GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Government apiary at Somerset, Md., showing the electric cables used in recording 

 temperature, wind, velocity, etc. 



masses are paying it, and why? Because 

 they are coming to believe such prepara- 

 tions are healthful, and they will use honey 

 for the same reason when it is properly 

 brought before them. I understand there 

 has been a large increase in the production 

 of exti'aeted honey of late years, yet I do 

 not find it has resulted in lowering the 

 price. Referring to the market reports in 

 Gleanings, I find the Cincinnati market 

 report for February, 1915, for clover ex- 

 tracted in cans, ten cents; February ten 

 years ago, seven to eight cents; February 

 twenty years ago, four to seven cents. Al- 

 though this does not show all the fluctua- 

 tions, it is a fact that the prices are better 

 now than twenty years ago. 



To sliow further my faith in the business 

 I will say that my son, a young man of 

 twenty-four, is giving up a good position 

 in the city to engage in some outdoor em- 

 ployment, and, with my encouragement, he 

 will take up beekeeping. Shall I tell him 

 that ninety per cent of those who engage 

 in this business fail? No! I would rather 

 quote from an optimist like my old friend 

 H. R. Boardman. In a private letter that 

 I received from him duiing the past year I 

 find these words — and I am sure he will not 

 object if I quote them here: "If I were 

 only a young man of twenty I would just 

 be delighted to engage in beekeeping." 



Oberlin, Ohio. 



THE ELECTRIC CONNECTIONS 



IN THE GOVERNMENT 

 TON, D. C. 



BY E. R. ROOT 



The accompanying illustration gives a 

 view of the Government apiary in the sub- 

 urbs of Washington, D. C, at Somerset, 

 Md. The i-eader will notice sundi'y wire 

 cables running to the quadruple packing- 

 case containing four colonies, and to the 

 two or three single-walled hives, each con- 

 taining a colony. These cables are connect- 



ed with electric thermometers from which 

 readings are taken, taking the internal tem- 

 perature of the colonies. The hives in the 

 background comprise the regular Govern- 

 ment apiai-y ; but these are not connected 

 with the electric apparatus for recording 

 temperatures. Just a little to the left of 

 the quadruple packing-case, and in line with 



