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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



=3 Established by Samuel Wagner in 186) C= 



The oldest Bee Journal in the English language. Consolidated with The 

 National Bee Journal in 1874. 



Published monthly at Hamilton, Illinois. 



Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hamilton, Illinois. 



Subscription Rates — In the United States and 

 Mexico, $1 per year; three years, $2.60; five 

 years, $4. Canadian postage 15 cents, and 

 other foreign countries 25 cents extra, per 

 year. 



All subscriptions are stopped at expiration. Date 

 of expiration is printed on wrapper label. 



THE STAFF 



C. P. Dadant Editor 



Frank C. Pellett Associate Editor 



C. C. Miller Questions Department 



Maurice G. Dadant Business Manager 



(Copyright 1919, by C. P. Dadant.) 



THE EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT 



A Mild Winter 



Reports from many places indicate 

 that the winter has been much 

 milder than usual. Numerous reports 

 express the fear that spring will find 

 the bees short of stores and that 

 feeding will be necessary. With bees 

 flying nearly every day in January, 

 it is not surprising that they soon be- 

 gan seeking for water and started to 

 rear brood. Brood-rearing consumes 

 honey very rapidly and beekeepers 

 should have a care to make sure that 

 all bees have plenty of feed. With 

 bees in great demand and honey at 

 high prices, it is poor policy to allow 

 bees to starve for want of a little at- 

 tention at the beginning of spring. 



Education for Disease Control 



In several of the States good re- 

 sults are beginning to be apparent as 

 a result of the efforts of the exten- 

 sion workers in beekeeping. If the 

 beekeepers will bring pressure to 

 bear on the extension department of 

 every college to place an expert bee- 

 disease man in the field, much can 

 shortly be accomplished looking to- 

 ward the control of foulbrood. The 

 treatment of this disease is now so 

 well understood that the important 

 thing is to educate the mass of bee- 

 keepers in the proper means of rec- 

 ognition and treatment. The short- 

 cut to control is by means of utiliz- 

 ing the machinery of the extension 

 departments. No special legislation 

 is necessary. All that is needed is to 

 convince the proper officials that such 

 assistance is necessary. 



When Articles Appear 



We frequently receive articles of 

 interest with the request that they be 

 published in the next issue of the 

 Journal. Our readers who have not 



had experience in getting out a pub- 

 lication cannot realize how impossi- 

 ble that may be. We often have sev- 

 eral times the amount of good ma- 

 terial there is room for and of course 

 are limited to the 36 pages which 

 constitute the Journal. It often hap- 

 pens that articles are set in type ex- 

 pecting that they will go in and then 

 are crowded out for one, two, or even 

 three months. We try to make use 

 of as much of the material sent us as 

 we can, and we very much appreciate 

 the fact that our readers send us so 

 many valuable contributions. We re- 

 gret that it often happens that good 

 articles are crowded out month after 

 month. We try to publish all notices 

 of conventions and other timely 

 mention as quickly as possible. Ques- 

 tions for Dr. Miller's department are 

 answered as nearly as possible in the 

 order received. We have some good 

 things on hand which we have held 

 for many months which we hope yet 

 to use. 



Openings in Florida 

 Orange Groves 



The Cincinnati branch of the bu- 

 reau of markets has had several en- 

 quiries from citrus growers on the 

 Indian River, Florida, in regard to 

 the posibility of interesting beekeep- 

 ers in establishing apiaries in prox- 

 imity to their groves. We are not 

 informed as to what sources of nec- 

 tar are available after the oranges 

 have stopped blooming. It might be 

 well for beekeepers interested in 

 Florida locations to investigate this 

 territory. 



A New Sweet Clover Bulletin 



We have just received a copy of 

 Farmer's Bulletin 1005, entitled "Sweel 

 (lover on Corn Belt Farms." This is 



a 28-page publication giving in detail 

 the methods of cultivation of sweet 

 clover as a farm crop. It is always 

 to the advantage of the honey pro- 

 ducer to encourage the growth of 

 sweet clover as widely as possible. 

 Those interested will do well to call 

 this bulletin to the attention of their 

 neighbors who are engaged in farm- 

 ing, as well as to write for it them- 

 selves. Address Division of Publica- 

 tions, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C, and ask for 

 Farmer's Bulletin 1005. 



War Losses by Beekeepers 



We have so far heard very little 

 about war losses by beekeepers in 

 the devastated countries. It is prob- 

 ably due to the fact that beekeepers 

 are usually farmers and that these 

 were driven from their homes, com- 

 pelled to seek shelter far away, and 

 in many cases uninformed as to their 

 actual losses, until they returned to 

 the despoiled regions. Here is one 

 account just received by us: 



"Arriving home, I found my house 

 blown open and without roof; the 

 furniture was all carried away, as 

 well as the cooking utensils, linen 

 bed-clothes, etc. We live here like 

 savages, without clocks, without fur- 

 niture, without linen, without uten- 

 sils in which to cook. Mother has no 

 clothes left. We had to put a roof 

 on the kitchen and it is there that 

 we live. We have less to eat than 

 during the war and have just been 4 

 days without bread. No lights to 

 the windows and no coal, and the 

 weather is cold. The bees have been 

 carried away; they have even stolen 

 the empty hives. I had 10-frame 

 hives and 20 skeps." 



"ELIE LEMAIRE, 

 "Haussy, Nord, France." 



Our Americans have been very 

 generous; they have donated and are 

 still donating, to the Red Cross, to 

 the Belgian and Serbian relief com- 

 mittee, to the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. 

 C. A., the fatherless children of Bel- 

 gium, France and Serbia, etc. But 

 there is still an immense amount of 

 suffering and room for help from 

 generous hearts. The above is an 

 instance among the many. The sug- 

 gestion has been made that a sub- 

 scription be opened among Ameri- 

 can beekeepers for their suffering 

 brothers of Europe. The funds could 

 be placed in the hands of some lead- 

 ing European Association for distri- 

 bution to the needy. But the sub- 



