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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE April, 191? 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



One evidence of the .advancement of apiculture in Tennessee. 



agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy hus- 

 bandry, poultry husbandry, market and 

 rural organization, home economies, home 

 sanitation, and beekeeping. In addition to 

 other courses in agriculture, there is a 

 special course in beekeeping at our State 

 University. In forty-four counties of Ten- 

 nessee there are County Demonstration 

 Agents working under three district agents. 



The physical advantages of this section 

 for apiculture have long been recognized. 

 As Prof. G. M. Benlley, the State Entomol- 

 ogist, says of Tennessee, in one of his bulle- 

 tins, "The varied flora, the abundant rain- 

 fall, the number of growing days, and the 

 mild winters are all important factors 

 pointing toward success to him who will 

 keep strong bees of the right kind in a 

 modern way." And that is the kind of bees 

 the beekeepers of this state are learning to 

 keej^, and the way they are learning to keep 

 them. 



Here in Tennessee, too, we liave, father 

 and son, one of the largest queen-rearing 

 establishments in the world (when quite by 

 ourselves we quietly call it the largest), and 

 in Georgia is one of the largest honey-pro- 

 ducers in the country, with a siring of some 

 fifty or more apiaries. When we thus take 

 stock of our advantages, and our progress 

 to date, we are inspired to give a long pull 

 and a strong pull and a pull all together 

 toward wider enlightenment and further 

 progress. 



These conditions hold also in the adjoin- 

 ing statas. There are tomato clubs, poultry 

 clubs, corn clubs, pig clubs, and now there 

 are bee clubs too, all over this southeast. 

 Notice the j^icture of the parade in Wins- 

 ton-Salem, North Carolina, with the bee 

 club right in line. Forsythe County, North 

 Carolina, b}^ the way, is a sure enough live 

 county; and if by their counties ye shall 

 know them, then is County Farm Demon- 

 strator Bruce Anderson a live demonstrator. 

 These particular combined agricultural 

 clubs have a rousing song, with a stanza for 

 each club, including the bee club, of course, 

 and then they all come in together on a 

 zipping chorus. 



Nashville, Tenn. Grace Allen. 



The Ira D. Bartlett Capping-melter 



Among the many first-class beekeepers in 

 Michigan is Ira D. Bartlett, of East Jordan. 

 During the winter of 1915 I met Mr. Bart- 

 lett at the Grand Rapids convention, and it 

 did not take me \Qiy long to come to the 

 conclusion that he had something of value 

 in connection with a capping-melter. From 

 all the information that I have been able to 

 glean in connection with these machines I 

 have supposed, jierhaps wrongly, that when 

 the honey is uncapped and the cappings 

 dropped into the melter, the honey is not of 

 quite as good flavor as if it had not been 



