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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



live was the algaroba, 

 or mesquite, as it is 

 called in Texas. From 

 their appearance I 

 should judge that the 

 algaroba was having 

 as hard a time there in 

 that apiary to exist as 

 the mesquite has in 

 some of the desert 

 regions along the Mex- 

 ican border. 



There was one pest, 

 liowever, and the 

 method used to com- 

 bat it was new to me- 

 That pest was ants. 

 The way they were 

 combated was by mak- 

 ing a framework of 

 2x4 lumber, the same 

 size as a bottom-board. 

 In this frame four 

 holes three quarters of 



an inch in depth were bored with an inch 

 auger. In each hole a very large nail or 

 spike was driven, and on the heads of these 

 spikes the hive was set. The spike was 

 then coated with oil, and the hole at the 

 base of the spike was filled with crude oil. 

 Tamagawa informed me that it was a suf- 

 ficient protection against the ants. 



The surplus honey is secured from the 

 algaroba. Both comb and extracted are 

 produced. 



Tamagawa has a wife, who is a very 

 comely Japanese woman, and two beautiful 

 children. 



Tamagawa looking over the colony. Record printed in Japanese on the 

 side of the hive. 



As I watched the mother playing with 

 the two little children under a bread-fruit 

 tree in the yard, I could not help thinking 

 that L. Tamagawa must be a happy fellow ; 

 and remember that gray hairs are creeping 

 in among the brown on the crown of my 

 head. But then, otherwise I should not be 

 a malihini interviewing a Japanese bee- 

 keeper on the Island of Oahu. 



Honolulu, T. I. 



[This is the first of a series of articles 

 entitled " A Malahini in tlie Hawaiian 

 Islands." The second will be published in 

 an early number. — Ed.] 



THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN MEETING 



BY J. L. GRAFF 



One of the striking utterances at the 

 annual convention of the Chicago and 

 Northwestern Beekeepers' Association was 

 that of President N. E. France, of Wiscon- 

 sin, who said that European foul brood had 

 been a blessing in disguise. He spoke from 

 his experience in wide travel among bee- 

 keepers in his own state. The presence of 

 the disease had aroused apiarists lo the 

 necessity of understanding it and to pre- 

 vent its recurrence. He said he knew bee- 

 men who had said, " I am glad I had it. 

 I'll know how to take care of it in the 

 future." 



A year ago, when Mr. France was at the 

 meeting, he said that within three years 

 ther" would be no European disease in Wis- 

 consin. He said that his people would be 



clear of it today had it not been for the 

 lack of co-operation, and the failure to 

 report cases. Some time ago he asked api- 

 arists whom he knew as beekeepers to give 

 him the names of five neighbors who kept 

 bees. This resulted in his getting 1500 

 names. They were beekeepere, some of 

 them keeping bees in only a small way, 

 whom he had never known before. Seventy 

 of the fifteen hundred had foul brood in 

 their apiaries. It is the man who has a 

 few bees, and because he has so few he 

 thinks it isn't worth while to report the 

 presence of the disease, who causes the 

 trouble. Were it not for this fact, Mr. 

 France said, his prediction of last year 

 would have come true by this time, or in 

 but a little while longer. 



