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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



QUEENS OF QUALITY 



The editor of The Beekeepers' Review and his sons have 1100 colonies of tees worked for extracted 

 honey. With all those bees working with equal advantage, all having the same care and attention, they have 

 an opportunity unexcelled to ascertain without a reasonable doubt colonies desirable as breeders from a 

 honey-producer's standpoint. Likely, never in the history of beekeeping was there a better opportunity to 

 test out the honey-getting strain of bees than this. Think of it, 1100 colonies with equal show, and a dozen 

 of those colonies storing 250 to 275 pounds of surplus honey this last poor season (with us), while the 

 average of the entire 1100 being not more than 40 pounds per colony. We have sent two of our best 

 breeding queens (their colonies producing 275 pounds surplus each, during the season of 1915) to John 

 M. Davis, and two to Ben C. Davis, both of Spring Hill, Tenn., and they will breed queens for the Review 

 during the season of 1916 from those four superior honey-gathering breeding queens. Those young queens 

 will be mated with their thoroughbred drones. Our stock is of the three-banded strain of Italians ; also that 

 of John M. Davis ; while Ben C. Davis breeds that disease-resisting strain of goldens that is becoming so 

 popular. 



By this time you are likely thinking that your strain of bees may be improved some by the addition of 

 this superior strain of Review queens, and how you can secure one or more of those superior honey-gather- 

 ing queens as a breeder. We will tell you. They will be sold to none except Review subscribers. If you 

 are a paid-in-advance subscriber to the Review for 1916, we will mail you one of the daughters of those 

 famous queens in June for a dollar. If not a subscriber to the Revietv for 1916, send $1.75 for a year's 

 subscription to the Review, and one of those famous queens. Those queens are well worth two dollars each 

 compared to the price usually charged for ordinary queens, but we are not trying to make money out of this 

 proposition, only we are anxious to have every subscriber of Gleanings a subscriber to the Review, and 

 we are taking this way to accomplish the object. A few of the very first orders for queens that we receive 

 can be mailed in May, but the majority will not be mailed until June. Orders filled in rotation. Have your 

 order booked early and avoid disappointment. Address with remittance 



THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW, Northstar, Michigan. 



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ON THE BOOKSHELF 



The Rockefeller Foundation 



We have just received the Annual Report 

 of this society for 1914. It has 214 pages, 

 and is probably the most remarkable report 

 of the kind ever issued, especially as the 

 association is the carrying-out of the plans 

 of one man, and that, too, on a scale so 

 stupendous that perhaps no government on 

 earth would dare attempt it. 



In all the large continents of the globe 

 are to be found vast areas where the in- 

 habitants are nearly all afflicted with some 

 endemic malady, which, although not im- 

 mediately fatal, still renders the subject of 

 attack a pitiable wreck, transmitting the 

 trouble to others. One of the most notable 

 cases of this kind is known as the hook- 

 worm disease of the South. It is an intes- 

 tinal trouble caused by the presence of the 

 hookworm, which causes an enormous swell- 

 ing of the abdomen, and general prostra- 

 tion. It is caused by the lack of proper 

 sewerage, and going barefoot in the infect- 

 ed soil. The report says: 



" The Commission has found more than 

 two million people in the Southern States 

 to be infected with the disease, involving 

 vast suffering, partial arrest of physical, 

 mental, and normal gi'owth, great loss of 

 life, and noticeable decrease in economic 

 efiSciency over vast regions." 



The report adds that over half a million 

 persons have been treated, and that a diag- 

 nosis of the disease can be made with ease 

 and certainty, and that it can be readily 

 cured and easily prevented. 



The association in question, for the sup- 

 port of which Mr. John D. Rockefeller has 

 alone contributed the enormous sum of one 

 hundred million dollars, now proposes to 

 grapple these various diseases in all quar- 

 ters of the globe in the same way our gov- 

 ernment took hold of the yellow fever in 

 Cuba and a multitude of epidemic diseasa^ 

 in the Canal Zone, and virtually wiped out 

 the last vestige of them. 



The results accomplished almost stagger 

 belief; and as these evils ai"e the immediate 

 result of appalling filth, it is likely that, 

 with an increasing degree of intelligence 

 in those benighted districts, especially in 

 Egypt and India, and a dying-out of relig- 

 ious customs which tend so directly to the 

 spread of these loathsome diseases, the dur- 

 ation of human life will soon be doubled in 

 length and trebled in sweetness. 



The Rockefeller Toundation, while work- 

 ing on independent lines (for it is indepen- 

 dent) yet seems to affiliate readily with all 

 governmental efforts along parallel lines. 



We of this country need not repress a 

 patriotic pride in seeing our men of capital 

 and technical skill sending out the X-ray of 

 hope and comfort to the millions of afflicted 

 ones in all climes, and literally trying to 

 " lift up the fallen," against whom the bars 

 of hope have so long been fastened. And 

 with this increase in bodily vigor we may 

 be sure a higher mental and spiritual mode 

 of life will be sought for and found in all 

 nations. 



We see no price attached to the book in 

 question ; but it can probably be had for a 

 nominal sum by sending to The Rockefeller 

 Foundation, 61 Broadway, New York. 



