November, 1922 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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couldn't plant until almost the first of May, 

 and then after it was planted there was not 

 any more rain. 



Heavy Honey Flow Through August from 

 Hubam. 



The bees started to work on alsike about 

 June 5, and by July 4 I had 800 gallons of 

 fine clover honey in cans. Wild biennial 

 sweet clover followed on the heels of alsike, 

 and before that was through my Hubam was 

 white with bloom. I never saw bees carry 

 honey so fast as they did all through August 

 which is usually a month of dearth of nee- 

 tar here and which was the case this year 

 with two of my outyards that couldn 't 

 reach the Hubam fields. 



We had a frost Sept. 26, and today (the 

 28th), althougli the fields are ripe with seed 

 and cutting is progressing rapidly, there is 

 an underbloom down in the Hubam that the 

 bees are working on heavily. 



I am usually about to pack my bees for 

 winter by this time; but the supers are still 

 on tlie hives and bees working just like in 

 July, and, if I shake the bees off the un- 

 sealed combs, the honey splashes out like 

 water, so I must leave the supers on until 

 the bees stop working even if it is Christ- 

 mas. 

 Extracted Six Times from Hubam Apiaries. 



I extracted six times at all yards Avhere 

 Hubam was growing, and there will still 

 be a clean-up. Many of my hives have al- 

 ready produced 400 pounds each. Some of 

 those hives have over 50 pounds on now, 

 and it seems that they will keep on work- 

 ing until it gets good and cold, for the Hu- 

 bam fields that were cut over two weeks 

 ago are beginning to get whitish again and 

 with a late fall like we had last year . . 



. O, shucks! why be so hoggish? Hasn't 



the good Lord been ever so generous tliis 

 year, and anyhow, as soon as the bundles 

 are hulled, the farmers are going to fall- 

 plow it for corn or disc it up good and put 

 in tlieir winter grain. 



We have organized the "Will County 

 Hubam Seed Producers' Association." Al- 

 together Ave have approximately 1000 acres. 

 Tlie object of this association is to sell, at 

 a uniform price, clean, certified, scarified 

 Hubam seed. I will not stop until Hubam 

 is growing on nearly every farm in Will 

 County. I don't know how much seed I 

 will sell; but I know I will not sell all of 

 it, for I am goiug to contract most of my 

 seed out again next year in small grain, 

 and Will County will flow with honey from 

 May to October. When I look at the hun- 

 dreds of eases of fine extracted honey piled 

 up seven cases high in long tiers and in 

 every available nook and corner until it is 

 almost impossible to take stock, I feel that 

 it is the best investment I can make. 



Hail to Hubam clover, for it is more 

 than a godsend, as our sage A. I. Eoot wrote. 

 In time, wlien the seed is more plentiful, 

 we shall see great fields of it plowed under; 

 but the right time to fall-plow Hubam under 

 is when the stocks are full of green seeds 

 just as the white bloom is blasting, and that 

 will be another godsend to the beekeeper. 



With fields of Hubam clover all about us 

 we get no amber fall honeys. Although 

 there is a slight blend the honey is very 

 light, and Hubam honey is decidedly differ- 

 ent from that from the biennial white 

 sweet clover which has a greenish color. Hu- 

 bam honey is white to light amber and 

 tastes very much like that from white clover 

 or alsike. 



Joliet, 111. 



UPON glan- 

 cing back- 

 ward a dec- 

 ade or more we 

 look with no lit- 

 tle pride upon 

 the wonderful 

 a c h i e vemeuts 

 which have been 

 made in bee- 

 keeping practices. What are our tlioughts, 

 however, wlien we consider our product in 

 relation to its marketability? Suppose we 

 compare our natural sweet with some of the 

 flavored sugar syrups that are placed upon 

 the market profitably and in large quanti- 

 ties at about 45 cents per pound. R. B. 

 Calkins expressed the situation clearly when 

 he said, "The most valuable and meritori- 

 ous sweet obtainable is begging a market 

 at prices barely above the cost of produc- 

 tion." 



As producers we have better queens, bet- 

 ter disease control measures, better and 



HONEY MARKET CONDITIONS 



Lack of Greater Development of 

 Consumer Demand, a Serious 

 Handicap to Beekeeping. 



By M. C. Richter 



quicker methods 

 in manipulation; 

 we enjoy migra- 

 tory beekeeping 

 and many other 

 new and improv- 

 ed practices. Are 

 we, h w ever, 

 bringing about a 

 consumers' d e - 

 iiKuul for liouey? Are not many of us toda\^ 

 either acknowledging the letter sent us by 

 honey buyers or contemplating the turning 

 over of our crop to the same buyers wliose 

 agents call upon us in person? California of- 

 fers unsurpassed honey both as to quality 

 and quantity, with marketing centers at a 

 great distance, and this fact lias caused us 

 and continues to cause us very grave con- 

 cern. Five years ago we thought we needed, 

 and rightly, a co-operative selling associa- 

 tion. We formed it. and it has failed. 

 Co-operative Marketing Associations. 

 What is the position of co-operative asso- 



