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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May. 2, 



01DE5T BEE-PAPER ,N AMERICA. 

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Vol. inv, CHICAGO, ILL,, MAY, 2, 1895. No, 18, 



Editorial Budgets 



Willi*'!- l^o.xMfN «»l" Itees, throughout the country, so far 

 as I can gather from the reports, will not be nearly as bad as I at 

 one time feared, says Gleanings. The heaviest losses seem to be 

 among the careless bee-keepers— those who have a fashion of let- 

 ting the bees take care of themselves, largely, or among those who, 

 as Mr. Boardman himself says elsewhere, do not take any bee- 

 paper. 



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ApiN I>or»ata— the real " giant bees of India"— Mr. Frank 

 Benton writes about in a yery interesting article in the April 

 American Bee-Keeper. Mr. Benton has had personal and practical 

 experience with these bees in their native land, and thinks they 

 ■would prove of great value if introduced into this country. He 

 says: " I know they gather quantities of fine honey and produce 

 excellent wax." He thinks the United States Government should 

 investigate these bees and experiment vpith tbem, with a view to 

 their introduction and use in the subtropical portions of our 

 country. 



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Ml-. McEvoy, the well-known foul-brood exterminator of 

 Ontario, Canada, is thus spoken of by the editor of Gleanings : 



Foul-Brood Inspector Wm. McEvoy, it appears, has done some 

 pretty thorough work in eradicating foul brood in Ontario. If he 

 continues in office (as we hope he will) the disease will soon be a 

 thing of the past for Canada. Everv State on this side should have 

 at least a foul-brood law. While it is improbable that we should 

 be able to get a State appropriation to defray the expense of an 

 inspector, we should have the law, so that it may be used in case 

 of emergency. 



Yes, every State should have a foul brood law, and probably 

 if the bee-keepers of each State would organize and work for it 

 they would get it. It is surely worth attempting. The Wisconsin 

 Bee-Keepers' As.sociation, the past winter, has been urging their 

 State Legislature to pass a foul-brood law. but I have not as yet 

 heard the result. Probably it will be known soon. 



'I'lie Soiitliorn ■>«-partiiieiit of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, beginning with this week, will be in charge of Dr. J. P. H. 

 Brown, of Augusta. Gs,, in place of Mrs. Jennie Atchley. The 

 publishers have deemed it best to make this change. 



Dr. Brown has contributed largely to the literature of bee. 

 culture, and has answered queries ever since the beginning of tliat 

 department in the Bee Journal, so his name is quite familiar to all 

 its readers. He is well known in the South, and is fully acquainted 

 with the condition and needs of bee-culture in that portion of our 

 great country. All who desire to ask any questions on bee-keep- 

 'ing in the South, will please send them direct to Dr. Brown, and 

 he will answer them promptly in the •■ Southern Department " of 

 the American Bee Journal. As you will see by reading his ■■ Salu- 

 tatory ' on page 2S.">. he wishes to begin at once to try to elevate 

 the standard of Southern bee-culture to a higher plane, and invites 

 all who can and will do so, to cooperate with him in the work. 



For the benefit of our newer readers, I will give here some- 



thing personal concerning Dr. Brown. He was born and reared 

 on a farm in Carroll county, Slaryland. Like many country boys, 

 he worked in summer and went to a common country school in 

 winter, until he was 1() years old. when he attended an academy in 

 his native town. He afterwards took a course in natural sciences 

 and mathematics at the Wistern Liberal Institute in Marietta, 

 Ohio. After leaving the Institute, he studied medicine, but 

 mechanism being a ruling passion, he took up dentistry as a medi- 

 cal specialty. He migrated to Georgia in 1S59. 



Dr. Brown's commencement as a bee keeper dates back to 

 childhood. His father kept bees in the old box-hives, and his 

 earliest recollections is the cry of ''Bees swarming I" and the 

 usual thumping on a tin-pan to settle them. In 1870 he adopted 

 the movable-frame hive, and introduced into his apiary the Italian 

 bee. In ISTi he began to import queens direct from Italy, and to 

 breed them. As a queen-breeder. Dr. Brown has worked for a 

 beltei- bee ; and to secure this object he has brought to bear all the 

 science, skill and detail that he possesses. 



Probably the foregoing will suffice as a more formal introduc- 

 tion of Dr. Brown to the Bee Journal readers. Now get better ac- 

 quainted with him by writing him as he requests on page 385. 



Mr. Cbi-is<o|>lier Cariiiiin, the prominent bee-keeper at 

 Jefferson, Wis., and well known throughout the country, died at 

 his home on Saturday, April 20, 1895. The American Bee Journal 

 extends to the bereaved family sincerest sympathy in their sorrow. 

 A more extended notice will be given later. 



Xlie B«'siiiiiei- in bee-keeping is apt to think that his in- 

 terests are sadly neglected in most bee-papers these days. But if 

 he will stop to think how very often, in all probability, the rudi- 

 ments of bee-keeping have been gone over in every bee paper, he 

 will at once see that it would be utterly impossible, and also almost 

 useless to occupy space with what the majority have read until 

 they are sick and tired of it. Of course, there must be, of neces- 

 sity, some repetition, but bee-papers are published for the ad- 

 vanced pupils fully as much as for the ABC class. 



No beginner in bee-culture should think of going ahead with- 

 out possessing one or more of the standard books on bee-keeping. 

 This should be read in connection with oue or more of the bee- 

 papers. Then, any question arising that cannot be answered by 

 referring either to the book or the paper, should be sent at once to 

 the publisher of one of the periodicals taken on the subject, who 

 will answer it in print, if thought of sufficient general interest. 

 For that very purpose the departments of "Questions and An- 

 swers '' and the " Question-Box " are sustained in the American 

 Bee Journal. 



But no matter if jou take a dozen bee-papers, be sure to have 

 one or more of the best text-books on the subject. You will thus 

 have the concentrated experience of experts to compare with your 

 own. and at the same time have the bee-papers to inform you of 

 new and helpful ideas and inventions. 



A ♦"<>i-i-e«-li«»ii.— On page 172 I announced the death of Mr. 



Geo. Neighbour, a bee-supply dealer in England. It was 



Henry Neighbour who died recently, George having died some 40 



years ago. Mr. Henry N. was not a bee-man at all, but his brother 



Alfred, who also died some years ago, was the bee-keeper and 



author of an apiarian book. The firm of Geo. Neighbour .& Sons 



is now extinct so far as the Neighbours are concerned. The only 



relative was a sister who died the same day that Mr. Henry N. 



passed away. 



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A II C of ltoc-('iiItiii-c — We have some of these books 

 left, and in order to close them out quickly, we renew the low 

 offers we made on them. This is the tine cyclopedia of bee-keeping 

 by A. I. Root, containing 400 pages and nearly 300 engravings. 

 The regular price is .fl.So. but we will send the American Bee Jour- 

 nal one year and the "ABC" bound in cloth — both for only ?!1.S0; 

 or the parchment cover (very heavy paper) "A B C" and the 

 American Bee Journal one year — both together only .$1.50. 



;\ot SI llee Sloi-y. — The kangaroo is said to have gotten its 

 name in this way : Captain Cook first discovered the animal in 

 Australia. When he inquired its name of a native the latter re- 

 plied, " Kan-ga-roo," which, in the Australian language is, " I 

 don't know." 



Dr. Miller might say " Kan-ga-roo," for a change. 



