THE AMERICAN APICULTUEIST. 



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clover after oats, on the poorest 

 clay soil, and you will get oats 

 enough at 25 cents per bushel to 

 pay for your fertilizer, and get your 

 clover-crop extra. If you have 

 corn-stubble on last year's sod- 

 ground you will get a better clover 

 meadow by cultivating it with a 

 disk or Acme harrow, or a two- 

 horse cultivator, and drilling oats 

 both ways, than to plow the ground. 

 I have tried it by plowing every 

 other narrow land, and 1 get the 

 best meadow every time where the 

 old sod is left down. If you wish 

 to raise seed, you must save the 

 tirst crop of peavine or alsike. 



\_Gleanings in Bee Culture, Feb. 

 21, 1887.] 



TUE DOUBLE-GKARED, REVEUSIBLE, 

 LOOSE HANDLED, BACK ACTION OCCU- 

 PATION. 



Bradford, Iowa. 



I don't know what your subscription 

 list is, but I iiuow the contents of your 

 Journal are worthy of no small number 

 of subscribers. If the beekeepers do 

 not rally to the vigorous support of 

 one bee paper and that a clean and 

 healthy one, they are, indeed, a weakly 

 tribe: are following a calling that is 

 unworthy the "hue and cry" it receives 

 in the shape of conventions, supply 

 dealers and patent-hive nieu. 



There has been talk in some of the 

 papers al)out an association for bee- 

 keepers. The lirst and almost only fact 

 for consideration of its feasibility is that 

 beekeepers are producers much like 

 the farmer, whom to unite or associate 

 would be comparable to the bringing 

 together of the two poles of the earth. 

 If outsiders did not get in to kick it 

 over they would be sure to kick it over 

 themselves. Coinparatively, farmers 

 do not associate ; they will not, and are 

 a class that would not if they could. 

 To be sure, the former is independent. 

 If he biles the hook he is easily gob- 

 bled up. They say he should not bite 

 but he always does. The only way 

 out is not to be a farmer and the same 

 is true with the ijeekeeper. At the 

 great convention held at Detroit some- 

 time since I learu that of the hanareds 

 present only eleven followed beekeep- 

 ing specially. A great (?) industry 



was represented. This shows how the 

 industry called apiculture hangs on to 

 something else. " What the Lion 

 leaves the Wolf devours." I don't think 

 apiculture ought to be the strongest 

 industry but it ought to be respectable 

 enough to reject and have not much 

 use for second-hand material. Let us 

 have apicultural in the place of apicul- 

 turistical conventions. 



If we get rid of those fruit, chicken 

 and cow beekeepers, those doctors, 

 lawyers aud preachers, associations 

 may then be organized and its mem- 

 bers will take an interest in it. This 

 dealing with half a man is not the best 

 thing out. He is two-sided at least. 

 C. W. Dayton. 



FEEDING SUGAR SYRUP TO BEES TO 

 STORE IN SECTIONS. 



Shrewsbury, Pa, 

 Mr. Henry Alley: 

 In my locality bees can gather very little 

 honey. If I buy sugar by the barrel and feed 

 It to rny bees and sell tlie honey, (lau 1 make 

 a prolit on the sugar and is there sale lor such 

 honey ? 



Respectfully, 



E. D. C. 



[No, 3'ou cannot feed sugar to 

 bees and sell it at a proht, even 

 should they store it in sections, 

 whicli is a thing no one can get 

 bees to do unless they are experts 

 at the bee business. Should the 

 bees store the syrup in sections it 

 would not be honey, it would still 

 be sugar syrup. For your own 

 reputation and that of the beekeep- 

 ing fraternity generally ilo not 

 think of practising such a deception 

 as that upon an unsuspecting 

 public] 



BEEKEEPERS' CON- 

 VENTION. 



ANNUAL MEETING AT ANDOVER, OHIO, 

 JAN. 19 OFFICERS CHOSEN. 



The Northeastern Ohio, North- 

 western Pennsylvania and AYestern 

 New York Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion met in Convention in Opera 

 Hall, Andover, Ohio, at 2 o'clock 

 p. M., on the 19th inst., president 



