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Entered at the PostoflBce. Medina. Ohio, as Second-class Matter 



VOL. XXXIX 



APRIL 1, 1911 



NO. 



Editorial 



GENERAL DROUTH IN FLORIDA. 



A GENERAL drouth prevails over the 

 State; and what the effect of the honey 

 crop will be remains to be seen. In Ohio, 

 before we came here, every one was com- 

 plaining of too much wet — rain, rain, snow, 

 and sleet. If nature could equalize things 

 a little we would all be Lappier. 



The Stale Entomologist of Ohio, Prof. 

 N. E. Shaw, during the first year of bee- 

 inspection work under the new law, found 

 conditions so bad that it has been deemed 

 advisable to ask the legislature for an ap- 

 propriation for the year 1911, to the extent 

 of $2000. Bee-keepers are urged to write a 

 personal letter to their Senators and Repre- 

 sentatives, asking for their support. This 

 amount of money wisely expended will be 

 an actual saving to the State in the long 

 run. 



queen-breeder's home destroyed. 



We are sorry to announce that the home 

 of F. M. Morgan, Hamburg, La., was total- 

 ly destroyed by fire with all its eflfects, Mr. 

 Morgan being left with nothing except the 

 clothes that he wore. In the house at the 

 time it burned were a number of letters 

 with inquiries in regard to queens, etc., that 

 were unanswered, and Mr. 5lorgan asks all 

 those who wrote him during the mouth of 

 March up to March 12 to write him again, 

 as he lost all records by the fire. 



The firm of Morgan «& Marshall will en- 

 deavor to continue tilling queen orders just 

 the same. 



much rain and bad weather in CAL- 

 IFORNIA. 



Quite a number of reports showed boun- 

 tiful rains in California, but we just have a 

 card from M. H. Mendleson in w^hich he 

 states that there has been so much rain and 

 bad weather that the bees are a month late 

 in breeding, and there is no chance for 

 them to do much. He says that many 

 have lost from one-half to two thirds of 

 their bees from starvation, becatise they did 

 not give them the attention they needed. 



Mr. Mendleson stated that he could not 

 reach his home apiary, on account of a bad 

 river crossing, and that it will likely be a 

 month and a half before he can do any 

 hauling to or from the apiary. 



sweet clover as a producer op milk; 

 two cuttings in one season, and 

 a crop of seed. 

 We clip the following from the Practical 

 Farmer of March 11: 



Last spring we liad a small trial patch of sweet 

 clover, about 80 feet square, planted close to the 

 house. In early spring, before any thing else at- 

 tained any size, it was ready for cutting, and I fed 

 my stripper cow an armful of it every night and 

 morning while milking. This was in addition to 

 her dry feed, I kept cutting sweet clover for her 

 until it went to seed— in all, about 7 weeks. All of 

 our cattle liked it. So did our horses, but not so 

 well. As soon as I stopped feeding the sweet clover 

 the cow dropped back to her former yield of milk, 

 although I gave her other green feed. I found that 

 one could take two cuttings a foot tall or more, 

 either for hay or green feeding, and still give it 

 time to re-seed itself, or even gather seed from it. 

 The last growth of sweet clover could be turned un- 

 der for green manure with profit. 



Yet sweet clover, according to the law in 

 many States, is classed as a noxious weed. 

 Our farm papers are sounding its praise so 

 much now that the day wall soon come 

 when our farmers will join hands with the 

 bee keepers in asking to have the ban of 

 disgrace removed. In the mean time bee- 

 keepers would do well to have such items 

 as this copied in their local papers. 



SHORT COURSE OF STUDY FOR APIARIAN 

 INSTRUCTORS. 



The programs are out for the apiarian 

 short course of study at Ontario Agricultur- 

 al College, Guelph, Canada, May 1 to 6, 

 1911. The course is intended especially for 

 students and ex students who have taken 

 the regular lectures in apiculture, and wish 

 somewhat more advanced work to put them 

 in the way of becoming trained instructors. 

 It is also open to bee-keepers who have 

 gained their elementary knowledge in a 

 more practical way. 



The speakers and lecturers, all of whom 

 are practical men, include Dr. E. F. Phillips, 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and 

 Morley Pettit, provincial apiarist in Onta- 

 rio (a position similar to that of Dr. Phil- 

 lips in the United States) . Mr. Pettit is 

 also the head of the Apicultural Department 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College. Spe- 

 cial attention will be given to the question 

 of diseases of bees — Thursday, May 4, being 

 given up to a foul-brood conference. The 

 full program appears in the last issue on 

 page 34 advertising department. 



Gleanings wishes ttiat every agricultur- 

 al college could undertake work of this kind, 

 as it is greatly needed, and the instruction 

 thus gained is of the very best. 



