1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



49 



discover it also. When, for example, we 

 look back tiftj' j'ears, and see what was 

 tolerated in and of the churchf and compare 

 that time with this, we have great cause 

 for rejoicing. — Ed.] 



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His journeys are ended, his rambles now cease, 

 He has entered for ever the haven of peace ; 

 Mid tropical scenes, where nature is best. 

 He closes his ej'es and lies down to rest. 



Not till the Straj' Straws and Pickings 

 for last issue were made up was it discov- 

 ered that Dr. Miller and I had been pick- 

 ing from the same fild, hence there were 

 three items in his department substantially 

 like ihree of mine. After this I will let 

 the doctor have the straw while I will try 

 to get the head of it. 



Honey is moving, says a late issue of the 

 Sutter Co. Farmer, of California. In proof 

 of that it gives the following: 



J. D. Baker, of West Butte, shipped bv steamer on 

 the Sacramento River this week a carload of extracted 

 honey to San Francisco. The honey was of good qual- 

 ity, put up in five-gallon cans, two cans to the case, 

 making twelve tons in all. Mr. Baker has about 500 

 stands, and the product this year was over fifteen tons 

 besides several hundred dollaiis' worth of wax. 



It will be encouraging to bee-keepers to 

 know that public funds are beeing appro- 

 priated for experimental work in their line. 

 Weliave just received a statement from the 

 State Entomologist of Texas, showing how 

 much damage insects do to the fanner there. 

 In this document we see that the Entomolo- 

 gist has a salary of S1500, and S700 for ex- 

 penses. As his services are probably worth 

 as much to the bee-keeper as if he were 

 hired for apicultural work exclusively, we 

 may credit this to the side of the bee-man. 

 Then there is a fund of S2.50 for the apiary 

 exclnsivel}'. The Entomologist, Mr. E. D. 

 Sanderson, says, "The bee-keepers ask 

 that we investigate the remedies for foul 

 brood, which has already destroj'ed several 

 hundred colonies, and threatens the apia- 

 ries of the State. Texas is the leading 

 honey and wax producing State, the product 

 amounting to considerably over half a mil- 

 lion dollars. " He estimates that the peo- 

 ple of Texas lose annuall}' about S7.5,000,- 

 000 from insect pests; and how to destroy 

 them is the problem now before the people 

 at large. 



The following is clipped from the Califor- 

 nia Fruit Grower; and although the sub- 

 stance of it is contained in a letter written 



by Mr. F. E. Brown, in this issue, I give it 

 as showing the importance that is attached 

 to this organization, aside from what bee- 

 keepers say of it. It is a step in the right 

 direction, and shows that the bee-keepers 

 of California will no longer allow buyers to 

 take their honey at any price said buyers 

 are willing to offer. It is in no sense a 

 trust, but a businesslike method of putting 

 honey where there is the largest demand 

 for instead of glutting our large cities with 

 it. Here is the extract: 



Twenty of the largest bee-men in the State have 

 pledged themselves to further the project of a stock 

 company to do business as a corporation under one 

 management, with a capitalization of $25,000. These 

 men will also do every thing possible to maintain the 

 price set by the proposed California association. 



This association announces that it will fix and main- 

 tain a reasonable standard price, and will use a trade- 

 mark and seal for the prevention of adulteration. 



A committee of bee-men composed of G W. Brodbeck, 

 of this citj', G. L,. Emerson, of Santa Ana; and L E. 

 Mercer, M. H. Meudelson. and J. K. Mclntyre, of Ven- 

 ture, has been in session perfecting the details of the 

 project, and a preliminarv organization has been form- 

 ed. 



It is proposed to have a central warehouse in I.,os. 

 Angeles, and to make that city the principal shipping 

 point. The final idea of the new corporation is to affil- 

 iate with the national association and to perfect a solid, 

 substantial organization. 



SEPARATING THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF. 



"Mr. Doolittle, I think I saw something 

 from your pen some years ago about how 

 you arranged in a book the useful articles 

 which appear in our bee literature, so yoti 

 could turn to them at a moment's notice; and 

 I wish you would tell me something how 

 3'ou did it, for I can not turn to it now." 



" Are not all the "things which appear in 

 our bee papers useful?" 



"They may be to some; but to me much 

 appears like 'chaff;' and what I wish is 

 to have it so I can get the 'wheat' without 

 winnowing over the chaff a second time. 

 In reading the bee papers I find quite a 

 little that appears to me as chaff, while 

 there is some real wheat in every number. 

 Now, how can I separate this wheat from 

 the chafT, and have it so I can at any time 

 turn to and find the wheat without reading 

 the chaff all over?" 



"This is a question which once bothered 

 me quite a little, and I studied consider- 

 ably over the matter, for it was a matter 

 of considerable importance to me. Reading 

 amounts to but very little in and of itself. 

 In order that we may profit b}' what we 

 read we must remember it, and that at just 

 the time when we wish to put it in prac- 

 tice." 



"That is just as I feel in the matter; and 



