April, 1916. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT 



1st Nat'I Bank Bldg. Hamilton, Illinois 



Entered as second-class matter at the 



Hamilton, Illinois, Post-office. 

 C. P. Dadant. Editor 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. Associate Editor. 

 Frank C Pellett. Staff Correspondent. 



American Hae Journal 



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Copyright: 1016, by C. P. Dadant 



THE EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT 



More About Sweet Clover 



This office is in receipt of two very 

 valuable booklets on sweet clover put 

 out by the extension department of the 

 International Harvester Company at 

 Chicago. 



The larger, 64-page booklet, entitled, 

 "Sweet Clover No Longer a Despised 

 Weed — A Valuable Crop," is an excel- 

 lent source of information to any one 

 interested in this crop. It gives a de- 

 scription of the plant, method of sow- 

 ing the seed, influence of different soils 

 on growth, etc., and also reports of the 

 experiences of reliable farmers in scat- 

 tered sections. 



The second booklet, " Sweet Clover 

 Adapted to the Northwest," gives all 

 the advantages of this plant in the sec- 

 tions discussed. It deals especially 

 with the northwestern States, and is a 

 36-page pamphlet very recently pub- 

 lished. 



Both of these booklets are for free 

 distribution and may be obtained by 

 addressing request to the Extension 

 Department of the company as above. 



A Collection of Houey Sample.s 



We are beginning a collection of 

 honey from different sources and hope 

 to make it as complete as possible. 

 These samples will be labeled with the 

 date and locality where produced, the 

 name of the producer and the source 

 from which they are gathered. We in- 

 tend to keep this collection in a case 

 in the office of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, and will greatly appreciate the 

 assistance of our readers in securing 

 the samples. All honey should be as 

 pure as possible and about a pound to 

 the sample. 



Honey comes from so many sources 

 that such a collection should be of 

 much value. Samples intended for this 

 collection should be addressed to the 

 American Bee Journal and not to any 



member of the firm. It will be used to 

 assist our readers to determine the 

 source of their crops in doubtful cases, 

 and is not designed for any commer- 

 cial use. 



Dr. Cook to Retire 



A recent issue of the California Cul- 

 tivator contains the information that 

 Dr. A. J. Cook has announced that he 

 will shortly resign from his position 

 as State Horticultural Commissioner 

 of California and take a much needed 



rest. It seems that Dr. Cook is not en- 

 joying the best of health, and that he 

 feels it is time to have a change. He 

 is well known to the beekeepers as 

 author of "Manual of the Apiary," and 

 was formerly a professor in the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College, where he was 

 one of the first to offer a course in 

 bee-culture. 



Death of a Well Known Editor 



Henry Wallace, founder and editor 

 of Wallace's Farmer, is dead. He 

 passed away very suddenly at the Meth- 

 odist church in Des Moines, Iowa, on 

 Tuesday evening, Feb, 22. 



Mr. Wallace was one of the best 

 known writers in the entire field of 

 agriculture, and enjoyed the confidence 

 of men in all walks of life. A truly 

 great man has gone from among us 

 and his passing is widely mourned. 



Prolification in white clover, or the exten- 

 sion of stem and the production of a sec- 

 ond head of flowers above the first.— Photo 

 by John H. Lovell. 



Cooperation in Houey Sales 



Comments upon the leading article 

 in our March number on a publicity 

 campaign and cooperation, are made by 

 some of our readers. Some discouraged 

 producers ask why the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association has so utterly 

 failed in the proposed system of con- 

 centralization, if cooperation is as sure 

 of success as some enthusiasts claim. 

 They say that the citrus growers are 

 wealthier, have more at stake than the 

 beekeepers, and can better afford to 

 pay expensive men to manage their 

 advertising and their sales. This is 

 true. 



But perhaps the beekeepers are not 

 starting this thing right. When we 

 build a house, we do not plan the top 

 of the edifice at first. We begin with 

 the foundation. Have we done so ? 



The National Association started to 

 organize beekeepers centrally, before 

 they were sufficiently organized locally. 

 Our National meetings have thus far 

 always been composed of a large num- 

 ber of beekeepers living in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the place selected for 

 meeting and of a few leading producers, 

 dealers, queen breeders, writers, and 

 publishers from a distance. With an 

 organization of this kind, little if any 

 money could be put into any plan that 

 would benefit the beekeeping world. 



The beekeepers are scattered pro- 

 ducers. In only a few privileged spots 

 are they close together in sufficient 

 numbers to help each other. Even in 

 places where they are fairly numerous 

 they have rarely considered coopera- 

 tion. Yet cooperation for the adver- 

 tising and sale of their product, or for 

 the purchase of their supplies, must be- 

 gin at the bottom. They must build 

 the cellar before they can hope to erect 



