THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



both of these gentlemen, and expected to 

 print them in this issue of the Review, 

 but, as there are so many other things 

 that I wish to give, and this is the main 

 point of their articles, I shall have to put 

 them over, at least, for the present. 



Of course, the making of sections in 

 this style is not new, but the idea is ad- 

 vanced that the freer communication thus 

 established results in a better filling of 

 the sections. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER'S NEW 

 EDITOR. 



When a new member is added to the 

 apicultural-editorial family, we naturally 

 wish to know something about him, and 

 how he looks. Such a state of affairs has 

 now been brought about because the 

 proprietors of the American Bee Keeper, 

 realizing that a real live editor can do 

 more for a journal than pages and pages 

 of "boiler plate matter," have wisely 

 ilropped the latter and picked up the for- 

 mer in the shape 

 of Mr. Harry E. 

 Hill, of Titus- 

 ^^^^^ ville, Pennsylva- 

 w^ V^^l nia; who began 

 life in Canada 

 about 33 years 

 ago. As a young, 

 ster he was al- 

 ways interested 

 in bees; and, af- 

 ter various exper- 

 iences with bees, 

 ii. E. HILL. he passed one sea- 



son in the em- 

 ploy of Mr. J. B. Hall of Canada; and 

 one very proud moment of his life was 

 when he received a certificate of his ability 

 as an apiarist from Canada's comb-honey 

 king. A year or two later he passed a 

 season in Cuba in charge of a large apiary. 

 Three or four years later he passed a sea- 

 son in California where he had charge of 

 several apiaries owned by Wheeler & 

 Hunt. He returned to Pennsylvania and 

 tried his hand at running a job printing 



office, and publishing a newspaper. After 

 two years of this work he sold his inter- 

 est in the printing business, and went to 

 Florida in the interests of the " South 

 Florida Apiary Company;" and so man- 

 aged as to be there at the proper time to 

 get the full benefit of the freeze in i<S94. 

 There are probably few men who have 

 seen bee-keeping iinder more diversified 

 conditions than has Bro. Hill. And now 

 the Falconer Co. has caught him; and his 

 thorough knowledge of bee-keeping, coup- 

 led with the little dip that he has had in- 

 to jou'-nalism and printing, give promise 

 that the American Bee-Keeeper will now 

 make some long strides towards the 

 front. Mr. Hill has a wife, and one little 

 boy about five years old; and there is 

 ' ' no man whom he envies. ' ' 



NEEDED CHANGES IN FOUL BROOD LAWS. 



Years ago, when Prof. Cook drafted our 

 Michigan foul brood law, it probably fitted 

 existing conditiijus. Foul brood was con- 

 sidered practically incurable. At least, 

 that the attempt to save anything from 

 diseased colonies was likely to "cost 

 more than it would come to. " In those 

 days it is quite likely that the complete 

 destruction b}- fire of diseased colonies 

 was the best thing that could be done. 

 With the knowledge that we now possess 

 on the subject there is no neces.sity for 

 the destruction of any part of a diseased 

 colony. The bees can be put into a new- 

 hive and freed from the disease. The 

 brood allowed to hatch and the bees sav- 

 ed. The hive disinfected and used. The 

 honey extracted and boiled and used. 

 The combs melted into wax. According 

 to lazv, no one has a right to even attempt 

 to thus save his property — it nmst be de- 

 stroyed by fire. I believe California has a 

 law that is similar both in age and un- 

 reasonableness. I believe, also, that these 

 laws have never been put in force — have 

 aever been used. At least, I have never 

 known of a case of their enforcement. It 

 is possible that these laws may have been 

 used as a club to hold over the head of 



