AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



value— read it thoroughly, and think about 

 the suggestions made by other and success- 

 ful bee-keepers. 



Another thing— don't be satisfied with 

 only one bee-paper, if you can possibly 

 afford more. There are others that are 

 good, and all are well worth the subscrip- 

 tion price several times over. If we mis- 

 take not, the Bee Journal this year will 

 be better than any preceding year of its 

 existence. We are going to work hard to 

 make it so. Every one of its readers can 

 help in this, by showing it to their bee- 

 keeping friends, and urging them to sub- 

 scribe and thus also become its regular 

 readers. 



Let us make 1894 a year of apiarian edu- 

 cation, and general advancement all along 

 the line. 



Xlie Paiiiplilet Pi-ocee«liiigs of 



the late North American convention has 

 been delayed on account of getting certain 

 engravings of the World's Fair Honey Ex- 

 hibits, etc., which are to appear in connec- 

 tion with the report of the meeting. We 

 expect now to have it ready for delivery to 

 members not later than Jan. 15th, and per- 

 haps sooner. We regret the delay, but we 

 think none will find any fault when they 

 once see the completed and fully illustrated 

 report. We are trying to get up the best 

 looking report of the North American ever 

 issued. 



1^" No apiarist can expect to have his 

 honey sell for the highest market price, if 

 he allows it to stay in the hives for weeks 

 after it has been sealed over, allowing the 

 bees to give the combs a dirty, yellow color 

 by constantly traveling over it. — IhuliftJc. 



Xlio Foul Kroort l>ebale.— Here is 

 what Friend McEvoy says about the pro- 

 posed "Foul Brood Debate:" 



I am very much pleased to see that in the 

 coming year, the editor of the American 

 Bee Journal is going to let us all have a 

 great debate over all the disputed points on 

 the whole foul brood question. Every bee- 

 keeper in the world should subscribe at 

 once for the Bee Journal, so as to learn 

 all about the cause and cure of foul brood, 

 as they don't 'know the time the disease 

 might break out in their apiaries, and soon 

 destroy them if they did not know all about 

 the disease before it made its appearance in 

 their bee-yards. 



I am going to write up the whole foul 



brood question more fully for the Bee 

 Journal than I have yet done, and prove 

 three great things that I discovered, viz : 



1. That the rotting of uncared-for brood 

 is the only true cause of foul brood. 



2nd. When bees rob a foul -broody colony 

 they carry the disease in proportion to the 

 amount of dixeasid honey they convey to 

 their own liives, that in all such cases the 

 honey is the only criminal, and that the 

 disease is 7iev€r carried on the feet of the 

 bees. 



3rd. That my methods of curing foul 

 brood are by far tlie best of any known. 



Woodburn, Ont. Wm. McEvot. 



It looks as if the foul brood question is to 

 be thoroughly aired. It needs it, surely. 

 All who have valuable facts and experiences to 

 give, are invited to take part in this gen- 

 eral debate. 



1^= With what little light I have on the 

 matter, I do not care to have more than 

 about 100 colonies in one apiary, although 

 I do not know for certain that 125 or 150 in 

 a good year would fare much worse. — Dr. 

 J/iUer. 



Bees aiKl Fruit aref receiving much 

 just attention these days in California. 

 Fruit-growers are rapidly coming to recog- 

 nize the fact that in the bees they have a 

 great friend and helper, and that they had 

 better cease their war upon the bee-keepers 

 and their pets. Here is what Mr. C. H. 

 Clayton, of Lang. Calif., says on the sub- 

 ject: 



Friend York: — Observing a letter from 

 Geo. W. Brodbeck. about bees and fruit, in 

 the Bee Journal of Dec. 14th, I wish to 

 place before the public the experience of a 

 large fruit-grower, who was a member of 

 that convention. 1 have his full permission 

 to use this. 



By way of introduction, I w-ill state that 

 he is Horticultural Commissioner of Tulare 

 county — one of tlie inland counties hereto- 

 fore noted for grain-production, but of late 

 years the fruit industry has made rapid 

 strides, and at an early date will'- no doubt 

 rank as one of the leading fruit counties of 

 the State. In a personal note to me, dated 

 Nov. S, 1893, he has this to saj' : 



■' Bees and fruit go together. I can't 

 raise fruit without bees. 8ome of the other 

 ••cranks" say I'm a crank, but I notice 

 there is a pretty good following after me, 

 hereabouts, and tliey ' keep a-eomin\' 



•• Yes, sirree; I liave bees all about my 

 big orchard. Two years in succession I 

 have put netting o\er some limbs of trees, 

 and while they blossomed all right, • nary 

 fruit;' while on the same tree w'here limbs 

 were exposed to the aid of bees, plenty of 

 fruit. C. J. Bekrt." 



I will state that the '• big orchard " men- 



