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VOL. XL 



DECEMBER 1, 1912 



NO. 23 



Editorial 



THE OHIO STATE BEEKEEPERS' CONVENTION. 



The Ohio State Beekeepers' Association 

 will hold its next annual convention at 

 Columbus, Jan. 14 and 15, 1913, with an 

 evening session on the second day. Secre- 

 tary Shaw, also State Entomologist and 

 State Foul-brood Inspector, is arranging a 

 program. He advises that the editor of the 

 American Bee Journal, Mr. C. P. Dadant, 

 and Secretary Tyrrell, of the National Bee- 

 keepers' J^.ssociation, will be present to 

 give addresses on subjects to be announced 

 later. Gleanings will also be represented. 



This meeting of beekeepers will precede 

 another meeting — that of the State Board 

 of Agriculture on the 16th — and a number 

 of prominent speakers on agricultural top- 

 ics will be present on that date. There will 

 doubtless be some who will be interested in 

 staying over and taking in the meeting of 

 the State Board of Agriculture. 



Our readers may rest assured that Secre- 

 tary Shaw will leave no stone unturned to 

 make this an interesting and profitable 

 meeting. Columbus is a great convention 

 city. It is centrally located, and all bee- 

 keepers not too far away Avill find it greatly 

 to their advantage to attend. 



gleanings FOR 1913. 

 We desire to call attention to the list of 

 special numbers for next year as given on 

 another page of this issue. We have spent 

 much time and thought in going over the 

 letters that we have received in response 

 to our call for expressions from our read- 

 ers in our September 1st issue; we have 

 not been able to carry out all of the sug- 

 gestions — that is, we shall not be able to 

 devote a whole number to all of the sub- 

 jects mentioned, but we have selected those 

 that the majority have asked for. There 

 have been a great many excellent hints, all 

 of which we appreciate fully. We hope 

 that we shall not have to turn any one 

 down, for we are going to solicit articles 

 from experts to be used at other times dur- 

 ing the year in accordance with wishes ex- 



pressed by a number of different readers. 

 One of our readers suggests that entirely 

 too little is known about judging a queen. 

 This is true, and some time we hope to de- 

 vote a whole number to the ciuestion; but 

 as this will be impossible the coming year, 

 we propose to use a number of articles on 

 the subject in several different issues. We 

 suggest that some of our old and reliable 

 queen-breeders — G. M. Doolittle, J. P. 

 Moore, H. G. Quirin, etc., tell us how they 

 judge a queen. Let us hear from a good 

 many, for this is a subject to which too 

 little attention has been paid. 



Another subject to which we shall give 

 considerate prominence during the year, 

 although we shall not devote any one num- 

 ber to it, is the question of shipping bees 

 in carload lots with and without combs. 

 This discussion has been only begun during 

 1912, and the prospects are bright for some 

 startling results in the near future. 



As intimated, we shall devote more space 

 than usual to the shipping and production 

 of comb honey. Willi the large number of 

 extensive producers who have gone into 

 extracted-honey production exclusively, 

 something must be done to encourage the 

 production of more comb honey. Prices of 

 comb honey are bound to go up out of pro- 

 portion to those of extracted. At the pres- 

 ent rate, extracted will be a glut on the 

 market in the near future, while comb hon- 

 ey will not be obtainable at any price. 

 Such a condition ought not to be. 



We have several interesting experiences 

 of beginners on hand that we shall use 

 January 1, but we need more. We can 

 'also use more articles from women for the 

 March 1st issue. We desire expressions 

 from some of our largest producers for our 

 April 1st issue. For example, it may be a 

 matter of surprise to some to know that 

 one beekeeper has such an extensive system 

 of out-apiaries that he recently ordered a 

 dozen four-frame extractors, all of which 

 are for his own personal use. We hope to 

 hear from him for this special number. 



