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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1918 



BOOKS AND BULLETINS 



" Transferring' Bees to Modern Hives," Farmers' 

 Bulletin No. 961, by E. L. Sechrist. Copies may 

 be rereived on request made to the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture. 



" Reports of the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' 

 Association," being reports of the 9th, 10th, 11th, 

 12th, and 13th annual conventions and Bummer 

 meetings, published by the direction of the Associa- 

 tion, has recently come from the press. It is a 

 large booklet of 128 pages. There is a large 

 amount of good bee lore in it, contained in the 

 printed addresses. H. C. Klinger of Liverpool, Pa., 

 i.s secretary, of whom it may be possible to secure 

 copies of this rather exceptional report. 



" Beekeeping for West Virginia," a bulletin of 

 the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, 

 Charleston, W. Va. An elementary vi^ork on good 

 beekeeping, and an excellent little text book, by 

 Chas. A. Reese, assistant entomologist and api- 

 arist. 



" Honey Bees and Honey Production in the 

 United States," Bulletin No." 685, U. S. Dept. of 

 .Vgriculture. This is a contribution from the 

 Bureau of Crop Estimates. It is a bulletin seeking 

 to give a census of bees in the United States and 

 by States. It gets right down to figures and tables. 

 The contents include : Map indicating distribution 

 of colonies of bees in the United States ; extent of 

 the industry; figures on wintering and losses; yields 

 of honey per colony and total production; exports 

 and imports of honev ; honey prices over a period 

 of years: production of 1917; nectar sources; 

 geoigraphic distribution and characteristics of im- 

 portant honeys; etc., etc. It is a bulletin that 

 every progressive, iip-to-date beekeeper should get 

 and keep. Write for it to the U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. 



" The Diagnosis of Bee Diseases by Laboratory 

 Methods," Bulletin No. 671, U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture. This Inilletin is by Arthur H. McCray, 

 apicultural assistant, and G. F. White, expert en- 

 gaged in the investigation of tee. diseases. Any bee- 

 keeper desiring to know how he may surely recog- 

 nize European or American foul brood, sac brood, 

 or nosema disease, should send five cents for this 

 bulletin to the Superintendent of Documents, Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office, Washington, D. C. It is 

 a bulletin that should be ready to the hand of every 

 1 eekeeper. 



"Diseases of Bees: Their Detection and Treat- 

 ment," by H. W. Coley, Connecticut Experiment 

 Station, New Haven, Ct. Dr. C. C. Miller would 

 probably take issue with the first statement in this 

 bulletin giving treatment for European foul brood, 

 which is this: "The shaking treatment combined 

 with requeening the colony with a young Italian 

 queen of good stock is the recognized treatment." 

 But Mr. Coley does also give the simple requeening 

 treatment. 



" The Flower and the Bee." Beekeepers espe- 

 cially will be interested in reading a book recently 

 published, entitled " The Flower and the Bee." The 

 author is the well-known John H. Lovell of Waldo- 

 boro. Me., who has contributed many valuable arti- 

 cles to Gleanings and to the ABC and X Y Z of 

 Bee Culture. Mr. Lovell has peculiar qualifications 

 for writing a book of this kind, having been for 

 years a practical beekeeper and an accurate, close, 

 and keen observer of bees and flowers. In addi- 

 tion, the book is written in a popular style, techni- 

 cal terms being avoided as much as possible. It 

 contains many fine illustrations of flowers. The 

 author has much to say on the function of insects 

 (especially bees) and other agencies in the pollina- 

 tion of flowers. He explains that a great number 

 of our cultivated fruits are partially or wholly 

 self-sterile, and, in the absence of bees and other 



pollinating ins-ects, these would be entirely barren 

 or nearly so. Bright colors, sweet odors, and varied 

 forms of flowers were not created solely for the 

 benefit of man, for also for the purpose of attract- 

 ing the attention of bees and other pollinating in- 

 sects. The importance of cross-fertilization is given 

 particular attention, and instances are related of 

 failures in the raising of some varieties of apples, 

 pears, strawberries, grapes, and other fruits, unless 

 these were cross-pollinated from different individuals 

 and varieties of the same species. In many cases 

 special appliances exist for the securing of cross- 

 breeding, resulting in more vigorous plants. ■ How- 

 ever, there are also many contrivances to bring 

 about self-fertilization in the event of the failure 

 to secure the cross-fertilization. Farmers, fruit- 

 growers, beekeep'ers, and all lovers of fruit and 

 insect life will obtain much pleasure and informa- 

 tion of practical value from the reading of this 

 interesting book. (Published by Charles Scribner's 

 Sons, New York. Price, $2.00 net.) 



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