Gleanings in bee culture . ble to 60 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE live was the algaroba,or mesquite, as it iscalled in Texas. Fromtheir appearance Ishould judge that thealgaroba was havingas hard a time there inthat apiary to exist asthe mesquite has insome of the desertregions along the Mex-ican border. There was one pest,liowever, and themethod used to com-bat it was new to me-That pest was way they werecombated was by mak-ing a framework of2x4 lumber, the samesize as a this frame fourholes three quarters of an inch in depth were bored with an inchauger. In each hole a v
Gleanings in bee culture . ble to 60 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE live was the algaroba,or mesquite, as it iscalled in Texas. Fromtheir appearance Ishould judge that thealgaroba was havingas hard a time there inthat apiary to exist asthe mesquite has insome of the desertregions along the Mex-ican border. There was one pest,liowever, and themethod used to com-bat it was new to me-That pest was way they werecombated was by mak-ing a framework of2x4 lumber, the samesize as a this frame fourholes three quarters of an inch in depth were bored with an inchauger. In each hole a very large nail orspike was driven, and on the heads of thesespikes the hive was set. The spike wasthen coated with oil, and the hole at thebase of the spike was filled with crude informed me that it was a suf-ficient protection against the ants. The surplus honey is secured from thealgaroba. Both comb and extracted areproduced. Tamagawa has a wife, who is a verycomely Japanese woman, and two Tamagawa looking over the colony. Record printed in Japanese on theside of the hive. As I watched the mother playing withthe two little children under a bread-fruittree in the yard, I could not help thinkingthat L. Tamagawa must be a happy fellow;and remember that gray hairs are creepingin among the brown on the crown of myhead. But then, otherwise I should not bea malihini interviewing a Japanese bee-keeper on the Island of Oahu. Honolulu, T. I. [This is the first of a series of articlesentitled A Malahini in tlie HawaiianIslands. The second will be published inan early number.—Ed.] THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN MEETING BY J. L. GRAFF One of the striking utterances at theannual convention of the Chicago andNorthwestern Beekeepers Association wasthat of President N. E. France, of Wiscon-sin, who said that European foul brood hadbeen a blessing in disguise. He spoke fromhis experience in wide travel among bee-keepers in his own state. The presence ofthe dise
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