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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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THE STAFF 



C. P. Dadant Editor 



FSANK C. Pbllett Associate Editor 



Mau«ic« G. Dada:jt Business Manager 



(Copyright 1921 by C. P Dadant.) 



THE EDITORS' VIEWPOINTS 



Advertising That Counts 



From California comes the report 

 that the California Peach Growers' 

 Association will spend $125,000 in a 

 special advertising campaign during 

 the spring months. This money is to 

 be spent in the region east of the Mis- 

 souri River, where it is desired to call 

 attention to the fine quality of Cali- 

 fornia peaches. 



If California peach growers can 

 advertise with profit in a territory 

 2,000 miles from home, it is certainly 

 time for the beekeepers to awake to 

 the value of printers' ink in calling 

 public attention to the product of 

 the apiary. Honey was once almost 

 universally used, but various sugars 

 and syrups have replaced it in thou- 

 sands of homes. The war was re- 

 sponsible for its return to many of 

 these tables, but it will take action on 

 the part of the honey producers to 

 keep it there. Printers' ink is the 

 most effective means. The Honey 

 Producers' League is making a start 

 in that direction, but cannot go far 

 without funds. If the peach growers 

 of California can afford to spend 

 $125,000 for advertising within a 

 few months, how much should the 

 honey producers of the whole country 

 spend during the coming year? 



A Visitor From the Orient 



We had a vei-y interesting visit, the 

 last Monday in March. It was from 

 Mr. Alex. Livshitz, professor of bee- 

 keeping and poultry keeping at the 

 Jaffa Agricultural College, estab- 

 lished by the Alliance Israelite Uni- 

 verselle, under French and Hebrew 

 support at Jaffa, Palestine. Jaffa is 

 ^west of Jerusalem, on the Mediter- 

 ranean shore. It is a country where 

 oranges, almonds and other fruits are 

 grown, with irrigation, while olives 

 and grapes are raised without irriga- 

 tion. They also produce silk, poultry 

 and bees. The honey crop there is of 

 very short duration and exceedingly 

 early. So they need strong colonies, 

 made so by stimulation, early in the 

 spring. Mr. Livshitz' method is to 

 divide the colony, in the fall, in two, 

 with a division board, perforated with 

 a number of very small holes, so that 

 the bees may retain or acquire the 

 same odor. Then the smaller half of 

 the colony is supplied with a queen- 

 cell. The queen hatches, is fertilized 



and begins to lay. This gives double 

 results in egg laying. When there is 

 no longer any demand for an increase 

 of numbers, the poorer of the two 

 queens is done away with and the 

 bees re-united. 



Mr. Livshitz is a very interesting 

 talker, speaking five languages — 

 Russian, which is his native tongue; 

 English, French, German and He- 

 brew. He has also quite a smattering 

 of Italian, and appears to have mas- 

 tered all systems of beekeeping. He 

 teaches the Dadant methods, with the 

 help of the Russian edition of "The 

 Hive and Honey Bee." But he la- 

 ments the fact that the fourth edition 

 of this book is now out of print and 

 that there is little prospect of getting 

 anything printed in Russian for some 

 years to come, in this line. 



He considers the Palestine bees as 

 better for that country than the Ital- 

 ians, which he has also tried. The 

 bees of Palestine have whitish bands 

 on the abdomen and a very heavy 

 coat of grayish hairs, which causes 

 them to resemble the Caucasians. But 

 when they lose their hairs by old age 

 and activity they are vei-y black- 

 looking. They are very peaceable, 

 and hang well to the combs. 



During the conversation, a» he 

 mentioned the appearance of the 

 country, in Palestine Mr. Dadant, 

 Senior, remarked that the best in- 

 formation which he had secured of 

 that countiy was from the writings 

 of a French author of 1832, Lamar- 

 tine, the latter having spent several 

 years in Palestine and the Lebanon, 

 and having for a number of months 

 lived in Jaffa. "Yes," said Mr. Liv- 

 shitz, "my apiary is located in a 

 garden which they call 'Lamartine's 

 Garden,' because Lamartino lived in 

 the house which is surrounded by 

 that garden, and the inhabitants en- 

 joy retaining the remembranca of 

 this noted v^Titer's stay. Lamartine's 

 particular writings on this subject are 

 entitled "Voyage En Orient." He 

 had chartered ;. ship for this voyage 

 and lived like a potentate during his 

 stay in Asia Minor. But his sole in- 

 come was his pen. 



Mr. Livshitz remained only a day 

 with us, and after giving us an invi- 

 tation to visit Palestine and promis- 

 ing us, in that event, "a beekeepers' 

 convention" for, said he, "they know 



South Carolina Progress 



Professor A. F. Conradi, State En- 

 tomologist, is sending out several 

 leaflets to beekeepers, in which he 

 shows the advisability of quitting the 

 box hives and gums. He gives 13 

 reasons for using movable-frame 

 hives in preference. He also shows 

 the advantages of association and co- 

 operation and, in addition, advises as 

 to the location of the apiary. Ad- 

 dress him or the Beekeeping Exten- 

 sion Specialist, Mr. E. S. Prevost, at 

 Clemson College, S. C. 



Pennsylvania Beekeeping La'w 



Pennsylvania has passed Bill No. 

 863, for the prevention, control and 

 eradication of diseases among bees. 

 This law permits the Secretary of Ag- 

 I'iculture to establish quarantines to 

 control shipment of bees into or 

 within the State. The Chief Apiary 

 Adviser is to examine all queen-rear- 

 ing apiaries twice each summer. Ev- 

 ei-y beekeeper rearing queens for sale 

 must apply for inspection. 



Besides, Section 9 orders that, af- 

 ter July 1, 1923, it will be unlawful 

 to keep bees in any other than a mod- 

 em movable-frame hive, which per- 

 mits every comb to be examined to 

 determine the presence of bee dis- 

 ease. The attention of those of our 

 friends in Europe, who still support 

 and recommend the use of skeps or 

 box hives, is called to this regulation, 

 which already exists in several coun- 

 tries. The day is not far distant 

 when they will realize themselves 

 that it is as good a measure as that 

 of compulsory vaccination or inocula- 

 tion against contagious diseases in 

 human beings. 



The te.xt of the Pennsylvania law 

 may be secured by those interested, 

 by addressing the State Chief Apiary 

 Adviser, Chas. N. Greene,Harrisburg, 

 Pa. 



A Newspaper Story 



"Stung 4,000 Times! — At 85, Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, of Marengo, 111., looks 

 back on 59 years of successful bee- 

 keeping. He had tried fourteen dif- 

 ferent kinds of work before that. In 

 1861 his wife caught a swarm of bees 

 and hived them in a sugar barrel. Dr. 

 Miller became so interested that he 

 made beekeeping his life work. Now 

 he sells 20,000 pounds of section 

 honey yearly and is worth nearly 

 $2,000,000. He has been stung 4,000 

 times, has become immune from bee 

 .sting, and has invented a successful 

 treatment which brings him a consid- 

 erable income." — LaCrosse Leader- 

 Press, April 13. 



The above clipping was sent to us 

 by Mr. C. F. Lang, of LaCrosse, with 

 the question: "Where do they get 

 such news?" Echo answers. Where? 

 Where did you get this, Mi\ LaCrosse 

 Leader-Press? 



Is it possible to put so many false- 

 hoods in so small a space? This is 

 just silly, but when they exercise 

 their ingenuity in trying to create ill- 



