1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



429 



to work on it I put on one more, so I 

 pive all the room they can fill, and keep 

 ahead of them all summer. I got from 

 200 pounds down to 56 from them last 

 year, according to the size of colony. 

 Last year I got from 5<» to 100 pounds 

 each from the npw swarms, all from 

 natural swarming. Give me natural 

 swarming, by all means. I now have 2il: 

 good colonies, with over 2,800 sections 

 on them. I have lost two swarms. 



E. D. Bacon. 

 Shelby Co., III., June 20. 



Very Little Honey So Far. 



Bees are strong, but no swarms, and 

 very little honey yet, tho plenty of 

 bloom. Red clover seems to be the only 

 thing that will furnish honey, but the 

 bloom is so deep that it is hard for the 

 bees to work. Albert Holladay. 



Clinton Co., Ind., June 22. 



Threatened with Foul Brood. 



My 27 colonies are in fine condition at 

 present, but as foul brood has gotten 

 into an apiary '&% miles south of here, 

 it is hard to tell how things will come 

 out. 



Is there any law in Michigan to com- 

 pel the apiarist to try to get rid of the 

 disease ? The disease was brought 

 about through his carelessness. 



I. D. Babtlett. 



Charlevoix Co., Mich., June 27. 



[Yes, Michigan has au old law on foul 

 brood, which was publisht in the Bee 

 Journal last year. Some suggestion was 

 made at the last Michigan State conven- 

 tion looking toward Its revision, we be- 

 lieve. — Editor.] 



Wet Spring, Sweet Clover, Etc. 



I had intended to send a few apiarian 

 notes some time before this, but the 

 weather was so very hard on the bees 

 that it took all my spare time to give 

 them a little courage and consolation in 

 order to keep them from deserting their 

 hives. The spring was very wet, and 

 bees could not make a living in this part 

 of the country before the first of June; 

 since then they have been working on 

 white and Alsike clover enough to breed 

 up well. However, they are now ready 

 for that flow we long have waited for, 

 but it has not yet appeared. 



My experience with sweet clover is 

 just opposite to some that are having a 

 world of trouble trying to get rid of that 

 "notorious weed." The spring of 1896 

 I got some seed from a reliable source, 

 sowed some of it on wheat ground, the 

 same as red clover seed, and the rest I 

 scattered around in fence corners, on 

 good ground, where I was sure it would 

 grow. Of that lot of seed I found one 

 small plant. I staked it up so nothing 

 could hurt it, and the second year it 

 grew to about 1-i inches in height and 

 bloomed some, but I never saw a single 

 bee near it. That stalk was in a fence- 

 corner in the best of soil. This spring 

 there is not a plant to be found in that 

 vicinity. 



Last spring I gave It another trial, 

 sowing some with oats on good, mellow 

 ground ; some along a spring run (on its 

 banks, where there was washt ground,) 

 but so far I have been unable to find a 

 single plant, and I came to the conclu- 

 sion that I could get along very well 

 without sweet clover. 



I had a very curious experience with a 



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colony of my bees this spring. Along 

 the first of June I opened hive No. 38 to 

 see how they were getting along. Well, 

 I found two capt queen-cells and some 

 not yet capt. Thinking they were about 

 ready to swarm, I closed the hive and 

 gave orders to watch for a swarm the 

 next day from No. 38. The next day 

 came, but the swarm did not. The 

 second day and no swarm. So I waited 

 five days and not an (external) sign of a 

 swarm. Then I opened the hive again, 

 and on the first frame I found a ball of 

 bees. Says I to myself: "You are 

 going to supersede your queen, and are 

 killing your mother." So thinks I, " I'll 

 save her" — a young tested queen one 

 year old. I caught hold of her wing, 

 and, to my astonishment, it was a young 

 queen instead of the old one. Then the 

 other frames were examined and the old 

 queen was found to be all right. 



The virgin that had been balled 

 hatcht out of one of the cells that were 

 found capt on the first examination. A 

 few days later another virgin was found 

 dead in front of that hive. Now, why 

 did they allow those cells to hatch if 

 they did not want any of the queens? 

 The weather was warm and fair at that 

 time. Or, why did they not swarm ? 

 Paul Whitebkead. 



Luzerne Co., Pa., June 22. 



The Foul Brood Inspector. 



On page 032 I askt Mr. Lovesy, of 

 Utah, why Utah's bee-keepers can't 

 guard themselves against foul brood as 

 well as an inspector? In reply I am 

 askt how the bee-keepers could interfere 

 with the bees of any person without an 

 inspector who shall visit every apiary in 

 his district at least once a year to eradi- 

 cate all foul brood and kindred disease. 



Mr. L. says whether this is satisfac- 

 tory to me or not he fails to see any- 

 thing so very monstrous in this law. 

 Don't be mistaken. I want to encourage 

 and protect the bee-industry, like you, 

 but we differ in the means. I want a 

 law against all that's foul — not foul 

 brood only; but I don't want so many 

 inspectors. There are more officers than 

 bee-hives already ; decrease them and 

 increase the bee-hives — that makes less 

 burden and more honey, and therefore 

 it Is better. 



About foul brood, every bee-keeper 

 can learn as much as an inspector. Let 

 each one learn by distributing good per- 

 iodicals like the American Bee Journal ; 

 teach him to observe, and to act, and by 

 law compel him to restrain from every 

 harm towards the community. By cre- 

 ating inspectors you make everybody 

 pay for a few neglectful persons. Make 

 these persons pay for their neglect — 

 that's enough. 



If you have fire on your place you will 

 have to guard, and not an inspector; 

 and if you do harm to your neighbors 

 you must bear the consequences. Every 

 person is cautioned under the penalties 

 of law to watch his apiary, that disas- 

 trous thing called foul brood, that de- 

 stroys so many colonies only by neglect. 

 This is a correct way to protect the bee- 

 industry. 



An inspector visiting every hive at 

 least once a year Is a monstrous thing. 

 I am going to show you it Is. You know 

 small-pox, cattle-fever, hog-cholera, and 

 San Jose scale are things as bad as a 

 mad dog. Have you an inspector visit- 

 ing at least once every year your family 

 to find out If there Is small-pox, or visit- 



