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GLEANING S IN BEE CULTURE 



January, 1918 



TH E annual 

 meeting o f 

 the National 

 Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation will be 

 held at Burling- 

 ton, la., on Feb. 

 19, 20, 21, 1918. 

 John C. Bull, 

 secretary - treas- 

 urer of the National, sends word that the 

 meeting will be held in the Remy Hall, 

 which is one of the finest in the city, and 

 that the program that is now being arranged 

 will be sent to Gleanings in time to appear 

 in full in the February number. 



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The annual meeting of the New Jersey 

 Beekeepers ' Association will be held at Tren- 

 ton, on Jan. 24 and 25, 1918. Among those 

 who will speak are Dr. E. F. Phillips, Edi- 

 tor E. E. Root, S. D. House, and N. L. Ste- 

 vens. This meeting is held during agricul- 

 tural week, in conjunction with the al- 

 lied agricultural meetings. A large attend- 

 ance is expected. 



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Word comes from Cuba that the honey 

 crop will be short on account of the ex- 

 ceptionally cold weather that the Island Re- 

 public has recently had. During the last 

 three weeks of November the temperature 

 was continually below 70, which was an un- 

 usually long and cold spell of weather for 



Cuba. 



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L. V. France, of the College of Agriculture, 

 University Farm, Minn., is sending out a 

 warning that the bees of Minnesota will 

 need special care this winter. He says that 

 many beekeepers have already fed sugar 

 syrup to bees that have not enough stored 

 food. The Minnesota State Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation will meet to discuss methods of 

 keeping up the honey production of Minne- 

 sota for the period of the war and longer, at 

 University Farm, Jan. 4. 



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The second annual meeting of the Arkan- 

 sas Valley Beekeepers ' Association met at 

 Wichita, Nov. 23, for a two-days' meeting. 

 Kansas is divided by beekeepers into four 

 districts, membership in each of the district 

 associations carrying with it membership in 

 the state association. The program ivas fur- 

 nished by members of the local association, 

 with one exception, that of Frank C. Pellett, 

 of Atlantic, la., whose lantern-slide lecture 

 on the evening of the 23d was both inter- 

 esting and profitable. At the close of the 

 session at 12, Saturday, Nov. 24, the mem- 

 bers present partook of a honey banquet of 

 which all the dishes were prepared with hon- 

 ey- 



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The Massachusetts State Board of Agri- 

 culture will hold one of its biggest meetings 

 at Worcester, January 8, 9, and 10. The pro- 

 gram includes speakers of national reputa- 



tion. Beekeep- 

 ers, as well as 

 farmers, cannot 

 afford to miss it. 

 Wednesday, Jan. 

 9, at 1 p. m., 

 the beekeepers 

 of Massachusetts 

 will meet in the 

 library of Horti- 

 cultural Hall to discuss matters of general 



beekeeping interest. 



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Beekeepers of Florida are taking an in- 

 creased intere-st in organization, the best 

 evidence of which was the Tupelo Honev 

 Exchange which came as the result of the 

 meeting held at Wewahitchka, Florida, by 

 Georgia and Florida beekeepers on the Ap- 

 palachicola River. J. J. Wilder, of Cordele, 

 who was elected president, was the princi- 

 pal mover in the work. 



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The Ontario Co., N. Y., Beekeepers' So- 

 ciety will hold its annual meeting at Canan- 

 daigua, N. Y., courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 

 15. F. Greiner, Naples, N. Y., is secretary, 

 who will be glad to give further information. 



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Price Committee of Chicago-Northwestern 

 Association. 



A.t the 1917 convention of the Chicago- 

 Northwestern Beekeepers' Association held 

 in Chicago, Nov. 30, Dec. 1, the following 

 important resolution was adopted. 



' ' Whereas, the committee appointed at 

 the 1916 meeting of this association for the 

 purpose of investigating conditions for mar- 

 keting honey and for recommending to pro- 

 ducers a schedule of minimum prices for the 

 season of 1917, has performed its work to 

 the satisfaction of the association, result- 

 ing in more fair and more uniform prices to 

 the producer; therefore be it 



" Resolved: That the work of the commit- 

 tee be continued thru the season of 1918 and 

 extended in so far as the funds of the as- 

 sociation will permit, and that the president 

 be empowered to appoint the members of 

 such committee." 



The following were appointed as Commit- 

 tee on Prices for 1918: John C. Bull, Sec- 

 Treas. Chicago-Northwestern Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation, "Valparaiso, Ind.; E. D. Townsend, 

 Northstar, Mich.; L. C. Dadant, Hamilton, 

 111.; Edward Hassinger, Jr., Greenville, Wis. 



In discussion of the resolution it was 

 shown that the purpose of the committee is 

 not to boost prices to an unreasonable or 

 exorbitant figure, but to keep producers in- 

 formed in regard to reasonable retail prices 

 for their product and in this way endeavor 

 to overcome the practice among uninformed 

 beekeepers of retailing honey at or below 

 wholesale or jobbing prices. A canvass of 

 the members of the association present at 

 the convention showed that nearly all were 

 obtaining prices for their honey not less 

 than those recommended by the committee; 

 whereas, a year ago a similar canvass show- 



