Gleanings In Bee Culture 



Published by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio 



H. H. Root, Assistant Editor E. R. ROOT, Editor A. L. BOYDEN, Advertising Manager 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manager 



Entered at tbe Poetoffice, Medina. Ohio, as Second-class Matter. 



VOL. XXXVIII 



FEBRUARY 15, 1910 



NO. 4 



EDITORIAL 



By E. R. Root. 



Our readers will be interested in quite a 

 valuable communication in this issue, p. 124, 

 from Raleigh Thompson, furnishing indis- 

 putable proof showing how bees are guided 

 sometimes by scent to new pastures. 



"ON TO HIS JOB." 



The picture of Geo. S. Demuth, foul brood 

 inspector for Indiana, on p 112, indicates a 

 remarkably pleasant face. If it is a true in- 

 dex of his general character (and we believe 

 it is>, he makes an ideal inspector, because 

 he has all kinds of people to handle. Mr. 

 Pouder's interesting article shows that he, 

 Mr. Demuth, is "on to his job." 



THE COVER DESIGN. 



Italian bees are doubtless the native Apis 

 of the peninsula of Italy. Roman writers 

 made mention of bees and honey from the 

 very earliest times, and it is reasonable to 

 suppose that these were of the same variety 

 as the Italian bee of to-day. The Romans 

 attributed long life to the use of honey as 

 one of their chief foods. The design on the 

 cover shows an early Roman bee keeper 

 preparing to hive a swarm. 



THE HEAVY SNOWS AND CLOVER. 



The heavy amount of snow that seems to 

 cover almost the entire northern States has 

 spread a protecting mantle over the young 

 clovers of last fall. This will mean much to 

 their growth this coming summer. In this 

 connection, it is pleasant to recollect that 

 we have generally had a good flow from 

 clover following a winter in which snow 

 covered the ground almost the entire period 

 of cold weather. 



DOES ALSIKE OR WHITE CLOVER CAUSE 

 BLOATING IN CATTLE? 



SOM"? days ago a correspondent wrrtfe us 

 asking this question; and as we were not 

 able to give authentic informati'^n we re 

 f erred the matter to our Ohio Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio. L. H. 

 Goddard, the chief of the department of co- 

 operative experiments, replies: 



Your letter of the 22d, regarding alsike or white 

 clover causing bloating in cattle, is received- Reply- 



ing thereto, I would say that, when cattle eat heavily 

 of any succulent crop, such as the clovers or rape, 

 they are «ubj>^ct to bloating. I do not call to mind 

 any special experience with alsike clover, but have 

 had qu te a little experience with the ordinary medi- 

 um red clover. Quite a number of cattle are lost ev- 

 ery year from this trouble in the cattle-pasturing 

 areas of Southwestern Ohio. Bv watching the herd, 

 using a proper admixture of dry feed, and in rare 

 cases the trocar and cannula, the most of the loss can 

 be avoided. L. H. GODDARD. 



Wooster, Ohio, Jan. 25. 



If any of our subscribers are able to give 

 any information further than the above we 

 shall be pleased to hear from them. So far 

 we have had no report of white clover caus- 

 ing any bloating, and we doubt somewhat 

 whether it would do it, owing to the fact 

 that cattle would not be able to get enough 

 of it at any one time. 



THE AUTOMOBILE VS. THE HORSE FOR OUT- 

 APIARY WORK. 



Very soon we shall have several articles 

 on automobiles for out apiary work. The 

 time has arrived when one can buy a good 

 serviceable machine for about the price of a 

 good horse and buggy or horse and wagon. 

 A machine will make trips to outyards in 

 one-fourth the time it would take a horse, 

 and will be capable of carrying loads up to 

 500 pounds. Of course, there are auto trucks 

 that will carry two or three tons, but they 

 cost several times more than a horse and 

 wagon. 



We have no ax to grind, no agency; and as 

 we have had considerable experience our- 

 selves in handling machines we can perhaps 

 give the reader some hints on how to pur- 

 chase and how to handle a machine after he 

 gets it. This we shall do in a series of short 

 articles. 



The time is coming, if it is not already 

 here, when the automobile will enable the 

 bee-keeper to carry out more easily W. Z. 

 Hutchinson's injunction to "keep more 

 bees," that is to say, he can have more out- 

 yards, and, what is more, spread them fur- 

 ther apart, thus securing a wider acreage 

 of bloom. With the maihine he can go to an 

 outyard twenty miles away in the time it 

 would take him to go to a yard five miles 

 away with a horse and buggy; and, what 

 is more, the self propelled wagon is not 

 afraid of stings. It can be driven right 

 among the bees, gentle or cross, and be load- 

 ed at the most convenient point without dan- 

 ger of a general spill or mix-up. 



