GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



O. H. L. Wernicke, ''Beekeeping as a 

 Prison Industry, and its Reformative Influ- 

 ence. ' ' 



Ira D. Bartlett, ' ' Business Principles and 

 System a Big Asset in the Success of the 

 Apiarist. ' ' 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, ' ' Outdoor Wintering. ' ' 



Morley Pettit, ' ' The Bee Business in Can- 

 ada as seen by a trip through Different 

 Provinces. ' ' 



The winners of the challenge medals were: 

 Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Markham, Ypsilanti, 

 manufacturers' gold medal; E. E. Coveyou, 

 Petoskey, jobbers' silver medal; David Eun- 

 ning, Filion, association bronze medal. Med- 

 als have to be won three times before they 

 become the property of the exhibitor. 



Lansing was chosen as the place for the 

 next meeting. The A. I. Root Co. and M. H. 

 Hunt & Son announced that they would be 

 hosts to the beekeepers at that time, when 

 they would serve a banquet supper. Those 

 present at the banquet at Grand Rapids will 

 remember what a pleasant time was spent, 

 and visions of another good time at the 

 Lansing meeting are already rising and will 

 no doubt materialize at that time. 



F. Eric Millen, Sec. 



East Lansing, Mich. 



All beekeepers knowing Mr. Wood will 

 feel the loss of this grand old man who re- 

 tained his good nature and bright laughing 

 ways almost to the last day of his life. 



Los Angeles, Cal. Geo. L. Emerson. 



Eastern Massachusetts Meeting 



The January meeting of the Eastern Mas- 

 sachusetts Society of Beekeepers was held 

 in Boston on January 8. There were 36 

 members present, and four visitors from 

 Rhode Island. 



Mr. AlleA Latham, of Norwichtown, Ct., 

 was the first speaker on the list. His sub- 

 ject was ' ' Building up Nuclei into Full 

 Colonies." Mr. Frank C. Pellett, of Atlan- 

 tic, Iowa, was given a royal reception when 

 he was announced as the second speaker, and 

 talked to the society on Latham 's subject, 

 after whicli questions were put to both these 

 men, and a very profitable discussion en- 

 sued. 



Boston. Benjamin P. Sands. 



Death of Delos Wood 



The attached clipping was taken from the 

 Los Angeles "Times" of January 7: 



BEE EXPERT DIES. 



Sakta Barbara, Jan. 6. — Delos Wood, pioneer 

 apiarist of this county and Ventura, died here today 

 of heart failure superinduced by a severe cold. 

 Wood is acknowledged as a bee expert of the state. 

 For thirty-two years he had been in the business. 



Mr. Delos Wood was highly respected by 

 the best of the bee fraternity thruout Cali- 

 fornia; has been very active as a member of 

 the different beekeepers' organizations; was 

 a writer of no mean talent on bee topics; 

 one of the main stays of the California State 

 Beekeepers' Association, and a regular cor- 

 respondent of the ' ' Western Honey Bee. ' ' 

 He was an honorary member of the State 

 Association, and president of the Ventura 

 County Beekeepers' Club. 



Michigan Beekeeper Passes 



Mr. William E. Forbes, of Plainwell, 

 Mich., died January 2, 1916, at the age of 

 75. At one time Mr. Forbes had as many as 

 200 colonies, and was one of the most care- 

 ful and methodical beekeepers in his state. 

 He has kept bees for over forty years, and 

 was an expert in bee management. He dis- 

 posed of most of his bees last year to a 

 fellow beekeeper. Mr. Forbes was one of 

 the oldest members of the State Association, 

 and attended a great many of its meetings. 

 The beekeeping fraternity has lost a good 

 craftsman and a true friend. 



A Beekeeper. 



In a Cold Country 



This district is well on toward Hudson 's 

 Bay, and is pretty cold now and then. To- 

 day, Jan. 5, it is about 30 below zero — the 

 coldest day this winter so far. 



I find Italian bees do well here in a nor- 

 mal season. We have a good deal of small 

 timber in this part of the country, and the 

 bluffs in which this timber is contained have 

 an abundance of wild flowers, together with 

 wild strawberries and raspberries. Last 

 summer a three-frame nucleus built up to 

 ten frames full, and yielded me 60 full sec- 

 tions besides. Moreover, I had to rob the 

 brood-chamber of some honey during early 

 August, in order to give them room. Alto- 

 gether I got about 80 lbs. from this colony. 



In 1904- '5 I bought three nuclei for New 

 Liskeard, in Temiskaming. These nuclei 

 filled seven hives that season, and gave me 

 about 100 lbs. of comb honey besides. The 

 climate and conditions there are about the 

 same as here, so you see it is hard to place 

 a limit to the producing area of our friend 

 tlie bee. 



Melfort, Sask., Jan. 5. Geo. Weaver. 



The Loss by Weight when Feeding 



I do not think that Mrs. Allen will find 

 out just what she wants to by your own and 

 Dr. Miller 's answer in the January 1st num- 

 ber. If a colony is short 10 lbs. -of honey 

 she wishes to know how much she will have 

 to feed to make up 10 lbs. of sealed stores. 

 Dr. Miller 's answer of 5/7 of a pound of 

 sugar for every pound of stores short would 

 mean 10 lbs. of syrup in the feeder. 



This thing was discussed in Gleanings 

 some time ago, and the most of the beekeep- 

 ers agreed that there is a loss between 

 feeder and sealed stores — that to make a 

 pound of sealed stores a pound of sugar 

 should be fed, no matter how much water 

 is added. 



Grosvenordale, Ct. Ernest Eyant. 



