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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



October 



ogist, by the aid of carefully pre- 

 pared maps, showed the present 

 status of the foulbrood eradication 

 work and gave an outline of its fu- 

 ture. 



Officers elected were, E. Guy Le 

 Stourgeon, San Antonio, Tex., Presi- 

 dent; E. B. Ault, Calallen, Vice Presi- 

 dent; Alma M. Haselbauer, San An- 

 tonio, Secretary-Treasurer. It was 

 the largest and most enthusiastic 

 meeting of the association ever held. 



Sweet Clover Utilization. — Farmers' 

 Bulletin No. 820 of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry at Washington, by H. 

 S. Coe, Agronomist, gives a very in- 

 teresting detail of the value of sweet 

 clover. In a comparative test made 

 of rape, red clover and sweet clover 

 for hog pasture, the resultant profit 

 per acre was in favor of sweet clover. 

 The actual cost of production of the 

 weight increase being from 1 to 14 

 cents less per hundredweight with 

 sweet clover than with the other pas- 

 ture. If we add to this the large 

 amount of nitrogen given to the land 

 and the possible production of honey, 

 we will find a great inducement to 

 use sweet clover more largely. 



No Honey in Italy. — Accept my 

 thanks for your fine book, "First Les- 

 sons in Beekeeping." It is by far the 

 best book for beginners in beekeep- 

 ing that I have ever read. I am rear- 

 ing queens with only 350 nuclei, be- 

 ing short of help, since my beekeep- 

 ing helpers are now in the army. 

 The orders for queens are so numer- 

 ous that I could not fill them all, even 

 if I had 650 nuclei. As for honey, we 

 have a severe drouth. If it does not 

 rain very soon we shall have a scanty 

 crop. We were rather elated by the 

 promising spring. 



ENRICO PENNA, Bologna. 



July 21, 1817. 



Polk County Meeting in Iowa. — 



The Polk County Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation held their yearly meeting 

 August 4. 1917, at Greenwood Park 

 and had 25 new members join. 



THE POLK COliM V .MEEil.\(, W A.n VS ELL ATTENDED THIS YEAR. 



The association re-elected C. L. 

 Wright, M. D., President; C. E. Dust- 

 man, Vice President; Mrs. E. C. 

 Scranton, Secretary and Treasurer. 

 The President, in his address, told 

 them that ordinarily their meetings 

 were social and educational, but this 

 year it was more, that it was patri- 

 otic, as they had dropped out their 

 customary picnic dinner and gaVe $25 

 to the Red Cross Association. 



The beekeepers have an oppor- 

 tunity to increase the food supply of 

 our country, and thereby help feed 

 the army and navy that have been 

 called to defend our country. 



Mr. R. H. Faxon, Secretary of the 

 Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, 

 made a very interesting and instruc- 

 tive talk on the beekeepers' oppor- 

 tunity and duty of increased produc- 

 tion, and saving of all our food stuff. 



Mr. J. W. Jarnagin, editor of the 

 Iowa Farmer, made a splendid talk 

 in increasing and saving on the farm 

 and in the apiary. 



Mr. B. T. Bleasdale, President of 

 the Iowa State Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion, read a splendid paper on co- 

 operation between the producer and 

 the seller. 



Mr. C. P. Mac Kinnen gave an in- 

 teresting and instructive demonstra- 

 tion on queen clipping. 



Professor Atkins, of the State Ex- 

 perimental Station at Ames, then 

 gave a splendid lecture and demon- 

 stration on queen raising. 



Dr. Bonney, of Buck Grove, la., 

 itade a nice talk on successful ad- 

 vertising and selling honey. 



ARTHUR WRIGHT. 



Northern Illinois Beekeepers to 

 Meet. — The annual meeting of the 

 Northern Illinois and Southern Wis- 

 consin Beekeepers' Association will 

 be held in the court house in Free- 

 port, 111., on Tuesday, October 16, 

 1917. 



B. KENNEDY, Sec'y. 



GROUP IN THE A. & M. APIARY AT COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS— TEXAS 

 HONEY PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. 



The Indiana Field Meet of the 

 Northwestern. — The editor w'as pres- 

 ent at the Indiana field meet at the 

 apiary of Mr. E. S. Miller, of Valpa- 

 raiso, on August 14. About 50 bee- 

 keepers were present. The general 

 report from these men is unfavorable. 

 No honey crop of any amount had 

 been harvested by them, although 

 where a fall flow is usual, the pros- 

 pect was good, if sufficient rains are 

 secured. 



The meeting was exceedingly en- 

 joyable, under the thick shade of 

 large trees, next to the apiary. The 

 visitors examined Mr. Miller's cellar, 

 ia which he has wintered bees for 

 seven successive years with a loss of 

 only four colonies in that time. The 

 cellar is of concrete, walls and floor. 

 Air is brought in through an 8-inch 

 earthen pipe and introduced at the 

 floor of the cellar, the vitiated air is 

 also allowed to escape through a 

 pipe placed in a flue at the opposite 

 side of the cellar. Another opening 

 higher up in the flue permits the es- 

 cape of the warm air when the cellar 

 is found too warm. Mr. Miller con- 

 siders the temperature of 45 degrees 

 the best. This is in line with the e.x- 

 perience of many others. 



The hives are piled in tiers of five. 

 The dryness of the cellar secures as 

 good conditions for the colonies at 

 the bottom of each pile as for those 

 at the top. Those who are accus- 

 tomed to cellar wintering know that 

 usually the colonies that are next to 



