GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



OVER FIFTEEN THOUSAND BARRELS OF BEER 

 LESS IN 1915 THAN THEY SOLD IN 1914. 



The Plain Dealer informs us that The 

 Dayton Breweries Co., Dayton, 0., sold 

 15,185 barrels of beer less in 1915 than 

 1914, and I think most of the breweries 

 could make a similar report. Even if Cin- 

 cinnati did keep Ohio wet, God's kingdom 

 is steadilj^ " marching on," even in Ohio. 



MICHIGAN'S SPLENDID RECORD; HAVE KNOCKED OUT 

 ONE SALOON A DAY FOR PAST EIGHT YEARS. 



Michigan drys are well organized for the cam- 

 paign for statewide prohibition to be conducted this 

 year. Hon. R. H. Scott, manager of the Reo Auto- 

 mobile Company, of Lansing, is chairman of the 

 Michigan dry committee. The whole campaign or- 

 ganization is well manned and equal to the work. 

 Summarizing the results of the work done by the 

 Anti-saloon League in Michigan, Mr. Scott says: 



" The results of the work of the Anti-saloon 

 League in this state are 2934 fewer saloons than 

 there were eight years ago. The decrease in sa- 

 loons averages 366 a year, or one for each day for 

 the past eight years. There are 3236 left, and 

 about half of this number are located in Wayne 

 County, in which is the city of Detroit." — American 

 Issue. 



Good for the "Reo" folks! 



SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU OPEN YOUR EYES. 



We clip the following from the Youth's 

 Instructor : 



war's BLOODY TOLL. 



If the European war continues at the present 

 rate of destruction until April, 1916, it is estimat- 

 ed by a distinguished war writer that 19,700,000 

 men will have been killed or permanently disabled. 

 This means that thirty-seven of the chief cities of 

 our country, according to the government's 1912 

 estimate of their population, would have to be de- 

 populated of men, women, and children to furnish 

 a number of persons equal to the war victims of 

 Europe's bloody battlefields. The cities are : New 

 York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, 

 Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo, 

 San Francisco, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, 

 Newark, New Orleans, Washington, Minneapolis. 

 Jersey City, Seattle, Kansas City (Missouri), In- 

 dianapolis, Providence, Portland (Oregon), Roches- 

 ter, Denver, Louisville, St. Paul, Columbus (Ohio), 

 Toledo, Oakland (California), Atlanta, Worcester, 

 Birmingham, Syracuse, Little Rock, and Lincoln 

 (Nebraska). 



QUEENS wanted IN WINTER. 



Mr. Root: — I wrote your agent at Savannah for 

 an Italian queen; but he informs me it is too early 

 for shipment. Could you advise me of any one in 

 your vicinity who has queens for sale now, as I am 

 very anxious for one at once ? 



I have a very populous colony tliat I wish to di- 

 vide. The palmetto and orange are beginning to 

 bloom. I suppose I am your furthest-south " bee- 

 woman " subscriber. My bees are making a great 

 deal of honey, and have made quite a bit since 

 September. 



I am a beginner with bees; but I love to work 

 with them. The Italians here are much gentler 

 than those my father raised in Kansas. I shall in- 

 crease my colonies as fast as possible. 



ROSELLB OR JAMAICA SORREL. 



I read your article about Jamaica sorrel. I have 

 raised it for three years, and am much pleased with 

 it. I have quite a bit of seed if any one desires it. 



Homestead, Fla. Mrs. Clara Killinger. 



So far as I can discover, no one has ever 

 undertaken to furnish queens, either here 

 or in California, before March 15 or April 

 1, and yet my two neighbors Ault and 

 Abbott have both had queens hatched and 

 fertilized every month in the year. I have 

 been expecting every year some one would 

 advertise queens in winter time — of course 

 at a large price. There would, perhaps, be 

 some risk in mailing them very far North; 

 but I feel sure it can be and will be done 

 soon. Of course no one should undertake 

 it without previous large experience in 

 queen-rearing. 



NUCLEI BY EXPRESS FROM YORK STATE TO 

 FLORIDA. 



Our neighbor, E. A. Redout, had four 

 six-frame nuclei sent by express in January 

 from his home in York State down here at 

 a cost of only $3.00; and as he had here 

 hives of empty combs they promise to make 

 good colonies soon. The charge of only 75 

 cts. per nucleus he thinks quite reasonable. 

 They came in perfect condition. 



ANOTHER CHRISTMAS PRESENT. 



In token of my brotherly love and friendship, 

 and in appreciation of your several favors, and in 

 approval of the good work you are doing, and hop- 

 ing your appetite for meat is good, I am sending 

 you by mail a little fresh meat for Christmas. It is 

 a little early, perhaps, but this kind of meat won't 

 spoil. Besides, it is canned, and was canned alive 

 at that, and as it wasn't butchered it is genuine 

 fresh meat, sure enough. You may open the cans 

 any time, and it won't die nor putrify before Christ- 

 mas. And you won't have to disguise it nor pepper 

 it nor salt it and stuff it with sage, nor smother it 

 with onions to make it go down, nor take dyspepsia 

 tablets to hold its breath down ! And, best of aV, 

 it springs forth from the bosom of Nature like the 

 succulent herbs of the garden, the waving grain of 

 the field, and the luscioiis fruit of the vine, supply- 

 ing rich and palatable food for man, free from dis- 

 ease and impurity, and without causing pain or 

 death to any innocent creature. 



" Behold I have given unto you the fruit of a 

 tree; to you it shall be for meai.." 



Monticello, Fla., Dec. 10. Samuel Kidder. 



And now, dear friends, what do you sup- 

 pose came by parcel post, that fulfilled to 

 a dot the above "specifications"? A box 

 of extra-fine large paper-shell " pecans ! " 



I wish to thank the publishers of Gleanings for 

 sending it to me this year, altho I did not send in 

 any money for it. I was unable to dn so, as Rus- 

 sian postoffices do not accept money orders out of 

 tliis country since the beginning of the war. Now 

 the year is again drawing to its close, and I am at 

 a loss how to send the subscription money. If the 

 publishers will continue to send me Gleanings I 

 shall be very thankful, and, of course, will send the 

 money as soon as possible — that is. as soon as the 

 war ends. It would be a great disappointment to 

 me not to get Gleanings, as I am an old subscriber, 

 and have a large apiary. Gleanings is very inter- 

 p^tinjT to mc. as well as u.seful. I hope I shall not 

 Ip deprived of the pleasure of receiving it. 



Aria, Russia, Nov. 18. MiSS M. Oulianine. 



