THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 223 



However, you are still our President, and we have you located 

 and we shall expect to hear from you occasionally. The Review 

 pages are open to you. 



V\e wish you the best success possible in your new home. 



New Postal Rules Concerning the Mailing of Queen Bees. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, of AA ashington, has kindly favored me with 

 a copy of the new ruling concerning the mailing of queen bees. 

 This ruling should do much to prevent the spread of disease through 

 the mailing of queens and bees from infected apiaries, and should be 

 welcomed by the bee-keeping fraternity. It is quite safe to say 

 that the disease is now present in many apiaries where it would not 

 have been had it not been brought there through the mails. 



The ruling is as follows: 



Office of the Postmaster General^ 



Washington. May 3, 1912. 

 Order No. 6242. 



Paragraph 7, Section 49'6, Postal Laws and Regulations, is 

 amended by substituting for the first clause thereof the following: 



Queen bees and their attendant bees, when accompanied by a 

 copy of a certificate of the current year from a state or government 

 apiary inspector to the efifect that the apiary from which said queen 

 bees are shipped is free from disease or by a copy of a statement 

 by the bee-keeper made before a notary public or other ofificer 

 having a seal that the honey used in making the candy used in the 

 queen mailing cage has been diluted and boiled in a closed vessel. 



The American Bee Journal Has a New Owner. . 



A long time ago, probably 16 or 18 years. I wrote a question 

 about upper entrances and sent it to the American Bee Journal. At 

 that time the "bee-fever" was developing nicely, and I waited 

 anxiously for the issue which would have the question and the reply. 

 It came, and the answer was written by Mr. Dadant. Needless to 

 say that was the most valued issue of the American Bee Journal I 

 had ever received. I also felt very grateful to the man who would 

 take the time to answer me, a mere beginner, and many trips did 

 I take (in fancy) to Hamilton, 111. 



But I had to wait until the Minneapolis meeting of the National 

 last fall before I came face to face with the one who answered my 

 question, and it seemed to me like meeting an old acquaintance. 

 Although our meeting was of necessity brief, yet the impression I 

 carried away with me from Minneapolis was not at all unfavorable 

 to Mr. Dadant. 



