1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1557 



production is with me mainly a hobby, I have 

 never at any time retailed it at less than 1 

 shilling 3 pence (30 ets. ) per lb. During the 

 past season I have produced barrelfuls of 

 Scotch honey, and bottled it at 1 shilling 6 

 pence (3(3 cts.) per lb., and 1 shilling ('24 cts.) 

 per lb. wholesale: and, mark you, not heath- 

 er honey, but clover honey." This is ex- 

 tracted also, yon will note. . On page 133 of 

 the same journal Mr. D. M. Mac Donald writes: 

 "Heather honey sold readily at 1 shilling 3 

 pence (30 cts. ) per lb., upward, and I had any 

 number of orders which I was quite unable 

 to fill after making extensive inquiries, al- 

 though several customers offered 1 shilling 6 

 pence (36 cts.) per lb. Pure clover honey 

 sold readily at 10 pence (30 cts.) per lb."' 

 On page 146 Mr. R. Steele, a supply-dealer 

 and honey-merchant, says, "We do a big 

 business both in buying and selling Scotch 

 honey, and last year gave 1 shilling 4 pence 

 (33 cts.) per lb. for heather honey in the 

 comb, and could not meet the demand, as 

 the supply was very limited." Note that he 

 was buying chunk honey to sell again. You 

 can readily see that this honey, when it got 

 into the big markets, would retail for 48 cts. 

 or more of our money. 



You will find honey offered in the adver- 

 tising columns of the British Bee Journal for 

 less than these figures: but from quoted ref- 

 erences it is plain to see that such honey is 

 either of a job lot or is not the best, for that 

 is what we were talking about. Some little 

 time ago Prof. Cook, who was then in Ger- 

 many, said that very inferior chunk honey 

 was retailing for 35 cts. per lb. — Ed.] 



By the time this journal reaches our read- 

 ers we shall, have our printing-plant in our 

 new building. This moving will account for 

 the delay in getting out this issue. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway has under 

 construction in Alberta an irrigation scheme 

 calculated to reclaim 3.000.000 acres of laud, 

 which is equal to the total iri'i gated area of sev- 

 eral States in this country. Uncle Sam is con- 

 structing several big ditches himself in the 

 arid region, but this Canadian venture com- 

 pletely tlwarfs our Uncle's efforts in this line. 

 Bee-keepers will take great interest in all 

 these enterprises, as an irrigated region is 

 generally good for bee-keeping. 



way and New Orleans to Cuba. Porto Rico, 

 and Spain. As these are honey-yielding 

 plants, why not grow these peas in this 

 country and capture a good trade".' It is 

 true, labor is cheap in old Mexico; Imt me- 

 chanical labor is cheaper, and freight rates 

 would be less. Oh, my! but lots of good 

 things require to be introduced into this 

 country yet, and, worst of all, many of these 

 are excellent bee-plants and soil-improvers. 



The little republic of Switzerland has 33 

 experiment stations for bee culture, with a 

 force of 3.") experimenters. A beautiful an- 

 nual report of about 50 pages is gotten out, 

 in which is a condensed report of the work 

 done the previous year. Maps and diagrams 

 are used to elucidate the text, together with 

 beautiful half-tones of the flowers treated of 

 in connection with the work of the bees. 

 One experimenter has been with the govern- 

 ment in this work for 21 years. If a coun- 

 try about the size of Connecticut can do 

 work like this, what can the United States 

 do? 



Mr. HanneSiann, the inventor of the 

 queen-excluder, is still alive and contributes 

 to the Brazilian bee paper published in Rio 

 Grande do Sul, E. U. de Brazil. The paper 

 is published by an old friend of Gleanings. 

 Mr. Schenk, long resident of South Ameri- 

 ca. It is not published in Portuguese, the 

 language of that country, but in German, 

 because the principal bee-keepers in that 

 far-away part of the world are natives of 

 Germany. Mr. Hannemann"s method of 

 using the excluder has never been practiced 

 in this country to our knowledge. He unit- 

 ed several swarms in one, and ran the same 

 into a hive several stories high, but having 

 a queen-excluder above the lowest story. 



Large quantities of garbanzos, or chick 

 peas, are grown in Sonora by irrigation, and 

 transported via the Southern Pacific Rail- 



HIGHER PRICES ON HONEY. 



Comb honey is retailing in some of the 

 fancy stores in the cities at from 35 to 30 

 cents a pound, and extracted in proportion. 

 The fact is, the practical working of the 

 new pure-food is so near at hand that the 

 merchant does not dare to buy adulterated 

 or misbranded goods. Indeed, it is not safe 

 for him to get any thing but pure food 

 stuffs. For these he has to pay a higher 

 price, and consequently has to sell for more. 

 "But," you say, "it comes out of the con- 

 sumer." True. But he gets more value for 

 his honey — more bone and muscle and 

 strength, V(»(^ /ewer doctors' bills. Paste this 

 last in your hat. 



THE POSSIBLE ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF 

 FOOD STUFFS. 



It will take some months befoie the gen- 

 eral pul)lic begins to comprehend just what 

 the enactment of the new national pure-food 

 law means. While prices on food stuffs may 

 be higher, they will be of a far better quali- 

 ty, (//if/ be laheled Jor Just what theij are. 

 So i-onsumer can object to paying a higher 

 price for his butter, his sugar, his molasses, 



