January, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BKE CULl'URE 



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HEADS OF GRAIN TO ROliQ r DIFFERENT FIELDS 



handful of cotton waste and packed it in 

 every aperture of the terminal box. The 

 next evening it was found that the fumes 

 had done their work. 



Buffalo, N. Y. Frank C. Perkins. 



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County Agent ' ' I find that boys take 



Starts Bee Clubs as kindly to bees as to 



pigs and chickens 

 when their interest is aroused, ' ' says Bruce 

 Anderson, county agent of Forsyth County, 

 North Carolina. He is the first demonstra- 

 tion agent in the South to include lessons in 

 bee culture as essentially a work of the coun- 

 ty agent. The United States Farmers' Co- 

 operative Demonstration Work has recogniz- 

 ed the value of his efforts, and provisionally 

 incorporated beekeeping instruction to farm- 

 ers in his demonstration-work program. 



Bruce Anderson, county agent, in his own bee-yard. 



It was in the spring of 1914 that Mr. 

 Anderson began an effective campaign to 

 ■revive bee culture in Forsyth County. His 

 twenty years of personal experience was, 

 of course, a valuable asset. He organized 

 twenty men and women into a county bee- 

 keepers' organization. So the plan of in- 

 struction in bee culture was carried from 

 farm to farm by the county agent. The 

 original one-unit organization was broken 

 up into numerous clubs. 



Splendid results were achieved. The 



membership in the bee clubs numbers 52, more 

 than doubling within a year. The work 

 has branched out to five other neighboring 

 counties. The agent states that he is unable 

 to answer all the demands placed upon him 

 for help and information. 



Dui-liam, N. C. S. R. WINTERS. 



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Numbering the I used to number my 



Covers Instead hives so as to keep a 



of the hives. record or to refer to 



each one easily; but 

 when I sometimes took a colony out of one 

 hive and put into another the number had 

 to be changed and it made confusion. 



I now have a better way. I put the num- 

 ber on the gable end of the cover, front and 

 back. No matter where the colony of bees 

 goes, it is an easy matter to let the number 

 go with them — simply a matter of changing 

 covers. Alson W. Steers. 



Noosack, Wash. 



One of -T. Alpau^h's papaya trees at Lakeland, 

 Florida. This shows th.ut the papaya tree as pic- 

 tured on the November cover can be grown in 

 Florida as well as in Cuba. 



