GEORGE W. YORK, 



Editor. 



Devoted Exclusively- 



-To Bee-Culture. 



J Weekly, $1.00 a Year. 

 j Sample Free . 



VOL XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, MARCH 30, 1893. 



NO. 13. 



Mr. P. A. Gemmill's Apiary, 



located at his home in Stratfoi'd, Ont., 

 is shown in a beautiful picture covering 

 a whole page of last Gleanings. Bro. 

 Gemmill uses a plan worthy of general 

 adoption, in that he has each hive 

 " named after some prominent bee- 

 keeper in the United States and Canada," 

 instead of numbering them. For in- 

 stance, on the hives may be seen, in 

 neatly printed letters, these names : 

 Father Langstroth, Huber, Dzierzon, 

 Quinby, Doolittle, A. I. Root, Pringle, 

 Clarke, Jones, Dr. Miller, Alpaugh, etc. 

 The apiary contains 72 colonies, and one 

 especially prized hive (an observatory) 

 was made for Mr. G. by Father Lang- 

 stroth in 1863 ; it occupies a prominent 

 position, and "it has contained bees 

 continuously ever since — nearly 30 

 years." Mr. Gemmill's family are also 

 shown in the very life-like picture, 

 making, all together, a most pleasing 

 sight. 



California Bee-L^egislation. 



— Mr. W. A. Pryal was selected by the 

 California State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion to formulate several Bills to be pre- 

 sented to the State Legislature in the 

 interest of bee-keeping. 



Three Bills were introduced. One of 

 them was to prohibit the spraying of 

 fruit-trees with poisonous insecticides ; 

 the second Bill made it a misdemeanor to 



maliciously kill honey-bees belonging to 

 another ; and the third was for an ap- 

 pr»priation of the State funds suflScient 

 to pay for the printing of the proceed- 

 ings of the California State Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention, and the printing of such 

 other information that will promote the 

 apicultural industry in the Golden State. 



It seems that the Bill to prevent spray- 

 ing fruit-trees while in bloom, with 

 Paris-green, etc., was referred to the 

 Committee on Agriculture, and that 

 committee " knocked it out." The com- 

 mittee contained some fruit-growers, 

 who claimed that it was better to injure 

 the bees, as the fruit interests of the 

 State far exceed that of the honey in- 

 dustry. Had Mr. Pryal been present, 

 he could easily have shown them that 

 the proper time to spray trees is not 

 when they are in bloom ; and he also 

 would have tried to prove to them that 

 human lives are more valuable than the 

 few fruits that might be saved by the 

 untimely use of insecticides ! It is 

 strange that fruit-growers will ignor- 

 antly work against their best friends, 

 the bees ! 



The Appropriation Bill gave promise 

 of faring better, and Mr. Pryal had as- 

 surances that it would in all probability 

 be passed, as the sum asked for ($300) 

 was so modest that no one could very 

 well object to it. At this writing, how- 

 ever, we have not heard the final result. 



Bro. Hrnest R. Root, the ex- 

 cellent editor of Gleanings, is " all 

 ' broke up ;' " and the cause of it is the 

 biographical sketch and portrait of him- 

 self on page 299 of the Bee Journal. 

 Here is what he said about it in Glean- 

 ings for March 15tb : 



We are all " broke up." We have been sit- 

 ting before the desk trying to scribble off an 

 editorial, as it was one of the kind that 

 wouldn't '• dictate." We've got something to 



