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The present officers of the Tennessee Beekeepers' Association are G. I. Matthews 

 of Franklin, Tennessee, President; Miss Elizabeth Morris of Cedar Hill, Tennessee, 

 Vice-President; and G. M. Bentley of Knoxville, Secretary- Treasurer. 



The officers of the East Tennessee Beekeepers' Association are G. M. Bentley of 

 Knoxville, President; G. F. Vineyard of 2414 Magnolia Avenue, Knoxville, Vice- 

 President; and Hamilton Steele of Rogersville, Tennessee, Secretary- Treasurer. 



Messrs. J. B. Bateman and Winifred S. Hull have been appointed as temporary 

 assistants in the Bee Culture Laboratory, Somerset, Md., to assist in temperature 

 readings on colonies of bees to be taken throughout the active season. 



The Vocational Department of the University of Tennessee which has a two year's 

 course in beekeeping, at present has a registration of fifteen students. Three of these 

 Vocational students will be rehabilitated next month and have made arragements to 

 start commercial beekeeping in Tennessee. 



A motion picture film: "Bees: How they live and work," taken at Somerset 

 during last summer, was recently released by the Motion Picture Laboratory of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. A second reel giving beekeeping practices for a 

 season will soon be complete. 



Warning has been sent out to the beekeepers of Tennessee to feed any weak colonies. 

 The present winter has been a very mild one and bees have been active more or 

 less all winter, which has caused a heavy drain on the stores for brood rearing. 



Many requests are coming to the State Entomologist for the formation of a West 

 Tennessee Beekeepers' Association. This will more than likely be perfected this 

 spring. The Commercial Club of Memphis has extended an invitation for the initial 

 meeting to be held at Memphis, using the Club Rooms for headquarters. 



The Tennessee State Beekeepers' Association held its annual convention in Nash- 

 ville, Tennessee, on January 26. The convention was attended by about 150 apiar- 

 ists from this and nearby states. A splendid exhibit of bee supplies was made by the 

 leading supply firms. The membership of the Association is 115. This Association 

 is eight years old. The program follows: — Thursday, January 26, 1922, President's 

 Annual Address, Floyd C. Bralliar, Madison; Report of Secretary -Treasurer, G. M. 

 Bentley, Kroxville; Beekeeping as an Avocation, Rev. R. E. Wright, Wartrace; 

 How I Became a Commercial Beekeeper, W. R. Walling, Hardin, Monrana; Advan- 

 tages of Modern Equipment, Jere C. Frazer, Memphis; Queens, John M. Davis, 

 Columbia; My Method of Introducing Queens, J. M. Buchanan, Franklin; Foul 

 Brood Control, James M. Heather ly, Knoxville; Extracted vs. Comb Honey, Open 

 Discussion by Members; Address, E. R. Root, Editor, Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 Medina, Ohio; Activities of the /mcrican Honey Producers' League, H. B. Parks, 

 Secretary, San Antonio, Texas; Report of Toronto Meeting, G. M. Bentley, Knox- 

 ville. 



At the Toronto meeting of the American Association of Economic Entomologists 

 the section on apiculture appointed a committee consisting of S. B. Fracker, Chairman 

 and Messrs. George H. Rea, of Pennsylvania, C. B. Gooderham, of Ottawa, to devise 

 means for the protection of the United States and Canada against the introduction 

 of the Isle of Wight disease. At that time the mite {Acarapis woodi), which causes 

 the disease was known only in the British Isles but it has since been discovered on 

 the continent of Europe and has come through the mails in a shipment from Scotland 

 to Dr. E. F. Phillips, United States Bureau of Entomology. 



The committee in correspondence determined to confine their activities to the 

 securing of legislation against the introduction of bees from outside the United States. 



