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How I Learned to Manage Bees 
(Continued from Page 426) 
Per 25 
'A'hite, Black Leghorns. $5.00 
Buff Leghorns . 5.25 
R. I. Reds, Barred Rocks. 5.50 
Buff Rocks . 6.50 
Anconas . 6.00 
Per 50 
Per 100 
Per 500 
Per 1000 
$ 9.50 
$18.00 
$ 85.00 
$165.00 
10.00 
20.00 
95.00 
190.00 
10.50 
20.00 
97.50 
190.00 
12.50 
25.00 
11.00 
22.00 
105.00 
210.00 
and I had a free field and saw no more 
foul brood for 20 years. 
European Black Brood. —Meanwhile 
I had established a few out-yards and was 
cleaning up around $1000 a year, and was 
planning large things, when a new enemy 
came into view. I noticed some brood 
that looked funny, but I was sure it was 
not foul brood, as I had seen too much 
of this to be fooled. This spread with 
amazing rapidity, and before I knew what 
was happening nearly all my bees had 
European black brood. This was a body 
blow, and our bees were dying out fast 
when we found that there were immune 
strains of Italian bees. So we immediately 
got busy and had a glorious fight for the 
next few years, but my old inheritance 
of persistency stood by me, and soon 
things were on the up-grade again. Again 
we had a free field, for the black brood 
was fully as destructive as the foul brood. 
Everyone who had started had again lost 
all their bees; one man I think of lost 
125 colonies. Now once in a while we 
find a case of black brood, but do not 
mind it. as we just put in a queen from 
an immune stock and it soon disappears. 
Working for Profit. —I am convinced 
that for the time and money expended 
bee-keeping pays as well as any branch 
of agriculture, provided you can work 
with both your hands and your head. One 
thing in their favor; you do not have to 
throw down hay or clean stables all Win¬ 
ter, and if they are thoroughly prepared 
for Winter you can go South from No¬ 
vember 1st and remain until April 1st, 
and feel reasonably certain that they are 
all right. The first thing for a beginner 
to do is to get one of the latest up-to-date 
bee books. There are several on the 
market, and I am not prepared to say 
which is the best, but “ABC and XYZ in 
Bee Culture” is a good one. It would be 
impossible in an article of this kind to 
take a beginner far. But one thing I will 
call your attention to; some say do not 
disturb your bees, but I say examine them 
all you want to as long as there is plenty 
of honey coming in. In 15 minutes after 
you leave them they will be again on the 
job. and you may have learned just what 
you wanted to know. Another thing I 
call your attention to. the queen; do not 
be satisfied with anything but the best. 
You may not know whether environment 
or heredity counts the most but I think 
after you have learned to raise queens 
successfully you will decide that heredity 
has quite a lot to do with it. I had not 
gone far in bee-keeping before I found out 
that quite a lot of income went for sup¬ 
plies. After my first year I have bought 
no hives, frames or foundation. We still 
buy our tins, and I only wish I knew how 
to make the cans. Almost anyone has 
time some time in the year to make up 
their hives, and I could never see that the 
bees stored one ounce more of honey in 
factory-made hives. We have had a 
chance to know, as we have bought a 
number of yards with these hives. Win¬ 
tering is a problem but needs an article 
just on this subject. 
Use of Honey— The per capita con¬ 
sumption of honey is steadily on the in¬ 
crease, as people are learning of its health¬ 
fulness and high food value. It will not 
rot the teeth, ruin the digestion or cause 
diabetes, and it cannot be too highly 
recommended for children. I believe all 
these assertions to be absolutely true. 
A mixture of honey and water 50-50 by 
volume has been found by the College of 
Agriculture at Ithaca to be the very best 
anti-freezing mixture yet discovered for 
auto radiators. It will not hurt the en¬ 
gine or rubber connections, and if there 
is no leak one filling is good for all 
Winter. Water will evaporate but honey 
will not. hence it is cheaper than alcohol 
and this mixture can be saved for the 
next Winter. I have heard of the same 
mixture being used three Winters. 
G. w. B. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Frank A. Vanderlip, 
the financier, was sued for $600,000 dam¬ 
ages February 20 by Louis H. Brush and 
Boy D. Moore, owners of the Marion, 
Ohio, Star, which they purchased from 
I the late President Harding. The suit 
was filed in the United States Court 
and the summons and complaint was 
March 8, 1924 
served on Mr. Vanderlip at his office in 
this city. 
When highwaymen stripped him of his 
shoes February 19 while they were 
searching for his money, Cornelius 
O’Brien of Peekskill, N. Y., was nearly 
frozen and his left foot may have to be 
amputated. He is in the Peekskill ho>- 
pital. The robbers found $150 in his 
left shoe. They carried off the money 
and also the shoe. 
A group of youngsters February 22 
threw open a switch leading to a rail 
siding near Huntington, L. I.. and sent 
an eastbound Long Island Railroad pas¬ 
senger train ripping through a string of 
freight cars that had just been shunted 
there to clear the track for the faster 
train. Twenty persons were injured and 
25 insane persons on their way to the 
Kings Park Hospital for the In sane, at 
Kings Park. L. I., were shaken up and 
frightened by the crash. 
Loss estimated at $500,000 was caused 
at Providence. R. I., Februarv 22 b\ a 
fire which destroyed a five-story brick 
budding occupied by A. T. Seattergood 
& t o„ furniture retailers. The flame- 
gained such quick headwav that firemen 
were unable to save any part of the struc¬ 
ture. 
Nenana to McGrath air-mail service 
was successfully inaugurated February 
-1 by Captain Carl M. Eilnson, accord¬ 
ing to a wireless dispatch received at 
Fairbanks, Alaska, from the trading po-t 
The message stated that the aviator cov¬ 
ered the 285 miles in less than four hours 
as compared with the dog-team time of 
two weeks. Two flights weekly will be 
the schedule. 
Governor Silzer in an address Feb 25 
to a joint session of the New .Terse\ 
Legislature recommended that he be au¬ 
thorized to appoint a committee of nine 
to make a survey of the entire State 
educational system. Requesting an ap¬ 
propriation of $<5,000 so the committee 
might obtain expert advice, the Governor 
said this was a small amount in con¬ 
sideration of the fact that the annual 
State expenditure for education is $46.- 
000,000. A Legislative commission wa- 
not suggested, the Governor said, be¬ 
cause it was not fair to ask member- 
of the Legislature to make further sac¬ 
rifice. During the last few years, Gov. 
Silzer said, many criticisms were made 
that too much time is spent on fads and 
frills and not enough on fundamentals, 
and that opportunity for investigation bv 
the State Board of Education was limited 
because of lack of money, time and power 
The Governor said that of 29S hi«Ti 
school graduates who took an examina¬ 
tion for admission to a State normal 
school 98 failed, and that at another ex¬ 
amination* 70 had failed out. of I’M) 
Mention was made of 17 normal school 
graduates who took an examination to 
teach in the schools of Irvington, but onlv 
one had passed the tests. 
E. B. Harris, principal of the Pierrc- 
pont Manor, N. Y., school, who last Jan¬ 
uary attempted to teach pupils of the 
school respect for the American flag bv 
laying it on the floor and having each 
walk on it. lias been asked to resign bv 
M. W. Phillips, trustee. The principal 
has handed in his resignation. A com¬ 
plaint was made after the flag had been 
on the floor several days and the conn tv 
American Legion organization demanded 
an apology, which was given bv Harris 
The principal contended that he placed 
the flag on the floor as a means of teach¬ 
ing the children to respect the flag. He 
said he left it on the floor until one of 
the children complained. 
WASHINGTON.—An amendment de¬ 
signed to bring a higher tax on gains 
from stock dividends than that now pre¬ 
vailing was voted into the tax bill by 
the House sitting in committee of the 
whole February 29. The amendment was 
offered by Representative Garner (Tex.), 
author of the Garner plan of income tax 
rates. Several other amendments were 
adopted by the committee of the whole 
House, most of them of minor impor¬ 
tance and primarily designed to per¬ 
fect the measure. The Garner amend¬ 
ment would apply the normal and sur¬ 
tax income rates to all gains from stock- 
dividends instead of the rate on capital 
gains, which is 12 y. 2 per cent. It rnny 
result in again bringing the question of 
taxability of stock dividends before the 
Supreme Court. 
Following the resignation of Secretary 
of the Navy Denby, which takes effect 
March 10, requests have been made fm 
the immediate resignation of Attoi‘ne\- 
General Daugherty. 
An appropriation of $1,500,000 for 
continuing the trans-continental airplane 
mail service was restored to the Treasure 
post office appropriation bill by the Sen 
ate Appropriations Committee in report¬ 
ing the bill February 26 to the Senate. 
The House had failed to provide the ap¬ 
propriations which would continue the 
air mail between New York and'San 
Francisco via Chicago and Omaha. 
Twenty-six awards totaling $1?>S,- 
822.40, of which twelve aggregating $17.- 
125.25 were in the Lusitania group, were 
announced February 26 by the German- 
Ameriean Mixed Claims Commission in 
favor of American claimants against Ger¬ 
many. _ 
“Pardon me. professor, but last night 
your daughter accepted my proposal of 
marriage. I have called this morning to 
ask if there is any insanity in your fami¬ 
ly.” “There must be.”—Yale Record. 
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