OUTUBKR, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



751 



keeper iiels it out of his head (hat tliere is 

 no wiuteiiiiij' ])roblem in tlie South, the 

 l)etter. Even if he does bnn<>' liis bees thru, 

 the weaklings during- the chilly bad weather 

 in early spring in the Soutli will never 

 amount to nnicli. it should be remembered 

 that the South has the problem of spiing- 

 ing as well as of wintering bees; and by no 

 means the least is the springing. 



RFiCEXT EAINS have given white clover 

 — in fact, all the clovers — a wonderful stai't 

 foi'ward. On a re- 

 C LOVER cent automobdle 



PEOSPECTS trip to the Ohio 

 FOR COM- field meet which 

 IXG YEAR was held at Wil- 

 mington, Ohio, we 

 observed that white clover was very prom- 

 ising and abundant thruout the state. Re- 

 cent reports show a like condition thruout 

 the white-clover belt of the United States. 

 Some beekeepers go so far as to say that 

 white clover has not been so promising be- 

 fore in twentj^ years. 



The late spring and summer rains gave 

 the young seedling clovers a big start ; and 

 recent fall rains have given this same clover 

 a big boost. The present high price of 

 honey, and the possibility of what the 

 United States Government may do, and 

 what the European governments have al- 

 ready done, in eliminating the use of cane 

 sugar, makes the prospect of the beekeeper 

 exceediingly bright for tthe next twelve 

 months. At the present high prices everv 

 effort should be made to put bees in good 

 wintering condition. A good colony next 

 spring in INIay will be worth two or three 

 half-strength colonies that will little more 

 than pull thru the winter. 



If we get anything like a good season 

 next summer, there is nothing in all the 

 world that will pay a bigger dividend on the 

 farm or ranch than bees. 



THERE ARE TWO or three different foul- 

 brood cures, so-called, that are being sent 

 out broadcast over 

 SO-CALLED 

 FOUL- 

 BROOD 

 CURES 



the country. One 

 of them, at leii-^t. 

 recommends remov- 

 ing t h e infected 

 hive from its stand 

 to another stand, leaving the flying bees to 

 go into hives near their old location. In 

 ten days the hive is moved back to its old 

 stand where the bees go back to the olhei- 

 location into other neighboi'ing hives. Last 

 of all the old combs are melted up. Such 



a procedure would .scatter American foul 

 brood most effectually in the liives where 

 these bees go; \n fact, there is no method 

 that will scatter American foul brood more 

 thoroly and more rapidly except the spread- 

 ing of diseased honey thruout the yard. 



Beekeepers would do well to follow only 

 the methods recoimnended by tlie Bureau of 

 Entomology, Washington, or those methods 

 authorized by the regular foul-brood in- 

 si:)eclors of the various states having foul- 

 brood laws. So far as we know, the 

 methods of cure found in any of the stand- 

 ard text-books are reliable and effectual. 

 Look out for the new cures, the authors of 

 wliich may be honest enough to think they 

 have something new and effective, but 

 which, nevertheless, are dangerous. 



TWO BULLETINS of unusual interest 

 have lately been issued by the Canadian 



Department o f 

 TWO A g r i culture — 



CAXADIAX the fii'st, Ses- 

 BULLETIXS sional Paper No. 

 16, being a re- 

 port from the Bee Division of the Dominion 

 Experimental arm, and the second. Bulletin 

 No. 26, " Bees and How to Keep Them." 

 Both of these were prepared by F. W. L. 

 Sladen, Dominion Apiarist. 



The fiist paper is an interesting summary 

 of experiments at the various experimental 

 stations. Mr. Sladen in the preparation of 

 this was assisted, of course, by the superin- 

 tendents of the various stations. The re- 

 port eovei"s experiments in wintering, con- 

 trolling swarming, etc. In each instance a 

 brief statement is given of the bee pastur- 

 age, the production of honey, etc. 



Bulletin No. 26, "Bees and How to Keep 

 Them," replaces Bulletin No. 69, "The 

 Honey Bee," now out in print. The pres- 

 ent bulletin has been brought up to date 

 and is a vei'y complete work, one of the 

 best bulletins, in fact, that has come to our 

 notice. The illustrations de&erve special 

 mention. Plate 1 contains an excellent 

 photographic reproduction of the worker, 

 queen, and drone, as well as a corner of a 

 brood-comb showing capped worker brood, 

 drone brood, and queen-cells. There are 

 splendid pictures also of se\-¥ral of the 

 important honey-plants including alsike 

 clover, white clover, white sweet clover, 

 fireweed or willow herb, and goldenrcd. 



As stated in the introduction, the pur- 

 pose of the bulletin is three-fold — to point 

 out the advantages of beokeej)ing, to give 

 advice to beginners, and to show how ])rof- 

 its may be increased by the adoption of 



