Published by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



H. H. Root, Assistant Editor E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boydkn, Advertising JMunaecr 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manager" ' 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, Oliio, as second-olass matter 



VOL. XLII. 



JUNE 15, 1914 



NO. 12 



EDITOEIAL: 



The year 1914 will reach the high-water 

 mark in the demand for bee-supplies. So 

 far as we know, all the bee-supply manu- 

 facturers in the country have had a bigger 

 (leiuand for goods than in all their history. 

 This looks as if the bee business were look- 

 ing up. The great season of 1913, with a 

 promise of another good one, has boomed 

 I he supply business away beyond normal. 



UniMSnial Field=Dj 



The beekeepers of Iowa are to have an 

 unusual opportunity to become acquainted 

 with Frank Coverdale, of Delmar, Iowa, 

 who has a national reputation as an author- 

 ity on the growing of sweet clover. In the 

 brief mention of this meeting in Gleanings 

 under Convention Notices the date is given 

 as July 7. 



Beekeepers and farmers in general are 

 going to know very ranch more about sweet 

 clover ten years hence than they know now. 

 Mr. Coverdale is one of the pioneers in find- 

 ing new values of this old plant. 



A Greater Demand for Power^clriveii 



The large honey-jDroducers of the coun- 

 try are beginning to see that they cannot 

 afford to take their honey with hand-driven 

 extractors. One by one, the large produc- 

 ers are adopting the big outfits. They not 

 only extract honey more cheaply, but, what 

 is of considerable importance, they extract 

 the combs cleaner. And here is still one 

 more fact : The bigger the extractor, the less 

 out of balance the reel will be on account of 

 uneven weight of combs. 



While the first cost of the machines is 

 considerably more, they are not more expen- 

 sive than a lot of little ones scattered around 

 at all the outyards. In this day and age of 

 the world it pays to draw the combs to one 



ceiitial extracting-piant, and cart them bcu-k 

 again. Tor this purpose a small motor truck 

 is far more satisfactory than a heavy ma- 

 chine. 



Slightly Exaggerated Again 

 We observe that Mr. H. G. Quirin, the 

 queen-breeder at Bellevue, Ohio, according 

 to the newspapers, will send out about six 

 million queens this coming season from his 

 place. Our subscriber who directed our at- 

 tention to this suggests that our project at 

 Apalachicola is a dismal failure in compar- 

 ison. 



We only mention this as another sample 

 of newspaper exaggeration. The probabil- 

 ities are that Mr. Quirin told the corres- 

 pondent that he would probably raise some- 

 where around six thousand queens, and this 

 might be possible. If Mr. Quirin should 

 raise six million queens in a year, and he 

 does his work all alone, he would be some 

 hustler. In fact, there wouldn't be any 

 chance for the rest of us to rear queens. 



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Never before in all the history of beedom 

 was there such a demand for early queens. 

 The bee-martin seriously handicapped the 

 queen-rearing operations in Florida that 

 were to supply us with early queens. We 

 wired queen-breeders all over the country 

 for queens; but every one of them was 

 swamped with orders of his own. In the 

 mean time complaints began to come in 

 from dissatisfied customers who sent their 

 money to some of these queen-breeders, and 

 who had received nothing in return other 

 than an acknowledgment of the receipt of 

 the orders. There was a big demand for 

 early queens last spring, but nothing as 

 compared with this year. 



Mr. A. B. Marehant, who was to supply 

 us with queens, was unable to get them to 

 us as fast as required. The main reason 

 for this was the bee-martin that would nip 



