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H. H. Root, Assistant Editor E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manager 



Entered at the Postofflce, Medina, Ohio, as Second-class Matter 



VOL. XXXIX 



AUGUST 1, 1911 



NO. 15 



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THE DESTRUCTION OF BEES BY SPRAYING. 



We have at various times published state- 

 ments showing how the spraying of fruit- 

 trees killed bees. The following short letter 

 is another case in jioint: 



Bees are doing finely down in this country, but 

 spraying of fruit is playing thunder with some bees 

 in spraying localities. 



Athens, Ohio, July 14. C. S. Newson. 



"let's be intelligently honest." 

 We would call special attention to an ex- 

 cellent article by Wesley Foster on page 456 

 of this issue, entitled "Let's be Intelligent- 

 ly Honest." The whole article merits the 

 careful reading of all of our subscribers — cer- 

 tainly all of our comb-honey producers. To 

 practice the suggestions of Mr. Foster would, 

 we feel sure, put hundreds of dollars in the 

 pockets of many who have about come to 

 the conclusion that " bees do not pay." 



The Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 

 D. C, has received announcements of the 

 Fifth International Congress of Apiculture, 

 to be held in Turin, Italy, September 10 — 12. 

 A preliminary program of this Congress 

 gives directions to those who may desire to 

 become members, even though they may 

 not expect to attend. Copies can be obtain- 

 ed, as we understand it, in French, by ad- 

 dressing the editor of L^ ApicoUore Moclerrio, 

 rue Cibrario 37, Turin, Italy. This exposi- 

 tion will probably be the most extensive one 

 of the kind ever held, and nothing will be 

 left undone by the managers to make of it 

 a great success. 



WORDS OF SYMPATHY TO MRS. HUTCHIN- 

 SON. 



The following letter will explain itself: 



Mr. Ernest li. Root: — Will you kindly, through 

 your columns, thank the many dear and true friends 

 of W. Z. Hutchinson, who have written to me, offer- 

 ing their sympathy? I should like to write to each 

 one personally; but it is simply impossible; and I 

 also thank Gleanings for the grand tribute paid 

 my noble husband, and I thank each writer; and 

 could dear Will see all that has been written I knoiv 

 that tears of joy and love would flow down his 

 cheeks. Hoping and believing he will meet them 

 all again, I am 



Sincerely yours, 



Flint, Mich., July 17. Mrs. W. Z. Hutchinson. 



We feel sure that these words of sympathy 



in the hour of bereavement have been a 

 great help and inspiration to Mrs. Hutchin- 



EIGHT VERSUS TEN FRAME HIVES. 



Strong arguments along the line of the 

 proof of the pudding are now being ad- 

 vanced in favor of ten-frame hives rather 

 than eight-frame ones. Notice what J. E. 

 Crane says on ])age 451 of this issue. His 

 experience is only that of hundreds of oth- 

 ers; and in this connection do not forget 

 that Mr. Doolittle has said that an eight- 

 frame hive will swarm sooner than a ten- 

 frame one. If a colony can be held back 

 from swarming until they get nicely at 

 work in the supers, the chances are they 

 will not swarm at all. 



HOW TO FIND BLACK QUEENS; ELIMINAT- 

 ING DISEASE BY A CHANGE OF STOCK. 



The article by Mr. G. M. Doolittle, in his 

 regular department in this issue, is particu- 

 larly seasonable. Those who are fighting 

 foul brood, either European or American, 

 especially the latter, are learning they ought 

 to get rid of their black bees and their cross- 

 es, and substitute pure Italians. We have 

 learned that the queen-breeders are doing a 

 rushing business these days. This we at- 

 tribute to a demand for a stock that will re- 

 sist disease better. 



Mr. Doolittle's instructions on how to 

 find black queens are particularly good. 

 We flotice, however, he says nothing about 

 the use of perforated zinc. Several of our 

 correspondents have found that they can 

 shake black bees in front of an entrance- 

 guard, and, after the bees are all in, find the 

 queen on the outside. Mr. ,1. E. Crane, in 

 this issue, page 451, calls atteittion to the 

 possibilities along this line. 



A MISSTATEMENT CORRECTED. 



On page 330 of our issue for June 1, one 

 of our correspondents, Mr. Leslie Burr, in a 

 general article on the origin of foul brood 

 had this to say; 



While at the home of a prominent bee-keeper, I 

 met two of the State inspectors. In the course of 

 our conversation they stated that, a short time be- 

 fore, they had visited a well-known queen-breeder 

 in whose apiaries foul brood existed. He was then 



