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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



May 



pryited instructions how to successful- 

 ly treat diseased bees, May 23 I issued 

 1,000 copies of Wisconsin Bee-keeping 

 Bulletin No. 2. The cost of the same 

 was $110.00 including: a few half tone 

 cuts and the expressage on several 

 borrowed cuts. There are at least 11,- 

 000 bee-keepers in Wisconsin. This 

 bulletin should be in the hands of every 

 Wisconsin beekeeper. As the total ex- 

 penditure for such purposes shall not 

 exceed five hundred dollars per year,, 

 which shall pay salary and all other 

 expenses, I was compelled to save the 

 balance to treat bees. A bill has been 

 introduced in the legislature asking for 

 $200.00 per year more to suppress dis- 

 eases among bees in Wisconsin. The 

 amount asked for is very light, but 

 after six years of testing I believe it 

 is necessary. 



IMPORTING DISEASE. 



Each year several apiaries from oth- 

 er states or Canada are imported into 

 Wisconsin and in them, also in ship- 

 ping cages of imported queens, are 

 germs of foul brood. It will there- 

 fore be necessary to keep an inspector 

 to orotect beekeeping, the same as 

 a state veterinarian to protect the live 

 stock of the state. 



bee-keepers' investments in WIS- 

 CONSIN. 



In Reedsburg are two residences, 

 costing respectively $1,200 and $2,000^ 

 belonging to an aged bee-keeper. Each 

 was built with the returns of one sea- 

 son's honey harvest. At Dilly is a 

 $2,500 residence, from two years' har- 

 vest. At Monroe, a barn 40x60, cost- 

 ing $1,280. Another in Sauk county, 

 each built with the returns of one sea- 

 son's honey harvest. In Clark county, 

 a little farm and 400 colonies of bees 

 worth $10,000 paid for by 16 successive 

 honey harvests. 



In 1875, Adam Grimm received $10,- 

 000 for honey and bees sold, reserving 

 1,400 colonies. Four hundred thousand 

 pounds of honey is the total amount my 

 bees produced in 16 successive years. 

 Yours respectfully, 



N. E. France. 



Excellent Advice. 



The following excellent advice is ex- 

 tracted from a bulletin on "Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Rights," recently issued by General 

 Manager France, of the National Bec- 



Keeoers' Association. While the sug- 

 gestions are offered for the guidance of 

 members, it would be well for every 

 bee-keeper to "read often, think much 

 and inwardly digest:" 



TO THE CITY BEK-KEEPERS. 



There are many keeping bees in^the 

 suburbs of cities, and whose bees are 

 an annoyance to neighbors. 



1. Spotting Cloths. — This is general- 

 ly worst the day bees are set out on 

 summer stands. _Bees go only short 

 distances at that date. It is best not 

 to set the bees out on wash days, but 

 the day following; by next week the 

 trouble will be over. If they must be 

 set out and it is wash day go to the 

 neighbor who is washing, explain the 

 situation and offer a present of some 

 honey if they will delay washing one 

 day. 



2. At Watering Places. — Always pro- 

 vide abundance of water in several plac- 

 es for bees. Shallow, wooden dishes 

 with sloping sides, with a slatted board 

 float, is a good form of watering dish. 

 Somewhere have some salt, also air 

 slacked lime which bees can otq to. 

 There is something about it bees like, 

 and it will save trouble to supply the 

 bee's demands. If your bees bother 

 a neighbor's pump, go and put a piece 

 of cheese cloth over the spout and 

 fence the bees out as well as furnish 

 a strainer for the water. Stock tanks 

 are places of annoyance. Just 

 above the water line on inside of the 

 tank fasten a 3-inch strip, it will not 

 bother the stock, and will keep the 

 bees from going there. Also see to it 

 that overflow is so arranged as to not 

 make a mud hole near the tank. 



3. In the Neighbors' Garden or 

 Field. — If your neighbor or his horse 

 is stung by your bees in his garden 

 or field, I find it a good plan to donate 

 some honey, at the same time ask him 

 to do such work on cool days or early 

 mornings. If he is unable to keep the 

 ground clean then some early morning 

 surprise him by taking your own horse 

 and cultivate for him up to breakfast. 

 Generally one such act will establish 

 such good feelings no farther trouble 

 will arise. I have proven it so. 



4. At Grocery SuOres and Residences 

 in the Fall. — After the honey season 

 often bees are a great annoyance at 

 above places, especially in empty sugar 

 and sirup barrels, and candy shops. Go 

 to those places and ask to place the 



