CH^am«0s tn S^^ Culture 



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Entered at the Postofflce, Medina, Ohio, as Second-class Matter 



VOL. XXXIX 



DECEMBER 15, 1911 



NO. 24 



C^Dil(o)D°DS][ 



We have on hand at this time a large 

 amount of copy which we hope to use later 

 on. Some manuscript which we accepted 

 over a year ago is just now appearing. This 

 will explain why some matter in hand has 

 not yet appeared. 



The printing-house of Gleanings is now 

 being crowded to its utmost capacity. AVe 

 have just installed a $0600 tyi^esetting ma- 

 chine (a Mergenthaler two-letter linotype) 

 and a new printing-jiress. We shall have to 

 run some of the presses night and day for a 

 few months in order to catch up. 



We would call attention to the beautiful- 

 ly written article on flowers in this issue. 

 Mr. Lovell is not only a scientist, but an en- 

 thusiastic bee-keeper as well. His contribu- 

 tions have appeared in a number of the 

 scientific journals of the country. He has 

 spent much time in the field, and, unlike 

 many scientific men, he draws information 

 and knowledge direct from old Dame Nature 

 herself. 



NEW AliFALFA TERRITORY. 



New alfalfa country is being opened up 

 by irrigation in the West. I'ossibly there 

 are some bee-keepers who would like to 

 change their locality. Instead of going to 

 some place already overstocked, better write 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, and ask for information ^concerning 

 new alfalfa territory being opened up by ir- 

 rigation. 



OUR INDEX FOR 1911. 



The index for this year will be sent out 

 with the first issue of the coming year. It 

 will be very complete, and we respectfully 

 suggest that every reader of this journal 

 carefully preserve it in order that he may 

 be able to refer back to special articles that 

 appeared during the previous year. A sub- 

 scriber who does not bind his journals as he 

 receiv^es them will necessarily lose much of 

 the benefit that he should receive from 

 them. 



HOLDING FANCY COMB HONEY FOR BETTER 

 PRICES. 



One large buyer of both comb and ex- 

 tracted honey has secured a lot of fancy 

 comb honey. As prices on Western honey 



have slumped a little he is holding these 

 goods, being sure there will be an advance. 

 If the honey is a strictly first-class article, 

 or fancy, it may be safe to do this; but it 

 would be bad policy to hold most Western 

 alfalfa, on account of the danger of granula- 

 tion. While, of course, a fancy article will 

 not granulate more than a poorer quality of 

 the same honey, there is still a danger that, 

 by the time the price pf fancy honey ad- 

 vances, enough of that on hand will have 

 candied to cut down the profits consider- 

 ably. 



IS CELLAR WINTERING GRADUALLY GIVING 

 WAY TO OUTDOOR WINTERING? 



There is a slight tendency on the part of 

 bee-keepers who have been cellaring their 

 bees to winter outdoors. The most conspicu- 

 ous example of this is Mr. R. F. Holtermann, 

 who for years has wintered indoors, notwith- 

 standing he was very successful and notwith- 

 standing he has had most up-to-date reposi- 

 tories built on scientific lines. AVe should 

 like to inquire whether other cellar-winter- 

 ing people lean toward the outdoor plan. 

 AA> know that it takes much less skill and 

 time to winter outdoors. The average be- 

 ginner will succeed much better by it. 



A new bee-journal for south AFRICA. 



The first issue of the South African Bee- 

 keepers' Journal, published at Johannes- 

 burg, Natal, South Africa, has just reached 

 us. The editor, Mr. Geo. F. Oettle, realiz- 

 ing the fact that a bee-journal is needed for 

 the special conditions in his part of the 

 world, has undertaken to supply the de- 

 mand. AVe wish the new paper success, and 

 we see no reason why it should not have it, 

 because there is a bright future for bees and 

 bee-keeping in South Africa. It is a com- 

 paratively new country; and it occurred to 

 us that, if some of the bee-keepers of the 

 United States, instead of crowding into lo- 

 calities already overstocked, would find pas- 

 turage new in other parts of the world, it 

 would be very much betrer all around. 



A bulletin on bees by the TEXAS STATE 

 ENTOMOLOGIST. 



AVE have before us Bulletin 142, entitled 

 "Practical Information for Beginners in 

 Bee-keeping," by AAllmon Newell, State 



