1920 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



343 



season of the year there is usually a 

 dearth, with nothing coming in what- 

 ever. A burnt over woodland has 

 caused this weed to bloom this season 

 in the greatest profusion. 



My scale hive record since July 20 

 is as follows : 



Gain. Loss. 



July 20 W/, 



July 21 U'A 



July 22 S'A 



July 23 4y2 



July 24 lyi 



luly 25 10 



July 26 9 



luly 27 IS'A 



Inly 28 17 



July 29 &y2 



July 30 3 



July 31 14 



August 1 3 



August 2 9 



August 3 13 



August 4 10 



August 5 18 



163J4 6 

 Net gain in 17 days, 157}4 pounds. 

 If this weed has not been men- 

 tioned it seems worthy of a prominent 

 place." 



E. M. BARTEAU. 



HONEY PRODUCERS' LEAGUE 



The American Honey Producers' 

 League is the most important move- 

 ment in the way of organization of 

 the beekeepers ever yet instituted. It. 

 is the product of the best brains of 

 our American honey producers. That 

 it cannot function without the moral 

 and financial support of the bee- 

 keepers is self evident. Any state or 

 regional association which fails to 

 provide for membership and to send a 

 delegation to the next annual meet- 

 ing in January will be making a mis- 

 take. If funds of your association 

 are not available, by all means raise 

 the amount of subscription. Do not 

 get the notion that the League is a 

 sectional affair. It is national or in- 

 ternational in its scope. Its policy 

 under the constitution, will be deter- 

 mined by the delegate membership, 

 and be sure your Association is rep- 

 resented. A peimanent Secretary 

 has not yet been selected. The Presi- 

 dent, Mr. E. G. LeStourgeon, San An- 

 tonio, Tex., will be able to furnish 

 copies of the constitution and other 

 literature. Write for them. 



E. S. MILLER. 



Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 6, 1920. 



A NEW HONEY PLANT 



Jes Dalton, of Louisiana, sends us 

 a specimen which has furnished a 

 good honey flow the past season. It 

 is Lizard's tail (Saururus cernuus), 

 called in some places swamp lily, or 

 breastweed. It grows in swamps or 

 on muddy banks, and is found from 

 New England and Ontario to Minne- 

 sota south to Louisiana and Texas. 

 There are many plants common to 

 the swamps which are the sources of 

 honey, which the beekeepers have not 

 yet learned to recognize, and we are 

 glad to receive specimens of this 

 kind. This plant is a marsh herb, 

 growing from one to four or five feet 

 high, with slender rootstocks, jointed 



stem and ovate or heartshaped leaves. 

 The small white flowers are crowded 

 together on long, dense spikes. Mr. 

 Dalton writes that this year it began 

 blooming before the close of the 

 spring flow and carried the bees over 

 the season when they usually have a 

 dearth until the summer flow came 

 in July. By overlapping both the us- 

 ual spring and summer flows it gave 

 a continuous season from the time 

 spring opened till the close of the 

 summer flow. He states that al- 

 though there are hundreds of acres 

 of it near by, he has not known it to 

 yield before, and he wonders whether 

 if will come again. He says that it 

 yields very freely a fine-flavored, yel- 

 low honey of unusual color, and that 

 it would be of inestimable value if it 

 could be depended upon to yield every 

 season. 



We will be glad to hear from any 

 of our readers who have been in the 

 vicinity of swamp lands as to whether 

 they have had flows from this plant, 

 and if so, whether it yields frequently. 



ANOTHER REMEDY FOR STINGS 



I have fried about all the remedies 

 for stings, but the juice of an onion 

 is the best of all. If the juice is 

 squeezed directly on the wound im- 

 mediately and kept up for a little 

 time, there will be no swelling. When 

 stung in the mouth an onion chewed 

 up and held in the mouth is an eiTec- 

 tive remedy. 



We cut a bee tree a few years ago 

 in August. There were six combs 10 

 inches wide and 5 feet long, with 

 every inch filled with sealed brood, 

 but not a quarter of a pound of honey. 

 ANDREW MILES. 



Indiana. 



ROCHESTER ATTEMPTS TO OUT- 

 LAW BEES 



Some time since. Alderman Morgan, 

 of the Nineteenth Ward of the city of 

 Rochester, N. Y., introduced an ordi- 

 nance prohibiting the keeping of bees 

 within the city limits without the 

 consent of all persons living within 

 200 feet of where the bees are kept. 



The Monroe County 'beekeepers' 

 Association, through its officers, at 



once protested. J. S. Bryan, Vice 

 President of the organization, has 

 employed an attorney to represent 

 the beekeepers in opposing the pas- 

 sage of the ordinance. Rochester is 

 one of the cities where the National, 

 in the days of its usefulness, fought 

 a legal battle to secure the discharge 

 of a beekeeper arrested for keeping 

 bees in violation of a city ordinance. 

 At that time the court ruled the or- 

 dinance unconstitutional and the de- 

 fendant was acquitted. It is interest- 

 ing to note that this same city pro- 

 poses to try the same experiment 

 again, after many years of time, in 

 spite of numerous court decisions to 

 the effect that an ordinance declaring 

 bees to be a nuisance, whether they 

 be so in fact or not, is null and void. 



The matter will come up for hear- 

 ing in due time, though we anticipate 

 that the ordinance will not be passed. 

 The following remonstrance has been 

 filed with the law committee of the 

 common council by Attorney Bryan, 

 in co-operation with President Gor- 

 don Dye and Secretary Frank Pills- 

 bury of the association : 



Rochester, N. Y., July 30. 1920. 

 Law Committee, Common Council of 



the City of Rochester, Rochester, 



N. Y.: 



Gentlemen: In behalf of the Mon- 

 roe County Beekeepers' Society, I 

 herewith present and file the follow- 

 ing objections to the passage of 

 the ordinance introduced by Alder- 

 man Morgan relating to the keeping 

 of bees within the City of Rochester: 



1. Bees are not a nuisance. 



2. The question of nuisance is one 

 to be judicially determined in each 

 case. 



3. The proposed ordinance attempts 

 to declare the keeping of bees a 

 nuisance without regard as to 

 whether or not bees in general have 

 become a nuisance within the city. 



4. There is no proof of the neces- 

 sity of such an exercise of police 

 power as contemplated. 



5. That the passage of the proposed 

 ordinance would be an unlawful in- 

 terference with the rights to pursue 

 a lawful business. 



6. That the passage of the proposed 



Apicultura! building at the Canadian Government Farms at Ottawa. 



