lo Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Each Regular Number of 

 More than Usual Merit and 

 Six Special Issues of 



Particular Excellence 



This is the Program for 

 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Through the Coming Tear 



"D EE-KEEPERS who are keeping down to date, and posted on the world's 

 progress in matters apicultural, appreciate with what painstaking 

 care each issue of Gleanings in Bee Culture is edited. It has always 

 been our pleasure to be just a little bit more careful than we thought neces- 

 sar}'; to investigate just a little deeper than our readers might require; to 

 assume an optimistic attitude, and to search everywhere for advanced methods 

 in bee-keeping. 



This policy has brought rich reward. The covers and the advertisements- 

 Loyal readers of Gleanings in Bee these are other features which largely 

 Culture are numbered in all parts of contribute to the worth of a " well- 

 the world, and our lists show that the rounded " substantial bee-journal — 

 Gleanings family is fast approaching just such a magazine as we ourselves 

 the 50,000 mark. feel we should like to read. 



The reponsibility which rests upon 



us spurs us on to greater efforts.. It is Since its foundation some 40 years 



no easy task, this work of publishing ago. Gleanings in Bee Culture has 



24 numbers of a truly interesting and steadily advanced. Thus our friends 



instructive bee-paper each year. Of the may accept with confidence our assur- 



hundreds of contributions which come ance that we are going to try to make 



in we must choose only the best, and greater progress through the coming 



carefully avoid duplication or the pub- year than ever before, 

 lication of uninteresting or theoretical 



articles of no practical value, that We have been planning ahead for 



would tire our readers. And the selec- several months. We know that we 



tion of pictures is a task in itself. In have never had more interesting arti- 



addition to the many excellent photo- cles nor a larger number of beautiful 



graphs voluntarily submitted by our and instructive photographs on hand; 



friends, our own cameras are at all times and to utilize these in a most attractive 



busy — snapping such scenes as we way we have planned a series of six 



think will depict the operations which special issues of Gleanings in Bee 



words will not entirely describe. CuLTURE'for 1912, 



