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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



soeiation, and its secretary and treasurer 

 for many years. 



He was, perhaps, better known as a 

 honey-salesman. About thirty years ago he 

 distinguished himself by selling honey by 

 sample, and later made deliveries. He was 

 peculiarly successful — so much so that later 

 he went to Chicago where he went into a 

 similar business. Later on he took up the 

 study of law, and, after being admitted to 

 the bar, worked at his profession. But he 

 never got entirely away from bees or honey. 



He was one of the best-known beekeepers 

 in northern Illinois. He was a brother of 

 J. F. Moore, of Tiffin, Ohio, a large and 

 successful honey-producer, and formerly 

 president of the Ohio State Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation. The brother, J. F., used to work 

 with Herman F. in selling honey, if we are 

 correct. 



Spencer Apiaries Company 



There have been a number of complaints 

 against this concern, and we have investi- 

 gated them carefully. We believe that 

 these people are entirely honest, and intend 

 to treat their customers fairly, but for the 

 time being they have been financially em- 

 barrassed. During May of last spi-ing their 

 locality was visited by a cold rainy spell 

 lasting some twenty days or more; and as 

 they had some 2000 colonies of bees located 

 in twenty yards in the mountain sections, 

 and the bees being bred up very strong, 

 and ha-\ang consumed all their honey in 

 breeding, they were unable to get around to 

 all their yards and feed the bees, and hence 

 they lost over 300 full colonies of bees and 

 over 500 queen-rearing nuclei in this cold 

 spell. This caused some of their creditors 

 and help that were working for them to be- 

 come scared, and they attached considerable 

 of their property, thus tying up all their 

 affairs. As these attachments covei-ed con- 

 siderable of the money that had been sent 

 them by their customers and deposited in 

 their local bank it put their affairs in very 

 bad shape. They were unable to rear any 

 more queens or return the money for many 

 orders that had been sent them. Their 

 honey crop being very short they were un- 

 able to pay all their help, as the prices that 

 could be obtained for their honey were very 

 low. They are holding their crop for a bet- 

 ter price. We have corresponded with their 

 local bank, and they have confidence in 

 them that they will make good if given 

 time. 



We are placing the advertising of the 

 Spencer Apiaries Co. back into our col- 

 umns, as we believe they are doing every- 



thing in their power to straighten up their 

 affairs, and, so far as we know, they have 

 made adjustments in many cases, and in 

 others they have promised to do so just as 

 soon as possible. 



Heavy Snows in the West; Is there a 

 Bumper Crop in Sight ? 



In his department in the last issue, Wes- 

 ley Foster comments on the abundant snow 

 in the hills of Colorado, assuring plenty of 

 irrigation water thruout the warm weather. 

 The snow gradually melts, and the water 

 finds its way into the streams, Avhich are 

 thus kept from drying up. 



A prominent lumber company of Chicago, 

 in a circular letter, refers to this condition 

 as follows: 



The conditions west of the Cascade Moun- 

 tains, particularly in Washington and Ore- 

 gon, also through Idaho, Wyoming, and Mon- 

 tana, are something unprecedented in the 

 extreme amount of snowfall, practically* 

 stopping all logging operations. The same 

 conditions exist all through Minnesota and 

 Wisconsin. The side-tracks are all complete- 

 ly snowed in. The snowfall has been three 

 to four feet, with exceptionally cold weather, 

 making it almost impossible for the railroads 

 to operate. 



There have been good rains in California. 

 The snowfall in the northwestern states 

 has been exceptionally good, and in the 

 central and eastern states the prospects for 

 clover have never been better. " There's 

 many a slip 'twixt cup and lip," to be sure; 

 but at this writing the year 1916 looks as 

 tho it might be one of the old-fashioned 

 kind — the kind that beekeepers look back 

 on a good many years after when they had 

 that bumper crop. 



A Caution Regarding the Use of Bait, 

 Unfinished, and Fed-back Sections 



Sections partly filled with honey, and 

 bait sections, should never be sent away to 

 the general market, as they are sure to 

 granulate in a short time; and a single 

 granulated comb in a case of good honey 

 knocks off several cents per section on all 

 the other sections in the case. Comb-hon- 

 ey producei's should be exceedingly careful 

 to keep all of these baits and unfinished sec- 

 tions from the previous season out of their 

 best gi'ades of comb honey. Of course dry 

 unfinished combs without honey will not 

 granulate any quicker than those freshly 

 drawn from foundation. 



What shall be done with the baits and 

 unfinished sections"? If you cannot extract 

 the honey, sell them around home, of course. 



