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AMERICAN BEE lOUFNAL 



Feb. 27, 1902 



sive. slipshod bee-keeper can thus hug an 

 adder, not only to sting himself, but also his 

 neighbors, who" are powerless to help them- 

 selves under existing conditions. 



Now, I am sure, the picture is not over- 

 drawn, and 1 lool; upon it as an absolute 

 necessitv in behalf of the best interests of the 

 careless'bee-keeper, as well as the protection 

 of the progressive apiarist, to enact a State 

 law making it obligatory on each and every 

 bee-keeper to put his bees upon movable 

 combs, so that Ihey may be accessible for in- 

 vestigation and manipulation. It would be 

 doing no one an injustice, but instituting a 

 righteous defense against the common enemy 

 to the bee-keeping fraternity, and raising the 

 industry to a higher degree of progress. 



I also believe it is very essential that a law 

 be passed compelling every one. under penalty 

 of a fine, to obtain a certilicate from a law- 

 fully appointed inspector, certifying that his 

 or her bees are healthy, and free from all in- 

 fectious diseases, before he can be at liberty 

 to move them from one locality to another ; 

 and when bees are imported from an adjoin- 

 ing State that has no laws of a like nature it 

 should be the duty of the owner of said bees, 

 under penalty of the law. to have, at once, 

 said bees inspected. 



The Double Cover is strongly advocated 

 for the sake of having something warmer in 

 winter and cooler in summer than the single- 

 board cover, but L. 0. Westcott objects, in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture, that the space in 

 the double cover furnishes too convenient a 

 place for ants to have their nests. He says it 

 is very annoying to have them crawl over your 

 hands, biting like little bull-dogs. In the 

 region of Chicago there is some trouble with 

 double covers, but not enough to overbalance 

 the advantages. The objection would be re- 

 moved if the covers were made so tight that 

 no ant could get in, and this would make the 

 covers warmer in winter. Editor Root says 

 there is made one style of double cover that is 

 guaranteed to be ant-proof. 



Snper Foundation in the Brood- 

 Chamber.— W. T. Stephenson, in Gleanings 

 in Bee-Culture, reports success in getting 

 brood-combs built out on thin and extra-thin 

 foundation. This was Weed foundation. When 

 other foundation was used it would warp and 

 fall down after the cells were '4 inch deep. 

 But it requires a great deal of attention to 

 make a success in the brood-chamber with 

 such thin foundation, and perhaps it is 

 economy for most of us to use the heavier. 

 Editor Root has in mind exceedingly thin 

 foundation with No. 40 wire incorporated in 

 it to make it substantial. 



^ Weekly Budget. I 



Hex. E. Whitcomh, of Saline Co., Nebr., 

 has been spending a month in southern Louis- 

 iana. He is a member of the Board of Direc- 

 tors of the National Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 Somehow he has been very quiet for a long 

 time, keeping hisapicultural " light bid under 

 a bushel.'' as it were. Perhaps he needs con- 

 tact with chief Geronimo and his band of 

 Intiin warriors to get him warmed up. 

 " Uncle Whitcomb " is " right at home" with 

 Indians and bees. 



Referring to his trip to the Southland, he 



has this to say : 



Down in Louisiana they have all the birds 

 that we have in summer; there are plenty of 

 oppossum and 'coon, quail, rabbits and 

 squirrels, and the ducks are so thick that it is 

 almost wicked to kill them— great, big canvas- 

 backs and greenhead mallards. It may be 

 that I did not hunt any! I returned weigh- 

 ing 14 pounds more than when I went, and 

 Mrs. Whitcomb exceeded that by several 

 pounds. I did not see any ice while I was 

 gone, and found on my return that the cold 

 weather pinched me considerable, yet 

 '■There's no place like home." 



Mks. J. B. AusMfs, the wife of one our 

 esteemed readers, died Jan. 24. 190'2, being 

 sick only about a week from pneumonia fever. 

 She was a faithful Christian, and member of 

 the Methodist church. These partings must 

 come to us all sometime. No matter what 

 any of us may think of the future, we cannot 

 get away from the fact that the messenger 

 Death will call at each of our doors some day. 

 And there will be sorrowing ones left behind. 

 Then what comfort to the bereaved ones to 

 feel that there may be a reunion sometime, 

 over on •• the other side." 



" A Center Shot " is what Stenog in Glean- 

 ings calls the following remark in this Jour- 

 nal: ■ , , 



" The Tribune thus admits that it had room 

 to publish lies about honey, but it has not the 

 space to allow the truth to appear about it! " 



Mr. T. B. Blow, who formerly conducted 

 extensive hive-works in England, and who 

 made a visit to this country a few years ago, 

 has married Shoko Koyake. of Kyoto, Japan, 

 and has settled down as a good Japanese citi- 

 zen. So says the British Bee Journal. 



A Spanish Bee JorRNAL, or at least a 

 Spanish department of five and a halt pages, 

 is the latest thing in the American Bee-keeper. 

 •• H. E. Hill, Editor, El American Bee-Keeper " 

 is easy reading; beyond that it would be 

 easier reading it printed in English. " Abeja '' 

 seems to be frequently mentioned. If that is 

 some Spanish bee-disease, Editor Hill would 

 have been kinder not to have introduced it 

 into this country. 



them the importance of having a full force of 

 working bees in the field ni ihf ritjlit time.'' 



" Mr. Doolittle was most kind in explaining 

 to me all kinds of appliances and methods; he 

 showed me the little room where he did all 

 his writing, the walls of which were well 

 decorated with a large number of newspaper 

 cuttings. The four hours or so I spent with 

 him passed like a moment, and the sun was 

 already getting low when he wished me good- 

 bye." 



Did not Mr. Doolittle in his modesty fail to 

 say anything about any out-apiary to be added 

 to the number of those 90 colonies ? 



Mr. F. W. L. Suden Visits Doolittle.— 

 Mr. Sladen, who made a visit to this country 

 not long ago, is one of England's prominent 

 bee-keepers, and the following items are clip- 

 ped from an account in the British Bee Jour- 

 nal of his visit to Mr. G. M. Doolittle: 



" He had an unusually powerful voice. His 

 thoughts and words flowed so rapidly that I 

 had some difficulty in keeping pace with 

 them, and sometimes of comprehending his 

 meaning. He was, hosvever, exceedingly ex- 

 plicit whenever I requested him to repeat 

 anything he had said. The first thing we 

 did was to look at his bees. Mr. Doo- 

 little took a small piece of touchwood and, 

 fixing it on to the end of a wire skewer, set it 

 well alight. He then dropped it into his Cor- 

 neil smoker with .some more pieces of the 

 same material, and. armed with this and two 

 l)i'c-liats. we sallied forth to the bees. Mr. 

 Doolittle has about liu colonies of bees. He 

 uses a small, square frame, the "liallup,'' 

 measuring ll'4Xlli4. and he spaces with his 

 fingers. For sections he seems to prefer a 

 four-piece tall section, the size of which is 3)4 

 inches by 0% inches. 



'■The sections were placed in a hanging 

 frame, and tin separators were attached to 

 the frame. Mr. Doolittle gave me a message 

 for British bee-keepers, which 1 will repeat 

 here while I remember it. ' If you tell them 

 nothing else from me,' he said, ' impress on 



Mr. a. B. Cook, familiarly linown as 

 " Bert " Cook, the son of Prof. A. J. Cook, is 

 coming into prominence in Michigan, the 

 State in which his father was so prominent in 

 years gone by. He has been honored with the 

 position of president of the Michigan State 

 Association of Farmers' Clubs. 



The Lone Star Apiarist has made its 

 first bow to Texas and other bee-keepers, 

 edited by Louis SchoU. In one respect it has 

 made a stride such as is usually made later on. 

 It has merged into it the Southland Queen, 

 which merging was accomplished before the 

 first number was off the press, indeed before 

 the first number was fully on the press. Suc- 

 cess to the '■ Lone{some) Star." 



Mr. J. Warren Sherman and Apiary 

 are shown on the first page this w.eek. When 

 sending the pictures he wrote as follows: 



I send a picture of my apiary, my sisters, 

 and my children. It is hard work to get a 

 picture of the apiary as it is too shady. The 

 lower picture is the apiary. The house on 

 the right is the honey-house and house-apiary, 

 and is used for queen-rearing exclusively; it 

 contains 2fi colonies of bees. 



I commenced bee-keeping four years ago, 

 by catching a stray swarm that came to a 

 friend of mine, and was hived in a soap-box. 

 I transferred them to an 8-frame Langstroth 

 hive, and have been using that kind of a hive 

 ever since. 



My average 3'ield of honey in 1901 was 60 

 pounds per colony, of comb and extracted, as 

 I run for both. 



You can see by the picture that it is rightly 

 named, " Shady Nook Apiary,'' although this 

 picture was taken in the winter. 



The upper picture shows my two sisters on 

 the right and my three daughters on the left. 

 They are interested in bee-keeping, too. This 

 picture shows only one hive in the back- 

 ground, the rest being too much in the shade. 

 J. Warren Sherman. 



Mrs. E. H. Stewart, of Niagara Falls 

 South, Out., passed away, Feb. S, after suffer- 

 ing about 4 weeks with the bursting of a 

 blood-vessel in the brain. She was 41 years 

 and-.D months old— just in her prime. Mrs. 

 York and the writer met Mrs. Stewart the first 

 time at the World's Fair convention, and liked 

 her so well. She seemed such a good and 

 true little woman. Then, when at the Buffalo 

 convention, several years ago, she invited Dr. 

 Miller and us to her little home in Ontario, 

 after the convention. We spent the night 

 there and in the morning she and Mr. Stewart 

 took us to see Niagara Falls — the first time 

 we had beheld that great wonder. 



But Mrs. Stewart is gone. She was a con- 

 sistent Christian, loved and beloved. Her 

 husband and children remain to mourn her 

 untimely death, but also to live so that when 

 their time shall have come to leave this world, 

 they will go to meet the "little mother ''In 

 that "Better Land." 



