June, 1919 WISCONSIN HORTICUL 
in total honey production and 
thirteenth in the number of col- 
onies from which this production 
was derived. During the last few 
years, on the other hand, the U. S. 
department of agriculture reports 
that more samples of American 
foul brood were secured from Wis- 
consin for diagnosis than from any 
other state. Unless the present 
campaign results in lowering the 
latter record, the former cannot 
be held for long. 
When hog cholera breaks out 
on a farm it usually cleans up 
that place by killing all the hogs. 
In the meantime, the neighbors 
have an opportunity to vaccinate 
all their own animals and other- 
wise protect their property from 
infection. Foulbrood in bees does 
not work so rapidly and the in- 
fected apiary may remain a dis- 
ease center for years especially if 
neighbors will buy the infected 
hives. Why a beekeeper will in- 
I vest in the hives and combs of an 
apiary in which the bees have 
died or become weakened when lie 
would not think of purchasing the 
unwashed bedding of an acquaint- 
ance who had succumbed to small- 
pox is one of the great unsolved 
mysteries. 
Suggestions 
Insist on an inspection certifi- 
cate for every colony of bees, 
hives, or used apiary appliance 
purchased. 
Don't try to sell bees or supplies 
without a bill of health from the 
inspector. 
If “things don't look right” or 
you find dead brood, write or send 
a sample of comb to the State Ento- 
mologist, State Department of 
Agriculture, State Capitol, Madi- 
son, Wisconsin. 
Get ready to attend the BEE- 
KEEPERS’ SCHOOL AT MADI- 
SON, August is to 2d. Dr. Phil- 
lips and Mr. Demuth will be the 
instructors with a few local men 
on the program. 
The Maple Honey Co. of Anti- 
go, AVis., is a new corporation 
formed in Wisconsin to produce 
and handle honey on a large scale. 
1,000 colonies of bees are soon to 
be working. 
Mr. Kenneth Hawkins, formerly 
with the U. S. Bureau of Ento- 
mology, Beekeeping Dept., is now 
located at Watertown, AVis., and 
is in charge of the bee department 
of the G. B. Lewis Co. Air. Haw- 
kins, through the Lewis Co., is at 
the service of the beekeepers. 
Credit for the beekeeper’s page in 
our paper is due to him. 
The past year has been one of 
great disaster among Wisconsin 
beekeepers. Last season the honey 
flow did not appear in the south- 
ern part of the state and no crop 
was secured. Following this fail- 
ure the bees were not given suffi- 
cient stores or else the stores were 
bad and a good many hundred col- 
onies of bees died during the win- 
ter. Better beekeeping would 
have prevented this. 
Various Bugs 
A member asks about: (1) A 
worm that eats plum leaves, 
“leaving only the skeleton of the 
leaf,” and complains that poison 
does not kill them; (2) About 
plum eurculio; (3) and Buffalo 
Treehopper; (4) Also raspberry 
insects. 
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Dr. S. B. Fracker, state ento- 
mologist, answers as follows: 
(1) From your description I 
should judge that the worm at- 
tacking your plum trees is the 
Cherry Slug (Cal iron cerasi). 
AVhile common on apple and cher- 
ries, this insect does not usually 
trouble plums. Tt should certainly 
be controlled by arsenate of lead 
which kills all the cherry slug on 
cherries within a few hours. 
Either you are not using the arse- 
nate of lead strong enough or 
your spray pump is not efficient 
enough to cover thoroughly the 
surface of the leaves. 
(2) The spraying program given 
for plums will control the eurculio 
in the home garden. In order to 
prevent reinfestation of the trees, 
be sure to gather the fallen plums 
and destroy them. 
(3) The Buffalo Treehopper is 
an insect about one-fourth of an 
inch long, of very peculiar shape 
impossible to describe. It is usu- 
ally more injurious on young or- 
chard fruits than on raspberry 
canes. When weeds and grass are 
growing beneath the trees or ad- 
joining them, the insect often does 
a good deal of damage by making 
slits in the twigs and branches of 
the young trees and many even 
seriously injure trees of bearing 
age. There is no control measure 
except freeing the neighborhood 
of the weeds on which the young 
hoppers develop. 
(4) Several different insects of 
entirely different life history at- 
tack raspberry canes by making 
punctures and depositing eggs in 
the canes. The two most common 
in your part of the state are the 
snowy tree cricket and cane borer. 
In every case the only satisfactory 
control measure consists of the de- 
struction of the cane attacked. 
