AMERICAN BEE JOURNAU 



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EDITOR. 



Vollim April 16, 1891, No, 16. 



Editorial Buzziiigs. 



On Sunny Slopes the grass is green, 

 And springing- crocus tips are seen ; 

 The timid violet, in surprise. 

 Peers at the sun with half-shut eyes ; 

 Listens to catch the hopeful words 

 From cheerful, reassuring- birds. 



Come showers, come flowers, come joyful 

 wing ; 



Come full-clad, charming Spring ! 



Xlie Illinois Bill on Foul -Brood 

 was introduced in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives on the 9th inst. 



One toy One the older apiarists 

 are passing away. How long the cata- 

 logue now seems ! How greatly has it 

 swelled since the "nineties" began! 

 Whose turn is it next ? Heaven only 

 knows. The younger ones step up quite 

 firmly to take the place of the fallen 

 ones, and close up the ranks. To them 

 is confided the unfinished work, as well 

 as the neiv within sight, and the unde- 

 veloped just beyond our ken. yet existing 

 only in imagination. 



Xhat Scare is Over about foul- 

 brood being spread by the use of comb- 

 foundation made from the melting of 

 combs which contained the disease. The 

 letters of Messrs. Dadant & Son and M. 

 H. Hunt in last week's Bee Journal 

 are supplemented by one from Ernest R. 

 Root this week. These' testimonies set- 

 tle the matter — proving that we were 

 correct in presuming that the long-con- 

 tinued high temperature, to which the 

 wax is subjected before sheeting is com- 

 menced, docs Mil the microbes and spores. 

 Mr. Corniel's fears are therefore ground- 

 less, and all may use comb-foundation 

 without the least anxiety in that direc- 

 tion. We are glad, however, that the 

 point was raised, so that it may be for- 

 ever settled by such testimony as we 

 have presented. 



Xlie Patent Congfress.— The 

 Congress of inventors and manufacturers 

 of patented inventions is celebrating the 

 beginning of the second century of the 

 American patent system in Washington. 

 It was opened on last Wednesday by 

 President Harrison. Commissioner of 

 Patents Mitchell had for his theme, 

 "The Birth and Growth of the American 

 Patent System." Justice Blatchford, 

 who is recognized as the patent expert 

 on the bench of the United States 

 Supreme Court, spoke on "A Century of 

 Patent Law." 



S. D. Haskin, Waterville, Minn., 

 has gotten up a swarm-catcher, but it 

 is much like the Bailey, which appeared in 

 1880. Great minds run in the same 

 channel. 



Fire destroyed the honey-house and 

 work-shop of Mr. G. H. Knickerbocker, 

 at Pine Plains, N. Y., on the morning of 

 April 1, 1891. It contained all his 

 supplies for the apiary, and in the cellar 

 below were his bees, and all were con- 

 sumed. Fortunately it was insured for 

 about two-thirds of its value. The los*; 

 is probably about S800. 



