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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



=3 Established by Samuel Wagner in 1 861 G= 



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



National Bee Journal in 1874. 



Published monthly at Hamilton, Illinois. 



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



THE EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT 



Exporting Pur Product 



The American Shipping Board, un- 

 der date of May 17, published a letter 

 from the Director of Division of Op- 

 erations showing that there is no rea- 

 son why America should not be one 

 of the most successful shipping coun- 

 tries and advancing the very power- 

 ful and rational argument that, since 

 we carry cargo on the Great Lakes at 

 the lowest cost per ton known in the 

 world's commerce, we should also be 

 able to carry goods to foreign coun- 

 tries at as low a rate as any other 

 nation. 



This is sound argument. We need 

 to produce and export our surplus, 

 whether wheat or honey, and we need 

 to import many articles which cannot 

 be produced at home. Let us urge the 

 aggrandizement of our merchant ma- 

 rine. 



remedies of the different diseases of 

 adult bees. 



Those of our readers who are inter- 

 ested in these studies will do well to 

 preserve this number of the Journal 

 until the entire study of Dr. White is 

 published, which will be in the next 

 one or two issues. Sooner or later, 

 with the help of these careful stu- 

 dents, the causes and cure of the dif- 

 ferent adult bee diseases will be 

 found. 



The same number of the above- 

 named publication also contains an 

 interesting article on Scottish bee- 

 keeping by our friend and correspond- 

 ent, John Anderson, M. A. Copies of 

 this magazine may be obtained 1 

 sending 8^2 pence to H. M. Stationery 

 Office, 23 Forth St., Edinburgh. 



Diseases of the Adult Bee 



The leading article of this number 



is the beginning of the study of Nose- 



. Dr. White. Most of our rcad- 



ers'know that Dr. White was the first 



scientist to positively differentiate 



„ the two main diseases of 



brood. His studies, completed by Dr. 



Phillips in additional descriptions. 



easily place him at the head of stu- 



in brood diseases, we believe. 



The study of diseases of the adult 



bee is in its infancy. But scientists, 



on both sides of the Atlantic, are 



making investigations. The April 



number of the "Scottish Journal of 



ains a 14-pagi ai ti 



cle relating the experiments in Isle oi 



I Disease made by Messrs. John 



Rennie and Elsie J. Harvey. The e: 



nts related are valuable, but we 

 are far from definite and positive 

 knowledge concerning the causes and 



is poor economy. Too many beekeep- 

 ers refuse to take sufficient precau- 

 tion in preparing their honey for 

 shipment, thinking that the railroad 

 company will have to pay for any 

 loss. In the end the shipper always 

 pays the loss with a margin beside. 

 The average of losses are charged up 

 in the form of higher rates and the 

 careful shipper is penalized for the 

 damage done by the careless one. 



The use of cheap cases should be 

 discouraged. Veneer cases for 60- 

 pound cans should not be offered for 

 sale at any price. The safe case is 

 cheapest, in the end, every time. The 

 breaking of a case of honey in a 

 freight car is an expensive thing 

 Homy smeared over other goods is 

 likely to cause a big loss aside from 

 the honey itself, but it is all charged 

 to the honey, and when the rates will 

 not pay it, up go the rates. There is 

 no better service that beekeeping or- 

 ganizations can do than to look after 

 this matter of proper containers for 

 shipping honey. We all help to pay 

 the bill for the other fellow's care- 

 lessness. 



Another Boost of Freight 

 Rates on Honey 



Just now there is up before the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission a 

 proposition to raise the classification 

 on honey. A hearing was held on 

 the proposal to raise the rate on ex- 

 tracted honey, in barrels, from fourth 

 to third class in the southern classi- 

 fication. Our associate editor, to- 

 gether with a representative of the 

 Root Company and one of the G. B. 

 Lewis Company, was present at tins 

 hearing in an effort to make a show- 

 ing for the beekeepers. 



It is a difficult matter lo keep down 

 freight rates as long as .beekeepers 

 insist on shipping honey to market in 

 packages which will not carry safely. 

 Barrels with less than eight hoops 

 should never be used lor shipping 

 honey, and only good hardwood bar- 

 rels or new barrels of other kinds 



hould lie used. Saving a Ee 

 in the cost of a shipping container .it 

 the expense of higher freight rates 



The Colony Morale 



Having traveled, only a few weeks 

 before, among the steep hills and 

 along the deep lakes of New York 

 State, in my trip to Cornell Univer- 

 sity, I found it quite a contrast to 

 travel from Chicago to Lafayette, 

 Ltd., on the almost lake-level route 

 of the Monon. I was under the im- 

 pression that the builders of this rail- 

 road had named it thus originally be- 

 cause they considered it "the only 

 one" worthy of the name of railroad 

 (from the Greek, monos, unique). 

 But this is only the name of a town 

 through which the line passes, and 

 thus I lost some imaginary poetical 

 idea connected with prosaic railroad- 

 ing. 



Purdue contrasts greatly with ( or- 

 nell, in the scenery. Were it not for 

 the Wabash river, which separates 

 the university from the city of La- 

 ., and a slight hill to ascend 

 before reaching the grounds, one 

 could not find tamer scenery. The 

 University itself compares well with 

 others in its extent, its buildings and 

 the courses it furnishes to the stu- 

 dent. A very interesting trip through 

 the institution was given us on the 

 fourth day, under the guidance of Dr. 

 J. Troop. Entomologist. Universities 

 usually neglect an opportunity of 

 i Ins sort to make themselves known, 

 to strangers, in their details. 



The course in beekeeping was held 



