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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



JVov. 14, 



Qej;)eral Itenps. 



Appeal to Wisconsin Bee-Keepers. 



Some of you have seeu the report of N. 

 E. France, in Gleanings for June, regard- 

 ing the efforts that were made by the 

 Southwestern Wisconsin and the Wiscon- 

 sin State Bee-Keepers' Association to get 

 the passage of a foul brood law providing a 

 foul brood inspector for Wisconsin. Mr. 

 France expended S35 in railroad fare and 

 expenses while working to get the bill 

 passed. The bill, as you know, was lost; 

 but we as bee-keepers feel that we must not 

 give up until we have accomplished our 

 purpose of getting a law for our State simi- 

 lar to the Canadian law. We must have 

 money with which to pay the expenses of 

 Mr. France, and for a fund to provide for 

 future expenses in pushing this matter 

 through the legislature. 



We therefore appeal to every bee-keeper 

 and supply dealer in our State, or inter- 

 ested therein, to send your contributions 

 for this purpose to N. E. France, Treasurer 

 of the Wisconsin State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, Platteville, Wis., on or before Jan. 

 1,1806; and if there are any who are un- 

 able to give us financial support, we ask 

 you to write a letter to Mr. France, show- 

 ing your desire to have this law passed, 

 which is of such importance as a protection 

 to our chosen pursuit. (Signed.) 



F. Wilcox, 

 Preudent Wis, State B.-K. Association, 



H. Lathrop, 



Secretary Wis. State B.-K. Association. 



N. E. Prance, 



rresident S. W. ^Yis. B.-K. Association. 



M. M. Rice, 

 Secretary S. W. Wis. B.-K. AssocialiOH. 



Favors the Five-Banded Bees. 



It has been a very poor season here in 

 eastern Maine — in fact, the poorest I have 

 known in the 16 years I have kept bees. 



Mr. A. Norton, in Gleanings for Oct. 15, 

 calls for fair play in regard to .5-banded 

 bees, and wants all to give public testi- 

 mony. With me they have proved to be 

 the best bees I eyer owned, all things con- 

 sidered, and I have given them quite an ex- 

 tensive trial. Some say the queens are not 

 prolific, bees are cross, great robbers, and 

 other "hard names." 



In the spring of 1894 I bought ten .5- 

 banded queens with a pound of bees with 

 each queen, from a Texas breeder; also ten 

 2-frame nuclei colonies of the same breeder, 

 and two 4-frame nuclei of an Ohio breeder 

 — all 01 them 5-banded stock. The one- 

 pound lots gave me from 20 to 50 pounds of 

 comb honey ; the two-frame lots gave me 

 from 30 to 80 pounds of honey ; one-half of 

 both lots swarmed; the four-frame nuclei 

 gave me 75 for one and 80 pounds for the 

 other, and both swarmed. A full colony of 

 3-bauded bees, that did not swarm, gave me 

 30 pounds of comb honey the same season. 



In many cases where 5-banded bees have 

 been condemned, I think they have not had 

 a fair trial. In all cases where I have re- 

 ceived queens by mail they have not come 

 up to the standard for prolificness. Those 

 bought in nuclei colonies have done extra 

 well, but the queens I rear myself, under the 

 swarming impulse, are the best. Some of 

 the young queens reared from the 5-banded 

 stock proved to be the most prolific queens 

 I ever owned. In regard to wintering 

 qualities, I do not find much difference. I 

 winter my bees in the cellar. 



J. E. GiNN. 



Ellsworth, Maine, Oct. 19. 



Ants, Skunks, Laying-Workers, Etc. 



I think that my bees, and, in fact, all of 

 the bees in this section of the country for 

 miles around, gathered a good deal of 

 boney-dew the fall of 1894, consequently a 

 good many colonies died or were greatly 

 reduced in numbers. When we put them 



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