GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



wish to mention again the list of special 

 numbers for 1914. Jairuary 1 (last issue), 

 bees and poultry; February 1, bees and 

 fruit; March 1, beekeeping in cities; April 

 1, breeding; June 1, moving bees; Augiist 

 1, crop and market reports; September 1, 

 wintering. 



THE NEXT NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BE HELD 

 AT ST. LOUISj FEB. 17 — 19. 



Our readers will notice elsewhere that the 

 next convention of the National Beekeepers' 

 Association will be held at St. Louis on Feb. 

 17, 18, and 19. St. Louis has the reputation 

 of being the most centrally located large 

 city in the United States. As it is conve- 

 nient from the east and west and from the 

 north and south, there ought to be a large 

 attendance. Mr. R. A. Holekamp, of the 

 Holekamp Lumber Co., St. Louis, has been 

 asked to arrange for a hall in which to meet. 

 He writes us that he would appreciate it if 

 those who expect to attend would send him 

 a postal card so that he may arrange for 

 proper hotel accommodations at reduced 

 rates. Mr. Holekamp is an enthusiastic 

 beekeeper and a live wire at conventions. 

 The members of the National, and all others 

 who expect to attend this convention, will 

 do well to get in toueli with him immediate- 

 ly. Unfortunately for us the date of this 

 meeting comes when E. R. R. will be in 

 Florida; and this necessarily means that 

 his assistant, H. H. Root, will be doing 

 double duty at Medina. We shall try to 

 liave a representative present, and probably 

 aiTange for a demonstration of a power- 

 driven extractor with a complete modern 

 extracting equipment, just such as is now 

 used by large producers. This will be given 

 in a separate room or building, apart from 

 the regular convention hall. 



We understand that the management is 

 laying plans to make this a big meeting, and 

 a great social meet as well. 



MOVING BEES TO THE SOUTHLAND FOR IN- 

 CREASE ; LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. 



Apparently our experiment of shipping 

 a carload of bees to Florida to make an in- 

 crease of 100 or 200 per cent is attracting 

 a good deal of attention if we may judge 

 from the correspondence that has been com- 

 ing in. We desire to say to one and all, do 

 not think of moving a carload of bees south 

 till you have spent a month or so in or near 

 the point where you propose locating. There 

 are three tilings you should know. (1) It is 

 very important to find a spot that will not 

 overlap on some one else. (2) Make sure 

 that the point is one that will support bees. 

 (3) Learn the locality before moving. 



The only way one can make it practicable 



to take a carload of bees south is to arrange 

 with some beekeeper already in the vicinity 

 to find you a location that will be advanta- 

 geous to you and not interfere with the 

 other fellow. A better plan is to go a month 

 ahead and look the situation over. There 

 is plenty of unoccupied territoi-y in the 

 South, providing one will take the pains to 

 find where it is. No beekeeper in the North 

 or elsewhei'e can afford to go into a locality 

 already overstocked. He will be interfering 

 with his own interests, and at the same time 

 cut down the yield of the local residents, and 

 at the same time incur their ill will. This 

 country is so large that there is room enough 

 for all; but there is not room enough for a 

 man to put his bees in a location close to 

 another. 



It sometimes haiDpens that one can buy 

 out the location of another beekeeper. This 

 is precisely what we did wdth Mr. A. B. 

 Marchant. He had a location apart from 

 every one else which he was willing to sell. 

 This was secured, and that is where our bees 

 are noAV placed. 



An experienced beekeeper from the North 

 would be working to a gi'eat disadvantage 

 if he does not know the bee flora of the new 

 bee country. This is the reason he should 

 spend some time in the proposed location 

 in advance and before he moves the bees. 

 Beekeeping in tlie South is not the same as 

 beekeeping in the North. Any one who at- 

 temi^ts to move a car of bees South without 

 the proper knowledge of the new conditions 

 will fully comprehend when it is too late 

 that " Experience is a good school, but the 

 tuition is high." 



'J HE NEW METHOD OF INTRODUCING W^ITH 



SMOKE; REQUEENING WITHOUT 



DEQUEENING. 



We call attention to the suggestive article 

 l)y Mr. A. C. Miller, p. 50 of this issue, en- 

 titled "The Economics of Requeening." Our 

 correspondent figures that the direct loss of 

 fjueens introduced by the cage plan is about 

 40 per cent. This may be true, perhaps, 

 when we consider queens sent through the 

 mails and introduced by jjersons of little or 

 I'o experience; but our loss does not exceed 

 10 per cent, and is usually less. The loss by 

 tlie average beekeeper is greater, perhaps, 

 because he is over-solicitous in that he keeps 

 opening the hive and peeping into it to see 

 how the new queen is coming on. If he paid 

 three or four dollars for hei% and he is a 

 beginner with only two colonies, he will open 

 the hive every few hours, and perhaps he 

 will try to hasten the operation. Such a 

 ]n-ocedure only makes the matter worse. 

 Our best results from inti'odueing by the 

 cage plan have invariably been secured by 



