OCTOHKU, 1918 



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the boos of this vicinity; in securing more 

 lioney and a more nearly uniform price both 

 for the producer and the consumer." — K. 

 R. Banta, Henderson County, Ills. 



"I believe that in many parts of Missis- 

 sipi we have an excellent opportunity for 

 beekeeping. ' This is especially true in the 

 northeastern and northwestern sections of 

 the State."— R. W. Harned, Entomologist, 

 Mississippi Agricultural and ^lechanical 

 College. 



"It has been a fairly good honey season 

 in this locality. Clover commenced earlier 

 and lingered longer than usual with scarcely 

 a break between the summer How and fall 

 l)loom. A cold July-August spell had a re- 

 tarding influence Ijut the present month, 

 iSoptember, is fine." — Lewis P. Tanton, 

 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Islands. 



"Now here in Tennessee when we have 

 a honey flow it is generally one of compara- 

 tive slowness and is much longer drawn out 

 than those of the States further north. But 

 our warm winters are just as fatal as our 

 cold ones, and I find that my greatest loss is 

 invariably caused (1st) by an old and fail- 

 ing queen; (2d) deficient stores; and (3d) 

 too much room." — J. A, Barden, Tennessee. 



"I believe the peanuts growing here- 

 abouts are the source of an excellent honey 

 flow equal to our northern clover honey. 

 * * * Have learned quite a lot about 

 this muck land since we came here. There 

 is one type of it which will raise practically 

 nothing until it is worked up and rotted a 

 few years. Another type, on which the 

 elder grows, is fine and grows enormous 

 crops." — Leon C. Wheeler, De Soto County, 

 Fla. 



' ' Just a few words from a beginner. I 

 started with two packages of bees. Each 

 package contained two pounds. Now have 

 a surplus of a hundred sections of honey 

 and also three more hives of bees. I started 

 bees on sheets of foundation. It looks like 

 they will winter fine. I got one package in 

 the first part of May; the other, in the last 

 part. So I think that is pretty good for a 

 beginner for the first handling of bees." — 

 W. C. Young, Chicago, 111. 



' ' That word vitamine is derived from 

 ' vita, ' Latin for life, and ' amine, ' signify- 

 ing that the substance is kin to ammonia. 

 The definition given in Stedman's Medical 

 Dictionary is: 'One of a group of substances 

 of unknown composition piresent in very 

 small amount in natural foodstuffs whicli 

 are essential to normal metabolism, and the 

 lack of which in the dietary causes beriberi 

 and other deficiency diseases.'" — Minne- 

 apolis Journal, June 17. 



"We have no clover honej' here. Our 

 main crops are collected from the eucalyp- 

 tus, of which we have about 12 different 

 varieties in this locality. They bloom gen- 

 erally from July till April, and during that 

 time is our good season. We do not pack 



our hives here for winter, as plenty of stores 

 is all that is necessary to have them winter 

 well. Wc are right in the middle of winter 

 now. ' ' — F. Brown, Now South Wales, Aus- 

 tralia, July, 1918. 



"Boekee]tors have been accused of wish- 

 ing to feed sugar only that they might liber- 

 ate honey to sell at a higher price. They 

 have even been callo<l a nasty name which 

 we do not think should ever be applied to 

 a bona fide jiroducer of food — this, of course, 

 thru a lack of understanding of the facts of 

 the case. While there is no use denying that 

 the present difference in i)rice- carries 

 weight, and is the most weighty incentive 

 to increase production, the best beekeepers 

 fed sugar just as freely twelve years ago 

 when there was very little difference in the 

 wholesale prices of the two, and would pre- 

 fer to feed it today if it cost as much as the 

 price of honey. ' ' — Canadian Grocer, Aug. 2'.i. 



"The Demuth-Pritchard plan of using 

 two or three hive-bodies or two hive-bodies 

 and a suj^er for an outside case and an inside, 

 case of %-inch lumber made large enough 

 to hold six frames standing on end, which 

 of late has been referred to and commented 

 upon in Gleanings, is open to several ob- 

 jections, among which are these: The first 

 cost of material and labor in making the 

 cases; the time and labor spent in 'fussing' 

 with the packing and unpacking; the stor- 

 age room, and time and labor required to 

 store the surplus frames (that is, the two or 

 three frames removed from the brood-cham- 

 bers). Farmer beekeepers do not have time 

 to do much extra work. ' ' — F. K. Massie, 

 W. Va. 



"An interesting decision was handed 

 down during the week by the Appellate 

 Division of the Supreme Court of New 

 York. It was in the test case as to the 

 legality of saccharine as a substitute for 

 sugar. The defendant was the Excelsior 

 Bottling Works, who was prosecuted by the 

 New York Health Department for using sac- 

 charine as a sweetener in drinks instead of 

 sugar. The concern was convicted in the 

 lower court on the ground that the New 

 York State Health Law considers saccharine 

 a harmful adulterant and the case was ap- 

 pealed. The court holds that the use of 

 saccharine, if fully and fairlj' disclosed on 

 the label, does not constitute an adultera- 

 tion within the meaning of the law, and goes 

 so far as to say "since saccharine is not in- 

 jurious to health its use ma}'' be regulated 

 but cannot be prohibited under the exercise 

 of the police power." This decision will 

 probably affect the position of saccharine all 

 over the country." — Modern Merchant and 

 Grocery World. 



"Colonies will average about 50 pounds; 

 had only one rain in 1- months. There are 

 wonderful drouth-resisting honey plants in 

 this Santa Ynez Valley, including button 

 sage, several species of goldenrod and very 

 numerous other wild flowers, except beans 

 and some alfalfa. Main flow which lasted 



