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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 



some time the League should not in- 

 sist upon the honey being so labeled, 

 but allow the buying public to become 

 familiar with the League seal before 

 the seal should be placed upon the 

 honey containers. 



However the secretary already has 

 application for seals from a very large 

 number of honey producers who are 

 League members. Mr. Muth sug- 

 gested that we pledge the money for 

 the advertising campaign at once, 

 'ihis met with the approval of those 

 present, and after many spirited 

 bpeechcs and considerable e.vhorting 

 on the part of Mr. F. W. Muth, of 

 Cincinnati, the following amounts 

 were subscribed: 



American Bee Journal $ 300.00 



C. H. Weber, of Cincinnati — 500.00 

 G. B. Lewis Co., Watertown._ 400.00 

 Texas Honey Producers' Ass'n 700.00 

 K. W. Muth Co., Cincinnati— 500.00 



A. L Root Co., Medina 1,000.00 



Wesley Foster, Boulder, Colo. 150.00 

 Hlyria Enameled Prod. Co., 



Chicago 200.00 



Wisconsin Beekeej)ers' Ass'n. 200.00 

 J. J. Wilder, Waycross, Ga. .- 50.00 



Georgia Beekeepers' Ass'n 100.00 



Michigan Beekeepers' Ass'n — 300.00 

 Utah State Beekeepers' Assn. oOO.OO 



Indiana Beekeepers' Ass'n 100.00 



Texas Beekeepers' Ass'n 100.00 



C. H. Wiley, Harrisburg, 111... 50.00 

 The Secretary and the Advertising 

 Committee were instructed to obtain 

 further subscriptions to the adver- 

 tising fund, and it is very probable 

 that between ten and twelve thou- 

 sand dollars will be raised. The Ex- 

 ecutive Committee was instructed to 

 place a contract for advertising 

 which will consist of six one-quarter 

 page ads in "Good Housekeeping," 

 these ads to be backed up by articles 

 on honey in the body of the maga- 

 zine; also articles in farm and coun- 

 ty papers published by three of the 

 newspaper syjidicates. In addition to 

 this a recipe booklet is to be pre- 

 pared for general distribution in 

 answer to advertisement. 



The officers were re-ekcted for 

 1921 and it was announced that the 

 payment of dues made during 1920 

 would be ipplied on the present year. 

 The problem of raising additional 

 funds foe advertising was thor- 

 oughly discussed and Mr.' A. L. Boy- 

 den suggested that we ask for two 

 per cent of the value of last year's 

 honey crop and Mr. H. F. Wilson, of 

 Wi-sconsin, suggested five cents per 

 colony. It was agreed that those so- 

 liciting for advertising ask that the 

 beekeepers ta.\ themselves either one 

 or the other. 



H. B. Parks was selected as Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer of the League for the 

 ensuing year and was required to give 

 a bond in the sum of $10,000. The 

 Committee instructed the Secretary 

 to solicit contributions to the general 

 expense fund of the League and to 

 issue another number of the League 

 Bulletin as soon as practicable. 



The following assoOiations have 

 already voted to become members 

 of the League: 

 Michigan Beekeepers' Association. 



Montana Beekeepers' Association. 



New York Association of Beekeep- 

 ers' Associations. 



Indiana Beekeepers' Association. 



Tennessee Beekeepers' Association. 



Wisconsin Beekeepers-' Association. 



Illinois Beekeepers' Association. 



Kansas Beekeepers' Association. 



Kentucky Beekeepers' Association. 



Iowa Beekeepers' Association. 



Nebraska Beekeepers' Association. 



Chicago Northwestern Beekeepers' 

 Association. 



Texas Honey Producers' Associa- 

 tion. 



Texas Beekeepers' Association. 



California Honey Producers' Asso- 

 ciation. 



Utah Beekeepers' Association. 



Colorado Beekeepers' Association. 



MORE SEEDS FOR TRIAL 



Thruugli the kindness of our cor- 

 respondent in China, Mr. C. G. Gold- 

 ing, we have received another lot of 

 'Seeds which we propose to send to 

 our readers for free trial. The seeds 

 which we offer now are Sesamum. 

 Sesamum is widely grown in Asia for 

 the oil which is secured from the 

 seeds. Sesamum oil is one of the best 

 vegetable oils available for table use. 

 It is said to be free from any unpleas- 

 ant taste and to congeal far less 

 readily than olive oil. It is cultivated 

 as far north as latitude 42 in Japan, 

 and is said to succeed well in the 

 milder regions of Victoria, Australia. 

 It should be adapted to a large por- 

 tion of America. The seeds are said 

 to be very rich in oil, yielding from 

 45 to 50 per cent. Nearly a million 

 acres of sesamum are grown in the 

 Madras Presidency, India, with large 

 areas in China, Japan, Africa, etc. It 

 is also extensively grown in Turkey. 

 It is reported to be a good bee plant. 



We have also received from Daniel 

 E. Robbins, of Payson, 111., a limited 

 amount of the annual sweet clover 

 which has been attracting so much 

 attention of late. We will send sam- 

 ples of this also as long as the sup- 

 ply lasts. 



Persons interested should send 

 stamp to cover postage, and write ad- 

 dress plainly. 



SUPERS IN WINTER 



By M. H. Mendleson 

 I notice that one of your subscrib- 

 ers in a late issue asks about leaving 

 supers on in California. In my loca- 

 tions, where bees are sheltered from 

 the winter and have the whole day 

 sunshine, I leave my supers on with 

 good results; but I leave the hive and 

 supers full of honey for the winter, 

 and they go through in good condi- 

 tion. I have always made a practice 

 of leaving my colonies rich in stores 

 for the winter, and that is one of the 

 main requisites to give good wintering 

 and successful production. So many 

 extract so close at the close of tlic 

 honey season that the bees have no 

 chance to breed up strong with plenty 

 of young bees to winter. Supers on 

 with abundance of honey has always 

 been a great advantage to me. Cali- 

 fornia is the worst for moth, and bees 



can take better care of comb than the 

 apiarist. For extra surplus" combs a 

 good fumigating house is a great con- 

 venience. Use carbon bisulphide. It 

 is the most penetrating of any that I 

 have used. 



I contract my hive entrances from 

 one to about three inches in length, 

 according to strength of colony. I 

 leave the opening in front of the 

 cluster as a protection from robbers, 

 should any weaken in strength. 



California. 



THAT EARLY BLOOMING SWEET 

 CLOVER 



Great interest has been manifested 

 in the new early blooming variety of 

 sweet clover. The American Bee 

 Journal has distributed many hun- 

 dreds of free samples to all parts of 

 America and soine to foreign coun- 

 tries. Blooming as it does, ahead of 

 the ordinary white sweet clover, we 

 believe that it will prove to be a dis- 

 tinct addition to the honey resources 

 of the country. The following arti- 

 cle is copied from the Grundy County, 

 Illinois, "Farm Bureau News": 



"Grundy County sweet clover is a 

 white blossom, biennial clover that 

 grows to a height of three and one- 

 half to four feet and matures an 

 abundance of seed that ripens three 

 weeks ahead of the common white 

 blossom sweet clover. 



Several outstanding advantages 

 credited to this clover by those who 

 have grown it, are: 1st. It grows to 

 a good height for harvesting, but does 

 not require cHpping, thereby elim- 

 inating the hazard of killing. 2nd. It 

 ripens early, ahead of weeds, and is 

 ready to thresh and hull before small 

 grain. 3rd. It is a heavy seed pro- 

 ducer. 4th. It has superior soil build- 

 ing qualities. 5th. It is unusually 

 hardy to withstand dry summers and 

 hard winters. 



This new sweet clover has been 

 present in Grundy County, Illinois, 

 for five years. Not having heard of 

 it elsewhere, we have named it Grun- 

 dy County sweet clover. The first 

 year its varying habits were not no- 

 ticed. The second year, when it blos- 

 somed and seeded, its unusual habits 

 of shorter growth, earlier ripening 

 and heavy seeding were observed but 

 it was thought this might be due to 

 local influences. When succeeding 

 crops came on the variations from the 

 common sweet clover became more 

 evident, and since then a closer ob- 

 servation and more detail d compari- 

 son has followed. 



There is a difference of nearly three 

 feet, on an average, between the com- 

 mon, tall growing sweet clover and 

 the Grundy County sweet clover. The 

 Grundy County sweet clover was ripe 

 for seed harvest July 15 this year, and 

 the common sweet clover August 5, 

 making t> difference of just three 

 weeks. 



This new sweet clover branches 

 thickly about a foot above the ground 

 and is a heavy seed-producing plant, 

 ripening seed quite uniformly. Seed 

 was harvested on eight different 

 farms in the county this year with 



