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VOL. XLII. 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1914 



NO. 17 



EDITORIAL 



Our Oaliforiiia eoirespondent, Mr. P. C. 

 ('hadwick, writes that, owing to his being 

 away from 'home on a visit, he was unable 

 to get copy to us for his department in this 

 issue. 



Late Rains 



Frequknt lains are reported in various 

 parts of the country. While the drouth is 

 not broken by any means, as a result of the 

 liot spell of weather, tliese rains are starting 

 out fall pasturage everywhere, with the 

 result that the bees are breeding well and 

 gathering more honey than they consume 

 in breeding. This ought to put the bees in 

 nice shape for winter. In some cases wheie 

 the sections were not completely finished on 

 the hive they are now being completed with 

 heartsease. 



A State Association in Louisiana 



A NEW State Association has recently 

 been organized in Louisiana. Some twenty 

 beekeepers met in Shreveport, July 11, and 

 organized what is to be known as the Louis- 

 iana State Beekeepers' Association. This 

 organization is not yet affiliated with the 

 National Association ; but as soon as suffi- 

 cient members have joined, the intention is 

 to af'tiliate with that body, and the officers 

 for file first year are as follows : 



President, C. F. Pease; Vice-president, 

 W. S. Carney; Secretary-treasurer, L. T. 

 Rogers, whose temporary address is box 

 ;i61. Shreveport, La. 



The next meeting is to be held din-ing tlie 

 Slate fair. 



Bee Inspection in Walio 



From a newspaper clipping that we have 

 I'eceived we learn that C. K. Macey, who is 

 State bee inspector as well as horticultural 

 inspector for Idaho, in his annual report 

 tiled with the Governor, gives the number of 

 colonies as inspected in 1913 as 18,496 ; 

 1455 colonies were found to be diseased, or 

 were kept in box hives, in violation of the 

 law. The number of colonies treated was 



817 ; number destroyed, 638. In other words, 

 a little less than 8 per cent of colonies 

 examined were found in bad condition, and 

 it was necessary to destroy only a little 

 over 3 per cent of total number inspected. 

 Mr. Macey estimates that the total pro- 

 duction of honey for the year was a little 

 over 50 carloads, or 1,500,000 pounds, hav- 

 ing a value of about $150,000. Of this 

 amount about 35 carloads were shipped out 

 of the State. 



ttle 

 While we have had fairly good success 

 HI nitroducmg queens by the use of smoke 

 as du-ected by Arthur C. Miller, not a few 

 of our subscribers, apparently, have not 

 made a success of it, and are going back to 

 the cage method. One thing we have learned 

 IS that one must follow directions exactly in 

 order to insure success; and even where one 

 does the best he knows, if it is the lirst time 

 he tries it, he will often meet with failure. 

 Apparently it is a method that cannot al- 

 ways be acquired wholly from directions, 

 but must be learned by practical experience. 

 Oversmoking or undersmoking will lead to 

 failure. The smoker must be right and the 

 colony must be right. 



We had thought that we would recom- 

 mend the smoke method in place of the 

 cage plan of introducing with all queens 

 sent out; but apparently we would belter 

 stick to the old plan for a while yet. 



Honey-crop Conditions and Prices 

 The situation is about the same as re- 

 ported in our previous issue — namely, that 

 white-clover has been a comparatively short 

 crop. The supply of alfalfa and mountain 

 sa_ge appears to be good. Late rains have 

 stimulated fall flows in many localities. The 

 condition of the market is in a state of 

 uncertainty; and no one can positively pre- 

 dict what will be the final effect of the 

 European war in causing an advance in the 

 price of sugar and a tighter: :' the mon- 



