Gleamiiiigg ie Bee Celture 



Published by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manager 



H. H. Root, Managing Editor E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boydkn, Advertising Manager. 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, Ohio, as second-class matter 



VOL. XLIII. 



FEBRUARY 1, 1915 



NO. 3 



EDETOEEAL 



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Our Cover Picture 



This is the promised special number on 

 personal experiences of prominent beekeep- 

 ers. How do you like it? Do you not think 

 that the beginners of 30 or 40 years ago had 

 a harder time than do beginners of the 

 present day now tliat all these early mis- 

 takes have been pointed out? 



Our cover picture shows an apiary of one 

 of our younger prominent beekeepers, Mr. 

 Ira D. Bartlett, of East Jordan, Mich. An- 

 other view of tliis same apiary appears on 

 page 101. 



Date of the Pennsylvania Convention 

 Changed 



The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 State Beekeepers' Association will be held 

 in Hai'risburg on the afternoon and evening 

 of Tuesday, February 23, and forenoon and 

 afternoon of the 24th, instead of Friday and 

 Saturday, February 26 and 27, as announc- 

 ed in Gleanings for January 15. The dates 

 have been changed so that beekeepers in 

 attendance can more readily see their rep- 

 resentatives in regard to proposed legisla- 

 tion. A full announcement will be found 

 under head of Convention Notices. 



Gleanings for 1915 Worth Reading 



The readers' attention is called to the fact 

 that these columns will contain reports of 

 valuable experiments in wintering and in- 

 creasing bees at the Dismal Swamp, Vir- 

 ginia. We intend to give the unvarnished 

 facts as they occur. Our Apalachieola 

 proposition did not pay expenses, as the 

 final figures now show. Whether the Vir- 

 ginia proposition may turn out any better, 

 we shall see. In the mean time our readers 

 will get the benefit of all these expensive 

 experiments — experiments that the ordinary 

 beekeeper himself cannot afford to make. 

 Where we lose out on these experiments we 



shall hope that our readers will stand by us 

 by rolling up a subscription list large 

 enough to enable us to do for them what 

 they cannot do for themselves. 



for Massachu- 



setts 



The Massachusetts Society of Beekeepers, 

 by Mr. Frank W. Frisbee, President of the 

 society, have prepared a bill to be presented 

 to the Massachusetts General Assembly, to 

 be acted upon during the coming session, 

 reg-ulatiug the use of poisonous spraying 

 materials upon the foliage of trees and 

 shrubs and vegetation in general, the pur- 

 pose of the desired legislation being to 

 protect the beekeepers and their allied inter- 

 ests. In order to get this through, beekeep- 

 ers should write to their senators and repre- 

 sentatives at once, urging their support of 

 the measure. 



The Ohio State Beekeepers' Conven- 

 tion at Columbus 



This was held on the State Fairgrounds 

 in connection with the general horticultural 

 exhibit, on Jan. 11 and 12. The afternoon 

 session on the second day was held with the 

 State Hoi'ticultural Society, during which 

 the relation of bees to horticulture was dis- 

 cussed. 



The meeting of beekeepers was not large, 

 owing, no doubt, to the fact that it was 

 impossible to give a general announcement 

 through the bee-journals, as the secretary 

 and president could not determinte the time 

 and place of the convention of the Horticul- 

 tural Society. But what the convention 

 lacked in attendance it made up in en- 

 thusiasm in the discussions. Some arrange- 

 ments wtre made for one or two field days, 

 and it is pa«<sible that the next convention 

 will be held at Akron — a locality where 

 there are such immense areas of swamp 

 bee-pasturage. 



