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Published by The A. J. Root Co., Medina, Oliio. 



H. IT. Root, Assistant Editor. E. R. Root, Editor. A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager. 



A. I. KooT, Editoi- Home Department. J. T. Calvert, Business Mgr. 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, O., as Second-class matter. 



VOL. XLII. 



MAY 15, 1914 



NO. 9 



EDITOKIAL 



The American Bee Journal thinks Dr. 

 Miller is a half century younger than he 

 says he is, viz., 38 instead of 83. If any 

 man is young in spite of his years, Dr. 

 Miller is that man. 



We stop the press to-day, May 13, to an- 

 nounce the successful arri\-al of the first 

 ( arload of 300 colonies of bees from Apa- 

 lachicola, having been en route (thanks to 

 the railroad companies) only five days. Ev- 

 ery colony, thanks also to our good friend 

 M. J. Deyell, who came with the bees, is, so 

 far as investigated, in good order. Further 

 particulars in our next issue. 



The Natiomal Ne1t=Weig]hilt Law 

 The reader's attention is directed to the 

 article on national and State laws regarding 

 fhe net weight on honey, on page 385 of this 

 issue. Every one who has honey for sale 

 (and that, of course, means most beekeep- 

 ers) should read this very carefully. 



We are pleased to announce to our read- 

 ers that we have engaged one of the best 

 cartoonists in the United States — Donahey, 

 of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — to make a 

 set of pictures for Gleanings. Mr. Dona- 

 hey is a back-lot beekeeper*. He has kept 

 bees long enough to acquire a good working 

 knowledge of the business, especially back- 

 lot beekeeping. We have already received 

 a series of his cartoons; and to say they are 

 rich is putting it mildly. They will begin 

 in our next issue. 



It requires somewhat of a stretch of the 

 imagination to think of flowers and bees in 

 Alaska; but the flowers and bees are tliere 

 nevertheless. We give herewitli a clipping 

 from the Neiv York World of October 20, 

 sent us by IMr. A. T. Cook. 



Fairbanks, Alaska, Oct. 18. — Two hives loaded 

 with bees have arrived here, the first ever shipped to 

 the interior of Alaska. They are for Mrs. Ed Wiek- 

 ersham and Mrs. M. M. Truxtun, who will experi- 



ment in bee culture. The fields and gardens in the 

 Tanana Valley abound in flowers from the middle of 

 May until the early part of September, and it is be- 

 lieved bee culture will be a success here. 



Two different copies of Gleanings have 

 been going to Alaska regularly, and it is to 

 be hoped that the nucleus started by the 

 two colonies mentioned in the clipping 

 above may be increased as time goes on. 

 Who can give us further particulars in re-, 

 gard to possibilities in Alaska? 



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In our April 15th issue, p. 282, editorial 

 department, we stated that the bees had 

 wintered quite Avell all over the country 

 except in the vicinity around Philadelphia. 

 Mr. F. Hahman, of that city, Secretary of 

 the Philadelpliia Beekeepers' Association, 

 says that the bees never wintered better, 

 and wondered Avhere we secured our infor- 

 mation. We saw a couple of letters from 

 parties in the vicinity of Philadelphia early 

 in the season, stating that they were fearful 

 there would be a severe loss in and about 

 tlie city, owing to the cold weather, and it 

 looked like it at the time. 



'Mlg Ml 



Brasilianische Bienenpplege, publish- 

 ed in the German language at Porto Alegre, 

 Brazil, publishes an account of our experi- 

 ment with shipping bees to Florida, in its 

 February number, and has the following to 

 say : 



It is quite a distance from Medina to Florida, but 

 thus far the experiment seems to have been success- 

 ful, and it seems to us that our German beekeepers 

 might well consider this matter of migratory bee- 

 keeping, which could be practiced to a considerable 

 extent in this country as well. 



It may interest some of our readers to 

 know that, Avhile the Portuguese language is 

 the official lang-uage of Brazil, the German 

 language is spoken almost exclusively in the 

 southern part of that countiy, where there 

 are extensive German settlements, and, inci- 

 dentally, a large number of German bee- 

 keepers. 



