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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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AT SO]\[K of tlic field iiuTts iluriiig- the ])nst 

 suitmici- sdiiio \i'i-y liiiiKlsmiu' subscriptions 

 li;i\e boon roeoivod 

 The Dr. Miller to swoll tho ^Vfilloi- 

 Memorial Fund, mcnuirial f ii n d. 

 Some organiza- 

 tions liavo soiit in as liigh as $100. Otliers 

 have contributed all the way from .tlM.OO 

 to .$50. 00. Lot the good work go on. Tiio 

 money can 1)0 sent in to any monibor of tlio 

 committee or to either the Anieiican "Re(> 

 Journal or (Jloanings. 



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OUR honey-label department is now print- 

 ing more labels for the two-and-one-half- 

 pound tins and the 

 Big Demand for tive and ten pound 

 Honey Labels. pails than ever be- 

 fore in its history. 

 This is significant and encouraging. It in- 

 dicates that beekeepers are inducing their 

 customers to buy honey in these packages. 

 This should result in a much larger con- 

 sumption of honey than would be possible 

 when sold in smaller packages. The five- 

 pound pail habit is a good one to encourage. 



THERE IS not much new to report beyond 

 what is given in our last issue, page 481, ex- 

 cept that the clo- 

 Market and ver crop within 



Crop Conditions. 200 miles of Me- 

 dina w a s exce]i- 

 tionally good; but it was from fair to poor 

 elsewhere, especially so in Minnesota and 

 Wisconsin, that have hitherto produced 

 so much clover honey. The failure of the 

 southern California crop, the general short- 

 age in some other sections of the country. 

 <iud the advance in the ])rice of sugar give 

 rise to the hope that the bottom ha-s at last 

 been reached, and that the turn for the bet- 

 ter has come. The Government market re- 

 ports for some sections are beginning to 

 show^ stability. This is encouraging 



The economic conditions over tlie country 

 are improving. This fact will have a ten- 

 dency to make a slightly bettor demand for 

 honey; but retail grocers, if they have not 

 already done so, should be willing to sell at 

 the new or reduced prices rather than 

 hold for those that prevailed during the war. 

 The failure of some of these to take their 

 losses is one reason why their honey does 

 not move. 



The advice in our last issue, to sell locally 

 as rouch honey .as jiossilile, koeiiing it away 



from the large cent(>rs, is still good. Local 

 selling will do much in adveitising honey 

 and getting it to families w^here it has 

 never gone before. National advertising on 

 the part of the large bottlers will not r(>ach 

 some of these. 



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BEEKEEPERS can verv greatly stimulate 

 the demand for honey in groceries whore 



their honey is 

 Boost the Local displayed, b y 



Market by jmtting an ob- 



Live-Bee Displays. servntory hive 

 of bees in the 

 window for a few days. In connection with 

 the bees there should be a fancy dis])lay 

 card and nice exhibit of both comb and ex- 

 tracted honey in neat clean ]>ackages offered 

 at the new reduced prices. The bees should 

 be renewed every three days to keep them 

 fresh. An observatory hive with bees half 

 dead does vastly more harm than good. 



If the beekeepers all over the country will 

 use live bees to stimulate their grocery sales 

 for the next month or six weeks, they will 

 be surprised how they will clean up the gro- 

 cery shelves of the old supply, and at the 

 same time go a long way toward disposing 

 of not only their crop of honey but that of 

 their neighbors of whom they may buy. 



A word of caution should be uttered 

 against retailing honey at prices that are 

 only slightly above jobbing or wholesale. 

 Again, low prices on the part of even one 

 man do a great deal of harm to the honey 

 business. The other fellows who are trying 

 to get fair living prices should ])uy him 

 out before he ruins the market. 



FARMERS' BULLETIN 1198, "Swarm 

 Control," lias just been issued by the 

 U n i t e d States 

 Farmers ' Bulletin D e p a r t m e n t o f 

 on Swarm Control. Agriculture. This 

 is a 4S-j>age bul- 

 letin, with 1.3 illustrations, written by Goo. 

 S. Demuth while he was connected with the 

 Bureau of Entomology at Washington, D. C. 

 It contains a discussion of the succession of 

 events within the hive, which lead up to 

 .swarming, and the factors which influence 

 the tendency to swarm, such as heredity, 

 character of the hive and the combs, the- 

 locality, and the season. 



It points out that swarming can be great- 

 ly reduced by the use of goo(i stock, by the 

 use of well-arranged hives, together with 



