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VOL. XXXIX 



SEPTEMBER 15, 1911 



NO. 17 



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We regret to announce the death of Mr. 

 E. C. Porter, of Porter bee-escape fame, at 

 his home in Illinois, on the morning of 

 August 6. Further particulars will be giv- 

 en later. 



The article by Mr. George Shiber, page 

 565, of this issue, is one of the very best we 

 ever received on the subject of "Selling 

 Honey; or, the Bee-keeper his own Sales- 

 man.'' We shall have something further 

 on this subject a little later on. 



"how to keep bees." 

 The above is the title of a bulletin by 

 Arthur C. Miller, published by the State 

 Board of Agriculture of Rhode Island. Res- 

 idents of that State can doubtless secure 

 coi)ies by ai)plying to the State Board of 

 Agriculture at Providence. It is hardly 

 necessary to say that the work is well done, 

 because the author is one of the closest ob- 

 servers on bees this country has ever known. 



A BLAZING TORCH AT NIGHT TO KILL MOTH- 

 MILLERS. 



On p. 532 of last issue is shown a picture 

 of a torch that Mr. S. D. House, of Camil- 

 lus, N. Y., uses at certain seasons of the 

 year to kill the moth-miller. While, of 

 course, this pest does not annoy his bees 

 (for they are pure Italians), yet they are 

 liable to lay eggs in his combs or on his 

 nice comb honey after either has been ta- 

 ken from the hive. The scheme is not a 

 bad one, and when we visited him we took 

 a snap-shot of it. 



"BEE-KEEPING IN MARYLAND." 



This is the title of Bulletin 154, by T. B. 

 Symons and also Arthur H. McCray, of the 

 Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 College Park, Maryland. This bulletin is 

 quite a complete text-book on the subject of 

 bees and their management. It contains 

 numerous illustrations and forty pages of 

 matter about the size of these pages. So 

 far as we can see from a casual glance over 

 the pages, it is carefully and well written. 

 We presume that the bulletin will be sent 

 out free to Maryland bee-keepers. 



BEE-JOURNALISM IN AMERICA TO-DAY. 



There never was a time when there was 

 a better and cleaner lot of bee-papers than 

 are being published now. Every one is 

 worth reading. P^ven if one has only a few 

 bees he will see something in one of the bee- 

 papers that will save him ten times its cost 

 for one year. In this connection it is a real 

 pleasure to speak of the excellent work now 

 being done by the new editor of the £ee- 

 keepers'' Review. When Mr. Tyrrell first 

 took up the work we felt very sanguine that 

 he would succeed. The late issues of our 

 valued contemporary go to show that the 

 Review is fully equal to, and in some respects 

 ahead of, its former self, and that is saying 

 a good deal, for Mr. Hutchinson knew, if 

 any one did, how to make a readable, at- 

 tractive, and beautiful magazine on bees. 



FEEDING OUTDOORS TO PREVENT BEES 

 FROM BOTHERING NEIGHBORS OR CANDY- 

 STANDS AT NEAR-BY FAIRGROUNDS. 



We have before told our readers that there 

 is a county fairground located within an 

 eighth of a mile of one of our largest yards. 

 In the olden days, when the fairs were in 

 session our bees used to visit the candy- 

 stands to such an extent as to drive cus- 

 tomers away. This would naturally start 

 the owners of the stands on the war-path 

 against the owners of the bees. In late 

 years, since we discovered the outdoor feed- 

 ing method, we have heen able to put up a 

 counter-attraction that would keep the bees 

 at home. But we discover that the new 

 scheme of giving sweetened water in place 

 of a strong syrup that we formerly gave out- 

 doors is just as effective, and really causes 

 no disturbance and no bad after effects. 

 The bees got barely started at one of the 

 stands on the first day of our county fair 

 this year; but as soon as we started the out- 

 door feeding of sweetened water, the trouble 

 all disappeared. 



Our Mr. Pritchard, as well as our Mr. 

 Marchant, finds that, when they have a lot 

 of work in the way of overhauling colonies 

 when there is a dearth of honey, the out- 

 door feeding of sweetened water enables 

 them to do this work, because not a robber 

 will show up, when otherwise they would 



