AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



697 



Aaron Coppin is made to say, 

 on page 456, that the State Fair pre- 

 mium on bees was given to him, and not 

 to Mr. Trego. The writing was so poor 

 that the letter had to be copied and re- 

 constructed before it could be given to 

 the printer. It was, of course, fully in- 

 tended to convey the exact idea of the 

 writer, but it seems that such was not 

 done. He desired to say that though 

 the premium was awarded to Mr. Trego,, 

 in justice it belonged to him, had the 

 award been made on the merits of the 

 case. This straightens out an apparent 

 contradiction, and should have been 

 made public long ago, but on account of 

 our enforced absence from the office by 

 sickness, it was overlooked until now. 



S.praying: of Xrees before fruit 

 bloom is exciting considerable discussion 

 now among horticulturists. Some one 

 has sent us the following item, published 

 by the Lyons (N. Y.) Republican on 

 May 5, 1891: 



Several farmers report that the insect 

 which has destroyed so many millions of 

 dollars' worth of apples during the past 

 few years, is to be found in the very 

 center of the now hard and tightly-closed 

 bud. No remedy has as yet been sug- 

 gested, except spraying as soon as the 

 hud opens. 



We sent the item to Prof. Cook, and 

 asked him to make a reply to it for the 

 American Bee Jouristal. His answer 

 is as follows : 



As I have repeatedly stated, fruit trees 

 should never be sprayed while in bloom. 

 For the codling moth they should never 

 be sprayed until the blossoms fall, as to 

 do so earlier makes it less effective, and, 

 in case, of heavy rains, it maybe entirely 

 valueless. It should ever be borne 

 in mind that the codling moth does 

 not lay its eggs until after blossoming 

 occurs. These eggs do not hatch until 

 some days later ; hence, the unwisdom of 

 spraying for this insect before the blos- 

 soms fall, even from late blooming 

 varieties like the northern spy, is most 

 apparent. 



There is, however, sojne bud moths, 

 the caterpillars of which eat into the' 

 buds, and so pass beyond any danger 

 from the arsenites, if not applied very 



early. The linden span worm, of late 

 very destructive in Michigan, and some 

 other larvie, have just this habit. 

 Besides, there are the canker worms, 

 that attack the foliage before the buds 

 have fairly opened, and would do quite 

 serious damage if we waited until the 

 regular time for spraying codling moth. 



In case any locality is so unfortunate 

 as to be the victim of any of these early 

 despoilers, then the fruit grower should 

 spray as soon as the buds begin to swell, 

 and again after all blossoms have fallen, 

 but never when the trees are in bloom. 



This season we are getting much 

 honey from fruit bloom, and the bees 

 are doing equally good service for the 

 fruit. A. J. Cook. 



Bare-Headed Brood.— A cor- 

 respondent asks the following question : 



What is the cause of the bees not cap- 

 ping some of the cells of brood, before 

 the brood is full grown, and building 

 some cells one-eighth -of an inch longer 

 than the others ? I have thought that it 

 was the beginning of foul-brood, and do 

 not know how to treat it. 



St. Paul, Minn. J. A. Holmberg. 



Bees sometimes leave small patches 

 of brood without sealing. Some think 

 that it is on account of the presence of 

 worms, while others think that the 

 worms have nothing to do with it. It is 

 what is often called "bare-headed" 

 brood. In any case no harm will come 

 of it, and it has nothing whatever to do 

 with foul-brood. 



That Picture on page 665 of our 

 last issue made hundreds laugh, no 

 doubt. Well, it is sometimes good to 

 laugh, and that is the only redeeming 

 feature about it. The only way to make 

 anything out of it, is for the reader to 

 " stand on his head," for the engraving 

 appears wrong side up. The way it 

 occurred was this : In the hurry of mak- 

 ing up the editorial pages (always the 

 last work done on the forms) the printer 

 inverted it, and the editor did not see 

 anything more of the page until it was 

 printed, when it was too late to correct 

 it. We reproduce it and the article this 

 week, to show how it should have ap- 

 peared. 



