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GLEANINGS IN BEE ClU/rniK 



skpt. 1 



bees which show that the coloration is cor- 

 related to climate. 



In the Klasia Hills a dark variety of Apis 

 dorsafa occurs. 1 1 is known as Apis zonata. 

 Apis /lorca is represented by a black varie- 

 ty in the valleys of the Eastern Hima- 

 layas. Apis Indica is a golden-yellow bee 

 whose place is taken in the hill country by 

 a larger and black bee "which possibly is a 

 variety of it. This black bee occurs through- 

 out the Himalayas to a considerable eleva- 

 tion, and can evidently stand a good deal 

 of cold." 



I do not think that this alteration of color 

 with altitude can be quite meaningless. It 

 would be interesting to know if the sup- 

 porters of the black bee in America are lo- 

 cated entirely in the colder districts, and if 

 Italians that escape to the woods are able to 

 make headway like the black bees. If each 

 race is at its best under a different set of 

 conditions we shall learn very little as to 

 the value of Italian bees in California from 

 the experiences of a bee-keeper located just 

 outside the Arctic circle. 



Albury, Herts, England. 



THE SUMMER MEETING OF THE NEW JER- 

 SEY BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Foul-brood Laws Criticised; the New Jersey As- 

 sociation Joins the National in a Body. 



BY ALBERT G. HANN, SBC. 



The annual meeting of the New .lersey 

 Bee-keepers' Association was held at Mr. 

 Charles Howell's apiary, Hackettstown, N. 

 J., June 29, 1910. The meeting was called 

 to order by Pres. Cook, who made a brief 

 opening address in which he expressed his 

 appreciation of the fine day and place for 

 the meeting, and particularly for the hearty 

 welcome given the State Association by the 

 bee-keepers of Hackettstown, and by Mr. 

 Howell in particular. 



A short business session was held, in 

 which the minutes of the last annual meet- 

 ing were read antl approved. How to get in 

 closer relation with the State Board of Agri- 

 culture was discussed. 



Dr. John B. Smith, State Entomologist, 

 gave an address, "Foul-brood-inspection 

 Laws." He criticised all the foul-brood 

 laws of all the States. He said they give 

 too much power to the inspector, ancl that 

 none of them contain any right of appeal 

 from the decision of the inspector. He crit- 

 icised the recent bill passed by the New Jer- 

 sey legislature in this respect. He said if it 

 got into the courts, as it surely would, it 

 would certainly be declared unconstitution- 

 al, and would have to be re-enacted, con- 

 taining such provisions. Dr. Smith also 

 made a few remarks on how to facilitate 

 closer relations between our association and 

 the State Board of Agriculture. 



A committee of four was appointed by the 

 chair to facilitate closer relations with the 

 State Board of Agriculture. Wra. A. Selser, 



Harold Hornor, Wm. E. Housel, Albert G. 

 Hann, are the committee. 



The Governor's veto message to the re- 

 cent foul-brood law was read. His specific 

 objections were against making the ofTense 

 a misdemeanor by refusing or neglecting to 

 treat foul-broody colonies. He thought the 

 ofTense too slight to be a misdemeanor. 



Mr. Harold Hornor gave a talk on his 

 method of producing extracted honey. He 

 uses the eight-frame hive exclusively — two 

 bodies as brood-chambers — previous to the 

 flow. He requeens all his colonies annual- 

 ly. He confines the queen to the lower 

 brood-chamber by an excluder after the 

 flow is well advanced. 



In the afternoon Mr. F. J. Root, advertis- 

 ing manager of the American Grocer, New- 

 York, gave a talk on advertising honey. 

 Mr. Root's talk was a good one, and was 

 practically the same as appeared in Glean- 

 ings July 1, page 410. Turn back to it and 

 read it again. 



A short paper by E. S. Carr was read, 

 "Shall the New Jersey Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation Join the National Bee-keejiers' As- 

 sociation?" He favored the move, first, be- 

 cause of the measure of protection it affords 

 the bee-keeper in his legal rights; the sav- 

 ing to the bee-keeper of the extra dues by 

 joining separately; the literature each mem- 

 ber of the National receives. The paper 

 w^as followed by some discussions; and then 

 a rising vote was taken. The motion to join 

 the National was carried unanimously. The 

 dues were raised to $1.00; fifty cents goes to 

 the State association, and fifty to the Na- 

 tional. Every member who now joins the 

 State association joins the National. 



We should like to urge every reader of 

 Gleanings in New Jersey to send us $1.00 

 and join the State Association and the Na- 

 tional. Every one who does so before Octo- 

 ber will receive the following: The 1909 Na- 

 tional Report; membership button; Legal 

 Rights (pamphlet) ; Bulletin No. 15; price 

 list; postal receipt with seal label "mem- 

 ber." 



The next was a talk on "Comb Honey," 

 by Ralph Fisher. He lays particular stress 

 on selecting and breeding queens. He is al- 

 so particularly careful in trapping all unde- 

 sirable drones. But he has a particularly 

 good method of managing swarms. When 

 a swarm issues he hives it in a ten-frame L. 

 body and sets it beside the parent colony. 

 In four or five days he adds another super 

 to the parent colony; i)uts over this a Foster 

 bee-escape, and allows the bees all to go 

 down in the parent colony. In two days he 

 removes the top brood-chamber with the 

 queen and a few bees, and unites it to a 

 weak colony. This method keeps all the 

 field workers together. 



'I'he last was a ]iaper by Edward Diener, 

 " Bee-keei)ing in the City." Mr. D. gave a 

 rather humorous but interesting talk on the 

 trials of city bee-keeping. The most serious 

 trouble is in the spring when bees take their 

 cleansing flight. But bees can be kept suc- 

 cessfully and profitably in the city. 



