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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



more clover honey than was originally in- 

 dicated. 



In our last issue we stated that the opin- 

 ion prevailed that there was a large amount 

 of clover honey still held back. Later re- 

 ports continue to confirm that view. 



Apparently extracted honey has reached 

 its high-water mark of price. We hope 

 it will hold its own. This only goes to 

 show that beekeepers have been running 

 too much for extracted honey and not 

 enough for comb. The hard logic of facts, 

 too much extracted, and a scarcity of comb 

 honey, should convince us that we should 

 run more for comb honey. There never 

 was a time in all our experience when No. 

 1 and fancy clover comb honey did not 

 have a good market. We do not believe 

 it is possible to produce too much of it 

 any season. 



The conditions for a honey crop next 

 year were never more iDromising. Reports 

 show that there is more white clover on 

 the gTound than has been known before 

 for many years. Beekeepers should begin 

 to make preparations to produce comb 

 honey. 



A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR AT THE HOME 

 OF THE HONEYBEES; RUSSIA'S COM- 

 PLIMENT TO AMERICA. 



We have just had the honor of a visit 

 from Dr. Ivan Kablukov, Professor of 

 Chemistry at the Royal University and 

 Agricultural Institute of Moscow, Russia. 

 He had been sent by Ms government to 

 attend an international convention of 

 chemists at Washington, D. C. As he was 

 making bee culture more or less a study 

 he was commissioned by his government 

 to make us a call, which he did. He seemed 

 very much delighted with every thing he 

 saw, and more than once expressed his 

 surijrise at the immensity of the beekeep- 

 ing industry in the United States, as e^d- 

 deneed by the buildings and general equip- 

 ment that go to make up the jDlant known 

 as the "Home of the Honeybees." He 

 used his notebook freely, and doubtless 

 will be able to transmit to his government 

 a good deal of valuable information on 

 the possibilities of beekeeping in Russia; 

 for what has been done in the United 

 States may be accomplished in that great 

 country. 



It will be remembered by some of our 

 readers that in 1903 the Russian govern- 

 ment also sent Mr. Abram Titoff to tliis 

 country to study American beekeeping. He 

 spent two full seasons here, and proved 

 himself to be not only an alert but an 

 efficient and intelligent workman among 

 the bees. He later spent a couple of sea- 



sons in California and then he went back 

 to his own country in April, 1906. Now, 

 according to Mr. Kablukov, he is inspector 

 and teacher in bee culture in Kieff, Rus- 

 sia. We of America ought to be proud 

 of the fact that a great country like Rus- 

 sia considers our methods worthy of adop- 

 tion. 



BEE EXHIBITS AND BEE SHOWS. 



Almost every department of apiculture 

 has been represented in books relating to 

 bees except the science of making exhibits 

 of bee products at fairs and shows. But 

 even this field has now been very amply 

 covered in a new work just out by Mr. 

 Wm. Herrod, F.E.S., junior editor of the 

 British Bee Journal and Beekeepers' Rec- 

 ord, London, England. This little volume 

 contains nearly 175 pages, with appropri- 

 ate illustrations, especially of many prize- 

 winning exhibits at the various shows in 

 England. The author discusses the ques- 

 tion of producing, preparing, and judging 

 exhibits of bee products in a most thorough 

 and j)ainstaking way. While the manner 

 of preparing these exhibits is somewhat 

 different from the general scheme in vogue 

 in the United States, yet any American 

 reader will gain from it many helpful sug- 

 gestions. "Mr. Herrod," in the language 

 of Mr. Thos. Wm. Cowan, senior editor 

 of the British Bee Journal, "has had more 

 experience in managing the largest and 

 most important shows in the country than 

 any one else; and in this book we have 

 the practical results of his experience 

 clearly stated for the benefit of those de- 

 siring to produce and prepare exhibits 

 with some expectation of gaining prizes." 



The price of this book is not stated; but 

 information can be secured by writing to 

 the office of the British Bee Journal, 23 

 Bedford St., Strand, W. C, London, 

 England. 



A NEW BOOK ON BEEKEEPING BY PROF. H. A. 



SURFACE, OP THE DIVISION OP ZOOLOGY, 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF 



PENNSYLVANIA, AT HARRISBURG. 



A NEW book or bulletin on bees, by Prof. 

 H. A. Surface, Economic Zoologist at Har- 

 risburg, has just been received. The au- 

 thor, well known to our readers as one of 

 the leading lights on beekeeping in his 

 State, has come to be almost a national 

 figure, A trained scientist, he not only 

 keeps bees himself, but has for years been 

 conducting a series of experiments in prac- 

 tical apiculture; and we believe we are 

 quite within the truth when we say that he 

 is not only authority in scientific apicul- 

 ture but in practical ajDieulture as well. 



