April, 1909. 



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American l^ee Journal 



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needed law is enacted, for it is for 

 the protection of all honest and sensi- 

 ble bee-keepers, from those who would 

 harbor in their own apiaries, or spread 

 broadcast, bee-diseases, which, if not 

 cured or restrained, would soon wipe 

 out the whole bee-business of the State. 

 Let all bee-keepers in Illinois 

 come to the defense of the bee and 

 honey business and urge their members 

 of the legislature to vote for the bee- 

 disease Bill. Don't delay in this mat- 

 ter, but act at once. 



To New Jersey Bee-Keepers 



We have received the following letter 

 from Albert G. Hann, Secretary of the 

 New Jersey State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, who wishes again to ask the co- 

 operation of all New Jersey bee-keepers 

 in the effort now being made to se- 

 cure the bee-disease law : 



Our foul brood Bill has been introduced 

 into the Senate by Senator Gebhardt, of Hun- 

 terdon County, and is now in the hands of 

 the Committee on Agriculture, of which Sena- 

 tor George W. F. Gaunt is chairman. It is 

 now up to the bee-keepers of the State to 

 make their needs known to their law-makers. 

 Let each interested bee-keeper write at once 

 to the assemblymen and senator from his 

 county, urging them to support this Bill. 

 Also write to Senator Gaunt, asking him and 

 other members of the Committee to get the 

 Bill before the Senate. 



All legislators may be addressed at the State 

 House, Trenton, N. J. 



What we do must be done now, for the 

 legislature will adjourn before many weeks. 

 Albert T. Hann. 



Pittstown, N. J., March 23. 



Morley Pettit, Ontario's Provincial 

 Apiarist 



Upon the recommendation of the 

 Honorable, the Minister of Agricult- 

 ure, the Committee of Council advise 

 that Morley Pettit of Aylmer, Ontario, 



2. The Inspection of Apiaries under 

 the Foul Brood Act ; and 



3. Lecture work at the Ontario Ag- 

 riculture College — said appointment to 

 take effect on and from the first day of 

 April, 1909. 



This may be a surprise to many, in 

 view of the fact that Mr. Pettit yielded 

 to the call to preach the gospel a couple 

 of years ago. But he left the regular 

 ministry more than six months ago for 

 reasons that were considered good and 

 sufficient to himself, and while wonder- 

 ing what he would do next, the offer of 

 the position of Provincial Apiarist for 

 Ontario came to him quite unsolicited. 

 The wide opportunities it will give for 

 a practical demonstration of Christi- 

 anity in everyday business and profes- 

 sional life appealed strongly to Mr. Pet- 

 tit. It really seemed to him that it was 

 a direct answer to prayer. 



The field of practical experiments in 

 apiculture has been very little touched 

 upon under Government auspices in Can- 

 ada, although great progress has been 

 made by private enterprise and at pri- 

 vate expense. If all the money that has 

 been lost could be reclaimed, it would 

 equip several experimental stations and 

 employ a whole corps of experimenters. 



Both the Ontario government and bee- 

 keepers are to be congratulated that they 

 are to have one so competent in so many 

 ways to labor with the bees themselves, 

 in order that theories concerning them, 

 and their habits may be demonstrated, 

 and better ways and methods discovered 

 for the more successful management of 

 the apiary. It is hoped that Mr. Pet- 

 tit may have the fullest support and co- 

 operation of all the bee-keepers in On- 

 tario, so that his labors may result in 

 the highest good to the largest number 

 of those in whose interest he will now 

 devote his time and abilities. Having 



Honey Exhibit at Jefferson County (N. Y.) Fair. 



cial Apiarist a large measure of suc- 

 cess in the field of apiarian experimenta- 

 tion. 



• 



To low^a Bee-Keepers 



We have been requested to republish 

 the item on page 88 of the March Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal, relative to securing 

 a bee-disease law for the State of Iowa. 

 It was there urged that every bee-keep- 

 er in Iowa write to his members of the 

 legislature to be sure to do all they can 

 for the passage of the law in their in- 

 terest. We think it hardly necessary 

 to publish what appeared on this mat- 

 ter in last month's number, as it should 

 be sufficient simply to call the atten- 

 tion of the Iowa bee-keepers to the 

 subject again. They will certainly act 

 promptly and effectively, and thus help 

 in securing the enactment of their 

 much-needed law against bee-diseases, 

 and for the inspection of apiaries. 



be appointed Provincial Apiarist, his 

 duties to include ; 



I. The conduct of experiments in 

 Apiculture at the fruit Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Jordan Harbor, Ont. 



a very pleasant personal acquaintance 

 with Mr. Pettit, and also with his fa- 

 ther, Mr. S. T. Pettit (who is also one 

 of the oldest leading bee-keepers of On- 

 ario), we bespeak for the new Provin- 



Italian Queen-Breeder in Earthquake 

 A noted Italian apiarist, Signor Vin- 

 cenzo Asprea, is a breeder of Italian 

 Queens for export, and translator into 

 the Italian language of several foreign 

 studies on bees, among others the Bul- 

 letin No. 55 of the Bureau of Entom- 

 ology "The Rearing of Queen-Bees," 

 by Dr. E. F. Phillips. Mr. Aspreu 

 lives at Gallina, in the close vicinity of 

 Reggio, the unfortunate Calabrian city 

 destroyed by the earthquake in Decem- 

 ber last. 



L'Apicoltore, published in Milan, in 

 its February number says : 



"We have received many postal cards from 

 bee-keepers who enquire about Mr. Asprea 

 with words of sympathy. We have trans- 

 mitted these to our friend, who replied thus 

 on January 14: 'I have received your letter, 

 and thank you and all our good friends for 

 the interest you take in me. Wc are living a 

 sad life, desolate among the ruins; we are 

 badly sheltered in huts built hurriedly with 

 our own hands under the menace of cold and 

 rain. It rains, it rains with a steadiness un- 

 known in these parts. And our poor dead 

 still remain buried under the stone-heape of 

 Reggio, from which we have not been per- 

 mitted to dig them out, neither do the soldiers 

 succeed in doing it. They lie pell-mell with 

 other dead, as the walls and timbers that 

 crushed them buried them, and are decaying 

 there.' " 



♦ 



Apiaries of Mr. and Mrs. Hovre, Etc. 



I am sending some photographs. No. 

 I is the apiary of Mrs. Geo. B. Howe, 

 in 1908, of which she is justly proud. 

 This little apiary produced honey enough 

 to pay for itself at $6 per colony last 

 spring, and some besides. I call this 

 good for a dry year. Our bees aver- 

 aged about half a crop or less. 



No. 2 shows our home apiary of 266 

 colonies of 3-banded leather-colored Ital- 

 ians, in 1908. I have bred this strain 

 for 12 years, and have a strain that 

 cap their honey white. I would be 

 glad to pay a good price for a breed- 

 ing-queen that will produce better hon- 

 ey-gatherers and cap their honey white. 



I think if the bee-keepers would take 

 more pains to breed better bees there 

 would not be any need of all this shak- 

 ing that some advocate. I do not see 

 why any one can not do as well as I 

 have done. I got the best honey-gath- 

 erers I could get, and bred them, not 

 for beauty, but for honey. I find after 



