Gleanings In Bee Culture 



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



H. H. ROOT, Assistant Editor. 



A. I. ROOT, Editor Home Department. 



E. R. ROOT, Editor. 



A. L. BOYDEN, Advertising Manager. 

 J. T. CALVERT, Business Manager. 



Entered at the Postoflfice, Medina, Ohio, as Second-class Matter. 



VOL. XXXVII 



JUNE 1, 1909 



NO. 11 



Editorial 



By E. R. Root. 



THE EDITOR OF THE REVIEW RECOVERING FROM 

 AN OPERATION. 



We are very sorry to learn that Mr. W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, the editor of the Bee-hcepers' Renjieiv, 

 had to undergo a rather serious operation at the 

 Hurley hospital in his own city. A card re- 

 ceived from his wife informs us that he has been 

 doing well, and was expected home soon. The 

 Re--vi£-iv, in consequence, will be somewhat late. 



WINTER KILLING OF CLOVER. 



Our neighbor, Mr. Adam Leister, who report- 

 ed last winter such an abundance of clover on his 

 own and adjoining farms in spite of the drouth 

 of last fall, now reports that much of it "seems 

 to begone." He says it is impossible that the 

 drouth could be responsible for this, but that it 

 is, rather, due to winter-killing as a result of the 

 exposure during the bad weather with very little 

 protecting snow. Another neighbor, Vernon 

 Burt, about three miles west, reports that he never 

 saw clovers more abundant nor better prospects 

 for a heavy cloTcr flow. 



WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ILLINOIS.? 



Indiana and Iowa have recently enacted foul- 

 brood laws. Michigan has long had one on the 

 statute-books, and some two or three years ago 

 amended it to make it more effective. Illinois 

 has had a law for a number of years, but it is 

 practically a dead letter Efforts have been made 

 in the State to amend the law, time and again; 

 but there are always some three or four bee-keep- 

 ers who use their influence to defeat it. If these 

 men have any good reason for opposing legisla- 

 tion urgently needed by bee-keepers of their 

 State, we shall be glad to give them space for a 

 general statement of their views in our columns; 

 but we shall reserve the right to let some friend 

 of the measure reply. 



THE TOWNSEND SERIES OF ARTICLES FOR BE- 

 GINNERS. 



It is seldom that we run across a series of ar- 

 ticles that contain more valuable information 

 than those now running in these columns from 

 the pen of E. D. Townsend. If any of our read- 

 ers have failed to read the first of the series, de- 

 signed especially for beginners, whether veteran 

 or not, he will do well to go back to the first 

 one and read them consecutirely until the pres- 

 ent. The first article was published in our isjue 



for March 15th, page 160 The article in the 

 present number is especially seasonable and val- 

 uable. While much in it is not new to the vet- 

 eran, yet there is a large amount of corroborative 

 experience that will do that same veteran a lot 

 of good. 



A THREE-HUNDRED-COLONY APIARY NEARLY DE- 

 STROYED BY SPRAYING FRUIT TREES IN 

 FULL BLOOM. 



We have just received a letter from O. B. Met- 

 calf, Mesilla Park, N. M., who says he fears he 

 will lose nearly his whole apiary of 300 colonies 

 simply because his fruit-growing neighbors spray- 

 ed arsenate of lead on their trees, presumably 

 while they were in full bloom. His bees, he 

 says, are dying by the thousand. He wishes to 

 know whether the combs containing the fruit- 

 bloom honey from which his bees have died can 

 be given to normal colonies. 



We have written him that he had better have 

 some of that honey analyzed to determine the 

 amount of poison, if any, there is in it and ren- 

 der us a report. There is an abundant need of 

 "educating" the fruit-grower in many localities 

 yet. Many of them are practicing spraying 

 while the trees are in bloom. 



AN INTERVIEW WITH A PROMINENT COMMISSION 

 MAN OF NEW YORK CITY; HOW HONEY-PBO- 

 DUCERS MAY BETTER PROTECT THEIR OWN 

 MARKET; DR. MILLER's HONEY IN NEW YORK. 



We recently made a hurried business trip to 

 New York city; and while there we took occa- 

 sion to interview Mr. Segelken, of the firm of 

 Hildreth & Segelken, the well-known honey mer- 

 chants of that city. Fortunately we happened 

 to find Mr. Segelken quite at leisure, standing in 

 front of his place of business, on the corner of 

 Murray and Greenwich streets. 



"Is this Mr. Segelken.'" 



"It is." 



"This is E. R. Root, of Medina." 



"Come in, Mr. Root." 



In less time than it takes to tell it we fell to 

 discussing the honey business in general. 



" How is the market.?" we asked. 



"A little slow." 



" How do you think it is going to compare 

 this season with last year.?" 



" We do not expect prices to be quite as good. " 



"Why.?" 



" Because there was a big crop last year, and a 

 lot of it will be leftover; and prospects for anoth- 

 er big crop are very favorable. Unfortunately, 

 also, bee-keepers dumped their odds and ends on 

 the market after the selling season was over, and 

 we find it in a bad way as a consequence. " Look 



