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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1918 



from Oct. 12 to Nov. 12, has been made to 

 pay $2,919 to the Ked Cross, and, most se- 

 vere punishment of all, is branded before the 

 whole^country as dishonest. 



We can add somewhat to the history of 

 this case, as it was a sale of this Standard 

 Eefining Company to the A. I. Eoot Com- 

 pany that brought about the detection of its 

 rascality. During the summer just past, 

 this firm of adulterators sold to the A. I. 

 Eoot Company for delivery at Philadelphia 

 approximately $2,700 worth of amber Cuban 

 honey and bought for pure honey. The 

 A. I. Eoot Company has a way of analyzing 

 very carefully any honey about which it has 

 any doubt whatever, and so it was that the 

 honey sold to the Eoot company by the 

 Standard Eefining Company was analyzed 

 by Mr. Selser, an expert chemist and man- 

 ager for the A. I. Eoot Company at Philadel- 

 phia. It was found to be heavily adulterated, 

 and the adulterators did not make denial 

 of its impurity when charged with it and 

 made full restitution to the Eoot company, 

 who threw the "stuff" back onto the 

 Standard Eefining Co. 's hands. A complaint 

 of the adulteration of honey in New York 

 was made by the Editor of Gleanings to 

 the authorities at Washington, and the 

 Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture was put on the trail. Where 

 the trail ended is told above. 



MAY WE ASK that our readers, who wish 

 to contribute to Gleanings ' columns, re- 

 member that copy 

 Don't Delay — must reach us pre- 



Write Early. viously to the 5th of 



the month preceding 

 that month in which it is desired that an 

 article should appear. That is, had one of 

 our readers wished an article to appear in 

 this November Gleanings, he should have 

 mailed it so as to have reached us at the 

 latest by Oct. 5. In order to reach our 

 readers on time, the type for Gleanings has 

 to be practically all set as early as the 10th 

 or 12th of the month preceding the month 

 of issue. In other words, if you read this 

 November Gleanings and see something in it 

 to which you wish to make reply or on which 

 you wish to comment, don 't delay writing it, 

 but write it and send it to us at once — bo- 

 fore Nov. 5 at the latest. It can then ajjpear 

 in the next (December) Gleanings. What 

 we are writing is prompted by the fact that 

 on this date (Oct. 16) when the very last 

 type for the last form of Gleanings is being 

 set, a half dozen communications on topics 

 timely for November (and not later) have 

 reached us, but cannot be printed. We very 

 much regret this, but it cannot be helped 

 when writers for Gleanings delay writing as 

 they do. Make this a rule: When you see 

 something in Gleanings about which you 

 wish to write for the next issue of Glean- 

 ings, write it at once — don 't delay. 



IN THIS EDITOEIAL I purpose to throw 

 aside the editorial ' ' we, ' ' either because it 

 is too indefinite, or 

 Open Letter not specific enough 

 from the to cover certain 



Editor. personal experi- 



ences that I wish 

 to lay before our readers. In short, I want 

 to take those same readers into my confi- 

 dence, to tell them a little of the present 

 inside workings of Gleanings. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture has been grow- 

 ing, as have also its publishers. The A. I. 

 Eoot Co. As an executive- officer of the lat- 

 ter, my duties have materially increased — 

 so much so that my doctors have said I 

 would have to be relieved or resign my place 

 entirely. Besides the management of the api- 

 aries, the selection of copy, its preparation 

 for publication, the writing of the ABC 

 and X Y Z of Bee Culture (a volume of 

 800 double-column pages), the answering 

 of letters, attending conventions and field 

 meets, and receiving traveling men, I have 

 had the duties of an executive officer of The 

 A. I. Eoot Co., which has taken no small 

 part of my time. Fortunately, a younger 

 brother, H. H. Eoot, some years ago came 

 on the scene to help me out. But there 

 came a time recently when he was more 

 needed elsewhere. In looking about for a 

 general manager for The A. I. Eoot Co., it 

 was decided to give him the job. This action 

 must have left me with very little editorial 

 assistance, had I not already secured the 

 services of an experienced newspaper man 

 and publisher as managing editor, and like- 

 wise the services of an experienced and ex- 

 pert beekeeper, Miss lona Fowls, as assist- 

 ant editor, who is the daughter of Chalon 

 Fowls of Oberlin, a widely known beekeeper. 

 Much of the improvement that has been 

 made in Gleanings within the last two years 

 should, in all fairness, be credited in no 

 small degree to Miss Fowls and to the man- 

 aging editor, who is himself an enthusiastic 

 beekeeper. 



When it became certain that I should 

 have to have an assistant editor I decided 

 that, first of all, that person should be an 

 experienced beekeeper — one who had been 

 managing bees successfully for years on a 

 commercial scale. In this point. Miss Fowls 

 was more than able to qualify as she has 

 worked with bees from childhood. In ad- 

 dition to her ability as a beekeeper she is 

 a graduate of Oberlin College, taking the 

 degree of A. B. ; taught school for a number 

 of years; and at the time I engaged her as 

 assistant she had just finished her post- 

 graduate course, taking the degree of A. M., 

 thus qualifying herself for a college position. 

 While I do not consider a college education 

 to be all that the editor of a beekeepers ' 

 journal needs, yet it certainly is a very 

 great advantage; and no one will deny that 

 a trained mind is invaluable in that it will 

 weigh evidence and come to a fairly correct 

 conclusion. 



Not only is Miss Fowls' knowledge of 



