Mar. 14, 1907 



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) American T^ee Journal 



slow In buying bees, queens and brood foun- 

 dation. In regard to disease, I have some 

 reason to believe that a stood share of the 

 dead brood and foul brood is caused by the 

 chemicals that are used in clurifying the bees- 

 wax at the foundation factories. liuyio(f 

 queens is also a line way of getting disease 

 into your bee-yard. If there ie another fellow 

 in the whole world that has less use for yel- 

 low bees than ujyself, I would like very 

 much to know it. If I have ever had any dis- 

 ease in my bee-yard, I do not Know it. I am 

 well pleased with brown bees. They swarm 

 less, are good super-workers, and make 

 plump, white combs, and stand the cold best. 



I wish to offer a little criticism on what is 

 found on page 108, where Mr. Doolittle says 

 it is all a mytli that bees in normal condition 

 do not freeze to death. It is just the reverse, 

 if you please. Those Northern losses are all 

 caused by cold weather, and if those losers 

 will try again with common bees they will 

 succeed all right. 



As to bees injuring grapes, they do not. 

 Neither do the birds, but it ie the change in 

 the atmosphere that brealis the rind of apples 

 and the skin of grapes; a sort of second- 

 growth. Certain varieties are worse than 

 others, Mr. A. I. Root, of Ohio, some 30 

 years ago, screened in a grape-vine and so re- 

 , ported; at least it was in Gleanings that I 

 saw it. 



As I have taken 3 swarms of bees out of the 

 walls of dwelling-houses, I would like to 

 know how those house-apiary men are making 

 it go. My next experimenting will be with 

 little houses, keeping the bees in them in win- 

 ter and summer. 



The good "old reliable" American Bee 

 Journal comes to my office as regularly as 

 clock-work. Surely, it is a fine Journal. 

 Long may it live I Karl J. Lohmann. 



Clinton Co., Mo., Feb. IS. 



[We are afraid Mr. Lohmann would find it 

 rather difficult to prove that chemicals used 

 in clarifying beeswax cause dead^or diseased 

 brood. — Editor ] 



Expects More SpFing Dwindling 



Bees had a fair flight here March 3d. I 

 have not lost any colonies, though a few are 

 more or less affected with dysentery. I look 

 for more spring dwindling here than usual. 



Norwich, Conn. Allen Latuam. 



A Correction. — In the item on page 165, 

 in " Calcium Chloride in the Bee-Cellar," by 

 Allen Latham, in speaking of the bees' need 

 of fresh air, he should be made to say, 

 " Their need of fresh air is ?iot like our need 

 of fresh air— that is, plenty of oxygen." 

 Such statement harmonizes better with the 

 rest of the item. Mr. Latham is experiment- 

 ing this winter still fnrther, and finds that 

 bees need almost no fresh air, provided the 

 moisture is taken care of. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Texas.— The Northern Texas Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its annual meeting at 

 Ladonia, Tex., on April 3 and 4, 1907. All 

 bee-keepers are invited to attend. No hotel 

 bills to pay. W. H. White, Sec. 



Blossom, Tex. 



Michigan.— The Northern Michigan Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its next annual 

 convention at East Jordan, Mich., on April 

 10 and 11, 1907. Headquarters will be at the 

 Russell House, where a $1.00 per day rate has 

 been secured. Ira D. Bartlett, Sec. 



East Jordan, Mich. 



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Something New=The Ideal Hive=TooI 



Bee-keepers have long needed a special Tool to work among the hives during the bee- 

 season. The one shown here was invented by Wm. Muench, a Minnesota bee-keeper some 

 years ago, but it was not on the market before. We have lately bought this Tool and ail 

 rights, from Mr. Muench's widow, and have had the first lot made. They are ready for de- 

 livery now. 



(This picture is exactly une-ha!f the sise.) 



ati R^^^.^l^''''^'^^C'^^^}?^''^ Hive-Tool is made of high-crade malleable iron, much like wrought iron, 

 f^h .S^nf '°°f ■, .?,'',1"L'""® .'?''",!? ' '■"' '"'^hes wide and 7-:jJ thick. The smaller end is ijfi inches long, ii 

 1.?™^"'!^'""* '"f- "i"^;''-, ending like a screw-driver. The larger end is wedge-shaped, having a sharp slm? 

 circular edge, making it almost perfect for prying up covers, supers, etc.. as it does not mar the wood 



What Dr. Miller and Miss Wilson Say of It: 



In the first edition (1903) of Dr. Miller's "Forty Years Among the Bees," page 58, he 

 says: "Of all the hive-tools I have tried, I like best the Muench tool." On Jan V 1907, hs 

 wrote us saying he thought " just as much of the tool as ever." 



Miss Wilson, Dr. Miller's atsistant, says this of the Ideal Hive-Tool : " It is an ideal tool 

 In fact, I don't see how it could be improved upon. I am sure we would feel utterly lost in 

 the apiary without it You will have to try one yourself if you want to know its worth." 



The " Ideal Hive-Tool " Free as a Premium. 



We will mail an Ideal Hive-Tool FREE as a premium to any present paid-in-advance 

 subscriber to the American Bee Journal, for sending us ONE NEW subscription for a year at 

 $100; or we will send the American Bee Journal one year and the Ideal Hive-Tool— both 

 for SI. 30. Price of the Ideal Hive-Tool alone, postpaid, 30 cents. Address, 



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