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Ii'iist tliis ]>;ii-t of it, can not lauk liiyh aw a 

 lionov producer. Our cliiot' ])cst, the Ar- 

 ijontine ant, can anailiilate a colony within 

 a (lay or two. I made about 1,500 pounds of 

 honey last season, mostly after July, and 

 there was practically no sprinji flow that 

 year either." — Sam Houston, ()rl(>ans ("oun- 

 ty. La. 



"We have been pioperly euehered this 

 season by the middleman. He got the 

 oyster and we got the shells. I do not 

 mean myself i)articularly, but practically 

 the whoV fraternity was taken down." — 

 Major Shallard, New South Wales, Aus- 

 tialia. 



" Notwithstandinii the nuiguilicent start 

 we secured from bees in April, with wea- 

 ther conditions in May and June such as 

 broke all records for dryness, the honey-crop 

 prospect went a-glinimering. Nearly all 

 beekeepers have moved their bees to the 

 mountains. Reports from those districts 

 are that fireweed is good and a fair crop 

 promised. — E. J. Lad(l, Arultnomah Oountv, 

 Ore. 



' ' The Food Administration regrets its use 

 of the words 'honey manufacturers' in con- 

 nection with our sugar regulations. In re- 

 ply to your favor of July 6, I would like to 

 call your attention to the fact that w-e have 

 changed this to read 'beekeepers.' Bee- 

 keepers are entitled to their normal require- 

 ments of sugar, and certificates for its dis- 

 tribution may be obtained by applying to 

 the Federal Food Administrator for the 

 State in w^hich the beekeeper does business. 

 Please be assured that the Food Administra- 

 tion appreciates the co-operation it has re- 

 ceived from the beekeepers of the country, 

 and from such publications as yours." — U. 

 S. Food Administration, P^ducational Divi- 

 sion, in a letter to Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 <lated July 9, 191S. 



"At the last annual convention of this 

 Association, $50 was voted to make a dis- 

 ])lay show^ing the uses of honey in canned 

 fruits and baking, and the uses of honey 

 in sweetening, at the next Wisconsin State 

 Fair, Sept. 9 to 14. A part of the fund will 

 be used in distributing receipts of same to 

 those interested. There will also be dis- 

 jilayed demonstrations of beekeepers' sup- 

 plies at the Fair. A bui'ding has been set 

 aside for the exhibits and demonstrations 

 of the bees and honey department. Pre- 

 miums in the bee and honey department, as 

 offered, amount to $149.00. ' N. E. France of 

 Platteville is superintendent, and A. C. Al- 

 len of Portage is judge." — From circular 

 letter to Wisconsin beekeepers, sent out by 

 tlie Secretary of the Wisconsin State Bee- 

 keepers' Association. 



"Sweet clover is a benefactor of man and 

 should never be destroyed as a 'weed.' Jt 

 is the best of our honey plants. If there 

 were no' other reason why it should be spar- 

 ed, that would be sufficient. But today the 

 farmer who formerly made war on sw-eet 

 clover as a nuisance is fast learning that it 



is a blessing, and there is no more benclicial 

 scientific agricultural i)iopaganda than that 

 which teaches the virtues of sweet clover 

 and encourages its use. It' will restore im- 

 poverished soil, rc<leem abandoned soil, and 

 create good soils where there was no soil 

 of any value before. While doing this it 

 furnishes a crop that is excellent stock feed; 

 it furnishes excellent honey; and with its 

 long tap root it persists thriftily even thru 

 the dryest of unfavorable seasons. How- 

 ever, it is distinctly ornamental, while the 

 fragrance of its blossoms, which gives it its 

 name, and with which it subtly charges the 

 air, is delightful. Tons of it have been 

 sacrificed in Louisville the past few^ days in 

 the weed-cutting crusade, for few property 

 owners understood its value and the weed 

 cutter when he swings his indiseriminating 

 scythe doesn 't know it from any other 

 weed. More 's the pity. ' ' — The Louisville 

 Courier-Journal, June 26, 1918. 



' ' Why doesn 't some genius in the ' Home 

 of the Honey Bee' produce a stingless beef 

 Isn't it possible to secure the assistance of 

 Burbank for this purpose? Unfortunately 

 my anti-sting armor has all prove(i vul- 

 nerable except the 'globe" veil. In a recent 

 bee offensive something went wrong in the 

 early stage of the operations. The battle 

 cry evidently was passed along the line and 

 I found myself surrounded by angry bees 

 which stung me thru my thick trousers and 

 thru A. I. Root's sting-proof gloves. I 

 beat a hasty retreat to prepared positions 

 in the cellar and called for help. These 

 bees are intelligent — no question about that. 

 Not a member of my family could go any- 

 where near the hives all day Sunday or 

 Monday, the battle having started Saturday. 

 The bees had an advance guard out in the 

 driveway and succeeded in stinging several 

 members of the family as well as the dog, 

 two days after the main encounter in which 

 I was the first in command. The famous 

 Root bee-smoker had no more effect on these 

 bees than so they had been equipped with 

 gas masks. The general engagement was 

 brought on by my attempting to capture a 

 swarm, and, contrary to all A B C rules of 

 bee culture, this particular colony from which 

 the swam) issued had plenty of room and 

 had produced no honey. I wish I had just 

 10 good, common-sense, fundamental I'ules 

 for amateurs to follow to make honeybees 

 produce honey. After reading Gleanings 

 and A B (' of Bee Culture I am simply 

 bewildered and a})pear to have nothing def- 

 inite in the way of fixed rules of w^arfare. " 

 — Corwin McDowell, President of Eastern 

 Casualty Ins. Co., Boston, Mass. [If you 

 would be a little more painstaking and care- 

 fully extract the bees' stingers before 

 manipulating them, it might help some. The 

 only stingless bees known have the cheer- 

 ful habit of fastening on to the individual 

 hairs covering one 's body and pulling these 

 out singly and in the longest-drawn-out and 

 most ])ainful i)rocess possible. — One of the 

 Editors.] 



