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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Chicago bees are hustlers. They seem to catch something of 

 the business spirit of the people who live here, tho most of the 

 folks seem to be In too big a hurry to collect the dollars, to 

 live as they ought to. 



A bee-keeper living a few miles south of Chicago had 

 young drones flying May 7. Nothing slow or lazy about that. 

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The Subject of Foul Brood is quite an impor- 

 tant one In many States — especially in Wisconsin — so much so 

 that Mr. N. E. France, the Official Foul Brood Inspector for 

 that State, requests us to republish for the benefit of the 

 many bee-keepers there, some of tho articles that appeared in 

 the American Bee Journal in 1893 and 1894, by that e.'jpert 

 foul-brood exterminator, Mr. Wm. McEvoy, of Canada. We 

 shall be glad to comply with Mr. France's request, as it will 

 also be very profitable for all the new readers that have been 

 added to our list the past two or three years, and those that are 

 now subscribing. 



We begin this week with a republication of the new Foul 

 Brood Law recently past by the Wisconsin Legislature, which 

 is considered by Mr. McEvoy to be a model one for other 

 States to follow in their efforts to secure the passage of a law 

 on the subject of foul brood. 



We now offer the Bee Journal the balance of the year to 

 7i€U) subscribers for only aO cents. This will give each one 

 seven months' numbers, and will include all the foul brood 

 articles that will be republisht this month and next. It is a 

 good time for our present readers to get their bee-keeping 

 friends to subscribe. 



Here is the law now in force in our neighboring State : 



THE WISCONSIN FOOL BEOOD LAW. 



AN ACT for the suppression of foul brood among bees in 



Wisconsin. 

 The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate 



and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



APPOINTMENT. 



Section 1.— Upon the recommendation of a majority vote 

 of the members of the bee-keepers' societies of Wisconsin, the 

 Governor shall appoint for a term of two years a State inspec- 

 tor of apiaries, who shall, if required, produce a certificate 

 from the Governor that he has been so appointed. 



DUTIES. 



Sec. 2. — The inspector shall, when notified, examine all 

 reported apiaries, and all others in the same locality not re- 

 ported, and ascertain whether or not the disease known as 

 foul brood exists in such apiaries ; and if satisfied of the ex- 

 istence of foul brood, he shall give the owners or care-takers 

 of the diseased apiaries full instructions how to treat said 

 cases, as In the inspector's judgment seems best. 



DESTRUCTION OF BEES. 



Sec. 3. — The inspector, who shall be the sole judge, shall 

 visit all diseased apiaries a second time, and, if need be, burn 

 all colonies of bees and combs that be may find not cured of 

 foul brood. 



VIOLATIONS. 



Sec. 4. — If the owner of a diseased apiary, honey, or 

 appliances, shall sell, barter, or give away, any bees, honey, 

 or appliances, or expose other bees to the danger of said dis- 

 ease, or refuse to allow said inspector to inspect such apiary, 

 honey, or appliances, said owner shall, on conviction before a 

 justice of the peace, be liable to a fine of not less than fifty 

 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or not less than 

 one month's imprisonment in the county jail, nor more than 

 two mouths' imprisonment. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



Sec. 5. — The inspector of apiaries shall make annual re- 

 port to the Governor of Wisconsin, giving the number of api- 

 aries visited, the number of diseased apiaries found, the num- 

 ber of colonies treated, also the number of colonies destroyed 

 by fire, and his expenses. 



EXPENSES. 



Sec. 6. — There Is hereby appropriated out of any moneys 

 in the Slate treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum not 

 exceeding five hundred dollars per year, for the suppression 

 of foul brood among bees in Wisconsin. Said inspector shall 



receive four dollars per day, and traveling expenses, for actual 

 time served, which moneys shall not exceed the moneys hereby 

 appropriated, to be paid by the State treasurer, upon warrants 

 drawn and approved by the Governor. 



Sec. 7.— This Act shall take effect and be in force from 

 and after its passage and publication. 



Approved April 1, 1897. 



Tl?e Weekly Budget 



Mr. W. C. Lyman, of Dupage Co.. III., writing us May 

 28, said : "Bees are doing well. First swarm May 10; 

 another May 26. Good prospect for honey." 



Editor Hutchinson and Wife (of the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view), spent an afternoon recently with Dr. A. B. Mason and 

 family at Toledo, Ohio. Of course it was an enjoyable visit 

 all around. 



Mr. T. F. Bingham— the big bee-smoker man — writing us 

 May 21, said : 



"Bees are breeding up good, but the cool weather so far 

 has cut of all the tree-bloom honey." 



Mr. John Craig, of Macoupin Co., III., on May 27, sent 

 us the first white clover blossoms we had seen this year. 

 Shouldn't wonder if there'd be some white clover honey this 

 year — something there hasn't been much of the past few years. 



Mr. a. E. Sherrington, of Ontario, Canada, wrote May 

 17: 



"This is a grand spring for the bees. Everything looks 

 splendid." 



Mr. C. a. Sutherland, one of our subscribers in Jamaica, 

 W. I., reports that on April 22, while he was away in the in- 

 terior looking after some business for a few days, on his 

 return home he found his stores and honey-house entirely 

 burnt out, with everything in connection with his apiary. This 

 is a serious loss, indeed. We trust Mr. Sutherland may soon 

 recover from it. 



The Busy Bee, edited and publisht by Emerson Taylor 

 Abbott, of Missouri, is on our desk. It is a continuation of 

 The Nebraska Bee-Keeper, and will be Issued monthly at 50 

 cents a year — "devoted to farm bee-keeping and other minor 

 interests of progressive agriculture." Mrs. Emma Ingoldsby 

 Abbott conducts the "Home Department." It is 6x9 inches in 

 size, and contains 16 pages. 



Mr. a. M. Runion, of Batson, S. C, writes us that about 

 a month ago he had the misfortune to lose by fire his entire 

 dwelling house and other smaller buildings, besides 28 colo- 

 nies of bees out of 40, together with ail fixtures and appli- 

 ances. It was a total loss of some !?1, 500, as no insurance 

 was carried. He advises bee-keepers "to keep their bees at a 

 safe distance from might-be fires.'' Our advice to all is : Keep 

 at least a little insurance on all your burnable property. 



Hon. Eugene Secor hasn't had much chance yet to show 

 how well he can fill the position of General Manager of the 

 New Union, but one prominent bee-keeper, in an eastern 

 State, referring to his letter to the Postmaster General, in 

 last week's Bee Journal, wrote us : "It is straightforward 

 and businesslike, and I must say I feel pleased with his work 

 so far." Mr. Secor is ready to do a lot of " pleasing," if bee- 

 keepers will create a proper fund to fall back upon. 



Messrs. R. H. Schmidt & Co., of Wisconsin, when 

 promptly remitting on their advertising account, May 28, 

 wrote : 



"Keep our advertisement standing until we tell you to 

 stop. The American Bee Journal is ' the stuff.' It makes 

 our factory hum." 



There are quite a number of bee-supply dealers and man- 

 ufacturers whose advertisements ought to be found in every 

 number of the Bee Journal. But perhaps they don't care to 

 have their business " hum," as do the above firm. The Bee 

 Journal is ready to help any and every honest business man, 

 through its advertising columns. 



