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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



May 



or hives. It is valuable also to scrape 

 off the top of brood-chambers and pry 

 frames to take out, or clean top and 

 bottom of a super of filled sections. 



Thinking some other bee-keeper might 

 wish to make this kind of a cheap and 

 serviceable scraper, I trust you will tell 

 them about it in The American Bee- 

 keeper. 



Yours truly, E . J. Haigiit. 



P. S. — I have a simple. and cheap way 

 of fastening foundation in sections 

 that suits me better than any machine 

 I have ever tried. E. J. H. 



[Let us hear something about that 

 foundation fastener. Mr. Haight. N(>ver 

 be afraid that any new kink or idea is 

 too good for tlie readers of T ii e 

 Bee-keeper. — Ed.] 



A LETTER FKOM CANADA. 



Chard, Ont., Apr. 15, I'.tOl. 



Editor American Bee-kekpek: Only on one 

 previous occasion have I taken up the pen to drop 

 in on you and yours, and as that article never saw 

 the light of day, I expect this will fare the same, 

 at least it should, as this is an uninvited guest 

 while the other was sent on a special invitation. 

 However, everybody knows that an editor needs, 

 and most assuredly has, a good big waste-basket, 

 to chuck the refuse into, and most likely feels like 

 chucking some of his numerous scribblers into the 

 same basket. 



Now, as fate or fortune has it, 1 live in the cold, 

 stormy North (but not in Alaska); it is Eastern 

 Ontario a land usually in summer flowing with 

 milk and honey; but in winter, oh!— well, it is quite 

 the reverse, as you can see by the dates of my put- 

 ting my bees in cellar: October 2'.l, 11)00, 102 colo- 

 nies, and set them back on their summer stands, 

 April 12, liiOl, with a loss of only two colonies; not 

 too bad after so long a confinement. They came 

 out in good shape—brood in all stages— and now 

 three line, warm days in succession gives them a 

 grand chance to clean up. 



Through the columns of your valuable journal I 

 wish to acknowledge receipt of letters from a great 

 many bee-keepers in Florida, who extended to me 

 so many hearty invitations to visit them at their 

 homes in Florida during the past few months. It 

 was my intention to have spent the winter in the 

 Sunny South; but, having sickness in my house- 

 hold, it was impossible for me to leave my home 

 for any length of time. Perhaps at some future 

 date I may have the great pleasure of visiting my 

 brother and sister bee-keepers in Florida. 



Faithfully yours, W. J. Buown. 



P. S.— Long live The .American Bee-keeper! 



W. J. B. 



A.SSOCIATIONS, PARALYSIS, ETC. 



Plainville, Conn., Apr. 16,11)01. 

 Editor Hill, Dear Sir: I am a practical bee- 

 keeper, but a member of no association as yet, but 

 am thinking^Of joining two, i. e., the ''onnccticut 

 Hee-keepers' Association and tlie Nationiil Bee- 

 keepers' Association. But am I to underst/uid 

 that any one can join the latter Association by 

 simply sending one dollar with nothing to show 

 what kind of a man he i.s .' I should think that 



some would b? desirable members and that some 

 would not. As for my own part, I have little to 

 gain by joining an association ot bee-keepers, and 

 that is the reason why £ have not yet joined the 

 one in this State; but I am bsginningto think that 

 a mistaken way of reasoning, so 1 shall do what 1 

 can in my own State and elsewhere to get people 

 to improve their methods of bee-cnlture. My 

 neighbors will not improve their methods; and yet 

 they have only one-third the bees they had four 

 years ago. when I began bee-keeping, while I 

 have one-third more and have secured enough sur- 

 plus honey to make the business profitable. I be- 

 lieve that bee-culture can be made to pay a good 

 profit in almost any locality, and in ordinary 

 seasons when thoroughly mastered; but I believe 

 that it has been thus mastered by only a very few. 



It seems to me strange that Mr. O. O. Poppleton 

 should suffer as he has from bee-paralysis I never 

 had but one case, and cured that, and believe I 

 could cure any other case, even if it involved 

 several colonies. 



I find that success depends on a few things, i. e., 

 the kind of bees one keeps; the ability to winter in 

 such a way that the colonies will be strong in 

 young, healthy bees when springcomes; the ability 

 to keep bees free from disease; the ability to sell 

 our honey at a good price. All these things I have 

 succeeded in, else I could not say the business 

 paid. Yours truly, D. B. Norton. 



[To become a member of the National Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association it is necessary only to send one 

 dollar to Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa, 

 witli a request tliat you be enrolled upon the mem- 

 bership list of the .Association. Every man who is 

 sufiiciently interested in the welfare of our indus- 

 try to send the dollar, is a desirable member. No 

 one wiil do so who has not the interest of the fra- 

 ternity at heart. The Association will welcome 

 your name; do not delay in sending it in. A single 

 case of paralysis is insufficient to afford much 

 ac((uaintance with the disease. Should you be so 

 unfortunate as to have further acquaint- 

 ance with the disease, it is not improbable 

 tliat you would find it more difficult to combat. 

 A single ease is liable to cure itself almost any 

 day. A teaspqonful of warm water given night 

 and morning for several days will sometimes be 

 found to be a ready remedy for the trouble; but it 

 is a peculiarity of the malady that if you fail to 

 give the remedy, the disease is as liable to disap- 

 pear as where the treatment is continued. Some- 

 times, however, any amount of doctoring fails to 

 cure. It is doubtful if ever tliere was a case of gen- 

 uine paralysis in your State, Mr. Norton; it takes 

 the Soiith to produce the "real thing." — Ed.] 



Corona, Cal., April 4, IS)01. 

 Friend Hill: The I'arniolans are still ahead 

 in spite of their great enemies — Messrs. Doolittle 

 and Hutchinson. I have one colony in an eight- 

 frame hive that filled a twenty-four section siijicr in 

 February, and the fourth one was put on the 27th 

 ot .Miirch. They are now ready for the fifth. This 

 colony was made by division one year ago, they 

 rearing their own (|ueen. The Italians have, some 

 ot them, one sujier filled. 1 would like very much 

 to know of a colony of bees with an Italian mother, 

 having beaten the record so far. of this Alpine 

 beauty. I also have several colonies of Cypro- 

 (iiniiolans that ]iromise to be great honey- 

 gatherers. I am rather disappointed in findiijg 

 tlieni very gentle to handle. I desired them for an 

 out-apiary and to be vicious stingers. The (jueens 



