Mar. 2, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



137 



National Bee-Keepers' Union to help put the United States 

 Bee-Keepers' Union [now Association — Ed.] on a more sub- 

 stantial basis, both by their influence and their mone}', I 

 move that a committee be appointed by the President to 

 devise some plan by which so desirable an object may be 

 accomplisht whenever the Advisory Board of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Union may signify a wish so to do. [Motion 

 adopted, and the Board of Directors appointed as such com- 

 mittee.] " 



We republish the foreg-oing paragraph for the purpose 

 of reminding the Union how nicely the way was left open 

 for them to come into the United States Association, when- 

 ever they should so desire. All that is necessary is for the 

 Advisory Board of the Union to express their wish to the 

 Board of Directors of the Association. Mr. G. M. Doolittle 

 is now President of the Union (and we presume chairman 

 of the Advisory Board), and Mr. E. R. Root is chairman of 

 the Board of Directors of the Association. 



Now, if the members of the Union's Advisory Board 

 feel that a " wedding " should take place, thej' could so in- 

 form Pres. Doolittle, who would communicate such "wish " 

 to Chairman Root, and likely the contracting parties could 

 be ready to begin "housekeeping" Jan. 1, 1900 — the time 

 when Mr. Newman says he must terminate his work as 

 General Manager. 



Personallj', we had once decided not to speak again of 

 uniting the two organizations in question, but perhaps the 

 time is now at hand when it will be wise to take up the mat- 

 ter and unite under one banner the bee-keepers of this 

 countrj-. We are willing to do what we can to make every- 

 body happy, and if the Board of Directors of the Associa- 

 tion shall report, at the next annual meeting, that they had 

 arranged with the Union's Advisory Board to unite the two 

 organizations Jan. 1, 1900, we shall be glad to join in a 

 hearty welcome to the Union's membership, and extend 

 congratulations all around. 



Michigan Foul Brood Law — We understand that a 

 Foul Brood Bill is now before th e Michigan legislature, and 

 Editor Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keepers' Review, speaks of 

 it as follows : 



" If the legislature thoroughly understands the matter, 

 knows how badly the law is needed, and why it is needed, 

 there is no doubt of its passage. It is the business of the 

 bee-keepers of the State to inform the legislature in regard 

 to the matter. 



" If each bee-keeper who reads this will write to his 

 member in the legislature, and fully set forth the reasons 

 why the law ought to be past, it will be past. Don't think 

 that because there is no foul brood in your apiary, nor near 

 you, that there never will be ; and the sooner we have this 

 law, and an inspector to look after the matter the better, 

 the less likely is it that it will appear in your j'ard. Simply 

 write to your member and explain to him the contagious, 

 infectious character of the disease. How it finally destroys 

 an apiary ; but that is not the worst of it ; bees from other 

 apiaries rob out the depopulated hives, and thus carry home 

 the seeds of the disease to destroy another apiary, and thus 

 it continues to spread from apiary to apiary, unless it is 

 checkt. Call his attention to the fact that it is not the bee- 

 keeper alone that suffers but that the fruit-grower and the 

 horticulturist need the bees to fertilize the blossoms, and 

 thus cause them to bring forth fruits in abundance. Don't 

 get up any petitions. Simply write a personal letter to your 

 member, and it will be read and considered, while a petition 

 will simply be tuckt away in a pigeon-hole. 



" Friends, I beg of you, do not neglect this matter. It 

 is important." 



We also would have all of our Michigan subscribers 

 at once write their representatives at Lansing, urging the 

 importance of the foul brood law. 



To Qet Rid of Laying Workers, Mr. Wilson puts over 

 the colony a queen and some frames of bees and brood, do- 

 ing this toward evening, and has succeeded in each of the 

 half-dozen cases he tried. — Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



Mr. N. E. France, Wisconsin's State inspector of api- 

 aries, is speaking daily upon bee-culture at the farmers' 

 institutes. He expects to be through by March 17. As that 

 is " St. Patrick's Day," we presume he will celebrate then I 



Mr. Wm. Stohey, of Hall Co., Nebr., writing us Feb. 

 17, said : 



" After a confinement of 22 days, and part of the time 

 30 degrees below zero, my bees have had three days sporting 

 in the warm sunshine, and they are now in good trim to 

 stand another severe spell of cold weather." 



J. J. G., 1800 Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111., wants a good, 

 trustworthy man who understands bees thoroughly, and who 

 will be an assistant gardener. The position would be in 

 the White Mountains in New Hampshire, town of Littleton, 

 on an estate of about a thousand acres. The situation is a 

 good one, and a permanent one to the right man. Address 

 as above if you think you can "fill the bill," and want the 

 place. 



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"Pickings from Our Neighbors' Fields" is the 

 title of a new department in Gleanings which gives in con- 

 denst form items of interest gathered from other bee-peri- 

 odicals. It is conducted by " Stenog," which is short for 

 W. P. Root, a man not related by blood to the Roots of 

 Gleanings, but one who has had much to do for many years 

 with the fact that Gleanings is typographically so near per- 

 fection. He is stenographer and proof-reader, and what he 

 doesn't know about the ins and outs of punctuation and the 

 fine shades of meanings of words is hardly worth knowing. 

 Withal he has a good stock of the sort of humor of which 

 one never tires. He seems to find pretty good " picking " 

 in the American Bee Journal. 



Mr. Thom.\s G. Newman, of San Francisco, Calif., 

 General Manager of the National Bee-Keepers' Union, writ- 

 ing us Feb. 18, said : 



" I have seen in the daily papers of the extreme cold 

 and of the storms and blizzards you have been having in 

 the East, for to us Chicago is " East," tho the people in 

 New York think it West, and nearly out of the world. Like 

 all else, the blizzards are but temporary, and soon pass 

 away. The weather here has been cold to us, and very dis- 

 agreeable much of the time since New Year, but now it is 

 again pleasant and much warmer. We feel the cold here 

 much more at freezing-point than you do in Chicago at 

 zero, because we are not fixt for it, nor used to it, and also 

 on account of the humidity in the atmosphere, and so it 

 always seems to be colder than it really is." 



Dr. Peiro, who, as we have reported, visited the Pacific 

 Coast the past summer, speaks thus of the climate of Cali- 

 fornia : 



So many wish to know my opinion of California as a 

 climate for persons not in robust health that, with the edi- 

 tor's permission, I am tempted to reply to wholesale en- 

 quiries through the American Bee Journal. 



For persons in advanced years, to the point of feeble- 

 ness, or those threatened with a development of serious 

 lung trouble, I would say by all means go to California, and 

 don't stop until you reach Los Angeles or its vicinity. The 

 northern portion of the State as a place of residence for 

 the ailing is from bad to worse — generallj' worse. 



I can imagine no climate more delightful than that of 

 Southern California. But you will do best first to go there, 

 say for a year, and see how j'ou personally like it before 

 you " pull up stakes " at the old home for good. 



One thing you must also consider — while the climate is 

 excellent it is a poor place for a working-man without capi- 

 tal to depend upon earning a living. You may do so, but it 

 is best to rely upon a well-filled pocket-book. 



Dr. Peiro. 



