1909 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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AS THE ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT SEES IT 



NO DANGER. 



We clip the following from the editorial columns of the National Fruit Grow- 

 er for October, presenting it here, as the subject of fruit is always an interest- 

 ing one to bee-keepers, and because there is an increasing number of inquiries 

 commg to our office every year from larg-^ fruit-growers regarding the neces- 

 sity of bees for the proper fertilization of the fruit in their orchards. The edi- 

 torial is as follows: 



Professor John Craig, in an article published in the Boston Transcript, on 

 the subject of over-production of apples, said that there have been those, and 

 there are those at the present time, who are inclined to think that the apple in- 

 dustry will be overdone in the near future. 



Our methods of distributing have been tremendously improved in recent 

 years, our population has vastly increased, and the needs of our people for ap- 

 ples are much greater than they were ten years ago. Our European outlet is 

 enlarging, our home consumption is steadily increasing, and there is no reason- 

 able fear of overproduction in the life of the present generation. Fruitgrow- 

 ing countries of Europe do not produce fruit in a commercial way. The ama- 

 teur method has been so thoroughly implanted in the popular mind that no 

 change is likely to occur for many years to come. If a change does occur, it is 

 altogether likely that the increase in consumption will more than care for the 

 increase in production. 



On the same day that this editorial came to our notice we received the follow- 

 ing inquiry from one of our subscribers, a well-known bee-keeper in Illinois: 



Upper Alton, Ills., Sept. 29, 1909. 

 A. I. Root Co.— I want to buy, direct of grower, about eight or ten carloads 

 of good winter apples for our Alton market. Can you put me in touch with 

 some grower, either in New York or Michigan? I shall hardly have time to 

 wait for an advertisement; but you might insert in one issue of Gleanings. 

 Perhaps you could give me the address of several of your friends who have ap- 

 ples to sell. A. N. Draper. 



An inquiry of this sort is representative of the inquiries that are constantly 

 reaching this office; and in a majority of the cases we are in position to refer 

 the inquiring party to some one who can supply the desired articles. In this 

 case we have referred our Illinois subscriber to parties in Montana who will un- 

 doubtedly be able to supply Mr. Draper with just what he requires in apples. 

 Our attention was lately drawn to the Bitter Root Valley advertised on the in- 

 side back cover, as a great district for bees and fruit; and in their printed mat- 

 ter we find a cut of the carload e.xhibit of applies at the Spokane show last year, 

 which took the first prize. We should like to show it here did space permit. 

 Interested readers can secure copies of this descriptive booklet by addressing 

 the advertiser mentioned above. 



