NOVEMBFR ir,, 1915 



Our Cover Picture 



Our cover page this issue is from far-off 

 Australia. In that country they have re- 

 cently begun to realize the immense value 

 of water for irrigation purposes. Back a 

 few luuulred miles from the coast of New 

 SoutJi Wales there are millions of acres of 

 intensely fertile land wliicli, under normal 

 conditions of from five to eight inches rain- 

 fall jier annum produce only a few blades 

 ol not too succulent gfi-ass, sufficient, per- 

 haps, for keeping a sheep alive on each five 

 acres of land. 



The illustration shows an immense reser- 

 voir that has been made away up in the 

 hills, impounding quite a small lake, and 

 this water has been led out on to the plains, 

 a distance of 430 miles away. 



The land watered has been re-purchased 

 by the government, and is let out to settlers 

 at a comparatively low rental. Although 

 only three years since the water has been 

 applied quite a change has come over the 

 country. Alfalfa hay yields seven cuttings 

 per annum, and with that sheep and cattle 

 are fed and fattened in considerable num- 

 ber per acre. Fruit trees show marvelous 

 growth, and to help dispose of the crops 

 large canning and drying works and a very 

 fine butter-factory have been established. 



Quite a large village or shopping center 

 is forming. Several churches have been 

 built, and public schools established. 



Several beekeepers have located on the 

 Murrumbidgee IiTigation Area, as it is 

 called, and no doubt they will get good 

 results before long. The picture has been 

 supplied to us by Mr. Herbert J. Rumsey, 

 of Dundas, N. S. W., who has recently paid 

 us a visit at Medina. 



Insure your Product's Reputation 



The extent to which the courts go in 

 ]n'otecting one's rights to the use of his own 

 name as a business a.<5set is shown in several 

 recent trade-mark suits. " But are we in- 

 terested in trade-mai'ks? " inquires a bee- 

 keeper. You are. No large business in 

 Jioney or in any other product can be built 

 up without some distinguishing name cf 

 tlie product, and once a profitable business 

 is established unfair competition may arise, 

 involving trade-mark ditTicnlties. 



One can protect his name pretty fully, 

 even though some one else of the same name 

 is cneaiTf^d in the same business, writes Mr. 

 C. J. Williamson, the well-known patent 

 attorney of Washington, D. C. A producer 

 can defend it to the extent of requiring a 

 competitor to use initials or full name to 



distinguish the competitor's product from 

 Iiis own, and can sometimes even force his 

 competitor to use some sentence pointing 

 out the distinction. 



The immense amount of litigation over 

 (rade-mnrks simply shows how great is their 

 value to the producer. Among the business 

 principles familiar to large producei'S of 

 other foods and of value to honey produc- 

 ers as well, not the least of these is the 

 feubject of trade-marks. 



Winter Packing in Rows vs. Packing in 

 Quadruple Winter Cases 



The method of packing as illustrated and 

 described by R. C. Gifford in this issue, 

 page 929, has been used to a considerable 

 extent. It is so old that probably no one 

 can claim priority in its use. But even if it 

 is old, it has some good features. It has 

 the advantage over the four-in-a-case 

 scheme (1) in that it is much more econom- 

 ical; (2) that the entrances of the hives can 

 face the direction where there is the least 

 wind exposure. This last feature is a very 

 important one. Where the hives are packed 

 four in a case, back to back and side to 

 side, it naturally follows that one pair of 

 hives must have entrances directly opposite 

 the entrances of the other pair. If one pair 

 faces south, the other pair faces north, and 

 that is very bad; so it is usually recom- 

 mended to place the entrances facing east 

 and west. In most localities strong heavy 

 winds come from the west, and fitful storms 

 from the east. Taking everything into con- 

 sideration, a southern exposure is the most 

 favorable, and this can be permitted only 

 when the hives are packed as described by 

 our correspondent on page 929. But the ar- 

 rangement has the slight disadvantage that 

 the back ends of the hives are not protected 

 like the back ends of hives in a quadi-uple 

 case. In the last named there is only one 

 side and one front next to the packing; and 

 the packing is next to the weather, and, 

 what is of considerable importance, the 

 grouping of the four hives together concen- 

 trates and conserves the heat. In the plan 

 spoken of by R. C. Gifford there are two 

 ends that are exposed to the weather. In 

 the case of the inner hives in the row the 

 advantage would be slightly in favor of the 

 long-row packing except for the conserva- 

 tion of heat in the four. Another disadvan- 

 tage of the long case is that the boes must 

 be unpacked earlier than in the quadruple 

 case. 



But the most serious disadvantage, ac- 

 cording to a number of re]iorts, is the 

 drifting of the bees from one entrance to 



