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AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



January- 



much more virulant there than in the 

 east or north. Few inspectors in Cali- 

 fornia now recommend the shaking 

 treatment as the time required to 

 treat the disease is of more value than 

 the bees destroyed. The method fast 

 coming into favor is that of boiling 

 up the diseased bees and comb in a 

 large tank. Bee inspectors, he said, 

 are born, not made. It is an easy 

 matter to learn to detect the disease 



nary man is bound to spread infec- 

 tion. The best method is to carry a 

 pocket full of wooden tooth picks 

 and after testing a diseased cell either 

 push the tooth pick into the comb to 

 mark the spot or drop it down the 

 mouth of the smoker and dispose of 

 it. "I do not yet know of one single 

 inspector," said Mr. Rankin, "who is 

 in the work for the money he is get- 

 ting out if it. They have the good of 



J. Photo by Mrs. G. H. Johnson. 



APIARY OF MR. G. H. JOHNSON, E. WOODSTOCK, CONN. 



A Charminsi I'icture, Typical of New England, With its Apple Trees, Meadows and Bees. 



and to effect a cure. Any man of the industry at heart, to the very last 

 ordinary intelligence can do this, but man. Some of them make mistakes, 

 it is only a small part of bee inspec- but they all deserve the hearty sup- 

 tion. The difficult part lies in handling port of every bee-keeper and every 

 the bee-keeper and, without antagon- journal. No one has a right to pub- 

 izing him, get him to comply with the licly criticise them. If he is incom- 

 law because he sees the advantage petent the law provides for his re- 

 it brings him in so doing. moval from office and this should be 

 The practice of carrying an instru- done, but to publish criticisms on the 

 ment with which to test the dead mistakes of an inspector is to wilfully 

 brood is not a good one. Such an harm the industry." 

 instrument in the hands of an ordi- Mr. L. H. Scholl gave a talk on 



