THE BEE KEEFICRS' lUCVIEW. 



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A FiRHl - iooi- homy-house would pay 

 for itself in a few ye.iis by the saving of 

 insurance. 



1'rank Bknton, of Washington, I). C. 

 has been advanced to the position of Api- 

 cultural Investigator in the Department 

 of Agriculture. This is a substantial rec- 

 ognition of apiculture on the part ot the 

 Agricultural Department. 



Eoui- Brood is not always apparent at 

 a spring examination. A colony that ap- 

 pears free from the disease early in the 

 season, may turn out badly infected in 

 .\ugust or September. Don't be lulled 

 into a sense of security because no infect- 

 ed Cjlony is found when supers are put 

 ujxDii the hive. 



M. A. CiiLr., the last time he wrote me, 

 said that part of his family was in quar- 

 entine with scarlet fever, and that he ex- 

 pected to soon go into quarantine. I 

 have since written him twice uiiliout 

 getting any reply. I fear that it is lliis 

 sickness that has j)revented him from 

 sending in his contribution this month to 

 the Review. 



.■\ C.AITION is given by I". R. Root, in 

 Gleanings, to those who may be inclined 

 to rush out West in a sort of .scramble for 

 locations in the alfalfa regions. While 

 many have belteied their condition Ijy gc- 

 ingWest. there are others who have sunk 

 everv doll.ir, and gone back Eist, sadder 

 and wiser. First, learn all that you can 

 by correspomlence, then visit the coun- 

 try, and be sure and stay long enough to 

 learn something about it before i)ulling 

 up stakes where you are. 



Thi-.| National As.sociation of lee- 

 keepers certainly does not lack for ob- 

 jects upon which to bestow its money 

 and energies. That of gathering statis- 

 tics during the honey-flow is one of them. 

 To show something of the feeling in this 

 direction, I print the following resolution 

 passed last December, at the Ontario Co. 

 (N. Y. ) bee keepers' Institute. It reads 

 as follows: — 



Resolved: That it be the sense of this 

 Convenlion that the officers of the Na- 

 tional Bee Keepers' .Association should 

 establish a system for gathering and re- 

 porting inonihly during the houey-har- 

 vest tlie comparative vields of honey up 

 to date of said report, and that we request 

 them to do so. 



W. F. MARKS 

 E. H. rURRV 

 H. C. ROAT 



Committee on Resolutions. 



'■ SKLKCTION " IS ABOUT ALL THAT BEE 

 KEP:PHRS CAN PRACTICE IN IM- 

 PROVING thp:ir stock. 



Mr. E. S. Miles, of Iowa, writes that, 

 so far as he can see, we can do nothing 

 m the way of feeding and care to improve 

 our bees, as is the case with other stock. 

 Training is also out of the que.stion. The 

 breeder of other live stock can give his 

 animals the right kind of feed, and 

 enough of it, the j'ear around, while the 

 breeder of bees must depend upon his 

 stock to go out in the open field and 

 bring in their own food. What then can 

 he do? .\sMr. Miles says: " Select, sel- 

 ect, select, and keep on selecting. There 

 is no practical danger of inbreeding to an 

 injurious extent, with bees in the average 

 locality. We can not make our environ- 

 tnents, so let's take the best our environ 

 ment gives." 



