Does any one doubt that it would have 

 been, economy to have been at the same 

 expense and labor before rather than 

 after the establishment of the disease? 

 — American Bee Journal. 



We have been in the habit, of late, of 

 laying considerable stress on location, 

 which was right and proper; but the 

 bee-keeper who fails to realize that 

 seasons are not alike, and so conforms 

 to set rules of working, expecting that 

 the same rule will work the same re- 

 sults each season, if applied to the same 

 locality, will find that success will not 

 always follow such a course. The suc- 

 cessful apiarist must keep an eye out 

 for all the little and big kinks which 

 often come up in his business, so as 

 to turn each and everything to the best 

 advantage.— G. M. Doolittle, in Glean- 

 ings. 



When snow lies to a considerable 

 depth on the ground, I find the best 

 plan is to keep if heaped up in front of 

 the hive, and so make the bees volun- 

 tary prisoners. The cluster is thus 

 kept intact, and the bees made to be- 

 lieve that their own "fireside" is the 

 cosiest place in the whole world. They 

 should never, however, be compulso- 

 rily confined. Even with snow on the 



ground they will at times manifest an 

 ungovernable desire to have a flight; 

 and when, in spite of careful precau- 

 tions, they insist on this, the bee-keeper 

 should let them have their way, as the 

 choice is the least of two evils. Neith- 

 er in this nor in any other case should 

 "force" be applied as a remedy. — D. M. 

 M., in British Bee-Keepers' Record. 



A great commotion was started in 

 California last spring on a charge that 



bees carried pear-blight If bees 



are so guilty how does it happen that 

 trees blight which never had a bloom 

 on them".' Why do they blight mostly 

 long after the blossoming period? — 

 (which is the case here). Why do they 

 blight badly one year and not the next? 

 And if bees are guilty as charged, 

 what good would it do to banish the do- 

 mestic bees, when the legions of wild 

 ones would be left to carry on their 

 work of destruction? I am satisfied 

 that when the whole truth is known, 

 this unjust persecution will cease, and 

 that every thoroughly scientific observ- 

 er will take his hat ofif in the presence 

 of God's busy hand-maiden, the won- 

 derful, the useful, the necessary bee. — 

 From Gen. Manager Secor's Fifth An- 

 nual Report of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association. 



The publishers of "THE AMERI- 

 CAN BOY," Detroit, Mich., have se- 

 cured from Will Levington Comfort, 

 who was the youngest newspaper cor- 

 respondent in the Philippines at the 

 time of the death of General Lawton, 

 an exciting stor3% based upon fact, re- 

 lating the experiences of the youngest 

 correspondent in General Lawton's 

 army. The hero of the story was the 

 first of the newspaper correspondents 

 to cable to America the news of the 

 death of General Lawton at the hands 

 of the insurgents. By an almost super- 

 human effort the boy correspondent, 

 who was with the army at the time of 

 the shooting, made his way through the 

 enemy's country to the cable office 

 and flashed the news to America three 

 hours before any of the other corres- 

 ]K)ndents got possession of the cable. 

 It was a notable achievement on the 

 part of a bov. The storv begins in the 

 February number of "THE AMERI- 

 CAN BOY." 



