l'^ GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE ^^ J 



EDITORIAL 



WHEREVER beekeepers meet just now tho 



prohable price of honey is diseussed. anil, 



nltho there are ni 



Honey Ought 

 to Bring a 

 Good Price. 



mors of future 

 prices ranging nil 

 the way from lo to 

 .■)0 cents, many bee- 

 keej^ers claim they will hold for 25 cents in 

 carload lots. 



The price the producer will receive for 

 his honey and the price he should receive 

 may differ considerably, as they sometimes 

 liave differed in the past. If so, who will be 

 to blame.' It will be the producer who is to 

 blame. So long as he continues to be satis 

 tied to sell at the first chance and at the 

 buyer's offer, he really has little right to 

 complain of prices. Now this does not mean 

 that it is wise or justifiable to hold honey 

 for top-notch prices, but it does mean that 

 the producer should get a fair price for his 

 honey. Wt- do not know what jirico honey 

 will bring the coming year nor do we care 

 to make any projihecy along this line, but 

 we do know that if the beekeeper takes into 

 consideration certain important factors he 

 will not take a low price for his crop. 



The average i>er colony will likely be very 

 good this year, but let us not forget the 

 heavy winter and spring losses referred to 

 in our last issue. Again, we all know sugar 

 is scarce and the price up. This naturally 

 helps the honey market. When the beekeep 

 er stops to consider these factors, together 

 with the large increase in the cost of bee 

 supplies, the increase in the cost of labor, 

 and the continued high cost of all the nects 

 .sities of life, we feel certain that ho will 

 realize that he should have as much for his 

 honey this year as he received last year, if 

 not mori\ 



The honey market as it is today, and as it 

 is likely to be in the future, is discussed and 

 f|Uoted more fully than usual on our "Honev 

 Markets" pages of this number of Glean 

 ings. 



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AS NOTED in our Xews Department of the 



July issue, the State of New York now has 



a new foul brood 



New Foul-brood 



Law in 



New York. 



law, the same going 

 into effect on Mav 

 la last. It has 

 some features in it 

 tl at may well be incorporated into the foul- 

 I'rood laws of other States. In the main the 



law is the same as all bee-disease laws; but 

 the new sections make it a little more defi- 

 nite and of a wider scope. 



Section '2M\ of the new law requires that 

 the assessors report all owners of liees with- 

 in their respective districts. It has been 

 shown in hundreds of cases all over the 

 country that there are not a few beekeepers 

 with a hive or two located in some out-of- 

 the-way places, and just where, if diseased, 

 they would be a menace to all other bees in 

 the neighborhood. It has happened more 

 than once in New York and elsewhere that 

 some good beekeeper would be constantly 

 fighting disease and wondering why he could 

 not get rid of it. After a period of three or 

 four years he finally discovers that some in- 

 experienced person has in range of his apiary 

 a colony of bees, hitherto unknown to him, 

 rotten with disease. The inexperienced bee- 

 keeper does not know that there is anything 

 wrong, and in many cases will allow a hive, 

 in which bees have died from foul brood, to 

 stand open and free of access, a constant 

 source of infection to all bees within two or 

 three miles of him. It has hitherto been 

 almost impossible for the foul-brood inspec- 

 tors to get track of every beekeeper: and 

 the purjtose of this section requiring the as- 

 sessors to report all bees will be perfectly 

 obvious. 



There is another feature, namely, that no 

 person shall remove or trans[)ort bees that 

 are suffering from disease from the place 

 where kept to any point within the State of 

 Xew York, except under a written permis- 

 sion from the Commissioner of Agriculture. 

 Provision is made, however, that a diseased 

 colony in a healthy apiary may be removed 

 to a point of segregation or quarantine. It 

 is further provided that no l)ees under quar- 

 antine shall be removed without permission, 

 nor shall any person or transportation com- 

 pany receive any bees from a point within 

 the State for another point therein unless 

 the bees are accompanied by a certificate 

 from an authorized inspector stating that 

 such bees are in a healthy condition. 



No bees from without the State can be 

 moved into Xew York unless accompanied 

 by a certificate from an authorized inspector 

 showing freedom from disease. Unless there 

 is such a certificate, the transportation com- 

 pany shall notify the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture of the receipt of such bees. 



These general features, so far as we can 

 see, are good, and should be incorporated in 



