May, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



HEADS "OF GRAIN TI/POM^ DIFFERENT FIELDS 



diseased matter. They may even be im- 

 mune until mixed again with unimmune 

 blood. I wont very thoroly into the matter 

 at the time, deliberately infected them all, 

 thinking either to have some immune bees, 

 if it were possible, or else kill them that 

 way and then start anew again. 



Necanicum, Ore. Herman Ahlers. 



[Many who report these same symptoms 

 claim that the disease has for several years 

 affected the same apiaries. But if some 

 seem more immune than others it would cer- 

 tainly be well to breed from them. For 

 some time attempts have been made in Eng- 

 land to develop strains immune to the Isle 

 of Wight disease. Altho some progress has 

 been made, we do not think they yet have a 

 strain actually immune. — Editor.] 



high winds, however, both winter and sum- 

 mer. A number of important apiaries have 

 been started within the past two or three 

 years, owing to current high prices. We 

 liave started only in a small way, but hope 

 to grow, and shall keep at it whether prices 

 go up or down, just for the fundamental in- 

 terest of the thing. We expect to keep right 

 at section honey, for first-class trade; be- 

 cause most current advice and information 

 seems to be the other way. On my cartons, 

 I intend using the accompanying photo of 

 my wife, handling a frame of bees. The 

 trees in the background are tamarindus in- 

 (licus, which grow well on alkali soil and 

 bloom three or four times a year. The in- 

 clination of the trees shows the great force 

 of the winds. H. L. Miller. 



Mendoza, Argentina. 



Keeping Bees in 

 Argentina. 



Andes mountains. 



Mendoza is an irrigat- 

 ed province at the 

 eastern base of the 

 It has a s]3lendid climate. 



and is devoted to wine-growing and the rais- 



in an apiary in Ai-gtaitina. 



ing of fruit and alfalfa. In earlier days, 

 honey and wax were important products; 

 then these fell off greatly, perhaps owing to 

 the interest in vineyards, and the fact that 

 wine presses kill a great many bees at the 

 end of the season. At present, the only thing 

 that beekeepers can do is to seek outlying 

 districts as far as possible from the presses. 

 Snow is almost unknown here, and wintering 

 is very simple. There are sometimes very 



Chas. VanNieda, of Co. D, 315th Infantry, A. E. F., 

 drew this picture at the front in France, telling how- 

 he used his gas mask and steel helmet in lieu of a 

 veil and hat to secure honey from a bee treei in the 

 hi.storir Belleau Wood. He said the boys in his 

 company had plenty of honey for awhile. 



