1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1385 



Now, friends, it seerus to me the time has 

 come to make a protest when you find se- 

 crets advertised in any of your home papers. 

 Our readers know how much money I have 

 spent, and yet not a thing has ever been re- 

 ceived that was not either worthless or had 

 already appeared in print. Our agricultural 

 and class journals should be ashamed of 

 helping on such schemes for robbing people 

 of their money, no matter whether it appears 

 in the reading or advertising pages. Such 

 folks are behind the times. Our experiment 

 stations, our agricultural books and period- 

 icals, give you all the knowledge and infor- 

 mation at a fair price that is of any value or 

 any moment. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



either, {retting rid of or protectin^r water in rain- 

 barrel.s, old can.s, broken bottles, and every thing 

 else. Wherever you find wrigglers about your home, 

 get rid of them. Where you must have a receptacle 

 for rain water (and that hits me too), either cover 

 the barrel or receptacle with cloth to keep out the 

 mother mosquito, or put a little kerosene on the sur- 

 face of the water. You need not say you can not have 

 kerosene in the rain-water barrel because you use it 

 for cooking, for you can i)ut a spigot at the bottom of 

 the barrel and draw off the water to use, without dis- 

 turbing the surface. The light film on top will not 

 mix with the water below unless stirred up. In the 

 case of the mosquito, prevention is not only better 

 than cure, but it seems to be almost the only cure. Of 

 course, you can drive the " live animals " away with 

 smoke, and banish them from a room by fumigation; 

 but killing them before they are born, or, better still, 

 before the egg is laid, is the way to do it. I think I 

 read somewhere that, in the region of Maryland, 

 something like a quarter of a million of dollars had 

 been spent, and spent wisely, in getting rid of mos- 

 quitoes. Rich land that was unpopulated because of 

 the mosquitoes has become valuable because these 

 pests are now practically banished. If you want the 

 bulletin, address as above. 



PAULOWNIA IMPERALIS. 



About the middle of October, just before our first 

 heavy frost, the tree was leVa feet tall. It had begun 

 to drop its leaves btefore the frost caught it, so I 

 think it will stand the winter all right. A part of the 

 top may, however, be killed because it was growing 

 so rapidly. Quite a number of the leaves were a yard 

 wide. Now, is not 16^2 feet a pretty good record for a 

 tree that started from the ground about May 1? We 

 will tell you more about it next spring. 



Convention Notices. 



BASSWOOD-TBEE.S FOB FALL PLANTING. 



They have now dropped their leaves, and are ready 

 to be shipped; but we have at present only one size — 

 one to five feet tall. One tree, 10 cts.; 10, 75 cts.; 100, 

 $5.00. These are rather large to be mailed, but we 

 can pick out the smallest ones to send by mail. Ten 

 trees. 40 cts. postpaid. I presume tall planting is not 

 as favorable, taking the country at large generally; 

 but there are special localities and sometimes special 

 reasons why the work can be iione better in the fall. 

 The basswood is a very hardy tree, and where they 

 are put out with reasonable care, either in the fall or 

 spring, not one in ten should fail to grow. 



FAKE TESTIMONIALS, ETC. 



On page 1318, last issue, I am led to believe I 

 spoke rather more severely of E. J. Worst, of Ash- 

 land, Ohio, than he deserves. The item headed 

 " United States Health Report " was the work of an 

 advertising agenc.s that he employed; and just as soon 

 as he lound out how he was being misrepresented he 

 promptly put a stop to all such advertising. Mr. 

 Woist has not written a word to us; but one of his 

 friends, who believes him to be a good honorable 

 man f urni.^hed us this information. The moral is, we 

 should all be more careful about whom we employ to 

 do advertising for us. This " United States Health 

 Co." is a fake, pure and simple, and the Postofflce 

 Department has been trying to chase it up and head 

 it ofl for ten years past, we are told. 



ALL ABOUT MOSQUITOES. 



Bulletin 109. from the Maryland Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, College Park, Md., is a most valua- 

 ble contribution to our mosquito literature. It con- 

 tains 124 pages, with beautiful illustrations from be- 

 ginning to end ; and it is a wonder to me how the 

 Marj land station can undertake to furnish this valu- 

 able work to all the world free of charge— or at least 

 I understand it that way. Mosquitoes are not only 

 guilty of disseminating yellow fever, but we have 

 good reason to believe they are quite active in spread- 

 ing malarial fever, and that hits me. In fact, it hit 

 me once in my life so I presume I shall never get en- 

 tirely over it. This bulletin gives an exhaustive re- 

 port, finely illustrated, in regard to all the pernicious 

 mosquitoes known, or pretty nearly all of them, and 

 there are about 500 species of them in all. It gives 

 their life history, and then winds up by telling what 

 has been done in the way of banishing them from 

 localities where they were formerly troublesome. 

 The principal agency for their prevention is to get 

 rid of stagnant water, draining of the ground either 

 by underdraining or open drains, and also, more than 



The annual meeting of the Ontario Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held in Toronto, November 7, 8, 9, 

 1906, at the same time the Ontario Horticultural Soci- 

 ety will hold their exhibition of fruit, flowers, honey, 

 and vegetables. A cordial invitation is extended to 

 all American bee-keepers to attend. We hope our 

 program will be one of the best. W. Couse, Sec. 



Streetsville, Ont., Sep. 29. 



PROGRAM FOB THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. 



The National Bee-keepers' Association will hold its 

 annual convention Nov. 8, 9, 10, in the Market Hall, 

 San Antonio, Texas. 



Headquarters for bee-keepers will be at the Grand 

 Central Hotel, only one block from the I. & G. N. 

 passenger station. This is a new hotel, nicely fur- 

 nished, and has 100 rooms. There will be special 

 rates to bee-keepers, of 50 cents a berth and 25 cents 

 a meal. 



Thursday, Nov. 8. is bee-keepers" day at the fair, 

 and is so announced by the Pair Association. 



During the last few years the program at the Nation- 

 al conventions has been overloaded with papers, thus 

 crowding out, to a great extent, the most important 

 part of a convention— viz., the question-box: and I de- 

 termined this year to avoid that objection. 



FIRST DAY— FIRST SESSION. 



The first session will be on the evening of Nov. 8, 

 beginning at 7:30. This session will be devoted to 

 the reception of members, paying of dues, distribu- 

 tion of badges and numbers, and the question-box. 



SECOND DAY — FIBST SESSION. 



9:00 A. M.— A paper by E. D. Townsend, Remus, 

 Mich., entitled "The Profitable Production of Ex- 

 tracted Honey." 



Question-box. 



SECOND DAY — SECOND SESSION. 



1:30 p. M.— A paper by R. P. Holtermann, of Brant- 

 ford, Ont., Canada, entitled, "The Difference between 

 Ripening and Evaporating Nectar." 



Question-box. 



SECOND DAY — THIBD SESSION. 



7:30 P. M.— A paper by Dr. E. P. Phillips, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, entitled " What Science May do for 

 Bee-keeping." 



Question-box. 



THIBD DAY— FIRST SESSION. 



9:00 A. M.— A paper by W. H. Laws. Beeville. Texas, 

 entitled "The Comparative Profits of Queen-rearing 

 and Honey-production." 



Question-box. 



THIRD DAY— SECOND SESSION. 



1:30 P. M.— A paper by C. A. Hatch. Richland Cen- 

 ter, Wisconsin, entitled " How can the National As- 

 sist its Members in Buying Goods and Selling Honey?" 



Question-box. Adjournment. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



