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some pollen in these combs, or no brood- 

 rearing will be started in spring until 

 a supply of pollen can be brought in 

 from outside. 



Wm. McEvoy seems quite enthusiastic 

 in the matter, and says this in the Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal : 



This fall treatment of mine is the simplest, 

 cheapest and by far the best ever offered to 

 the public. I have followed it since 1875, and 

 made perfect cures in every case, and never 

 in all my long experience did I have a single 

 failure. I have treated hundreds of colonies 

 in my time by shaking the bees off diseased 

 combs and giving all-capped stores in the fall. 



Mr. Byer says that it is very difEcult to 

 get all capped combs. Oh, my, no! It 

 won't be if people will only follow my in- 

 structions — and this they should do — and get 

 the combs all nicely capped right down to 

 the bottom of the frames — a thing that any 

 man can do for very little cost by placing 

 Miller feeders with sugar syrup in on brood- 

 chambers about the last of August, when 

 the hives are pretty full of brood and the 

 outside combs pretty well filled with honey, 

 the bees will rush the syrup into the remaining 

 space in the outside combs and will cap every 

 cell right down to the bottom of the combs, 

 and when this is done each of the fed colo- 

 nies can spare the outside combs, and in 

 evenings in October fine cures can be made 

 by shaking the bees off diseased combs and put- 

 ting in six combs all sealed, which have been 

 fed up for this purpose, and then put in the 

 division-boards, and in the spring take out 

 the division-boards and put in the full set of 

 brood-combs. 



These colonies with choice stores and plenty 

 of pollen in their combs to keep up brood- 

 rearing will come into spring in booming 

 condition. 



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National Membership Over 3000 



The last report from General N. E. 

 France, of Platteville, Wis., shows that 

 there were 3225 members in the National 

 Bee- Keepers' Association, on April i, 

 1909. That looks good. There is prob- 

 ably no other bee-keepers' association 

 on this continent that has even one-tenth 

 as many members as the National. 



On the Information leaflet sent out 

 by Mr. France April i, he said the pros- 

 pects for honey this year are fairly 

 good; bees wintering well generally; 

 and white clover was reported as look- 

 ing good. In some places there are big 

 prospects for honey, such as California, 

 Colorado, and Texas. The North Cen- 

 tral States have good clover prospects. 

 This information he gleans from his 

 general correspondence. 



Stimulative Feeding Not Approved 



During the past two trying springs it has 

 been my privilege to visit a good many 

 apiaries, many in which stimulative feeding 

 in the hands of expert men had been faith- 

 fully carried on, yet I am bound to say that 

 in every case where the bees were found to 

 be in real good condition they had been heavy 

 in stores, and had been well protected and left 

 alone, without any stimulating whatever. — 

 J. L. Ever, in Canadian Bee Journal. 



However it may be with the experi- 

 enced (and many of them never prac- 

 tise stimulative feeding in spring) there 

 is no doubt that stimulative feeding is 

 a pretty safe thing for beginners to let 

 alone. 



Souvenir Honey-Recipe Cards 



The Colorado Honey- Producers' As- 

 sociation, Mr. Frank Rauchfuss, Man- 

 ager, has gotten up a series of souvenir 

 postal-cards, showing a State flower on 

 each card, in natural colors, also a stanza 

 of poetry, and an interesting picture, in 

 some cases the State Capital Building. 



The foregoing is all on one side of the 

 card. On the other side is a place for 

 the address, and at the left is printed 

 the name of the Colorado Association, 

 and also a honey-recipe. They are beau- 

 tiful, but interesting as souvenirs, as 

 well. 



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The New Bachmann Super 



We have received the following illus- 

 trations showing some manipulations of 

 the Bachmann Comb-Honey Super, as 

 done by its inventor, Mr. C. H. Bach- 

 mann of Gueph, Ont., Canada: 



Hamlet — Modernized. 



The Bachmann Super. 



No. 1. — Drawing lock-pin out of super. 



No. 2. — Opening super and releasing entire 

 body of sections at once. 



No. 3. — Taking cover-slats off sections. 



No. 4. — Separating sections. 



No. T). — Refilling super, putting in 4 sec- 

 tions at a time with one separator. 



No. 0. Replacing cover-slats, and locking 

 same in. 



To bee or not to bee: that is the question. 

 Whether 'tis better, in the mind, to suffer 

 The stings and terrors of indocile workers 

 Or to lay hold with vigor and discretion. 

 And by design, use them? To die: to sleep 

 In ignorance of what real honey is? 

 Yea, more : to sleep with taste of "silver 



drips," 

 (That glucose fraud) forever on the lips, 

 And end life's little day? To die: to sleep: 

 Perchance to dream of blooming fields teem- 

 ing 

 With honied wealth and never know the 



taste 

 Of the pure quill? O, 'tis a consummation 

 Ne'er to be thought of while the silly bees 

 Work all the golden hours and never strike! 

 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil 

 What odds to us if one barb more or less 

 Be left in our tough hides ? Shall we not 



feed 

 Our babes with God's ambrosial nectar when 

 Bees toil for nought and earn their board be- 

 sides? 

 'Tig wicked waste to raise all corn and trade 

 The same for stuff the skillful chemist makes, 

 When willing wings explore the coaxing blos- 

 soms 

 And grunt and sweat under a precious load 

 Of pancake sweet'ner none can fabricate I 

 If they do not complain, then in the name 

 Of thrift and luxury let them toil on. 

 That late-discover'd posy-bed from which 

 These laden travelers return oft-soon 

 Conspires to feed our erst-while waning hope 

 And makes us rather bear the little stings 

 We suffer, balmed by peace 'mid rural scenes. 

 Than fly to those arrow'd by urban greed. 

 Forest City, Iowa. Eugene Secor. 



"Something About Alsike Clover" 



This is the name of a 16-page pamph- 

 let, about envelope size, which gives the 

 opinion of a number of experts, col- 

 lected from various sources, showing 

 how to grow alsike clover for profit, 

 either for hay or for seed. Incidentally, 

 of course, the bee-keeper will get the 

 benefit also, through the bees' working 

 on the rich nectar-laden blossoms. The 

 pamphlet is published by the A. I. Root 

 Co., of Medina, Ohio, who mail it free 

 on request to any one interested in the 

 subject. 



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Some Appreciated Congratulations 



We have received a number of very 

 nice letters referring to the American 

 Bee Journal and our 25 years' connec- 

 tion with it, for which we wish to ex- 

 tend our sincerest thanks. Among them 

 we are taking the liberty to present 

 the following as samples : 



l'*RiEND York: — I think the last number 

 of the "Old Reliable" is the cap sheaf of 

 them all, both as to quantity and quality. 

 You may well be proud of it. And that pic- 

 ture of the editor is so lifelike it reminds 

 me of the pleasant trip we had to San An- 

 tonio, to the National. 



Long may you live, and happy may you 

 be in your life's chosen work. 



C. A. Hatch. 



Richland Center, Wis., April 19. 



Friend York: — The April number of the 

 American Bee Journal is at hand, and with- 

 out fear of being accused of flattery — I be- 

 lieve I'm known to say what I think, too 

 well, to be charged with that — I wish to say 

 that the editorials in the Journal are invalua- 

 ble to the beginner in bee-keeping; but most 

 especially so in the current number. The 

 comments on "Equalizing Colonies," and "Get- 

 ting Good Oucen-Cells," are worth, to the 

 inexpcricnccfC tt-n times the price of subscrip- 

 tion, for by a single blunder he might lose 

 much more than that amount. It is attention 

 to minute details nf instruction to the be- 

 ginner in almost any line of study, and es- 

 pecially so in bce-kccping, that counts. This 

 fact is one of the reasons which makes "Forty 

 Years Among the Bees" so valuable to the 

 uninitiated. I imagine I see Dr. Miller, as a 

 school-master — standing in his yard during 



