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nETEMBER, 1918 



THE annual 

 meeting o f 

 the Minne- 

 sota Beekeejiers ' 

 Association will 

 be held in the 

 Club E o m of 

 the West Hotel 

 at Minneapolis, 

 Dec. 4 and 5. A 



very excellent program has been prepared. 

 Among the features of this program are: A 

 preliminary report on Michigan bee-culture 

 survey, giving distribution of bees and bee- 

 keepers in Minnesota, by L. V. France; dis- 

 cussion of queens purchased for members of 

 the Minnesota Beekeepers' Association thru 

 the Association; discussion of wintering 

 problems and insulation, occupying the after- 

 noon of the first day 's session ; a discussion 

 of vitamines by Profs. E. M. Washburn and 

 E. A. Butcher; the bee-disease situation in 

 Minnesota by Chas. D. Blaker; bee culture 

 at state fairs by B. F. Kindig and C. B. 

 Stravs; the honey-manufacture question by 

 C. P. Dadant; bee culture and the war, by 

 Major Francis Jager. The ])rogram clearly 

 indicates that Minnesota beekeepers are 

 very much awake and quite up-to-date. 



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The 18th annual meeting of the Illinois 

 State Beekeepers ' Association will be held 

 in the Sun Parlor of the Leland Hotel at 

 Springfield on Dec. 17 and 18. Among the 

 j.rominent beemen to be present will be 

 Morley Pettit of Ontario; N. E. France of 

 Platte'ville, Wis.; F. Erie Milieu, State Api- 

 arist of Iowa; Editor C. I*. Dadant of the 

 American Bee Journal. This Association 

 now has 400 members. A 2)rogram of the 

 forthcoming annual meeting may be secured 

 of Jas. A. Stone, Secretary, E. F. D. No. 2, 



Farmingdale, 111. 



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From reports received from beekeepers 

 and from bee-supply manufacturers- thruout 

 the country, there is every indication that 

 there will be an unvisual demand for bees, 

 queens, and all kinds of beekeepers' supplies 

 next year. The interest in beekeeping was 

 never keener nor more general in this coun- 

 try than at the present time. 



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The New York State Beekeepers ' meeting 

 will be held on Dec. 3 and 4 at the Hotel 

 Statler, Buffalo, N. Y. F. Greiner, Naples, 

 N. Y., is secretary, of whom more details of 

 the forthcoming meeting may be learned. 



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The Eastern New York Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation will hold its annual meeting at the 

 Court House in Albany, N. Y., on Tuesday, 

 December 10. S. Davenport, Indian Fields, 



N. Y., is secretary. 



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The Chicago-Northwestern Beekeepers' 

 Association meeting, to have been held at 

 the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, on Dec. 

 10 and 11, has been postponed because of 

 the influenza epidemic still prevailing. 



GLEANINGS T N BEE C U T. T U R E 



JUST NEWS 



Editors 



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Under date of 

 Nov. 19, the Bu- 

 r e a u of Mar- 

 kets, U. S. Dei)t. 

 of Agriculture, 

 says: "Imports 

 of honey from 

 Mexico and 

 West Indies to 

 be permitted at 

 least until Jan. 1 under licenses to be issued 

 by the War Trade Board." Such imports 

 have been prohibited for the last six 

 months. A considerable amount of West 

 Indian honey has already arrived in New 

 York under permission of the new regula- 

 tion. As soon as shipping space can be se- 

 cured Europe will take every pound of West 

 Indian honey obtainable. 



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As before intimated in these columns, 

 Prof. Burton N. Gates of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass., has 

 been appointed Professor of Beekeeping at 

 the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, 

 Out. He is also made Provincial Apiarist 

 for the Province of Ontario, and as a part of 

 his duties will be secretary of the Ontario 

 Beekeepers' Association. These duties be- 

 gan Sept. 1. Prof. Gates' official title in 

 his work at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College was that of ' ' Collaborator, Apicul- 

 tural Investigations, Associate Professor of 

 Beekeeping, Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. ' ' In closing a post card sent out to 

 the beekeepers of Massachusetts under date 

 of Sept. 24, giving directions how to prepare 

 for wintering bees. Prof. Gates said in clos- 

 ing: "During the past eight years the 

 writer has enjoyed his work with and the 

 continued co-operation of the beekeepers. 

 In resigning the beekeeping work in Massa- 

 chusetts, he wishes them the fullest suc- 

 cess. ' ' 



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' ' A great deal of honey that has been 

 shipped for export during the last three or 

 four years has been bought by brokers who 

 know nothing about honey. The sellers 

 realized this, and no doubt saw how easy it 

 would be to adulterate and not get caught. 

 After the goods are on the steamer and they 

 have secured their money from the bank, 

 there is very little chance of getting into 

 trouble. Hence certain Jewish firms have 

 gone into this business of adulteration and 

 selling at cut prices. They usually make 

 up some sort of an excuse to explain the 

 reason for the cut price, as in this case, 

 needing the money for some other proposi- 

 tion. It will be necessary for some one to 

 notify the authorities to be on the lookout 

 for these fellows. Otherwise, all the good 

 work that has been done in the past 25 years 

 towards gaining the confidence of the con- 

 sumers that extracted honey is pure, will all 

 be wasted. We do not think that there is 

 much of it being done, but it should be stop- 

 ped before it goes too far." — Special report 

 to Gleanings from New York Correspondent. 



