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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15. 



our discoveries, and withholds no credit. He 

 does not say that the upper head glands secrete 

 the larval food, but, as I showed by actual ex- 

 periment, a year ago. the larval food is really 

 chyle, or a product of true digestion in the true 

 stomach. I fed bees syrup with pulverized 

 charcoal in it, and found the latter in the royal 

 jelly. This could not occur if royal jelly were 

 a secretion. 



Our bees in the cellar seem to be doing very 

 nicely. We must praise the past" two winters 

 for bees, even if we can not boast of the sum- 

 mers and their product. A. J. Cook. 



Agricultural College, Mich. 



[At the Detroit convention somebody asked 

 whether chilled brood i)roduced foul brood. I 

 answered. " Not unless corn gi'ows \\here corn 

 has never been planted." R. L. Taylor added. 

 "Or when wheat turns to chess." As good au- 

 thority as R. L. Taylor gave us experiments 

 that seemed to prove most positively that sugar 

 syrup is a safer winter diet than lioney. and I 

 supposed this was well settled more than ten 

 years ago. I have fed bees syrup all winter 

 long, both outdoors and in the cellar, just on 

 purpose to see whether it would hurt them. 

 They came out strong and healthy. I liave, 

 however, had bees die from spring dwindling 

 when it looked somewhat as if fettling during 

 cold weather aggi'avated the malady. That 

 expei'iment with pulverized cluircoal in the syr- 

 up was a bright idea. I congratulate you on it, 

 friend Cook.] 



ILLINOIS PROPOSES TO HAVE A LAW TO PRE- 

 VENT SPRAYING FRUIT-TREES WHEN IT 

 MAY POISON THE BEES AND HONEY. 



THK ADVANTAGE OF HAVING A IJVE BP:E-MAN 

 IN THE EEGISI.ATUKE. 



Friend Root: — Inclosed please find two bills 

 which I hav<! had the pleasure of introducing 

 into our Legislature. Should they meet with a 

 favorable consideration from you, any com- 

 ments through Gleanings will be highly ap- 

 preciated by myself and the many friends de- 

 sirous of their passage. J. M. Hambaugh. 



Springfield, 111., Mar. 31. 



37th Assem. house— No. 607. Mar. 1891. 



1. Iiitroducert by Mr. Hanibjiug-h, March C6, 1891. 



2. Read by title M:nch 26, 1891, ordered printed, 

 and refeirerl to conHnittee on liorticulture. 



For an act to protect bees from poison tlirong-h the 

 spraying or otherwise treating- of fruit or other 

 trees, shrubs, vines, or plants, with London pui'- 

 ple. Paris g-reen, white arsenic, or other viiulent 

 poisons, wliile the aforesaid trees, slirulis, vines, 

 or plants are in bloom. 



Whereas, spra.ving of trees, shrubs, vines, or 

 plants at tlie proper time greatly improves the con- 

 ditions favorable foi- a crop of fruit, and 



Whereas, sprajing should never be permitted un- 

 til the blossoms have fallen fwnii the latest bloom- 

 ing trees, and 



Whereas, the insects injurious to fruit do not 

 make their appearance until about ten days after 

 the bloom, and 



Whereas, the spraying of trees, shrubs, ATues, etc., 

 while the same are in bloom poisons the bees and 

 seriously injures tlie bee-keepers and reduces the 

 signal benefits to the fruil-growi'rs, who have re- 

 peatedly demonstrated that tlie bees ensure better 

 crops, therefore 



Section I. Be U enacted hy the People of the State 

 of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That 

 it shall be unlawful for any person to spray anj- 

 fruit-trees. shrubs, vines, or plants, with Paris 

 green, London purple, white arsenic, or other viru- 

 lent poisons, or to scatter upon such trees, shrubs. 



vines, or plants, powdered London purple, Paris 

 green, white arsenic, or other virulent poisons, 

 while such trees, shrubs, vines, or plants are in blos- 

 som, and so may be visited by honey-bees in quest of 

 nectar or pollen. 



And that any person who shall spray such trees, 

 shi'ubs, vines, or plants with London purple, Paris 

 green, wliite arsenie, or other virulent jioisons, or 

 shall scatter the poison upon the same while in blos- 

 som, shall l)e deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 foi- the tirst offense shall lie punished by tine in any 

 sum not less than five dollars, and for the second ot- 

 fense by tine ill any sum not less than twentj-flve 

 dollars; and, in default of payment of the same, by 

 imprisonment in the county jail not more than nine- 

 ty days. 



Sec. II. The fines resulting from the operations of 

 this statute shall be jiaid to the State Treasurer by 

 the court imposing the same, and be placed by said 

 treasurer to the credit of tlie Illinois Bee-keepers' 

 Association to be used by said association in jiromot- 

 ing and developing the industrv of bee-keeping in 

 this State. 



Sec. III. The Illinois Bee-keepers' Association 

 may in its discretion employ a competent pei'son as 

 an executive officer for service in enforcing the pro- 

 visions of this statute, whose powers, duties, and 

 title shall hv ijrescribed by said bee-keepers' associa- 

 tion, and whose eompensation shall be fixed by said 

 association suhjert to the approval of the Governoi'. 

 Said executive otticer shall be removable at the 

 pleasure of said association. 



Sec. IV. The fines resulting from the opei'ation 

 of this statute, or so much thereof as may be neces- 

 sary for the purposes named above, are hereby ap- 

 propriated to defray the cost and expense of the work 

 contemplated by this act, to be paid by the State Trea- 

 surer from funds not otherwise appropriated, upon 

 warrants drawn otil.v upon itemized vouchers, and 

 bills signed by the president of the Illinois Bee- 

 keepeis' Association, countei'signed by the secretary 

 thereof, and ajipitwed by the Governor. And pro- 

 vided, further, that in no event shall the State of 

 Illinois be held or become liable in any amount in 

 excess of the revenue obtained through the opera- 

 tions of this statute. 



37th Assem. house— No. 599. Mar. 1891. 



1. Introduced by Mr. Hambaugli, March 25, 1891. 



2. Read by title March 2:), ls91, ordered printed, 

 and referred to eommittee on appropriations. 



For an act to provide for the participation of the 

 State of Illinois in the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, autlioiized by an act of Congress (jf the Unit- 

 ed States, to be held in the city ot Chicago during 

 the year 1893, in commemoration of the discovery 

 of America in the year 1492; and for an appropria- 

 tion to paj' the cost and expense of the same. 



Whereas, the lai-ge revenues derived annually 

 from the sale of honey by the bee-keepers of Illinois 

 make this important industry worthy of the foster- 

 ing care of the General Assembly, and 



Whereas, a creditable apiarian exhibit by tlie bee- 

 keepers of Illinois at the World's Columbian Expo- 

 .sitiini to be held in Chicago in 1893 will call marked 

 attention to this growing industry and greatly assist 

 in the development ot the same, and thereb.v add 

 largely to the material prospei'ity of the State, and 



Whereas, the Illinois Bee-keeiiers' Association, an 

 organization composed of the leading apiarists of 

 the State, and duly incorporated in compliance 

 with the statutes of this State, have petitioned this 

 General Assembly for an aiipropriation to defray 

 the exjjenses of making an exhibit of bees, honey, 

 apiaiy supplies, and appliances at tlie World's Co- 

 lumbian Exposition in 1893, therefore 



Section I. Bi it enacted hij the people of Illinois, 

 represented in the General Assembly, That there be 

 and is hereby appropriated to the Illinois Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association, out of any mone.v in the treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, tlu' following sums, to- 

 wit: For the payment of the expenses of making 

 an exhibit of bees, honey, apiary supplies, and ap- 

 pliances at the World's Columbian Exjiosition to be 

 held in Chicago in 1893, the sum of five thousand 

 dollars, or so much of said sum as may be required 

 to make a creditable display. 



Sec. 11. The Illinois Bee-keepeis' Association may 

 in its discretion employ a competent person as an 

 executive officer for service in preparatory work 

 and care of the State Apiarian Exhibit, whose pow- 



