August, 1918 G L E A N 1 N G S I N B E E C U L T U K K 483 



FROM NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH 



In Iowa— Tll^'f^'^, ^^"'^ .""^, ^"■'i:!"^' 



much headway iii Iowa thus 

 far this season. Too much cool weatlier, 

 along with heavy showers, keeping them in- 

 doors so much that many are still feeding 

 a little. Not much swarming so far, and in 

 some apiaries none at all. The basswood 

 bloom is over, but white clover is in fine 

 condition. We are expecting fine results 

 from it. 



If you Iowa beekeepers ever expect to re- 

 ceive a respectable price for your honey 

 crops, for goodness sake, wake up to some 

 business sense. Organize yourselves for self- 

 protection in the honey market, the same as 

 other producers do in their lines. The fruit 

 men are organized, so are the meat men, the 

 grocerymen, etc. Now when Sitate Apiarist 

 F. Eric Millen comes to your county to hold 

 a beekeepers' meeting, be sure to attend, 

 and also have your bee neighbors present. 

 Then organize a county association and 

 make it a branch of the Iowa Beekeepers ' 

 Association. If you don't organize, you 

 will never count for much in the honey busi- 

 ness, especially when you will allow a 

 traveling buyer to come to you and name 

 the price at which you must sell if you ever 

 get rid of your honey. 



Dr. A. F. Bonney of Buck Grove asks why 

 not have the annual meeting of the Iowa 

 Beekeepers' Association in November in- 

 stead of December. He believes, and so do 

 I, that it would be more convenient for the 

 beemen in general. Now is also a good time 

 to arrange the chain of state association 

 meeting dates, so that the editors of bee 

 journals and other prominent beemen could 

 attend a number, if not all, of them, to the 

 great delight of the many who would never 

 be able to meet them in any other way. 

 Such meetings would lead to a better un- 

 derstanding of each other. 



Marshalltown, la. Hamlin B. Miller. 



In Michigan— T^^« ^.^ "^""^ J^^'^ ^^^'i^;' "^ 



o a region as far north as 



Michigan, to make plans for the successful 

 wintering of the bees. If bees are to be 

 wintered outside, there is no protection 

 equal to that afforded by good packing 

 cases. Plans for good two-colony packing 

 cases will be furnished free to those who 

 apply to the State Inspector of Apiaries, 

 East Lansing, Mich. 



The beekeepers of Oakland and Gratiot 

 Counties were favored with a visit from 

 E. K. Root and family on the occasion of the 

 field meetings of the two counties in June. 

 This is another example of the benefit of 

 county organizations, for, without them, 

 very few of the beekeepers of those coun- 

 ties w^ould have had the pleasure of meet- 

 ing Mr. Root. 



Beekeepers who apply for sugar for feed- 

 ing this fall will be asked some rathci' point- 



ed questions as to wliether or not a crop of 

 honey was secured, extracted, and sold in- 

 stead of combs of honey being saved for 

 feeding. It might seem like good business 

 to some to sell honey at the present price 

 and replace it with sugar at about nine 

 cents per pound. If the affidavit discloses 

 that the beekeeper has figured on doing this 

 there is grave doubt as to whether or not, 

 under such circumstances, the Food Admin- 

 istrator will issue a permit for buying sugar. 

 In saving combs of honey for feeding, be 

 sure that they come from healthy colonies. 



The date of the annual meeting of the 

 State Beekeepers ' Association has been fix- 

 ed for Dec. 10, 11, 12. The place of meet- 

 ing will be Battle Creek. A very good pro- 

 gram is being arranged, and complete i)ro- 

 grams will be mailed upon request as soon 

 as issued. Many of the county associations 

 are arranging to send delegations. Each 

 county association should hold one or more 

 meetings in the meantime and arrange for 

 as large a number of its members as possi- 

 ble to attend. In a business way it will 

 pay to come, as some questions of very vital 

 importance will be discussed and the course 

 of action decided upon. B. F. Kindig. 



East Lansing, Mich. 



In Ontario ^^ ^'^ living in abnormal 



times, and the weather 

 during the past few months here in Ontario 

 has been quite in keeping with the general 

 condition of affairs. June was unseasona- 

 bly cool during most of the month, and the 

 first day of July was more like October than 

 summer time, as an overcoat was quite in 

 order when driving. A light frost came in 

 some few places on the morning of July 2, 

 but since then we have had weather a bit 

 more seasonable. During the past few 

 w^eeks rainfall has been abundant in most 

 parts of the country, and at date of writing 

 (July 5) clover, both white and alsike, is 

 quite plentiful in most localities and very 

 abundant in many places. Little nectar 

 was gathered during June, and while there 

 is a fair flow on just now, clover is quite 

 advanced; and, as before stated in these 

 columns, in many apiaries the bees are sad- 

 ly depleted in numbers, and what colonies 

 are left are in many instances in none 

 too good condition to take advantage of the 

 flow, be it light or heavy. 



Inquiries are frequent for honey from 

 both retail and wholesale sources, but so far 

 I have heard of no ])rices being quoted or 

 any honey offered. In our locality, at least, 

 it will be two weeks before any honey will 

 lie extracted, judging by present outlook. 



Wherever I have examined the basswoods, 

 prospects are for a very light bloom, so it 

 does not look as if there would be mich 

 honey from that source this season. How- 

 ever, it is a very uncertain yioidcM- of late 



