1892 



liLEANINCJS IN BEE CULTURE. 



429 



light hnioil. li is piovoUiiitf that bees will not 

 always lio thiiiirs aliUc Why didirt tlu-y inaUc 

 tlu' fiiiiiKlaiiiMi hiii-klc last fall, as well as this 

 spiiii^. iiinlcr comlitinns thai seem to he pfccisc- 

 Iv parallel, and saved iis this morlilicatit)ii '.' 

 llowcvef. tlwfo is no tronhlc witii iiiciliinii hi'ood 

 foundation on hoii/.ontal wires, and w(> believe 

 that it is thisiirade that is used :ind rt'LH)iHinen(i- 

 ed by those who are enthusiastic on horizontal 

 wirinjj. 



( V1U5AXT WORMS— LOOK OUT! 



Day before yt»sterday I was showing Mrs. 

 Root our great thrifty gooselierry-bnshes, load- 

 ed with fruit, ami 1 jiointed to the fact that not 

 a currant woi in had as yet made its appearance, 

 .lust 4S hours after, two large tine bushes were 

 stripped of their leaves, so that nothing but the 

 green fruit hung from bare poles. For a while 

 I was pretty nearly as mad as a Christian has 

 any right to be. Didn't I dust those fellows 

 with hellebore! and then didn't I make huge 

 resolutions that I would watch my gooseberry 

 and currant bushes every day instead of every 

 iit]u'r day! You see, these fellows live over 

 winter inthe ground. They got pretty bad last 

 fall when I was sick, and so 1 had not watched 

 for them. Hut 1 presume the weather had kept 

 them back until the conditions were just right, 

 and then they just "went in" for my choice 

 gooseberries. Now. remember you have had a 

 fair warning. A stitch in time certainly saves 

 nine. A. I. R. 



SPRAYING. AND THK WAY' IT IS DAMAGING 

 KKK-KEEPING INTERESTS. 



The following are samples of some of the 

 reports that we get from time to time, proving 

 beyond doubt that spraying while the trees are 

 in bloom is fearfully destructive to bees: 



Friend Root : — Reports come from Strawtown, 

 seven iniies northeast of liere, tliat the farmers' 

 bees are all dyiuR, caused, as suspected, from fruit- 

 tree spraying-. Foree-tiumj) uyents have canvassed 

 that country witli their maeliiiies. and excited the 

 wliole neigiit)orliood. Tlie next thing will be tlie 

 ruin of tlieir orcliards by using- insecticides too 

 strong. G. L. Hollenbach. 



Xoblesville. Ind., May 23. 



In your journal of May 1st I read Prof. Cook's 

 letter on tlie spraying- of trees while in liloom. I 

 am very much pleased witli his letter, and believe 

 it is tlie most valuat)le one that lias appeared in the 

 journal for many j'ears. Judging- from the poison- 

 ed colonies that I examined after they -were killed 

 bv neighljoi's mixing- Paris green in honey and 

 placing it where the bees took it, and from all tlie 

 reports of the killing of bees by ignorant fruit- 

 growers sijraying tiees while in l)IO(jm, I CI insider it 

 a very danner'int.s Ihind to spnti/ trHit-tree.'< with Parin 

 green vJiile Oiey are in hlooin. If the fruit trees in 

 every luc.ility were sprayed with poison while In 

 full bloom it would kill every colony of bees; and, 

 ■wliat would l)e still worse, it would kill every fam- 

 ily that used tlie honey after the bees were poison- 

 ed. Wm. McBvoy. 



Foul-brood I nspector for the Province of Ont., Can. 



Woodbuni, May 23. 



That spraying does kill bees when improperly 

 done, ciin not now be disproved. Facts are 

 stubborn things, and what bee-keepers need to 

 do is to labor with the pump-manufacturers, 

 and induce them to modify their directions so 

 as not to be injurious to the bee-keeping inter- 

 ests. Prof. Cook's article on page .322 (May 

 1st issue; covers the whole question, and we 

 shall be glad to mail it to any addres-; that may 

 be given to us. If we get out of this number we 

 will print extra leaflets of the article, for gratu- 

 itous distribution^ 



INCORPORATION OF THE N. A. B. K. A., AGAIN. 



The following from Prof. Cook, has our most 

 hearty indorsement: and if the Canadian quar- 

 tet or trio, as the case may be, can not meet us 



half way on one of the suggestions given by tlui 

 professor, they are hard to please indeed. 



Mr. Editor: May 1 have a wmd legai-diiig this 

 iiialti'i- which has so agitated some of our good 

 fiii'iuls, and led to aelioii wliicli I can not but con- 

 sidei- liiisl.\ .-111(1 uiiloilunate in the Uist degiee';' The 

 scientist ;ind tiir apiarist can not alli>r<l to l<now 

 C-iiiada or the I'liiled States. We arc all working 

 lugcl her for a eoiniiioii i>ui-iioso, and should exercise 

 till' fullest regard and sympathy for all of like pur- 

 suits. Hence J say." if incorporiition must estrange 

 or otVend any one, let us throw the wliole thing 

 to the winds. We surely can do wiiliout it. for we 

 have. It cerlaiiily oilers no adequate conipeiisation 

 if it shall alienati' any of our brolhers ovei- the line. 

 We ha\-i- been, U) our great advantage, as one, in 

 the past. We must continue to act together. Hut 

 wliy do oui- Canadian friends object? 1'heactof 

 incorporation only means that wv. can do Inisiness. 

 n7ic/-e we are incorporated is of no importance. If 

 tlie friends over the line desire, li't us incorporate 

 there. I am sure none of us would oliject. Tnatall 

 may know that there is precedent for just this thing, 

 let me say that the American Association foi- the 

 Advancement of Science — our greatest American 

 scientific society- is incorpoiated. The incorpora- 

 tion was secured in Massachusetts; yet many Cana- 

 dians are among (uir best members, and two of the 

 best meetings I have ever attended were held on 

 Canadian soil — the one at Montreal, the other at 

 Toronto. I have never learned that any Canadian 

 scientist felt aggrieved at this; and certainly the 

 old A. A. A. S. has lieen a power for good to all con- 

 nected with it. A.J. Cook. 



The North American, in its act of Incorpora- 

 tion, did just the very thing that other like so- 

 cieties have done, and many other instances 

 might be given; but the one cited by Prof. Cook 

 is a case quite parallel to that of the N. A. B. K. 

 A. If the Canadians accept that as being or- 

 thodox in the one case, why can they not in the 

 other? As we have said before, we will do any 

 thing that will help toward pleasant and har- 

 monious relation with that whole-souled body 

 of Canadian bee-keepers. 



PAINT FOR BEE-HIVES, AGAIN. 



The Other day we were talking with an ex- 

 perienced painter. Said he, " You are right in 

 advocating yellow French ocher for paints hav- 

 ing this most excellent pigment in them. Amer- 

 ican yellow ocher is fair; but, let gray ocher 

 entirely alone. It is but little better than first- 

 class mud mixed with oil." And while speaking 

 of adulterants he added, " Next to spices there 

 is probably nothing that is adulterated more 

 than paint." 



There may be some of our readers who would 

 like to know where to get absolutely pure white 

 lead ground in pure linseed oil. We would refer 

 all such to HaiTison Brothers, of Philadelphia. 



You can probably get it of your dealer if you 

 insist on getting it. even though it does cost 

 more. In this connection we would say that 

 this is published without the knowledge of the 

 afore-mentioned tirm. Neither do we expect 

 nor would we accept any bonus for such a 

 notice. It gives us pleasure, however, to rec- 

 ommend pure honest goods; and we know that 

 there are some of our bee-keeping friends who 

 wantonly pure lead on their hives. There are 

 probably other manufacturers of paint who sell 

 just as good lead, but they are also scarce. 



Why is paint so generally adulterated ? It 

 was explaiiu'd in this way: A painter who can 

 paint a house for the least money gets the job, 

 irrespective of the enduring qualities of the 

 paint. This thing has been carried on so 

 extensively by contractors and jiainters (not 

 through any" fault of theirs, however, but 

 through the fault of the consumers), that differ- 

 ent painters and contractors, in order to com- 

 pete; with each otluu-. have been obliged to buy 

 paint adulterated with cheap and absolutely 

 worse than worse worthless pigments. 



