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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



this same issue is an account of a child be- 

 ing stung^ to death by bees. But this child 

 might have been killed by a horse by strik- 

 ing it with a switch as it did the bees, or 

 gored by a cow or torn by a dog or butted 

 by a sheep. 



A little aside from the subject of bees, but 

 yet of interest, is something from a Cleve- 

 land professor, Dr. C. H, Howe, President 

 of Case School. He was asked in regard 

 to the probability of our having a very warm 

 summer. He replies, "A meterolcgist 

 ought to know more about such things than 

 an astronomer, for astronomical happen- 

 ings have no bearing on terrestrial temper- 

 ature, outside of popular fallacy." The 

 last part of that sentence, it will be ob- 

 served, leaves no room for the makers of 

 weather-almanacs to stand on. Better still, 

 it's true. 



The next convention of the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be held in St. 

 Louis, Sept. 27, 28, 29. It is proposed to 

 make two days of this convention interna- 

 tional, and one national. The President, 

 J. U. Harris, sa3's he would like to get 

 suggestions from all sources for the outline 

 of a program. 



WHITE CLOVER VERY ABUNDANTTHIS SPRING. 



I THINK I never saw a greater profusion 

 of young white-clover plants than this 

 spring. The heavy snows of the past win- 

 ter, and the continual rains and misty 

 weather of the spring, have given white 

 clover a boost forward, the like of which I 

 have never seen. A great pity it is that in 

 these very regions, where white clover prom- 

 ises so much, the mortality of the bees 

 has been so heavy. Some years we have 

 plenty of bees but little clover. This year 

 I fear the condition will be reversed. In 

 either case there will be a scarcity of white- 

 clover honey, the staple of the East. 



TWO WESTERN BEE-JOURNALS CONSOLI- 

 DATED. 



H. C. Morehouse, editor of the Rocky 

 Mountain Bee Journal, has sold out the 

 plant, subscription-list, and good will of 

 the paper to Mr. P. F. Adelsbach, of the 

 Pacific State Bee Journal, and manager of 

 the Central California Honey- producers' 

 Association. The two journals will be 

 merged, and published under a more com- 

 prehensive name, to take in the interests of 

 apiculture in that broad region extending 

 from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. 



Mr. Morehouse's main business of honey- 

 producing has grown to such an extent that 

 he had no further time to devote to other in- 

 terests. He starts the present season with 

 700 colonies, and expects to increase them 

 to 1000. He showed excellent ability as a 

 paragraph writer, and his journal from the 

 very start had none of the appearance of 

 some of the new papers struggling for a 

 mere existence. We wish the new consoli- 

 dation every success, and in the mean time 

 hope that Mr. Morehouse will not drop out 

 of the field of writing entirely. 



GETTING AFTER THE ADULTERATORS. 



The food inspector for Los Angeles, Cal., 

 finds many bogus mixtures. The follow- 

 ing clipping, from the Los Angeles Daily 

 Times, explains itself: 



Thirty-five times Inspector Drummond, of the health 

 department bought mixtures of glucose and sugar 

 when he essayed to buy extracted honey. While hon- 

 ey is cheap in this most favored of all honey-produc- 

 ing sections of the country, the manufacturers of the 

 adulterated mixture, in which a small quantity of hon- 

 ey was used, must have been able to put it on the mar- 

 ket at a much lower price or it would not so common- 

 ly be found on the shelves of the retail grocers. 



M. VV. Worster, salesman for the Southern Syrup 

 Co , was yesterday convicted before Justice Austin of 

 having sold one of the samples taken by the inspector, 

 and was fined $25. 



While Mr. Drummond has bought adulterated sam- 

 ples from other manufacturers, he says that most of 

 the dealers are sel ing the article put on the market 

 by the concern which Worster represents It is the 

 intention of the health department to keep after those 

 who sell the sham article until it is driven out of the 

 market, Other complaints are expected to follow. 



Inspector Drummond, of the Health De- 

 partment, is to be congratulated for the ac- 

 tive stand he is taking in the interests of 

 pure food and health. This will mean 

 much to the interests of bee-keepers in that 

 vicinity. Let the good work go on. 



POPPLETON NUCLEUS PLAN OF CURING BEE- 

 PARALYSIS. 



Some time ago we published the Popple- 

 ton plan, as taken from the Aniericaji Bee- 

 keeper, of curing bee- paralysis by spraying 

 the combs and bees thoroughly with pow- 

 dered sulphur, the combs containing brood 

 being first given to healthy stocks. As the 

 disease does not seem to be transmitted 

 through the brood or combs unless they 

 contain dead bees, no trouble results from 

 such transfer; on the contrary, it would be 

 killed if sprinkled with sulphur in the sick 

 colony. Proposing to incorporate this cure 

 in the next edition cf the A B C of Bee Cul- 

 ture, I asked Mr. Poppleton if he had any 

 thing further to add since his published ut- 

 terances. In response he writes: 



While bee-paralysis can be certainly cured by the 

 proper use of sulphur, yet for several reasons I prefer 

 the nucleus plan. I have had so much trouble with 

 the disease continuing in certain strains of bees that I 

 am satisfied the best way in the long run is to destroy 

 entirely all affected colonies, queens, and all the bees. 

 As this can be done as easily and cheaply as the colo- 

 nies can be cured by treatment, I very strongly urge 

 that way of controlling the disease. I have been ex- 

 perimenting with it for several years, and have prac- 

 ticed it with the few sick colonies I have had during 

 the past two or three years. I simply make as many 

 nuclei as will be needed, usually one for each sick col- 



