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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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ing to prevent the uniformity of the 

 black bee. 



If nomadic beekeeping is advan- 

 tageous to the bees , causing them to 

 become more active, through trans- 

 portation to and from special crop 

 regions, then the Italo-American bees 

 of the United States, which are kept 

 in much larger hives, with more in- 

 ducements to the prolificness of 

 queens, and in many cases shipped 

 back and forth to take advantage of 

 extra crops, and exposed to rigorous 

 winters, should be and undoubtedly 

 are very superior to the bees of Hol- 

 land. 



In view of the necessity of impor- 

 tation of bees into the devastated re- 

 gions from somewhere, the bees <~>i 

 the Netherlands will probably prove 

 quite desirable, for that little country 

 is only a few hours' ride, on the rail- 

 road, from the scenes of destruction 

 of the late war. If the beekeepers 

 of northern France and Belgium se- 

 cure swarms from Netherlands and 

 improve the stock by the insertion of 

 a few hundred American-Italia.i 

 queens, they will probably have bet- 

 ter bees than ever before. So let us 

 volunteer to send them a few queens 

 of good stock, the coming summer, 

 to help them out. 



An International Bee Magazine 



"The Bee World," an international 

 monthly, edited by Dr. Abushady, at 

 Benson, Oxon, England, made its bow 

 to the public with its June number. 

 It is interesting, and if it fulfills its 

 program, will prove of use, for there 

 has not been an international bee 

 magazine since the disappearance of 

 Edouard Bertrand's "Revue Interna- 

 tionale," published in Geneva years 

 ago. "The Bee World" began its in 

 ternational life by giving extracts 

 from 12 bee magazines, all, however, 

 being publications in the English lan- 

 guage. We wish the new magazine 

 success. 



Macedonian Beekeeping 



The article on uses of honey and 

 wax in Macedonia, of Mr. Tabusteau, 

 translated from L'Apiculteur, and 

 published in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for October, appears to have in- 

 terested a great many readers. We 

 had written him, before the publica- 

 tion of the article, to ask whether he 

 could supply us with some Mace- 

 donian photos, referring to beekeep- 

 ing in that country. His letter, re- 

 ceived too late, enclosed 2 pictures, 

 which we publish on page 380: 



''Ste Eulalie, France, Aug. 26, 1919. 



"Dear Mr. Dadant : I am very hap- 

 py to comply with your request, and 

 authorize you to publish what 1 

 wrote for L'Apiculteur. I do not wish 

 any pay, but am desirous to please 

 you, for I have not forgotten the 

 honor of your visit in Bordeaux .n 

 1913. I enclose the only two photos 

 which I have on the matter. They 

 represent, 1st, a small skep apiary in 

 Macedonia; 2nd, the apiary of the 

 School of Agriculture of Sedes, near 

 Salonica. You will see, by the pos- 

 ter in the picture, that your name is 

 known even there, the hives in that 

 Macedonian apiary being Dadant 

 hives. 



"Accept my best wishes, 



"M. TABUSTEAU." 



Death of Joseph Theiler 



Joseph Theiler, of Rosenberg, near 

 Zug, Switzerland, died August 21. 

 Mr. Theiler was the owner of the 

 most interesting bee museum in ex- 

 istence. This museum is well enough 

 known to be mentioned in the tourist 

 guides of Switzerland, and we visited 

 it in 1913. An account of this visit 

 was given in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal of August, 1914. 



Criticism 



We do not wish to be considered 

 infallible in experience, in theory, Dr 

 in practice. If we did, we would 

 surely make a failure of what we un- 

 dertake. We live and learn from day 

 to day and our true friend is the man 

 who shows us a better implement 

 than the one we use or a better 

 method to keep our bees, to wint;r 

 them, to prepare them for the honey 

 crop, or to dispose of that crop. 



So we need criticism, each of us. 

 But it must be judicious and kindly 

 criticism, written with the view of 

 making an improvement in what we 

 practice. Some men are backward in 

 telling what they have found out, and 

 need to be urged; while others are 

 ever ready to find fault without con- 

 sidering that their way may not suit 

 the conditions, because their circum- 

 stances are different. 



But our true friend is he who calls 

 our attention to a defect in an imple- 

 ment or to a weak spot in an argu- 

 ment, who does it kindly and with 

 the sole purpose of helping progress. 



So, dear reader, when at any time 

 you have a way which you consider 

 better than the methods published, 

 no matter in what detail of beekeep- 

 ing, let us have it. 



It may not prove of value because 



of different conditions of climate, or 

 crops, or other circumstances. It may 

 have been tried and discarded. But 

 even if, for some reason, it cannot be 

 used, no harm will be done. "Many 

 mickles make a muckle," and your 

 contribution, if ever so little, should 

 be brought forward to help if possi- 

 ble in the building up of the industry. 



Bees and Orchards 

 In Holland 



In the British Bee Journal of Aug- 

 ust 21, "Centurion" writes of h-is be- 

 ing in Holland and visiting beekeep- 

 ers. He writes: "Whereas, 15 or 20 

 years ago, the beekeeper had to pay 

 to be allowed to place his bees in or- 

 chards, nowadays not only the fruit 

 growers let the hives in free, but 

 often pay a small fee for them to be 

 put in their orchards This change, 

 whereby the apiarist is relieved of 

 paying for the use of the orchard, 

 and sometimes becomes payee, is due 

 to the government leaflets which 

 have impressed the fruit growers the 

 great value of the bee for cross-pol- 

 linizing the flowers." 



The world is surely growing .n 

 knowledge and our industry is get- 

 ting recognition everywhere. 



An Extractor Worth While 



Calling upon E. E. Coveyou, at Pe- 

 toskey, I saw in his honey-room an 

 extractor of sufficient capacity to 

 take and extract, at one time, the 

 honey of 64 Langstroth frames, or 128 

 shallow extracting frames. And the 

 beauty of it is that the frames are 

 slowly reversed, as they are placed 

 in baskets which slowly revolve in- 

 side of the machine, so that both 

 sides are extracted without any 

 change of motion. This machine is 

 patented. It has cost Mr. Coveyou 

 several years of work and experimen- 

 tation, but now appea.s to be a suc- 

 cess. The only objectionable feature 

 is the cost of the machine, which will 

 be, I am told, about $300. 



Foulbrood 



An article on foulbrood, written in 

 the French language, by our editor, 

 for the Swiss "Bulletin D'Apicul- 

 ture," was so well received that the 

 Swiss editor republished it in pamph- 

 let form. It has since been copied by 

 several bee publications, among 

 which we will name the Algerian an- 

 nual "Nahhla" and "L'Abeille" of 

 Quebec. Our thanks are extended to 

 our contemporaries for this honor. 



