1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



207 



Two bee-spaces instead of one, be- 

 tween the outside rows of sections and 

 the super side, with a divider of some 

 material like an ordinary seperator, 

 is a recent device of S. T. Pettit, a 

 prominent bee keeper of Canada, to 

 induce the bees to complete the out- 

 side rows of sections as perfectly as 

 those in the centre. The scheme is 

 said to accomplish the end sought. 



Experiments conducted at the On- 

 tario Agricultural College, have shown 

 a horiznutal space of \ in. through the 

 brood nest to be of great advantage 

 in wintering. Permitting as it does, 

 the expansion aad contraction of the 

 cluster without breaking. 



Prof. F. C. Harrison of Guelph.Out., 

 is making foul brood the subject or 

 special study. He invites specimens 

 of dead brood from every source. 

 Anyone su^pr^cting the presence of 

 foul brood or other disease in th^ir 

 bees may avail themselves of expert 

 advice by sending a sample of the ef- 

 fected liiond. 



Wm Gerrish, East Nottingham, N. 

 H., keeps a complete supply of our 

 goods and Eastern customers will 

 save freight by ordering from him. 



Every mail l)rings to us news of 

 the excellent honey flow that is being 

 gathered in almost every section of 

 the country. Not for several years 

 have such reports been so numerous, 

 nor have our orders for supplies been 

 so large and numerous. Two or three 

 such seasons would make bee keeping- 

 much more popular and increase the 

 number of l»ee keepers many fold. 

 There is no industry that pays better 



for the amount of labor and expense 

 required than that of bee keeping, but 

 there are too many who seem to think 

 bees require no attention whatever to 

 be profitable and such bee keepers in 

 consequence of their negligence to 

 give their colonies proper attention, 

 receive no profit from them. Like 

 any other successful business, bee 

 keeping requires careful and intelli- 

 gent attention. 



There are a number of queen 

 breeders and others who do not prop- 

 erly and securely cage their queens 

 when mailing them to customers. 

 This is a matter that should be given 

 the most careful attention, otherwise 

 the mailing privileges now allowed by 

 the postal authorities will be with- 

 drawn and the result would be the 

 cutting oflf of almost the entire busi- 

 ness of every queen breeder in this 

 country. 



Down in South Florida there grows 

 a very ornamental shrub known lo- 

 cally as "'tly catcher." Its profusion 

 of variegated, pink and white bloom 

 dot the landscape during the months 

 of May and June. Upon itr« clusters 

 or buds and petals an adhesive, taste- 

 less secretion sparkles like diamonds 

 in the sunlight; and woe unto the un- 

 wary bee who is beguiled by its fra- 

 grance to alight upon tlie tenacious 

 mass. Once fairly in c >ntact, her 

 doom is sealed. Every effort to re- 

 lease herself only tends to strengthen 

 the cruel grasp. As one looks upon 

 the scores of victim-, in tlu- throes of 

 death, whose .-e;ises have been 

 charm^^d liy deceitful beauty, and 

 hear.s the plaintive hum emitted by 

 their vain tffurts to extricate them- 



