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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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EDITORIAL 



WITH THE WAR OVER and the restric- 

 tions on the use of sugar removed, it is time 

 to suggest the pro- 

 Now for Some duction of some 

 Comb Honey. comb honey for the 

 coming season. 

 Very rightly and patriotically the beekeep- 

 ers of the country heeded the call during 

 the war to produce extracted honey to the 

 exclusion of comb honey, in order to meet 

 a great food demand for sweets. This was 

 not only right but profitable. Conditions 

 are now changed, and comb honey should 

 once more be given recognition, not only 

 for its own excellence but to stabilize honey 

 prices and relieve what may be an over- 

 production of extracted honey. To many 

 consumers there is no honey lilie comb hon- 

 ey. Its attractive appearance, its unrivaled 

 flavor, and its very stamp of the beehive 

 give it a peculiar appeal. All beekeepers 

 who have comb-honey equipment will serve 

 themselves well and serve the future honey 

 market well by producing comb honey the 

 coming year. 



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AT SAN DIEGO, CAL., a lady at the close 

 of the University short course in beekeeping 

 said to Dr. E. F. 



Seemed as if 



She ' ' Got Real 



Religion. ' ' 



Phillips and his 

 staff that she felt 

 as if she had just 

 come from an old- 

 fashioned Methodist camp meeting where 

 she had got real religion. She had enjoyed 

 every minute of the course, had gathered 

 new inspiration, and now felt that she could 

 be a real and better beekeeper. Others^ 

 expressed themselves in a similar manner. 

 It was remarkable how the attendance kept 

 up in spite of the flu, which was bad. The 

 beekeepers sat clear thru the sessions, giv- 

 ing the closest attention. 



The staff of instructors consisted of Dr. 

 E. F. Phillips, Geo. S. Demuth and Jay 

 Smith of the Bureau of Entomology, Wash- 

 ington, D. C; Prof. Geo. A. Coleman of the 

 University of California; M. H. Mendelson, 

 a lifelong and extensive beekeeper; Frank 

 C. Pellett of the American Bee Journal; and 

 E. R. Root of Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



The whole keynote of the course was bet- 

 ter beekeeping and better beekeepers. In 

 addition to demonstrations, theory, and 

 practice, particular attention was given to 

 bee diseases, their detection and cure. Foul 



brood, European and American, has got 

 a strong foothold in California. Considera- 

 ble difficulty has been experienced because 

 in many cases one disease has been confus- 

 ed for the other. Foul-brood inspection has 

 so far been unable to hold the disease in 

 check. It is to be hoped that these short 

 courses will do much to clear up the con- 

 fusion as to the two brood diseases. 



A NEW YEAR AGAIN, and a new period 

 in beekeeping. The great war now ended 

 has touched and 

 Beekeeping in changed beekeeping 

 the New Year, as profoundly as it 

 has many other in- 

 terests and industries. Because of the world- 

 wide shortage of sweets, the importance and 

 possibilities in beekeeping have been 

 brought to the attention of everybody as 

 never before. So it is that the business of 

 j^roducing honey has been, in a way, digni- 

 fied. The price level of honey has risen, 

 never to return to the old low levels. With 

 this bettered position of the honey-producer 

 and of honey, comes a new impulse for bet- 

 ter beekeeping. The better beekeeper — 

 the good-business beekeeper — is already 

 here; but more of them are on the way today 

 than ever before. It is not going to be long 

 till many honey-producers are going to con- 

 duct beekeeping as well and as wisely and as 

 scientifically and in as business-like way as 

 the successful stock-breeder of the corn belt 

 conducts his business. The new year will 

 see a greater advance along these lines than 

 any of the years that have gone before. 

 So' it's a hearty welcome that the beekeepers 

 of the world extend to 1919. 



SINCE ARRIVING in California (from 

 where this is written) the Editor of Glean- 

 ings has been in- 

 That New vestigating, as he 



Metal Comb. could, the alumi- 

 num-comb inven- 

 tion, originating with the MacDonald Arti- 

 ficial Honey Comb Company, Upland, Calif. 

 We find a general feeling out here on the 

 Coast that this new beekeeping invention is 

 full of promise. To say that it is (or can be 

 made) a success would be premature. That 

 bees have filled sample combs of it with 

 honey and sealed it with their own cap- 

 pings is proved by the specimens that were 



