GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE EDITORIAL 



MARCH, 1920 



THE PROSPECTS for clover in the Eastern 

 States are the best they have been for 

 years. In many of 



Honey Prospects 



for 1920. 



the clover districts 

 the soil was mat- 

 ted with the white 

 and alsiko clover last fall. Heavy snows 

 during this winter have kept this growth 

 of clover well protected; and as they melt 

 away the soil will be well watered. That 

 nothing but early drouth in the spring will 

 be able to shut off a heavy clover flow is the 

 prediction of most beekeepers for the comb- 

 ing spring. Conditions in California have 

 greatly improved with a heavy rainfall that 

 came on Feb. 8. The orange crop will be 

 about normal, because the orange groves are 

 irrigated. 



The western alfalfa crop will be about 

 normal. There is nothing more stable than 

 alfalfa honey. We can always depend on it 

 year in and year out. Unfortunately, we 

 can not say this of eastern clover nor of 

 California sage; but the prospects for a 

 large yield of clover will more than offset 

 the shortage of sage, whatever that may be. 



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WE ARE REQUESTED to call the atten- 

 tion of the beekeepers of Alabama and sev- 

 eral other Southern 

 Southern States, which do 



Beekeepers, not provide for api- 



Take Notice. ary inspection, to 



the new Wisconsin 

 law which went into effect last July. Un- 

 der this statute beekeepers and transporta- 

 tion companies are prohibited from accept- 

 ing for delivery in Wisconsin any bees, 

 comb, or used beekeeping appliances with- 

 out a permit from the Wisconsin inspector 

 of apiaries, or an inspection certificate from 

 an official inspector of the State of origin 

 attached to each package, crate, or bundle 

 containing the same. 



It appears to be customary for the Ala- 

 bama dealers, at least, to attach affidavits 

 to their pound packages, stating that the 

 honey used in making the candy has been di- 

 luted and boiled. Experience has shown 

 that the ordinary boiling is insufficient to 

 sterilize honey and that foul brood some- 

 times develops as a result of the introduc- 

 tion of bees in pound packages, unless they 

 come from an apiary free from disease. 



It is now too late, of course, to provide 

 for inspection in a State in which no ar- 

 rangements of that kind have been made. 

 Consequently, it will be necessary for all 

 dealers who are unable to furnish an inspec- 

 tion certificate to secure a permit from the 

 State Entomologist of Wisconsin for this 

 purpose. A copy of this permit may then 

 be attached to each pound package, and a 



list of all the customers of the permittee 

 filed with the State Entomologist. It is 

 understood that where bee diseases are ap- 

 parently introduced in pound packages, per- 

 mits will probably be refused in future 

 years to the apiaries from which the bees 

 were received. All shipments should also be 

 accompanied by the affidavit form now used. 

 Applications for the needed permits are to 

 be made to S. B. Fracker, Acting State En- 

 tomologist, Madison, Wis. 



IN OUR ISSUE for July, 1919, we stated 

 that there was going to be a great shortage 



of sugar, and urg- 

 Sugar for Next ed beekeepers, ere 

 Fall's Feeding. it was too late, to 



lay in a supply for 

 fall feeding to prevent starvation. This 

 statement was made after talking with one 

 of the leading officials of the so-called Sugar 

 Trust on the Pacific Coast, who said that 

 there would be a million-ton shortage, and 

 there was. We also added in our issue for 

 November, page 705, that, while the short- 

 age was very acute, plenty of beet sugar 

 would be available in the early months of 

 the year, and that was true likewise. Again 

 we have the "hunch" that there will be an- 

 other shortage next year. It seems a little 

 early to order sugar now, especially when 

 it is so hard to get; but the beekeepers had 

 better be watching their chances, and some 

 time during this spring and summer lay in 

 a supply — especially those who live in a lo- 

 cality where there is no fall flow, and who, 

 year in and year out, have to feed in order 

 to insure safe wintering and springing. A 

 word to the wise will be sufficient. 



IN THE FEBRUARY NUMBER of Glean- 

 ings we said: "In the next issue of this 

 journal we shall an- 

 Our nounce an adver- 



Advertising tising guarantee 



Guarantee. against deliberate 



swindlers, such as 

 the 'Pelican Apiary,' and state the terms 

 of such guarantee." 



Here is our guarantee and its terms: 



We believe tliat all the advertisers in this journal 

 are trustworthy. We will make good to paid sub- 

 scribers the loss of any money sent to any deliberate 

 .swindler or irresponsible advertiser by reason of 

 any misleading advertisement that may get into our 

 columns. We protect our subscribers against 

 swindlers but will not be responsible for the debts 

 of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. No- 

 tice of any complaint against an advertiser must be 

 sent to us within one month of the time of the 

 transaction. In writing to our advertisers, men- 

 tion seeing their advertisement in Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture, in order that you may secure the benefit 



