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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Kov. 11, 



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GBORCB \^. YORK, • Editor. 



PDBLI8BT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 tl8 Mtchlgaa St., - CHICAGO, II.I.. 



11.00 a Year — Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Bntered at tba Pogi-OSce at Chtcaxo as Second-Clasa Mall-Matter. 



United States Bee-Keepers' Union. 



OfKanized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture: to promote the interests 



of bee-keepers : to protect its menibers ; to prevent the adulteration 



of honey: and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



Membership Fee-$1.00 Per Annuv. 



Executive Committee, 



PRESinENT— George W. York. Vice-Pres.— W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 Secretary— Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, Ohio. 



Hoard of Directors, 



E. R. Root. E. Whitcomb. E. T. Abbott. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Dr. C. C. Miller. C. P. Dadant. 



General A/anag-er an<l Treasurer, 



Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



YoLmVII. CHICAGO, ILL., NOV. 11, 1897. No. 45. 



Editorial Oon}xr)cr)t^^ 



Hone>'-Dealingf Frauds seem to be less abun- 

 dant this fall than for several years past. It paid well to 

 come down on them as hard as we did when they were fiourish- 

 ing, and thus drive them out of their swindling business. It 

 will never be known just how much was thus saved to bee- 

 keepers, by Riving a warning note, and also by uprooting the 

 fraudulent honey-commission fraternity. 



So far as we are aware just now, there is not a thoroughly 

 bad honey-dealing firm in Chicago. Of course, there are 

 plenty that are bad in spots, or schemy in a small way, but as 

 for there being any that compare with the notorious Horrie- 

 Wheadon gang, we can hardly believe it. 



Hut let us remind our readers that if they receive any 

 letters from city firms soliciting honey shipments, and they 

 bear the least evidence of being unworthy of patronage, just 

 send such letters to us and we will investigate and report. 

 We are just aching to go for some honey-dealing fraud again. 



Foul Brood iif Canada.— We have received the 

 following letter, dated Nov. :!, from Mr. Wm. McEvoy, the 

 well-known Foul Brood Inspector, of Ontario, Canada : 



Friend York : — At this season of the year, when the bee- 

 keepers begin fixing up their colonies for winter, many of 

 them find dead brood in some of tho hives. These late dis- 

 coveries cause a very uneasy feeling, and particularly so 

 when found In fine, large apiaries. Things are loft at a 

 stand-still then, until McEvoy comes, who has been sent for. 

 Oh, my, how anxious these people are, and how strong they 

 plead for me to come at once (when they write), no person 

 could tell unless In my place. If it Is not f«ul brood, they 

 want to fix up at once ; but if it is, what Is best to be done Is 



the great consideration with them. I get to all places as soon 

 as possible. 



Things have greatly charged since I first began inspect- 

 ing the apiaries of Ontario. Everywhere I go now I am well 

 treated, and all the bee-keepers of the Province are good 

 friends of mine. 



Mrs. McEvoy and I expected to have been at the Buffalo 

 convention, but, oh, how disappointed we were when the time 

 came. I had to go to a locality where the disease was spread- 

 ing very fast through foul-broody colonies that had been shipt 

 into a neighborhood where many colonies were kept, and 

 where the disease had never before been. Just before that, I 

 received a letter from a good bee-keeper, saying that he had 

 §1,000 worth of bees, that one of his neighbors had a few 

 colonies badly diseased with foul brood, and that the owner of 

 these diseased colonies was setting out the cappings for the 

 bees to clean up, which was going to ruin his fine apiary if I 

 did not come at once, as the law did not give him the power to 

 go on the man's ground and stop it. I had to go at once to 

 that locality, and make things safe and do justice to all. 



Yours truly, Wm. MoEvot. 



If every State and Province had as energetic an inspector 

 of foul brood as Mr. McEvoy, it would not be long until the 

 bee-keepers of our land would be pretty well rid of the dis- 

 ease. Mr. McEvoy is a great " bee-doctor," and Ontario may 

 well be proud of his untiring efforts. 



Using' Zinc Separators.— On page 588 of the 

 Bee Journal for Sept. 10, 1897, the " Qustion-Box" answers 

 appears without any questions. The topic was, "Using Zinc 

 Separators," and we do not wonder that Mr. Hasty had to 

 laugh when he saw the string of answers to no questions at all. 

 He referred to it thus, in the October Review : 



What little things a laugh sometimes depends on. In the 

 last American Bee Journal I laugh to see a string of the sena- 

 tors saying, " I don't know," " I don't know," " I don't know," 

 just as the dog barks of a pleasant evening, at nothing at all. 

 They think they are responding to a question ; but the ques- 

 tion isn't there. Got left out somehow. 



Of course, the omission happened when making up that 

 particular page of the Bee Journal in the printing-office. B''or 

 the benefit of Mr. Hasty, and others, we here give the ques- 

 tions, and trust such a queer performance may not occur 

 again : 



Query 60.- — 1. Is there any harm in using zinc separa- 

 tors, especially when there is a good deal of the white oxide 

 about them ? 



2. Is this poisonous to the bees ? — D. 



Now, turn back and read the replies again. 



Sections 'Witbout Bee-Spaces.— Editor Root 

 appears quite enthusiastic over the matter of using sections 

 with no openings cut in either of the four sides. Cleated sep- 

 arators make openings unnecessary. Such separators were 

 used eight or ten years ago by Oliver IToster, perhaps later by 

 the late B. Taylor, and for years by Miles Morton. The 

 cleated separator looks like a panel of fence. Instead of be- 

 ing all in one piece, three or more narrow pieces are used, of 

 course of the same length as If the separator were all in one 

 piece. These narrow strips cost less, and have the advantage 

 that a space occurs between each two pieces, allowing com- 

 munication for the bees. Cleats somewhere In the neighbor- 

 hood of half an inch wide, and as long or longer than the 

 width of the separator, are glued on the separator on each 

 side, so as to couie just at the places where the sides of the 

 sections strike. It will readily be seen that if the cleat is 

 thick enough there will be no need to cut away any part of 

 the top or bottom bar of the section to make a passage for the 

 bees. With cleats 's Inch thick the section will lack '* inch 

 of being filled oven full. That Is, a straight edge laid across 

 the face of the section would have a space of '« inch between 

 tho comb and the straightedge or ruler. Of course, a bee 

 can't got through a '«-inch space, but the separator is made 



