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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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EDITORIAL 



A PLAN for disinfecting the liivos wlicn 

 treating for American foul brood, used by 



F. E. Buchanan, 



Disinfecting Hives 



Without Charring 



the Wood. 



an extensive 

 honey producer 

 of Los Angeles 

 County, Calif., 

 enables him to scorch out the hives without 

 danger of charring the wood. He first wets 

 the inner surface of the hives with water, 

 then piles several hive-bodies in a pile, ap- 

 plies gasoline to the inside of the pile and 

 ignites it. By this plan a high degree of 

 heat is applied to the surface of the wood, 

 but the water prevents any charring. 



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FROM ancient times down to the present 

 various writers have recommended honey 

 as a beautifier 

 The Use of Honey either when used 

 as a Cosmetic. as a food or as a 



cosmetic. Certain 

 manufacturers of cosmetics are now using 

 the word honey in their advertisements and 

 on their labels to conjure with. Now comes 

 Grace Margaret Gould in her "Beauty 

 Talks" in the November issue of the Wom- 

 an's Home Companion, recommending honey 

 as a cosmetic in glowing terms as follows: 



Honey, to bring the flower-freshness back to your 

 face. Mustn't forget that honey is the product of 

 flowers, and if properly used will give the pink and 

 white freshness of youth to the skin that is old and 

 tired-lookinsr. Tell my Good Looks friends about 

 the honey mask. Following is the recipe : Mix a 

 tablespoonful of strained honey with a tablespoonful 

 of fine white flour. Add a few drops of rose water, 

 just enough to make the honey paste smooth and as 

 liquid as you need it. Spread carefully over the 

 face. Let it stay on half an hour and then wash 

 off with cold water. Try the mask twice a week 

 for a month. Result — youth back in your face. 



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IN THE December issue of the Country 

 Gentleman there appears an article by J. 

 Sidney Gates, entitled 

 A Knock ' ' I.s Hubam a Failure? ' ' 

 Is a Boost. While he does not an- 

 swer this question in 

 the affirmative in so many words, he intro- 

 duces negative testimonj^ from experiment 

 stations which, naturally enough at this 

 time, are conservative. We could not ex- 

 pect them to give their final conclusions. 

 He api)arently tried to find all the fault he 



could witliout introducing any testimony fa- 

 vorable to Huliani from sources lie jniglit 

 have drawn on. 



Moreover, lie goes out of his way to ridi- 

 cule Professor Hughes for the manner in 

 which he introduced the seed of this plant. 

 He does not bring out the point that Pro- 

 fessor Hughes did not get a single dollar on 

 the sales of the seed and never has. He 

 gave away the seed in order that all might 

 test it. Notwithstanding there are hun- 

 dreds if not thousands of persons who have 

 tested Hubam, Mr. Gates makes no allusion 

 to any of these. He apjaarently ignores the 

 fact that the annual sweet clover will pro- 

 duce a crop in a third of the time of the 

 biennial; that it has been tested for hay, 

 silage, and as a turn-under crop. While the 

 roots do not live over, the seed, if not har- 

 vested, will lie on the ground and produce 

 a large volunteer crop the following season. 



Had we not seen what Hubam is doing all 

 over the South, North and West we should 

 feel less enthusiastic over it. Apparently 

 Mr. Gates has not seen the immense fields 

 of Hubam in its native state, Alabama; nor 

 large fields of it in Ohio, Michigan, the Da- 

 kotas and elsewhere where it is grown. He 

 has never met Professor Hughes, apparent- 

 ly; for if he had he would have known that 

 he is not an exploiter nor one who is in the 

 habit of making statements that he can not 

 substantiate. 



It is not to be wondered at that a good 

 thing should have its detractors. They al- 

 ways do. A knock is a boost. 



At the two short courses recently held in 

 Colorado there were conflicting opinions ex- 

 pressed by dif 



Winter Protection 



in Colorado. 



ferent beekeep- 

 ers present as to 

 the value of win- 

 ter protection for bees. It has long been 

 considered unprofitable to pack bees for 

 winter in Colorado, as well as other parts of 

 the arid region of the West. This is appar- 

 ently the opinion of most of the extensive 

 honey producers in Colorado, but a few men 

 reported a remarkable increase in the yield 

 per colony wlien winter protection is pro- 

 vided. In one case the figures showed that 

 colonies which had been packed well dur- 



