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VOL. XL 



JANUARY 15, 1912 



NO. 2 



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The Ohio State Bee-keepers' Convention 

 will be held in Springfield, Feb. 21. Fur- 

 ther announcements later. 



Mr. George S. Demuth, now of ^Yash- 

 ington, D. C, in the Bureau of Entomolo- 

 gy, calls our attention to the fact that the 

 picture on the outside cover page of our 

 Christmas issue was taken in the apiary of 

 Mr. S. 1). House, at Camillus, N. Y. 



Bulletin No. 75, entitled "Miscellane- 

 ous Papers on Apiculture," has just been 

 issued by the Bureau of Entomology, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. It probably can be obtained 

 by any bee-keeper by applying to the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology or to the Superinten- 

 dent of Documents. This bulletin com- 

 prises '"The Production and Care of Extract- 

 ed Honey," by Dr. E. F. Phillips; "Meth- 

 ods of Honey-testing for Bee-keepers," by 

 C. A. Browne; " Wav-moths and American 

 Foul Brood," by E. F. Phillips; "Bee-dis- 

 eases in Massachusetts," by Burton N. 

 Gates; "The Relation of the Etiology 

 (Cause) of Bee-diseases to the Treatment," 

 l)y G. F. White; "A Brief Survey of Ha- 

 waiian Bee-keeping," by El. F. Phillips; 

 "The Status of Apiculture in the T'nited 

 States," by E. F. Phillips; "Bee-keeping in 

 Massachusetts," by Burton X. Gates. It 

 contains 125 pages the size of this. While 

 these pai)ers have been published heretofore, 

 the various editions have been exhausted, 

 and this bulletin is a compilation of them 

 all. 



A severe cold spell. 

 The fore part of winter was mild all over 

 the United States; but during the fore part 

 of January the weather turned severely cold 

 in most of the Northern States, with a driv- 

 ing wind. Even in semi-tropical California, 

 the temperature has gone down to freezing 

 and below; and there has been a desperate 

 fight on the part of some of the orange- 

 growers to protect their groves. This they 

 have been doing by building fires among 

 the trees, thus generating a large amount of 

 smoke. The same thing has been done in 

 Florida. At this writing, .Ian. 11, there is 

 no letup in the severe cold in any portion of 

 the I'nited States. It has not and probably 

 will not continue long enough to do any 



great damage to the bees. The clovers will 

 not be injured, because there has been a 

 heavy fall of snow over most of the North. 

 Lots of snow is always favorable to clover. 



THE CIRCULATION OF GLEANINGS BOOMING 

 THESE DAYS. 



Gleanings has been late for a couple of 

 issues back: and for this issue, perhaps, we 

 shall have to beg the indulgence of our read- 

 ers till we can catch up in our printing de- 

 partment. We have just purchased a new 

 printing-press, which, together with the two 

 big machines* already in, ought to enable 

 us to catch up very soon. AYe have recent- 

 ly installed a new linotype, or type-setting 

 machine, and all together the i)rinting-house 

 of Gleanings is "as busy as a bee," even 

 if it is in the dead of wiiiter and the bees 

 are all asleep. 



New subscriptions and the renewal of old 

 ones have been coming in with a big rush. 

 Considering the poorness of the past season, 

 and the bitterly cold weather we are now 

 having, we are truly thankful for the gen- 

 erous support of our friends. 



WINTERING BEES IN CLAMPS. 



In certain parts of the northern States 

 the custom of burying hives of bees in the 

 ground during the cold weather is very prev- 

 alent; but lest the uninitiated should get the 

 idea from our picture on the cover of this 

 issue that this plan solves the wintering 

 problem universally, it may be well here to 

 mention some of the restrictions which, 

 while they have been given before, can nev- 

 ertheless iaear repeating. 



The soil as shown at the left, in the pic- 

 ture, is sandy. This is a vital requirement; 

 for in a clay soil the combs in the hives 

 would "sweat" and become moldy, and 

 the bees would dwindle away rapidly be- 

 cause of the impure air, there being no 

 chance for escape of moisture nor for the 

 influx of fresh air, as the clay is not porous. 



Even with a sandy soil, if the winters are 

 open with considerable warm weather when 



* All of them are four-roller book -presses, and two 

 of them have automatic Dexter feeders. In fact, 

 we have one of the best-equipped printinp-shops 

 in the I'nited States. 



