. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 227 oughly seconded by its junior editor, W. Herrod Hempsall. Shortaf^e of Glass Containers The conference of apiarists which met in Washington on April 23 and 24, appointed a committee to investi- gate the possible shortages of honey containers. To many people this mat- ter might seem of very little import- ance. Yet when we think of the scarcity of many articles of common usage, we wonder what may cause it. The committee have made a very interesting report. We cannot give it in full. But it may be of value to our readers to
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 227 oughly seconded by its junior editor, W. Herrod Hempsall. Shortaf^e of Glass Containers The conference of apiarists which met in Washington on April 23 and 24, appointed a committee to investi- gate the possible shortages of honey containers. To many people this mat- ter might seem of very little import- ance. Yet when we think of the scarcity of many articles of common usage, we wonder what may cause it. The committee have made a very interesting report. We cannot give it in full. But it may be of value to our readers to know why glass honey jars are so difficult to secure. Soda-ash is difficult to obtain on ac- count of its use in munition factories and on account of car shortage. Sand deliveries are also delayed owing to car shortage. Factory hands and es- pecially skilled men have gone to munitions factories. Enlistment is al- so reducing the help. Both tin can and glass container manufacturers have been urged to give the preference in orders to containers for food products and in many cases they have agreed to do so. So it is hoped that a sufficient quantity of both glass and tin containers may be sup- plied in time for the crop. Quebec Beekeeping We acknowledge receipt of a copy of the "Methode de Cultiver les Abeilles dans la Province de Qjebec," by Hec- tor Beland and Cyrille Vaillancourt, published and distributed by the Min- ister of Agriculture of the Province of Quebec. It is a bulletin of 68 pages giving the most modern instructions on beekeeping and we commend it to Quebec beekeepers. the sex of the eggs which they wish to rear as drones. The writer of this article gives a method of verification of his theory which he has evidently not tried him- self. He recommends the inserting of a comb of worker-brood and eggs from a colony of golden Italians into a queenless colony of pure black bees. He asserts that drones will be produced from some of that worker brood and that th
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