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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



August 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



=a Eitibllihed by Samutl Wagner In 18S1 (P- 



The oldest Bee Journal in the English language. 

 Published Monthly at Hamilton, Illinois. 



Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Illinois. 



Subscription Rates — In the United States and 

 Mexico, $1.50 per year; five years. $6. 

 Canadian postage 15 cents, and other foreign 

 countries 25 cents extra, per year. 



All subscriptions are stopped at expiration. Date 

 of expiration is printed on wrapper label, 



THE STAFF 



C. P. Dadant Editor 



Frank C. Pellett Associate Editor 



Maurice G. Dadant Business Manager 



(Copyright 1921 by C. P. Dadant.) 



THE EDITORS' VIEWPOINTS 



Cost Accounting 



We call the attention of our read- 

 ers to the article by Mr. Elmer T. 

 Beach in this Journal on "Cost Ac- 

 counting in Beekeeping." 



Mr. Beach has had many years' ex- 

 perience in accounting and is now 

 quite a successful beekeeper. He 

 gives an outline of just what should 

 be considered in getting at the actual 

 cost of producing honey. 



This subject has been much too 

 long neglected by the beekeepers, who 

 are just now realizing that in many 

 instances honey is being produced at 

 a loss and that they had best discon- 

 tinue their beekeeping and go into 

 some more remunerative line unless 

 they can reduce cost or in some other 

 way offset the high production cost. 



We will be glad to have sugges- 

 tions from our readers for further ar- 

 ticles along this line, as we feel sure 

 Mr. Beach is competent to handle 

 this subject, both from the beekeep- 

 ing standpoint and from that of the 

 expert accountant. 



Requeening 



In our Question and Answer De- 

 partment, the query is made of Dr. 

 Miller's method of requeening. We 

 believe that his ideas upon this sub- 

 ject are summed up in his answer to 

 this question in the "Thousand An- 

 swers to Beekeeping Questions," page 

 201: "No need to requeen if the 

 queens are good." 



The C. C. Miller Fund 



The Memorial Fund inaugurated in 

 honor of our departed friend and 

 educator has not turned out as large 

 as anticipated. We give in another 

 column the list of subscriptions. To 

 this will be added that secured by 

 Gleanings, which will be published in 

 that magazine. There is also a list 

 being circulated in England by the 

 Bee World. At last accounts this 

 amounted to something over 16 

 pounds. Another list is made up in 

 South Africa. Dr. Miller was an in- 

 ternational authority, even in for- 

 eign language countries, but he was 

 best appreciated in English-speaking 

 regions. 



A number of subscriptions will be 

 supplied by the larger beekeepers, 

 when the list is closed. The majority 

 of the committee in charge are of 

 the opinion that much more may be 



and should be secured. So the list will 

 be kept before the public until 

 enough is secured to make a respect- 

 able showing. We ask our readers 

 to i-efer to the letter received from 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Washington, 

 published on page 323 of this issue. 

 We agree fully with him. Dr. Miller 

 was too big a man for the beekeepers 

 of America to be satisfied with the 

 modest sum obtained thus far. 



Hot Weather Ventilation 



The careful beekeeper has looked 

 after the ventilation needs of his colo- 

 nies during the hot weather. When it 

 begins to cool off it is just as neces- 

 sary for him to see that the colonies 

 do not have too much of it. "Stag- 

 gering" the supers, which may have 

 proven beneficial, will soon be obnox- 

 ious, and the bees will show their 

 opinion of it by trying to close the 

 extra openings with pi'opolis. Do not 

 wait till the weather becomes very 

 cool to reduce the amount of upper 

 ventilation, or close it up altogether. 

 A large amount of bottom-board ven- 

 tilation may be left till very late in 

 the season if the colonies are power- 

 ful. But upper ventilation is to be 

 done away with long before fiost. 



An Italian Edition 



A new edition of the extensive 

 work of De Rauschenfels, "L'Ape" 

 (The Bee), published in Milan, Italy, 

 by U. Hoepli, is on our desk. This 

 work, revised by Vincenzo Asprea, 

 the well-known associate editor of 

 L'Apicoltura Italiana, is a large book 

 of 408 pages, of the same size as 

 Root's ABC, and contains most of 

 the modern methods. It gives 17 

 portraits of leading beekeepers 

 throughout the world. A former 

 edition was published in 1901, with 

 the well-known microscopic studies of 

 Count Barbo. The latter are now 

 entirely out of print. 



Still Another 



Sweet Clover Bulletin 



"Sweet Clover in Arizona," is the 

 title of an 8-page bulletin gotten out 

 by the College of Agriculture of Ari- 

 zona and written by S. P. Clark, As- 

 sistant Agrronomist. 



Mr. Clark describes the four varie- 

 ties of sweet clover and gives the 

 soils required, the growing and hand- 



ling and the place of sweet clover in 

 soil rotation. 



The principal value of sweet clo- 

 ver to Arizona agriculture is its 

 adaptability to such a wide range of 

 soils. It will grow on soils too alka- 

 line for alfalfa, and is also adapted 

 to many other soils which may be 

 fitted in this manner for later plant- 

 ing of alfalfa. 



Mr. Clark advises the planting of 

 sweet clover seed in October or No- 

 vember, especially when the unscari- 

 fied seed is used. 



Anyone interested in the booklet 

 should write to the University of Ari- 

 zona at Tucson for Circular No. 34. 



DR. MILLER MEMORIAL FUND 



\V. A. Davis 



F. Jager 



J. Aukland 



G. A. Conaway 

 M. J. Niblack... 



J. A. Stone 



Gustav Kohnke 

 C. C. Wharton 



H. Lyon 



W. B. Yates.... 

 L. C. Hartman 

 C. D. Blaker.... 



C. M. Elfer 



Dr. F. S. Nash 



Lee Elliott 



Teddy Ryberg.. 



E. M. Barteau 



J W. Stine 



J. E. Keys 



R. E. Sanders 

 A. Jones 



F. D. Todd 



T. J. Robinson 

 Wni. Sontag.... 

 J. F. Johnson 

 J, J. Hamniel.. 



N. Paddock 



E. A. Doney.... 



A. M. Wheeler 



J. Nemets 



Harry Fisher.... 

 L. W Benson.. 



C. H. Cobb 



M. S. Layton.. 

 S. K. Luther.... 

 C. W. Dayton.. 

 Harry Brown.. 

 Allen Latham.. 

 Fred H, May.. 

 J. W. Bitten- 



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J. N. Powell.... 

 C. H. Howard.. 



E. M. Cole 



P. B. McCabe.. 



Paul Sefzik 



Miss Mulder.... 

 J, E- Ansley.... 



B. F Kindig.... 



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C. F. Crapin.... 



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