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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 



cate your needs. Everj beekeepei 

 should join the nearest beekeepers' 

 a ociation; should subscribe for a 

 least one bee-journal, should own and 

 study at least one hook onbeekeep- 

 ing and should know what aid in bee- 

 keeping is obtainable from State of- 

 fices or from the Agricultural Col- 

 lege." 



A California Bulletin— "Beekeeping 



for the Fruit Grower and Small 

 Rancher, or Amateur," is the title of 

 a 12-page bulletin written by Geo. A. 

 Coleman and gotten out under the 

 direction of the College of Agricul- 

 ture at Berkeley. Calif. It is, as its 

 name indicates, a bulletin of infor- 

 mation to the small beginner. Sub- 

 jects dealt with are .Kind of Bees to 

 Keep, Where to Obtain Them, Equip- 

 ment Necessary; How to Handle 

 Bees, What You will Find in the 

 Hive and What to Do, Cleaning Hives 

 and Frames, Preparing for the 

 Honey-flow, Beekeepers' Library, etc. 



Missouri Apiary Superintendent. — 



Our good friend, R. A. Holekamp, 

 of R. F. D. 1, Hillsboro, Mo., has 

 been appointed superintendent of the 

 Apiary Department at the Missouri 

 State Fair, which is to be held at 

 Sedalia, August 10 to 17. Friend 

 Holekamp believes in getting things 

 properly advertised, and he is send- 

 ing a circular letter to beekeepers 

 soliciting their co-operation for the 

 apiary exhibit. Write to him for in- 

 formation. 



Isle of Wight Disease. — We are in 



receipt of Bulletin No. 85 of the 

 West of Scotland Agricultural Col- 

 lege, by Joseph Tinsley, B. B. K. A. 

 Mr. Tinsley makes a preliminary re- 

 port on his experiments concerning 

 this disease. He evidences the fact 

 that the remedies recommended dur- 

 ing the past years, izal, bacterol. di- 

 oxygen, phenol, formalin, sulphur 

 and other drugs, have given negative 

 results. But he makes a rather en- 

 couraging suggestion concerning a 

 culture recommended by the famous 

 Professor Metchnikoff, Bacillus Bul- 

 garicus, which would appear to have 

 cured at least one case on which ex- 

 periments were made. 



With so many learned experiment- 

 ers at work on Isle of Wighl disease, 

 we may hope to have, some day, 

 a cure which will also cure the sim- 

 ilar disease, tin- so-called paralysis 



The Ames Meeting. The econd 



annual Short ('ours ( - in Beekeeping 

 at tlie Iowa Experimental Station a! 

 Ames, Iowa, was a decided success, 

 as it was well attended by beekeep- 

 ers and student s 



Some of the in, table addresses 

 were by C. 1'. Dadant, of the Ameri- 

 ■ an I'.ee Journal, 1 lamilti hi. 111. ; M r. 

 1 1 \ Davis, of Washington, D. I 



01 I Eric Millen. Mr. W. S. 

 Pangburn. of Center Junction, Iowa; 

 Professor Pammel, ami others of the 

 faculty, and Mr. Edward Brown, oi 

 Sioux City. Mr. Fred Hall's a 

 regarding swarm prevention was a 

 striking one, and attracted much at 

 tention. Dr. Bonney, of Buck Grove, 



show i r | nn idels oi si ime i if his new 

 idea--, a feeder, hive entrance, com- 

 bined decoy hive and swarm catcher, 

 electric comb pateher and others. 



While at Anns the writer was 

 shown the last word in aluminum 

 honeycombs, the invention of an 

 Iowa man. and there seems to remain 

 not a particle of doubt but that it is 

 a decided success. The samples | 

 saw were pieces inserted in regular 

 combs, and the bees had not onlj 

 accepted and used them, but where 

 they were shallow had buill them up 

 as though working on wax combs As 

 such combs would be moth-proof, as 

 well as mouse-proof, they could be 

 stored anywdiere without fear of loss. 

 When aluminum is again available at 

 a moderate price they can be made 

 to sell at about 25 cents, I am in- 

 formed by the inventor. 



A. F. BONNEY. 



tire apiary by a cloudburst. Nine 

 and a half inches of water fell at 

 that spot that evening. 



Bibliography — The Flower and the 

 Bee 



"The Flower and the Bee — Plant 

 Life and Pollination" is the title of 

 a magnificent work, by our well- 

 known correspondent John H. Lovell, 

 whose articles on honey plants and 

 on pollen-gathering insects have 

 been much appreciated, not only in 

 the American Bee Journal, but in 

 other special publications. 



The book presents the function of 

 bees, beetles, flies and other insects 

 in the pollination of flowers. It con- 

 tains 119 illustrations of flowers and 

 insects in the skilled manner for 

 which the author is well known. It 

 is a monumental work and deserves 

 a place on the book-shelf of every 

 student of entomology or botany. 



The New York State Beekeepers' 

 Association will hold a Field meet a1 

 Hayt Corners, N. Y.. August 2, at the 

 summer home of C. B. Howard. Dr. 

 E. F. Phillips will probably attend. 



Loss of Bees by Flood. — Mr I \\ . 

 Tinsley, of Ames. Iowa, lost an en- 



Palmetto Honey. — Good honey can 

 be produced right by the side of 

 Lake Okeechobee, in southern Flori- 

 da. We have just received a fine 

 sample of scrub palmetto honey from 

 C. C. Cook. Tasmania. This town is 

 to be found only on the latest maps. 

 It is a new place, west of that big 

 lake, in the wildest of Florida. 



Idaho Meeting. — The Annual Field 

 Meeting of the Idaho-Oregon Honey 

 Producers' Association will be held 

 on the premises of Gottfried Lohrli. 

 Parma Idaho, Wednesday. July 10. 

 All honey producers of southwestern 

 Idaho are cordially invited to attend. 

 P. S. FARRELL, Sec'y. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE 



Bureau of Markets 



Honey arrivals since May 15: 



Medina, Ohio — 220 pounds Ken- 

 tucky. 4.005 pounds Nebraska, 7,638 

 pounds Florida, 757 pounds Pennsyl- 

 vania. 1.080 pounds Colorado. 



Shipping point information Friday, 

 May 31: 



San. Francisco, Calif. — Demand 

 light, fair for export, movement slow, 

 growers holding for higher prices. 

 Prices to growers : Orange blossom, 

 18-22c, mostly 20c; sage, 20-22c ; light 

 amber, 162-3 to 20c. Unofficial esti- 

 mate orange blossom crop, 1918, 300 

 to 400 tons; expect lighter crop of 

 sage than last year, on account of 

 cold weather and rains. 



Los Angeles, Calif. — Demand and 

 movement good, market strong. Cash 

 to producer on farm: White orange, 

 strained, per pound, 20-21c, mostly 20c. 



Kansas City — Receipts very light. 

 Supplies insufficient to meet demand. 

 Demand limited, market strong, few- 

 sales, all sales in small lots. Mis- 

 souri, first native honey on market, 

 quality and condition g I; 24 sec- 

 tion flat cases. No. 1 light, $7.50. Bees- 

 wax: approximately 500 pounds ar- 





