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American Hee Joarnal j 



April, 1909. 



best to make life's pathway a little 

 smoother and a little less irksome to 

 those who are going the same way. 

 When all is said, and all is done, the 

 final verdict, "Well done, thou good and 

 faithful servant, enter thou into the 

 joys of thy Lord," if it can be truly 

 said, will be reward enough for having 

 striven to live well, even if there were 

 nothing promised beyond that. 



So at the threshold of another 25 

 years we will take a new grip upon 

 the apiarian and other duties and prob- 

 lems that confront us, and go forward 

 to meet them, and to perform them, 

 with the spirit of the conqueror who, 

 though sometimes defeated, is not cast 

 down, and who from every contest 

 receives a new impetus to strive to ren- 

 der a nobler and a better service to 

 mankind. 



A Call from Mr. E. F. Atwater 



Idaho has large possibilities as a bee- 

 keeping State. Mr. E. F. Atwater, who 

 has about 700 colonies there, gave us 

 a very pleasant call recently. He is 

 one of the hustling young bee-keepers 

 of that part of the country, and has also 

 written occasionally for the bee-papers. 

 He is very pleasant to meet, and, n.-^ihing 

 preventing, he will easily find his place 

 among the leaders who specialize in 

 bee-keeping. 



Another 48-Page Number 



This number of the American Bee 

 Journal is another one having' 16 ex- 

 tra pages. We had such an accumula- 

 tion of good reading matter that we 

 just had to use the extra space in order 

 to keep up with the incoming contri- 

 butions. We trust that our readers 

 will not object to the extra number of 

 pages again. On the contrary, we ftel 

 sure they will appreciate it so much 

 that many of them will try to get their 

 neighbor bee-keepers to become sub- 

 scribers. We wish they would do this. 

 We always have room for more sub- 

 scribers. There are just thousands upon 

 thousands of bee-keepers who need the 

 kind of help that the old American 

 Bee Journal can give them. 



As some colonies were weak at the time of 

 shaking, we made only 100 good colonies from 

 the original 140. .As we wished honey rather 

 than bees from this yard, we preferred to 

 make our increase at other yards which are 

 free from disease. When fall came, the bees 

 were again inspected and all found clean 

 except seven colonies, which, as bees are cheap 

 here, were sulphured and hauled home. The 

 93 colonies gave as large a crop per colony 

 as was taken from yards not diseased. 



Curing Foul Brood in the Fall 



The proper time to treat foul brood is 

 when bees are gathering. Sometimes, 

 however, it happens that a case has been 

 unavoidably left without treatment, and 

 according to J. L. Byer, in the Canadian 

 Bee Journal, Jacob Alpaugh has been 

 quite successful with fall treatment. He 

 says: 



Briefly stated, the infected colonies are left 

 till October, when the brood-rearing has 

 ceased, and then the bees are shaken on empty 

 frames and left that way for 2 days. At the 

 end of that time full sheets of foundation 

 are given, feeders put on and the bees fed as 

 rapidly as possible. Last fall a friend of 

 mine well Itnown to a good many members 

 of our Association had a number of colonies 

 slightly affected with foul brood, and he de- 

 cided to try this treatment, as circumstances 

 kept him from attending to them earlier in 

 the season. The result was an unqualified 

 success, and my friend said he would not have 

 believed that it was possible for the bees to 

 draw out the foundation as quickly as they 

 did. Certainly the 2 days* starving did not 

 appear to hurt the bees any, and as they 

 appeared after treatment clustered on the 

 beautiful new combs I would not pay 3 cents 

 to insure their wintering. 



Getting Honey While Curing Foul 

 Brood 



Some of our Western friends manage 

 to secure good crops of honey while 

 curing foul brood. E. F. Atwater thus 

 tells about one case of more than a hun- 

 dred colonies, in Gleanings in Bee Cul- 

 ture: 



Last April, in inspecting our McDonald 

 yard of 140 colonies, we found perhaps half 

 of them affected with foul brood. With a 

 view to circumvent robbers while working with 

 the bees, we at once constructed a tent to 

 use in our work at this yard. When the 

 flow arrived, early in .Tune, with three help- 

 ers I went to this yard, and in about twelve 

 hours we shook almost every colony into a 

 clean hive, supplied with wired frames and 

 full sheets of foundation, and clipped evei-y 

 queen to prevent absconding. About 2^ of the 

 weaker colonies were taken a few rods away, 

 to the north part of the yard, all their queens 

 caged, and the brood from the shaken colo- 

 nies was piled up on them to hatch, and all 

 entrances well contracted. When shaking, all 

 combs with little or no brood were put in 

 hive-bodies, and stacked up bee-tight in the 

 shop. Then in ten days to three weeks, as 

 we had time, we shook the stacked-up colo- 

 nies at the north end of the yard. 



Death of Editor W. Broughton Carr 



Mr. W. Broughton Carr, for many 

 years editor of the British Bee Journal 

 and of the Bee-Keepers' Record in con- 

 junction with Mr. Thos. W. Cowan, 

 died Feb. 11, 1909, at the age of 73 

 years. The initials of his name are very 

 familiar in connection with the "W. B. 

 C." hive of his invention. He was a 

 man greatly beloved, and his death is a 

 serious loss to British bee-keeping. 



country that it is written in the German 

 language. Yet that will make it all the 

 more valuable to German bee-keepers in 

 this country who still maintain a love 

 for the mother-tongue. 



"Der Bienenhonig und seine Ersatz- 

 rnittel" is written by Dr. Alfred Haster- 

 lik, contains 232 pages, and has 3 illus- 

 trations. Beginning at the beginning, 

 we are told how the bee gets the nec- 

 tar and what it does with it, including 

 an analysis of nectar; then through the 

 chemistry of honey, its harvesting, test- 

 ing, adulteration, etc., up to its market- 

 ing. There are also given pharmaceuti- 

 cal preparations in which honey is em- 

 ployed, and this for several diiTerent 

 countries, and a string of recipes for 

 honey-cakes, etc. One is just a bit sur- 

 prised to find that this list of recipes is 

 hardly so full as that contained in the 

 booklet "Honey as a Health Food," that 

 has had so large a circulation in this 

 country, seeing that honey is so much 

 used in home-cooking in Germany. 



It is interesting to note how Ameri- 

 can honeys are rated. Norfhern white 

 clover honey holds the first rank, with 

 the Florida mangrove a close second; 

 then comes Cuban bellflower, and then 

 linden. 



Much honey is imported into Ger- 

 many. In the 10 years from 1897 to 

 1906 inclusive, more than 860 tons were 

 imported from California. That seems 

 like a lot of honey. Mexico, however, 

 furnished more than 3 times as much; 

 Cuba II times as much; and Chile and 

 Peru 20 times as much. 



"Forty Years Among the Bees" 



F. Dundas Todd, ex-editor of the 

 Photo Beacon, while criticising some of 

 the illustrations in Dr. Miller's "Forty 

 Years Among the Bees," has this good 

 word for the book itself, in Gleanings 

 in Bee Culture : 



Again, there is that Nestor of bee-keeping. 

 Dr. Miller, whose "Forty Years Among the 

 Bees" is in my hands every day from March 

 to September, for the very simple reason it 

 comes nearer being specific in the details I 

 want to know than any other book on bee- 

 keeping. 



I like the doctor's book just because he 

 goes so thoroughly into the details of his 

 practice, and in many ways I am endeavoring 

 to follow him. He is the only writer who 

 goes minutely into hive-construction, so far as 

 I know, and I want to say that this past 

 season I would have been in a pretty fix if 

 I had not had his "Forty Years Amoni; the 

 Bees," as I am so far from supplies, and was 

 compelled to make my own hives. It can, 

 therefore, be readily understood how much 

 I had to rely upon books. 



A Book About Honey 



There are books galore about how to 

 manage bees, there are books devoted 

 solely to queen-rearing, and books de- 

 voted to other branches of bee-keep- 

 ing, to help the man who is trying to 

 make a gain by selling honey, but here 

 is a book about honey itself. .\las for 

 the majority of bee-keepers in this 



Illinois Bee-Keepers, Beware! 



We have received the following from 

 Jas. A. Stone, a member of the Legis- 

 lative Committee, of the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, which will be 

 of interest to every honorable bee-keeper 

 of Illinois: 



When our committee came before the com- 

 mittee in the Illinois Senate, we were asked 

 why some of the bee-keepers opposed the Foul 

 Brood Bill; and, from what we were able to 

 figure out, there are two bee-keepers making 

 objections — one from the north part of the 

 State, and one from south part. We are sure 

 we are "onto" both of them. Both have foul 

 brood among their bees, and the disease has 

 been known to go with queens sold from one 

 of them — if not from both. We placed the 

 facts _ before the committee — showing what a 

 pity it would be not to prevent such men from 

 spreading the disease broadcast over the State. 



It now behooves bee-keepers everywhere in 

 Illinois to see that we get a law to protect us 

 from these men whom we cannot call honest, 

 for no man will fear an honest law, if he 

 himself be honest. Let all bee-keepers see 

 their representatives and warn them against 

 these Shylocks. Jas. A. Stone, 



Springfield, III. Mem. Legislative Com. 



What a shame it is that just a few 

 obstinate bee-keepers in a whole State 

 should be listened to at all by any mem- 

 bers of the legislature of Illinois in a 

 matter that practically all of the bee- 

 keepers are in favor of, and know they 

 ought to have ! Especially is this true, 

 when the States surrounding Illinois 

 are securing good bee-disease laws. See 

 what Indiana, on the East, has done 

 recently; and Wisconsin, on the North, 

 has had a good bee-disease law for 

 years. Shall Illinois continue to re- 

 main in the rear in this matter, jus: 

 because two or three of her bee-keepers 

 do not agree with all the rest of the 

 State? It is high time that this much- 



