1907. 



inspection in Texas and the methods 

 employed. Shaking has not proven 

 satisfactory and the line they now 

 work on is to sulphur the diseased 

 colony at the entrance with a smoker 

 and then burn the infected combs. 



Mr. Smith, Inspector for Illinois, 

 described his method of treatment 

 which was briefly that of shaking 

 once on starters of foundation and be- 

 ing careful not to allow any robbing 

 or dripping of honey. He stated that 

 in nine out of every ten yards treated 

 he had been successful. 



Mr. George W. York, Editor of the 

 American Bee Journal, then offered 

 a motion that a telegram of thanks 

 be sent to Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief 

 of the Bureau of Entomology, as an 

 expression of gratitude felt by the 

 inspectors of the United States for 

 the assistance of his bureau in the in- 

 vestigation of bee diseases. The mo- 

 tion was unanimously carried. 



Dr. Phillips summed up the meeting 

 in a few very interesting and in- 

 structive remarks. He stated that he 

 thought it had been clearly demon- 

 strated that no one treatment could 

 be successful in all localities and un- 

 der all circumstances. The treat 

 ment must be adapted to the locality 

 and the surrounding conditions. 



All who were privileged to attend 

 the meeting felt that it was a day 

 most profitably spent and that such 

 meetings should continue. Bee in- 

 spection must become a science and 

 the contact of one inspector with 

 another, comparing methods and con- 

 ditions cannot but broaden him and 

 better fit him for one of the most 

 important of all branches of apicultur- 

 al work. 



AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 7 



APIARY OF GEO. H. JOHNSON. 



"The services which 'the community 

 will most readily pay for, it is most 

 disagreeable to render. You are paid 

 for being something less than a man." 



MR. JOHNSON has an apiary of 

 15 colonies and makes a suc- 

 cess of it. A number of photo- 

 graphs received by The Bee-Keeper 

 indicate that care and neatness char- 

 acterize his methods throughout. 



On May 19th he bought one swarm 

 that had issued a couple of days 

 previous. From this swarm he sold 

 57 pounds of honey at 25 cents per 



'■£ Photo by Mrs. Ci. H. Johnson. 



G. H. JOHNSON, E. WOODSTOCK, CONN., 



TAKING DOWN A SWARM OF BEES. 



pound, clearing $9.25 profit for the 

 season. 



Although extracted honey may be 

 bought in the maket at 11 to 13 cents, 

 Mr. Johnson sells all of his product to 

 a druggist at 20 cents. The druggist 

 prefers to pay this price and know 

 that he is getting exactly what he 

 wants — pure, well ripened and clean 

 goods. Herein is an admirable ex- 

 ample for the consideration of many 



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