1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



135 



From all the experiments we have conduct- 

 ed, we have concluded that it is not practical 

 to liquefy the granulation in comb honey. 

 We can arrest the progress, when it just 

 starts, at a temperature of 90 degrees If it 

 has progressed a little further a higher tem- 

 perature would be required to stop it. Those 

 who have honey stored in large quantities, 

 especially if it be alfalfa, should remember 

 the very great importance of keeping it in 

 hot rooms. We have visited many commis- 

 sion houses in the country, and too often the 

 rooms where the honey is stored is down to 

 a temperature of about 60. Ordinary farm 

 produce can be kei^.t better in a room like 

 this, no doubt, but honey should be put into 

 the warmest, hottest, driest place on the 

 premises. The average commission man 

 and honey-buyer can well afford to put in 

 extra radiation in some special room where 

 his honey is stored — enough radiation to hold 

 the temperature approximately between 85 

 and 9(1 degrees night and day. Itisimportant 

 that this temperature be kept uniform. It 

 will not do to have the thermometer show 

 90 degrees at one time and 6u at another. 

 This is just the very thing that will hasten 

 granulation. 



In some of our early experiments we de- 

 termined that alfalfa honey may be stored in 

 a room that is kept at zero temperature for 

 almost two weeks steady and yet no granules 

 will show; but the minute it begins to warm 

 up, changing from warm to cold, then the 

 honey will begin to cloud and tinally turn in- 

 to a solid condition. Apparently, then, a 

 very cold temperature or a very warm tem- 

 perature is less favorable to granulation than 

 any point between; but we would by no 

 means advise any one to put his horey in a 

 room subject to a zero temperature. Comb 

 honey, of course, would be frozen, combs 

 would crack and the goods would be ruined. 



FORMATION OF THE OHIO BEE-KEEPERS' AS- 

 SOCIATION AND THE INTRODUCTION 

 OF A STATE FOUL-BROOD BILL. 



That the bee-keepers of Ohio have not 

 been idle during the past few weeks will be 

 shown by a report received from the secre- 

 tary, Mr. Henry Reddert. We take pleasure 

 in presenting it here at this time. 



Feb. 3 and 4, 1910, the Ohio bee-keepers met at the 

 Neil House, Columbus, Ohio, and organized the above- 

 named association. The following officers, to serve 

 for one year, or until their successors are chosen, 

 were elected: 



President, J. F. Moore, Tiffin; Vice-president, Hen- 

 ry Shaffer, Westwood; Secretary, Henry Reddert, Cin- 

 cinnati ; Treasurer, C. H. Weber, Cincinnati ; Execu- 

 tive Board, E. R. Root, Medina; Henry Hastings, Ken- 

 ton; Dr. P. E. Cromer, Springfield ; D. H. Morris. 

 Springfield ; Pearl Mclntire, Springfield; Edwund W. 

 Peirce, Zanesville. 



A bill was drafted having the general features of the 

 one recommended by the Bureau of Entomology, at 

 VVashington, D. C, authorizing the State Board of Ag- 

 riculture to establish a "Division of Apiary Inspec- 

 tion " in the Ohio Department of Agriculture. This 

 bill provides that the Board shall appoint a competent 

 entomologist as chief inspector of said division, with 

 power to appoint the necessary assistants-, who shall, 

 under the direction of the board, have charge of apia- 

 ry inspection. Mr. A. P. Sandles, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, and several Representatives of the different 

 counties of the State were seen, and the provisions of 

 the bill explained. 



All the members of the association present were 

 very enthusiastic 'n the work before them, and ex- 

 pressed the hope that this bill will clear the bee-yards 

 of foul brood and all other diseases common to the 

 honey-bee. Mr. E. R. Root worked like a beaver. He 

 acted as a spokesman, and introduced the association 

 committee to the Secretary of Agriculture in ihe Capi- 

 tol building. In clear and concise language he ex- 

 plained to that gentleman the wishes and wants of 

 the Ohio bee-keepers. He made so favorable an im-. 

 pression that the Secretary offered a column in the 

 State Agricultural Journal to further the art of bee- 

 keeping. In a few days the bill will be ready for in- 

 troduction to the General Assembly. In the mean 

 time every bee-keeper in the State should call the atten- 

 tion of his Representative to the bill when it comes up 

 for discussion and passage, and ask him to support 

 and vote for it. 



The various bee-keepers attending this convention 

 came to this meeting for the sole purpose of clearing 

 the bee-yards of disease, and such efforts should in 

 every way be crowned with success. The bill will ap- 

 pear in Gleanings in due time. Next year, probably 

 in January, when the horticultural societies meet in 

 Columbus, the Ohio bee-keepers will hold their next 

 annual convention. In the mean time the officers of 

 the association will communicate to each other every 

 detail enhancing the growth of the State organization, 

 getting all the bee-keepers they can to join. 



Communications should be sent to Henry Reddert, 

 Secretarv, 2300 Schoedinger Ave., Lick Run, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. 



Perhaps we should explain that the bill 

 which the bee-keepers of Ohio are about to 

 have introduced in the legislature does not 

 call for any special appropriation. It was 

 found that the present legislature would 

 be very much disinclined tn pass any bill 

 carrying an appropriation of $500 or $1000. 

 Prof. N. E. Shaw, State Entomologist, and 

 Mr. Sandles, Secretary of the Department of 

 Agriculture, very kindly offered to take care 

 of the work of inspection out of the general 

 appropriation granted to their Department, 

 providing that, for the first year, we bee- 

 keepers do not make too heavy a demand 

 upon them. For the present, at least, if the 

 bill is made into law. granting police authori- 

 ty to the S ate Entomologist, he could appoint 

 one or more of his nursery inspectors to act 

 also in the capacity of inspectors of apiaries. 

 This could be done for the first year, or until 

 more funds are available, to save expense. 

 While the objection might be raised that 

 nursery inspectors would not be compf tpnt 

 to pass upon the diseases of bees, it will not 

 take them long to become informed regard- 

 ing the nature of the two principal bee dis- 

 eases that are so destructive in the United 

 States; and, besides, the members of the 

 Ohio State Bee-keepers' Associat on have 

 offered to render them every assistance, not 

 only in informing them where disease exists 

 in the State, but how to recognize it. For 

 the first few trips it will doubtless be neces- 

 sary for the inspectors to call in one or more 

 competent bee-keepers in the locality to ad- 

 vise. 



While the amount available for inspection 

 work will probably not be large this year, yet 

 if we can once get this bill through, granting 

 pol'ce authority to the State Inspector (the 

 State Entomologist), the Secretary of Agri- 

 culhire a little later on can make provision 

 for the necessary funds to carry on this im- 

 portant work prop»rly. Both Prof. Shaw 

 and Secretary Sandles seem very willing to 

 help us. 



