48 AMERICAN 



THE 



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Massachusetts, Rhode Island and 

 Connecticut are all moving for laws 

 for the suppression of bee disease. 



(M). 



BEE-KEEPER. 



February, 



How long is the absurd statemcit 

 that bees differentiate the food of 

 queen and worker larvae to be re- 

 peated? You say it is self evident and 

 analysis proves it! Far away wrong. 

 Guess again . (M). 



We desire to call our readers' at- 

 tention to the article in this issue by 

 Allen -Latham on "How Many Colo- 

 nies Shall we Winter." It contains 

 food for thought and suggests possi- 

 bilities in the economics of apiculture 

 which may mean much to followers 

 of the craft. (M). 



J. A. Green, in Gleanings, is giv 

 ing bee- keepers some cold hard facts 

 about frames and sectional hives. The 

 same points, and more, have been ful- 

 ly set forth in our columns in the past. 

 The gist of the matter is that what- 

 ever frame or hive you use it must 

 be used with brains. (M). 



Mr. Frank Rauchfuss, of Colorado, I 

 one of the leading lights of western 

 apiculture, has been experimenting for 

 several years with Caucasian bees, and 

 while they have not shown themselves 

 to be so bad as some have ''made out" 

 — -the writer, for example — thus far 

 they have not equalled the Italians as 

 honey gatherers. (H). 



The editor of the American Bee 

 Journal says we were in error in stat- 

 ing that he referred to the American 

 Bee-Keeper as an obscure publica- 

 tion, and that the reference was to 

 some government bulletin instead. 

 The Journal is not usually so ambig- 

 uous, and there is no doubt that every 

 reader of its comments at the time 

 must certainly have applied them to 

 The Bee-Keeper. We are glad, how- 

 ever, to have Editor York's assurance 

 that he is "not guilty," and he is here- 

 by exonerated. (H). 



