March, 1918 



THE beekeep- 

 ers of IjflW- 

 rence Coun- 

 ty, Pa., have ef- 

 fected an organi- 

 zation with the 

 following offi- 

 cers: John Wil- 

 kinson, presi- 

 dent; Chas. G. 

 Linder, \ ice i)resi(lent; Louis Hawthorne, 



secretary-treasurer. 



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The Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation will hold its annual meeting on 

 March 15 and 16 at Lancaster. H. A. Sur- 

 face, president, promises an excellent pro- 

 gram. 



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The 15th annual meeting of tho Missouri 

 Apicultural Society was held at Columbia, 

 Mo., during Farmers' Woi'k, Jan. 15 to IS. 

 'J h>^re was a full prograia for beekeepers 

 j,>iop:ived I'or each of the four da; s. 

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The Broome County, N. Y., County Bee- 

 keepers ' Association has been formed with 

 the following officers: C. Willis Phelps of 

 Binghamton, president; Earl H. Pratt of Tri- 

 angle, vice president; Otto W. Gall of Bing- 

 hamton, secretary-treasurer. 



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At the annual meeting of the Colorado 

 State Beekeepers' Association held at the 

 Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Jan. 

 15-16, during the Colorado Farmers and 

 Farm Women 's Congress meeting, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected: W. P. Collins 

 of Boulder, president; J. N. Pease of Little- 

 ton, vice president; Wesley Foster of Boul- 

 der, secretary-treasurer. 



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The Nebraska Beekeepers ' Association is 

 endeavoring to better its organization. At 

 the January meeting held at Lincoln, the 

 following officers were elected: S. J. Harris 

 of Lincoln, president; Geo. O. Olson of Wa- 

 hoo, vice president; O. E. Timm of Benning- 

 ton, secretary-treasurer. A committee was 

 also selected for the purpose of getting new 

 members and creating new interest in the 

 Association. It was decided to hold a meet- 

 ing during the State Fair, when authorities 

 on beekeeping will give instruction and a re- 

 port from committees will be had. 

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L. V. France, secretary of the Minnesota 

 State Beekeepers' Association, states that 

 arrangements have been made for each mem- 

 ber of the Association to receive the United 

 States Market News Bulletin on honey every 

 two weeks from Washington. Arrangements 

 have also been made so that members re- 

 porting to the secretary the honey they may 

 have for sale, giving quality, amount and 

 how prepared for shipment, will receive hon- 

 ey-price information, and the fact that they 

 have honey for sale will be reported to sev- 

 eral reliable honey buyers at Minneapolis 



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and St. Paul so 

 a s to promote 

 c o m ]) e t i t i o n 

 among buyers in 

 the purchase of 

 these lots of hon- 

 ey. Serious ef- 

 fort is being 

 made to form lo- 

 cal and county 



b.gekeepers' societies thiuout the Gopher 



State. 



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tTp to the time of going to press. Glean- 

 ings had not received the completed program 

 for the annual meeting of the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association to be held at Burling- 

 ton, la., Feb. 19 to 21. The president of the 

 National, Francis Jager, has written that he 

 expects that he will be leaving for Europe 

 about the time of this meeting with the sec- 

 ond Eed Cross Mission from the United 

 States to Servia, and regrets that he cannot 



be present. 



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The Panhandle Beekeepers' Association 

 will hold the spring meeting at the Market 

 Auditorium, Wheeling, Feb. 27. The West 

 Virginia State Association will meet Feb. 

 28 at Wheeling. The speakers will be: Adam 

 Y. Yahn of Triadelphia, who will demon- 

 strate a Langstroth hive; T. K. Massie of 

 Hatcher, president of the West Virginia 

 State Beekeepers' Association, who will dem- 

 onstrate the Massie hive; William A. Seaman 

 of Wlieeling, who will give a talk on sweet 

 clover; and E. R. Eoot of Medina, who will 



address the meeting on a selected subject. 



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The Ohio State Beekeepers' Association, 

 at their convention held in Columbus in 

 January, passed a resolution embodying the 

 following request: That the Ohio Division 

 of the Food Administration devise some 

 means by which beekeeijers of the State 

 could secure sugar to the extent of one or 

 two pounds per colony to feed; every pound 

 of sugar so fed being likely to return 10 or 

 20 pounds of honey. The resolution stated 

 that unless something was done at once thou- 

 sands of colonies would starve and an im- 

 portant source of sugar supplv would be cut 



off. 



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The report of "Honey Production in Brit- 

 ish Columbia for the Season of 1917, ' ' by 

 F. Dundas Todd, foul-brood inspector, states 

 that the average per hive was 51 pounds, of 

 excellent quality, and that this product sold 

 readily at 20c a pound wholesale and 25c re- 

 tail. The report states that British Colum- 

 bia lost half her bees in the winters of 1915 

 and 1916, and strongly urges better winter 

 protection thruout the province. The total 

 croji of the province is estimated to be about 

 168 tons. The report indicates that there is 

 l)lenty of room for many more beekeepers in 

 British (Columbia and that her beekeepers 

 should average a larger amount of colonies 

 each than at present. 



