GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manager 



H. H. Root, Managing Editor E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, Ohio, as second-class matter. 



VOL. XLIV. 



MAY 15, 1916 



NO. 10 



EDITORIAL 



Ovir Cover PicUire 



Our cover this issue, also the picture p. 

 396 show Mrs. Susan E. Howard, a Massa- 

 chusetts woman who has demonstrated that 

 a woman can make beekeeping pay. Be- 

 sides writing for Gleanings, she contrib- 

 utes to some of the popular magazines. 



Thru a misunderstanding, we omitted to 

 credit the picture of J. W. Schlenker and 

 his auto, that appeared on our cover last 

 issue, to Productive Beekeeping, by Frank 

 C. Pellet. When we received the picture 

 we overlooked the fact that it had already 

 been used by Mr. Pellet. This breach of 

 editorial etiquette was, of course, uninten- 

 tional, and our apologies are due Mr. Pellet 

 and the publishers, J. B. Lippineott Co. 



A Correction 



Thru an ei'ror we inadvertently made J. 

 L. Byer say in his department in the May 

 1st issue, that, during the first twenty- four 

 days of March, the temperature in his 

 locality was fourteen degrees below zero. 

 What he really did say was that during the 

 first twenty-four days of the month there 

 were fourteen days when the temperature 

 was below zero. The mistake is our own, 

 and Mr. Byer is in no way to blame for the 

 exaggeration. 



Honey-crop Prospects ; the Need of 

 Preparedness 



There has been a heavy flow of honey in 

 Texas, but the season has been a "little off" 

 for sage in California. Prospects in Colo- 

 rado and other alfalfa districts are good. 

 Clover prospects in this locality, and in 

 most places from which we have had re- 

 ports, were never better. The indications 

 are the best we have had for years for a 

 favorable season thruout the United States 



with the exception as noted. But we have 

 had tliese "good indications" before. While 

 ^'there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip," 

 it behooves every beekeeper to be prepared. 

 There never was a time in all our history 

 when preparedness seemed to be more im- 

 portant than right now in the beekeeping 

 world. Many a crop has been lost because 

 the beekeeper was not ready. 



Bees Profitable in Canada 



In an interesting article entitled, " One 

 Man Who Found His Answer in the Soil," 

 which has been running in the February 

 and March numbers of the Countryside 

 Magazine, Mr. Justus Miller tells of the 

 experiences of Mr. F. W. Krouse, of 

 Guelph, Ontario, in getting a start in bee- 

 keeping. Says Mr. Krouse, " It was with 

 bees that I had the time of my life ! With 

 them I have finally been most successful." 

 The net receipts from Mr. Krouse's farm 

 for last season were as follows: 



Honey $3530 . 00 



Poultry 100 . 00 



Asparagus 500 . 00 



Cherries 200 . 00 



Berries and Currants 75 . 00 



Potatoes 500 . 00 



Total $4905.00 



The bees, as this table shows, produced 

 /2 per cent of the entire earnings of the 

 farm. 



Yellow Annual Sweet Clover 



All the sweet-clovers are honey-plants. 

 Two of them, white biennial and yellow 

 biennial, are common in the greater part 

 of the country ; but the small yellow annual 

 variety, Melilotus indica, is seldom consid- 

 ered of much value except in southern Cal- 

 ifornia where it is grown in orchards as a 



