384 



Bigelow is an enthusiastic bee-keeper, and 

 the study of the bee was an important de- 

 partment in his scientific wt)rk. We are 

 sorry this change has to be made, and hope 

 some arrangement can yet be effected by 

 which the work can be allowed to go on. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



sonality is more or less obscured, and for 

 that reason we asked our correspondent to 

 take his veil off while we were "shooting " 

 at him. 



A GOOD TIME IN STORE FOR THOSE WHO AT- 

 TEND THE NATIONAL CONVEN- 

 TION THIS FALL. 



We have just learned that those bee-keep- 

 ers who intend to attend the National Bee- 

 keepers' Convention to be held at the Court 

 House Hall, Minneapolis, Aug. oO, ol, and 

 who desire to learn something concerning 

 the city to which they are going, may get a 

 folder describing the hotel accommodations, 

 indoor amusements, outdoor attractions, and 

 also giving a map of the Business District 

 of iMinneapolis, by writing to C. A. Palmer, 

 secretary of the Minnesota liee-keepers' As- 

 sociation, 1024 Mississippi St., St. Paul, or 

 to the secretary of the Commercial Club of 

 Minneapolis. These folders will also be 

 given away at the hall during the conven- 

 tion. 



The Commercial Club of the city expects 

 to provide special cars for every one attend- 

 ing the convention to see all points of inter- 

 est around the city, free of charge. We are 

 sure that this royal entertainment will be 

 appreciated by all bee-keepers who attend 

 the meeting. 



THE FOLLY OF USING SMOKE AT THE EN- 

 TRANCE WHEN A HONEY-FLOW IS 

 on; more VEILS AND GLOVES, 

 AND LESS SMOKE. 



On page 388 of this issue our correspondent 

 from among the Rockies, Mr. AVesley Foster, 

 makes a good point when he condemns the 

 use of smoke at the entrance of the hive dur- 

 ing the honey-flow. We never intended to 

 advocate it at such a time; but during bad 

 weather, say just after a rain, or when it is 

 chilly, a wliiff or two at the entrance, and 

 then over the top of the frames, make it 

 much more comfortable to handle the colo- 

 ny. When the bees are Hying heavily at 

 the entrance, and bringing in nectar, there 

 is, oi course, no need of using smoke at the 

 entrance. A large i)roportion of the bees 

 are then in the field, and a little smoke ap- 

 plied over the tops of the frames is sufficient. 



In this connection Mr. Foster, after look- 

 ing at the series of moving i)ictures showing 

 Mr. Townsend at work among his bees, con- 

 cludes that our Michigan correspondent does 

 not use a veil. Mr. Foster very properly 

 moralizes on this by saying, better use more 

 veil and gloves, and less smoke. This is 

 sound advice, and of course Mr. Townsend 

 would concur in it. While the pictures 

 show him without a veil, as a matter of fact 

 he always uses face protection; but in defer- 

 ence to the request of the editor, who was 

 taking snap-shots of him for the moving- 

 picture series, he removed his veil. The per- 

 sonality of the bee-keei)er is always an im- 

 portant factor. With a veil on, that per- 



FROM the grocery to THE MARKET-BAS- 

 KET; "MAD ALL OVER." 



Referring to the article on page 361 of 

 our last issue, where we urged the impor- 

 tance of stronger and better shipping-cases, 

 we failed to put special emphasis on the 

 need of protecting the sections when they 

 go into the market-basket of the housewife. 

 If a cheap carton served no other purpose 

 than to protect the delicate combs while en 

 route from the grocery to the home of the 

 consumer, it would well fulfill its mission. 

 But, fortunately, those same cartons as il- 

 lustrated on page .362 of our last issue protect 

 the combs while in the hands of the railroad 

 comi)anies, stiffen the case, absorb the ver- 

 tical jiressures, and insure better delivery at 

 the end of the route. But the chief value 

 of such cartons lies in the fact that the combs 

 are i)rotected when thrown into the market- 

 basket with a lot of other packages of gro- 

 ceries having square corners that are almost 

 sure to i)unch into the unprotected comb. 

 If there is any thing that makes the good 

 housewife "mad all over" it is to have her 

 groceries daubed, and we couldn't well blame 

 her if she never bought another ounce of 

 comb honey. 



THE new ILLINOIS FOUL-BROOD LAW WITH 



TEETH IN IT; OHIO'S APPROPRIATION 



FOR FOUL BROOD. 



Some years ago Illinois had a foul-brood 

 law, but it had one serious defect; vi/., that 

 the ins])ector had no power to compel a i)er- 

 son having diseased bees to administer 

 treatment. For a number of years the Illi- 

 nois State Bee-keepers' Association, backed 

 by the great mass of the bee-keepers of Illi- 

 nois, have been trying to get a new law, cor- 

 recting the defect in the old statute; but 

 just about the time that they would begin 

 to make ])rogress, one or two i)ersons styling 

 themselves bee-keepers would ])ut in the 

 claim that there was no need of the law, 

 and that the only peoi)le who wanted it 

 were the manufacturers of and dealers in 

 bee-kee])ers' sui)i)lies, particularly the mak- 

 ers of foundation. It looked as if these " in- 

 surgents " would be successful again this 

 year in defeating the will of the great ma- 

 jority. Ikit we are informed by the secre- 

 tary of the Illinois State Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation that the bill that was passed on the 

 19th of last May was signed by the Govern- 

 or on the 5th' of .June. This law took ef- 

 fect .luly 1, and hence is now in oi)eration. 



The new measure has teeth in it; and 

 while usually it is not necessary to use the 

 power of a great State to enforce the i)ro- 

 visions of a law, undoubtedly the foul- 

 V)rood insi)ectors of Illinois will now have a 

 chance to make some people come to time. 



In the mean time, Ohio has secvired an 

 appropriation of $2000. When our law was 



