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GEORGE W. YORK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL,, JUNE 13. 1907 



Vol. XLVII— No. 24 



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Mr. J. L/. Byer, of Mount .Joj, Unt., has 

 been appointed Inspector for the district east 

 of Toronto as far as Belleville and north, in- 

 cluding Peterboro and Victoria counties. The 

 other inspectors for Ontario are as follows : 



Wm. McEvoy, of Woodburn ; Jacob Al- 

 paugh, of Dobbinton; James Armstrong, of 

 Cheapside; H. G. Sibbald, of Claude; and M. 

 B. Holmes, of Athens. 



We congratulate Mr. Byer upon his new 

 position, and also the bee-keepers in his dis- 

 trict upon the appointment of so capable a 

 bee-keeper to inspect their apiaries. 



Darwin's Nationality. — We have re- 

 ceived the following referring to the nation- 

 ality of Charles Darwin : 



Mr. Editor:— On page 4.30, Burton N. 

 Gates says that Charles Darwin's volume on 

 the earthworm "is a noble example of the 

 German spirit in American research." Does 

 that mean that Darwin was an American? 



E. J. 



It is not safe to say exactly what may have 

 been meant, but at any rate Charles Darwin 

 was an Englishman. 



A Traitor to Bee-Keepers. — We have 

 received a communication from Mr. Jas. A. 

 Stone, Secretary of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' , Association, and also a member of 

 that Association's Legislative Committee. It 

 seems that a discovery was made while at- 

 tempting to secure the passage of certain 

 Bills in the interest of bee-keepers, and the 

 following tells about it: 



Bee-Keepers, Take Warning! 



What shall we name him when we find a 

 " traitor in the camp of Israel;" For what 

 can we call him but a traitor to bee-keepers, 

 when he has done his very best to prevent 

 legislation in their favor? He says in quite 



a lengthy letter td the chairman of the com 

 mittce in the Senate — before whom our Fou 

 Brood Bill was to pass — that he is " the 

 largest bee-keeper in the State of Illinois," 

 and he " does not want a foul brood law." He 

 " can see after his bees himself." Also says, 

 " It is a combine that are asking for the law, 

 that will permit them to burn a man's bee- 

 hives so tliey can sell him more," etc. 



When the Foul Brood Bill was to come be- 

 fore the Agricultural Committee in the Sen- 

 ate, the committees representing the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association were there. 

 When the Bill was read before the Senate 

 Committee, and the chairman allowed our 

 members to be heard, he said: "We will 

 postpone action on this Bill one week, till 

 this committee has heard a letter from a bee- 

 keeper, that I have at the hotel." 



That afternoon we had an opportunity to 

 read the letter. We surprised the senator 

 who held the letter, by telling him the author 

 of it before he named him to us. 



That evening we sent out a few letters to 

 our friends, telling them the condition, and 

 how anxious some of the Senate were to hear 

 from them, and it resulted as follows : 



One week from that day we were at the 

 Senate again, with u stenographer in readiness 

 to get a verbatim copy of that letter. 



When we told the chairman of the Senate 

 Committee we wanted to be present at its 

 meeting, he answered, " We can not meet to- 

 day ; but that letter will not be read, and we 

 will report your Bill out favorably." 



We heard no more from that letter either 

 in the Senate or House. The Bill passed the 

 Senate, but was defeated in the House on its 

 passage; the same old objection — " Don't like 

 to create a new ollice." 



The warning, we think, ought to be given 

 to bee-keepers is this: Be careful what you 

 buy of a bee-keeper who is afraid of the foul- 

 brood law as we offered it in the last session 

 of the Legislature (see page 17 of our 6th An- 

 nual Report.) 



"No rOKue e'( 

 With good ' 



lett the baiter draw, 



"II ion of the law." 



We have meniiooed no names, but any 

 member of our l,e,'islative Committee, or of 

 the committee l.. araft our Bills, can name 

 this party it ask _ ; to do so. But our advice 



is to treat him as the Legislature learned to do, 



viz. : As an adulterator who did not want a 



law that prevented him from selling his goods. 



Jas. A. Stone, 



fiec. Jit. Stale Hee- Keepers' Asuoriation, 



and one of the Legislative Vommittee, 



We thought at first that we might make an 

 extended comment on the foregoing, but per- 

 haps it is unnecessary, as Mr. Stone has made 

 it very plain. It is almost unthinkable that 

 there could be, in the ranks of bee-keepers, 

 one who would do what the " traitor" did, 

 to whom Mr. Stone refers. Surely, he should 

 be denied membership in any bee-keepers' 

 organization, for he has clearly shown that 

 he is not in sympathy with the objects of 

 such organization, but, on the contrary, is an 

 enemy. 



We suppose Mr. Traitor thinks he has suc- 

 ceeded in preventing legislation, but his day 

 of reckoning will certainly come. In fact, it 

 seems that already some people are " getting 

 onto him " as an "adulterator." Such have 

 been discovered before, among bee-keepers, 

 and then their "days were numbered " as bee- 

 keepers. 



It Is to be hoped that at the next session of 

 the Illinois Legislature bee-keepers may get 

 all they ask for, and thus be in line with those 

 of other States where needed laws are being 

 enacted to prevent the spread of disease 

 among bees. 



Worcester Co., Blass., Association. — 



There are in Massachusetts two bee-keeper's 

 associations, of which the Worcester County 

 Association claims the lead in activity. It is 

 the older of the two, and has an active mem- 

 bership of nearly 100. The meetings are held 

 once in each winter month, on the second 

 Saturday, in Horticultural Hall. All pro- 

 ceedings are open to the public and are 

 largely in the interest of the general welfare. 

 Once each year, they hold, with the State 

 Board of Agriculture, an Institute and all-day 

 session — an occasion of the gathering from 

 over New England of the prominent bee- 

 keepers. The Institute for this year was held 

 in February as reported on another page of 

 this issue. 



Membership of the Association is not limi- 

 ted to those of Worcester County nor the 

 State, but any one interested in New England 

 is eligible to membership. One fee, 50 cents. 



