1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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spacing Hoffman frames is K inch ; therefore, the thickness 

 of the ends of the tray should be a scant M inch. 



We are now ready to cut off the top-bars of all the old- 

 style Hoffman frames in the apiary. We set the topless table 

 near the hive ; shake the bees off the frames in front of the 

 entrance, and slip them one by one into the tray or topless 

 table. If the table has been made right, the frames will just 

 slip between'the ends of the tray, and the top-bar projections 

 will stick over '4 inch. A saw now cuts thorn off just even 

 with the end of the tray at both ends. After the staples are 

 put, the frames are ready to be put back into the hive. The 

 other hives are then treated in a like manner. Usually it will 

 be found advantageous to have an assistant, because two can 

 work to better advantage. 



Hurrah tor the 'Wisconsin Legislature !~ 



April 28, we received the following very interesting communi- 

 cation from the tireless worker for the interests of Wisconsin 

 bee-keepers— Mr. N. E. France— in reference to what the 

 State Legislature did for bee-keeping in Wisconsin the -past 

 winter: 



Editor York : — The long red-tape work is over, and as 

 the Legislative Committee of our bee-keepers' societies, I now 

 can report that all of the Bills I have labored hard all winter 

 for are now laws in full force, viz.: 



1st. Sweet clover — no longer on the list of Wisconsin nox- 

 ious weeds. 



2nd. Foul Brood Bill past, and appointment of Foul 

 Brood Inspector made. [Mr. Farnce is the Inspector.— Ed.1 



3rd. Against the adulteration of honey (in the Food Laws 

 of 1897). 



Many times each Bill seemed doomed ; each time I would 

 go to Madison In its interests, and get the Bill on its feet 

 again, with the results now as stated above. 



N. E. France. 



It seems to us that Legislature deserves the personal 

 thanks of every bee-keeper in the State of Wisconsin. While 

 the passage of those Bills may appear on their face to be 

 mostly class legislation, yet the fact is they are wholly in the 

 interest of right and justice to all. 



The American Bee Journal wishes to take thisopportunity 

 to thank all who were instrumental in securing the passage of 

 the Bills mentioned, and only hope that other State legisla- 

 tures may soon see the wisdom of following Wisconsin's good 

 example along the line of anti-adulteration and foul brood. 



Encyclopedia for Bees-wax.— Some time ago we 

 offered a splendid work of eight large volumes, called "The 

 New Standard American Encyclopedia," having nearly 4,000 

 pages, and over 300 colored maps, charts, and diagrams. 

 Size of volume, 2 inches thick, Sj.; wide, and llj-^ long. As 

 per that offer, last publisht on page 18G, the eight volumes 

 were offered by freight for only.Sl9 cash. We can furnish 

 a set or two at that price, bound in half morroco ; or will ex- 

 change a set for 75 pounds of yellow beeswax, delivered at 

 our office. You would be more than satisfied with the En- 

 cyclopedia, and a set of such books ought to be in every 

 family for reference. 



The Horse— How to Break and Handle.— 



This is a pamphlet of 32 pages, giving complete instructions 

 for breaking and educating colts, teaching horses to drive, 

 and for use under the saddle, together with many instructions 

 which have never before been publisht, and which are the re- 

 sult of the author's experience covering a period of 20 years. 

 By Prof. Wm. Mullen, with whom the editor of the Bee Jour- 

 nal Is personally acquainted. Price, postpaid, 20 cents ; or 

 given as a premium for sending us one new subscriber to the 

 Bee Journal for the rest of the year at 60 cents. 



A Xcw Binder for holding a year's numbers of the 

 American Bee Journal, we propose to mail, postpaid, to every 

 subscriber who sends us 20 cents. It is called "The Wood 

 Binder," is patented, and is an entirely new and very simple 

 arrangement. Full printed directions accompany each Binder. 

 Every reader should get it, and preserve the copies of the Bee 

 Journal as fast as they are received. They are invaluable for 

 reference, and at the low price of the Binder you can afford to 

 get It yearly. 



T\)^ Weekly Budget 



Mk. Frank McNay, the Wisconsin " honey king," living 

 in Columbia county, wrote April 30: " Bees are in excellent 

 condition." He has apiaries In three counties. 



Mr. J. H. Martin, of Los Angeles Co., Cal., provides a 

 very interesting and helpful apiarian page in each monthly 

 number of the Rural Californian. Referring to the new drawn 

 foundation, he makes this prediction : "We predict that the 

 new deep-cell foundation will surely win its way, and become a 

 staple article in the economy of the bee-hive." 



Mr. M. Steves, of British Columbia, writing on April 27, 

 said : 



" I think a good deal of the American Bee Journal. This 

 has been a rather poor spring for bees, rather cold since from 

 about the last of February. The fruit-trees are in blossom 

 now." 



Hon. George E. Hilton, of Newaygo Co., Mich., is doing 

 a wholesale business in his bee and supply line this spring. 

 Tuesday, April 27, he shipt a carload of supplies to an out- 

 apiary of 100 colonies, and to supply his customers in Its 

 vicinity. "George" had over 200 colonies to begin with this 

 Spring, and a good season means tons of honey for him. So 

 says The News, a local newspaper. 



Mr. D. L. Durham, of Kankakee Co., 111., writing us Hay 

 3, said : 



" Bees have wintered well here on the summer stands. 

 The loss, if any, is very light, from starvation. Everything 

 is favorable so far for a good year for honey. Bees work 

 strong when days are warm enough for them to fly." 



Mr. Geo. Hone, of Utah Co., Utah, when sending us his 

 dollar membership fee for the New Union, said : 



" You may put me down every time as one who wants to 

 see adulteration stopt. I hope the American Bee Journal will 

 continue in its good course, in exposing swindlers, and making 

 it hot for adulterators. We are having splendid weather. 

 Bees are in excellent condition— I never saw them better at 

 this time of the year." 



Mr. Harry Lathrop, of Green Co., Wis., wrote us as 

 follows May 1, which shows how good at least one Wisconsin 

 bee-keeper feels : 



"We Wisconsin bee-keepers are feeling pretty good, be- 

 cause we have succeeded in getting the foul brood law that 

 we wanted. And we are glad to know that we have one of 

 the best men for the place in the whole country to act as in- 

 spector—Mr. N. E. France ; and if it had not been for his 

 untiring efforts, the law would not have been past." 



Mr. Wm. McEvot, the Official Foul Brood Inspector of 

 Ontario, Canada, is a very busy man. He is besieged not only 

 by bee-keepers in the Dominion, but by many on this side the 

 boundary line. He recently received a letterfrom a bee-keeper 

 in a Southern State, saying that the Governor of that State, 

 by his request, had introduced a recommendation into his late 

 message to the legislature, looking to the passage of a foul 

 brood law. That surely speaks well for one Governor. May 

 his tribe increase ! Well, the bee-keeper then requested Mr. 

 McEvoy's help in preparing a Bill to submit for passage. He 

 replied that the Wisconsin Bill, past recently, and publisht in 

 full on page 232 of the Bee Journal, is " the most perfect one 

 in the world, and one that every State and Province should 

 copy after." 



Mr. McEvoy wrote a long article for the Australian Bee- 

 Bulletin for December, 1896, on the cause and cure of foul 

 brood, and at the last meeting of a bee-keepers' association in 

 Australia, he was given a vote of thanks for his most excel- 

 lent article. 



In a letter dated May 3, Mr. McEvoy has this to say 

 regarding Canadian honey prospects, and the Buffalo conven- 

 tion : 



"The honey and fruit crops of Canada never, no never, 

 promist so large. We will have a grand meeting at Buffalo 

 next fall, and I hope to see a great turn-out of Canadian bee- 

 keepers at that convention. I intend to drum out the whole 

 lot, if I can. The choice of place, and the officers to manage 

 the business, could not have been better." 



