January, 1916. 



American Hee Journal 



ciation with J. M. Stark as vice-presi- 

 dent, and P. S. Farrell,as secretary and 

 manager. The association adopted the 

 grading rules of The Colorado Honey 

 Troducers' Association ; also voted to 

 make the single tier glass front ship- 

 ping-case the standard for the associa- 

 tion. 



Wm. McKibben, of Star, Idaho, gave 

 a very interesting account of his ex- 

 perience with American foulbrood. 



Mrs. Homer Cheney, of New Ply- 

 mouth, spoke enthusiastically of the 

 use of honey in cooking. 



Mr. J. M. Stark told how he got a 

 crop of comb honey from diseased col- 

 onies by shaking early in the spring, 

 then feeding to build them up by the 

 time the honey flow is on. 



Mr. H. M. West gave his experience 

 in queen-rearing the past season. He 

 said he had the best success by making 

 his colonies strong, then dividing the 

 brood-nest with queen-excluding zinc 

 and placing grafted cell-cups in the 

 queenless side. By this method he 

 seldom fails to get a nice batch of 

 cells, and the queens produced are 

 large and vigorous. 



Mr. C. W. Nelson, of Vale, Oreg., told 

 how he produces section honey with- 

 out the use of separators. He puts 

 shallow supers of extracting combs on 

 his colonies to catch the early honey 

 flow, thus preventing the brood-nest 

 from becoming congested. As soon as 

 the main flow starts he raises these up 

 and puts on a super of sections, using 

 28 7-to-the-foot sections with about 

 four-fifths depth starters. Having a 

 strong force of young bees, work is 

 started at once in the entire super, and 

 the result is practically uniform sec- 

 tions. By this method he could secure 

 28 full weight sections, 90 percent of 

 which would be marketable in less 

 time and with less work and expense 

 than he could secure 24 sections with 

 separators. 



The meeting then adjourned, all ex- 

 pressing themselves as well repaid for 

 attending. There were present about 

 40 members of the association, also a 

 number of non-members who took an 

 active part in the discussions. 



W. B. Moore. 



Meeting at Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College. — The Massachusetts Ag- 



ricultural College invites all beekeepers 

 to meet with the students in beekeep- 

 ing of the Winter School of this Insti- 

 tution on Jan. 10, li)l(i, at 2 p.m., l'"nto- 

 mology Building. Mr. Frank C. Pellett, 

 Inspector of Apiaries for Iowa, will 

 deliver an address. 



After the address there will be in- 

 formal discussions. The Beekeeping 

 Department also will be open to visi- 

 tors, and is prepared to show new fea- 

 tures of current interest. 



Burton N. Gates, 

 .Issociale Professor of Beekeeping. 



Montana State Beekeepers' Conven- 

 tion. — The Montana State Beekeepers' 

 Association will hold its annual con- 

 vention at Billings Jan. 20, 21 and 22, 

 1916, in the basement of the Parmly 

 Billings Library. All meetings will 

 begin promptly at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. re- 

 spectively. An interesting and in- 

 structive program will be carried out. 

 All beekeepers of the State, whether 

 members of the association or not, are 

 invited to attend the convention and 

 take part in the discussion and the 

 question box. One session will be held 

 in conjunction with the Montana State 

 Horticulturists Association at which 

 topics of mutual interest will be dis- 

 cussed. 



Rates of one and one-third fares will 

 apply if a railway receipt or certificate 

 is asked for when purchasing a single 

 ticket from your local agent and pre- 

 senting same to the association secre- 

 tary upon your arrival at the conven- 

 tion. Percy F. Kolb, Sec.-Treas. 



Billings, Mont, Dec. 16. 



Ontario Association This conven- 

 tion was held at Toronto Nov. 23 to 25, 

 1915. There were nearly 200 beekeep- 

 ers in attendance, and the interest was 

 keen from first to last.- Nearly 100 per- 

 sons stayed to the afternoon session 

 on the third day until the meeting had 

 to break up at 4:45 p m., to allow a 

 number to take 5:00 o'clock trains. 



President Byer drew attention to the 

 heavy winter loss of 1914-15, attribut- 

 ing it to inferior stores and the poor 

 breeding season of the fall of 1914. He 

 stated that the honey crop had been 

 good west of Toronto, but rather light 



from that point east. The local de- 

 mand for honey has been exceptionally 

 good, and generally speaking thi- prices 

 recommended by the Crop Report Com- 

 mittee have been received. 



The secretary-Treasurer reported a 

 membership of 1 130, and a balanci- on 

 hand of $233.92. A larger number of 

 members than ever had taken advan- 

 tage of the opportunity to purchase 

 pure-bred querns cooperatively through 

 the association. Sixty local apiary 

 demonstrations had b;en h<-ld during 

 the year with an average attendance of 

 32. This, in view of the rainy season, 

 was considered very good. 



Instructive addresses were given bV 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Washington, D. C ■ 

 on "Temperature and Humidity in the 

 Hive in Winter," and on " Outdoor 

 Wintering." F. W. L. Sladen, of the 

 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 

 gave a report on investigations of 

 " Honey Production from the Golden- 

 rods and Asters;" and Prof. L. Caesar, 

 Provincial Entomologist, read a paper 

 on " Poison Sprays and Poison Baits 

 and their Relation to Bees." 



Officers elected for the ensuing year 

 were : President, F. W. Krouse, Guelph ; 

 1st Vice-President, James Armstrong, 

 Selkirk; 2d Vice-President, W. W. 

 Webster, Little Britain; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, Morley Pettit, Guelph. 



Three rather important resolutions 

 were passed as follows : 



1. To have the Executive Committee 

 with D'Arcy Scott, of Ottawa, and Mr. 

 J. D. Evans, of Islington, petition the 

 Dominion Government to take meas- 

 ures to prevent the importation of bees 

 from diseased districts. 



2. That Messrs. J. D. Evans, N. M. 

 Mclntyre and R. B. Ross be a commit- 

 tee to request the Ontario Government 

 to increase the fine in the present act 

 against spraying fruit trees in full 

 bloom, to be not less than $25, and not 

 more than $100. 



3. That the Provincial Apiarist be 

 requested to conduct experiments to 

 prove the effect upon bees of exposing 

 sweetened poisons for the destruction 

 of grasshoppers, army worms, etc. 



MoRLEY Pettit, Sec- Treas. 

 Guelph, Ont, Dec. L 



HOME OF W. D. CRAIG. HINDSBORO. ILL. 



Winter School in Beekeeping. — The 



Massachusetts Agricultural College an- 

 nounces its annual Winter School for 

 Beekeepers, which lasts ten weeks, 

 commencing Jan. 3, 1916, and closing 

 March 10. This is one of 28 short 

 courses carried on simultaneously. It 

 is possible for the students to arrange 

 their work so as to secure several of 

 the 28 courses oflfered. 



The beekeeping course deals with 

 fundamental and practical apiculture, 

 its relations to horticulture, that is the 

 growing of field and market garden 

 crops, greenhouse vegetable produc- 

 tion, cranberry culture and fruit rais- 

 ing. The following subjects, among 

 others, will be included : Natural his- 

 tory and behavior of bees; races of 

 bees; handling and manipnlation ; 

 queens and their importance; winter- 

 ing ; spring manipulation and kindred 

 topics ; comb and extracted honey- 

 production ; care of apicultural pro- 

 ducts ; diseases of bees and their treat- 

 ment; with a discussion of the tools 



