222 THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW 



Chemical Analysis and Composition of Imported Honey From Cuba, 



Mexico and Haiti. 



A 24-page circular, with cover, was issued under the above 

 heading by the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, on April 29th, and can be had at five cents per copy. This 

 bulletin is of a technical nature, and the bee-keeper who does not 

 understand chemistry would not get very much information from it. 



Preventing Bee Stings, 



J. F. Alunday says in The Australasian Beekeeper that he has 

 noticed that when he pulled up grass or weeds with his bare hands 

 before opening a hive, the bees went for those hands with vigor. 

 He doesn't do it now. He says he has found it best to work with 

 bees with dry hands, as free from scent as possible. One exception 

 is that he has found it beneficial to blow a little smoke from the 

 smoker on his hands before manipulating a hive. 



Wintering Report for Canada. 



Provincial Apiarist Morley Petit, who is also our vice-presi- 

 dent, is doing good work in Canada in getting statistics on the 

 honey crop. He has just compiled a report concerning the winter- 

 ing of bees in Canada. Blanks were sent to 1,680 bee-keepers. 

 Nearly 1,000 replied, 125 of whom were out of the business. Total 

 number of colonies reported by 844 bee-keepers for the fall of 1911 

 was 3,911, for May, 1912, was 2,628, this reaching a winter loss of 

 15'%. This is one per cent more than was reported one year ago. 

 Mr. Petit believes that the loss in Canada is even heavier than the 

 15% above mentioned, realizing that a large number sent in no 

 report at all. 



George W. York Goes West, 



"Wednesday, May 15th, will be our regular noonday luncheon. 

 Mr, George W. York, one of our newly acquired citizens from 

 Chicago, who for twenty years was editor of the American Bee 

 Journal, will be our guest. Mr. York will tell us why he came to 

 Bonner County to make his home. Bring your friends. The Sand- 

 point Commercial Club, Eaton H. Edgerton, Sec." So reads a 

 postal card from Sandpoint, Idaho, Avhich reached my desk recently. 

 We are pleased to note this welcome being given our president. 



It will seem strange to think of Chicago as not being Mr. 

 York's home. It will seem stranger still to think of the American 

 Bee Journal without Mr. York as its editor. His efforts have been 

 untiring in behalf of the bee-keepers, and he has been especially 

 active in behalf of the National Bee-Keepers' Association. 



