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



H. H. R iOT, Assistant Editor. E. R. Root, Editor. A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager. 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department. J. T. Calvert, Business Manager. 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina. O.. as Second-class matter. 



VOL. XL 



JUNE 15, 1912 



NO. 12 



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DEATH OF DR. JOHN S. HOWKINS. 



Dr. John S. HowkinS; one of the prom- 

 inent beekeepers of Savannah, Georgia, 

 and for a number of years connected vs^ith 

 the beekeepers' supply business under the 

 firm name of Howkins & Rush, at Savan- 

 nah, died recently. Mr. Howkins was a 

 man who stood high in his profession, was 

 a man of i^ersonal magnetism, and had hun- 

 dreds of friends in Savannah who loved 

 him for his warm, true-hearted nature. 



the bulletin on sweet clover. 

 We are informed that Bulletin 98, Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, entitled Historical 

 Notes on the Causes of Bee Diseases, and 

 Bulletin 485, from the Department of Agri- 

 culture, on the subject of sweet clover, are 

 not for free distribution. Five cents is the 

 price of the former, and ten for the latter. 

 But they are well worth the price — espe- 

 cially the bulletin on sweet clover, which 

 every beekeeper should secure before the 

 supply is exhausted. 



100 LBS. of section honey before may 28. 

 The following letter received from one 

 of our subscribers will explain : 



On May 2, 1912, I had two swarms that clustered 

 together. On May 28 this colony gave me 100 lbs. 

 of fancy section honey. Is that not a good yield 

 for Virginia ? 



Petersburg, Va. W. E. Fereell. 



While this, perhaps, is not " breaking the 

 record" by any means, it goes to show 

 that the conditions are going to be right for 

 a honey-flow this year. Reports are look- 

 ing good for a good old-fashioned flow, 

 where there are bees to gather it. 



GLEANINGS UP TO DATE. 



Perhaps our discriminating readers will 

 observe that this issue is printed on a new 

 face of type. More exactly, every issue of 

 this journal from now on will be printed on 

 an entirely new face. Our new $4000 lino- 

 type, which we purchased last December, 

 has been kept busy at work on various pub- 



lications sent out by the Gleanings pub- 

 lishing house; and it was not until this 

 issue that we were able to catch up enough 

 so that our journal could be set on the 

 machine. Machine composition will, there- 

 fore, be used hereafter in our printing 

 rooms. One person is now able to do prac- 

 tically as much work as four or five com- 

 positors. 



Gleanings is being set up and printed 

 on the most up-to-date machinery that it is 

 possible to produce. We are using the most 

 modern appliances for making our photos 

 and engravings, including the very latest 

 new patented "overlay" by which the half- 

 lone cuts come out brilliant and clear. 



IS the spraying of fruit trees while in 



BLOOM necessarily INJURIOUS TO 



either bees or brood? 



Some question has been raised in tliis 

 country whether the spraying of fruit-trees 

 while they are in bloom is damaging to the 

 beekeeper, as has been commonly believed. 

 We have always supposed (basing our 

 oiDinions on reports from all over the coun- 

 try) that such spraying was injurious, par- 

 ticularly because thousands of dead bees 

 have been reported at the entrances of loives 

 in localities at just the time the trees are 

 sprayed when in bloom, and because brood 

 is found dead at about this time. But there 

 are some authorities, however, who believe 

 that the dead brood in most if not all of 

 these cases is due to foul brood rather than 

 to poison. But foul brood does not account 

 for dead bees in front of the entrances; 

 and pai'ticularly does it not account for 

 a rapid decimation of the strength of the 

 colony while the trees are in bloom. 



We are always vsdlling, however, to give 

 the other side of any question ; and from the 

 Agricultural Gazette, of New South Wales, 

 for April 2, we learn that Messrs. E. E. 

 Prescott, Principal of the Horticultural 

 School at Burnley, and F. R. Beuhne, a 



