GLEANINGS T N BEE C U Ij T U R E 



Sei'tember, 1922 



FROM NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH 



making apx'i'eciable progress. The upper 

 peninsula is now free from disease. Several 

 counties in the northern part of the lower 

 peninsula are quarantined, and after rigid 

 inspection are practically free from disease. 

 lnsj)ectors in several counties in the south- 

 ern part of the state report from four to 

 twenty townships free from disease. Surely 

 Michigan beekeepers should take pride in 

 the Avork which is being done to eradicate 

 and control bee disease in Michigan. 



Federal students taking courses in bee- 

 keeping at the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, who purchased approximately 200 coin 

 nies of bees in the spring, have increased 

 their colonies in some cases from 10 to 50. 

 Many of these students now have apiaries 

 started which Avill earn them considerable 

 revenue next season. Furthermore, in the 

 operation of these colonies through a com- 

 plete season they have fixed in mind many 

 details of manipulation which would have 

 been lost without opportunity to practice 

 them as instructed. Eussell H. Kelty. 



East Lansing, Mich. 



(juarter. The comb honej^ crop throughout 

 the United States is apparently light, and 

 I believe that fancy white comb honey will 

 sell for not less than $5.50 a case in the 

 very near future. 



Many beekeepers are introducing new 

 queens at this time of year, and such a prac- 

 tice is of course to be commended. A 

 great many, however, make the mistake of 

 introducing these queens into a honey-bound 

 and pollen-clogged brood-chamber, insur- 

 mountable barriers to the most willing 

 queens. Brood room should be amply pro- 

 vided during early September, and all colo- 

 nies tliat are not strong in young bees by 

 the end of the nioutli should be united with 

 other colonies. 



The prospects for tlie buckwlicat cro]) are 

 not especially good. The acreage is small, 

 and much of the buckwheat planted has 

 been damaged by the August storms. Only 

 within the last few days has the weather 

 been favorable for gathering nectar from 

 this source. K. B. Willson. 



Ithaca, N. Y. 



In New York "^'^^^ yields of clover 



honey throughout the 

 state have been very much spotted, although 

 excessive rains in June were general. In 

 the same county one beekeeper will report 

 a 100% crop, whereas another will report 

 25%. Swarming was excessive in June and 

 early July due to the heavy rains which 

 kept the bees confined to the hive and thus 

 created great congestion of the brood-nests. 

 The comb honey crop is over; but beekeep- 

 ers in some localities seem panicky about 

 selling their crop and are offering it to the 

 grocers, in some eases, two sections for a 



In Arkansas. Arkansas is to have its 

 second annual state rair 

 at Little Eock Oct. 9 to 15 inclusive. This is 

 an opportunity for beekepers of this state 

 to get before our people nature's sweets 

 produced in Arkansas. Those who can do a 

 bit toward making this exhibit a success 

 should write at once to IT. K. Thatcher, Ex- 

 tension Division, 310 Donagay Bldg., Little 

 Rock, Ark., advising him what they can do, 

 and at the same time give him the names 

 of beekeepers whom thev know. 



Elba, Ark. ' J. Y. Ormond. 



'I'lic liives of bees themselves make a most effective signhoard for advertising honev. 



