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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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PROBABLY more honey is being sold lo- 

 cally by beekeepers this season than ever 

 before, the demand 

 Asking Retail in some localities 

 Prices When being quite brisk 



Selling Locally, at this time. Those 

 beekeepers who are 

 selling their own honey should again be re- 

 minded that they should ask a fair price for 

 the honey when selling it at retail. It is 

 not necessary to cut prices below the mar- 

 ket in order to sell a really good grade of 

 honey. When the beekeeper sells his own 

 honey he should remember that he as sales- 

 man is entitled to pay for his time in mak- 

 ing sales and delivering the honey. The 

 consumers expect to pay for this service. 



THOSE who have not already sent in their 

 contribution to the Doctor Miller Memorial 

 fund and who 

 The Doctor Miller expect to do so, 

 Memorial Fund. are urged to 

 mail their con- 

 tributions at their earliest convenience. The 

 matter is being held open for a short time 

 on account of contributions being sent in 

 from beekeepers ' associations, as the sea- 

 son for holding their meetings is here, as 

 well as belated offerings from individuals. 

 Subscriptions may be sent to any member 

 of the committee as follows: C. P. Dadant, 

 Hamilton, 111.; B. F. Kindig, Lansing, Mich.; 

 E. G. LeStourgeon, San Antonio, Tex.; Dr. 

 E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, Wash- 

 ington, D. C; E. R. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



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THE LATE honey flow has been unusually 

 good, especially thruout the northeastern 

 part of the United 

 Excessive States and parts of 



Brood-Rearing Canada. In some lo- 

 in September, calities considerable 

 surplus honey has 

 been stored since August 1, as will be noted 

 in our ' ' Opinions from Producers ' ' on our 

 market page. In other localities the bees 

 have gathered but little more than they 

 have consumed in brood-rearing, and in 

 many places they have gathered only 

 enough to stimulate heavy brood-rearing 

 while using up their supply of stores. Many 

 beekeepers report that their brood-chambers 

 are filled with brood, having almost no 

 honey. 



It is not often that beekeepers complain 



of too much brood in September, the trouble 

 usually being in having too little. As a 

 rule, the bees are in excellent condition for 

 winter, but where the fall honey flow has 

 been light there is great danger that these 

 splendid colonies of young bees will starve 

 this winter if not fed. Many colonies that 

 were well provided with stores in July have 

 used most of their honey in brood-rearing 

 and are now in danger of starvation. Feed- 

 ing, if needed, should by all means be done 

 this month in the northern States. 



OUR readers will be shocked to learn of 

 the untimely death of F. W. L. Sladen, Do- 

 ra i n i o n Apiarist, 



F. W. L. Sladen 



Accidentally 



Drowned. 



Department of Ag- 

 riculture, Dominion 

 of Canada. Profes- 

 sor Sladen was ac- 

 cidentally drowned on Sept. 10 at Duck 

 Island, where he was carrying on special re- 

 search work in the breeding of bees. Our 

 readers will remember that a preliminary 

 report of this work was published in this 

 journal in the issue for February, 1920. 



Several articles from his pen have ap- 

 peared in our columns recently and others 

 were in contemplation or preparation. The 

 beekeeping industry has lost in Professor 

 Sladen one of its most valuable men. He 

 was devoting his entire time to research in 

 beekeeping problems. 



STRANGE as it may seem at first thought, 



the fall honey flow begins earlier in the 



North than in the 



Fall Honey South. In many 

 Flows Earlier cases, even the same 

 in Nortli. species of plant be- 



gins to yield nectar 

 first in the far North, and the honey flow 

 then moves southward, thus reversing the 

 movement of the spring honey flow. In gen- 

 eral, nectar secretion apparently begins in 

 the South in the spring, moves northward 

 as the season advances, then turns around, 

 and moves back southward on the fall flow- 

 ers. In some places in the far North the 

 spring honey flow is so late and the fall 

 honey so early that there is no interval be- 

 tween, while farther south the interval in- 

 creases. This brings up the question wheth- 

 er the midsummer dearth of nectar is a re- 

 sult of higher temperature or a lack of flow- 

 ers. For instance, could the gap in the 



