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'■ The Shaking Treatment for Swarm 

 Control." D. A. Davis, 



Defuty Stale hisfector. 



Something to Do "What has become 



of the Cheerful Idiot ?" asked the Old 

 Fogy. "I haven't heard of him for 

 months." " Why, he is busy with a 

 getrichquick scheme," replied the 

 Grouch. " What is it ?" asked the Old 

 Fogy. "Some one told him that a 

 queen bee lays 3000 eggs a day, and he 

 is trying to perfect a cross between a 

 queen bee and a hen." — Cincinnati En- 

 quirer. 



The Ohio Field Meet The Ohio 



Beekeepers' Association held its sec- 

 ond field meeting at the apiaries of 

 Fred Leininger & Son and J. H. AUe- 

 mier, of Delphos, .\ug. 4, 191,'). The 

 first field meeting of the association 

 was a two day meet at Medina, Ohio, 

 last summer. 



Inclement weather on the previous 

 days and threatening weather on the 

 day of the meet reduced the attend- 

 ance. In spite of the weather about 

 150 attended. 



At the home apiary of Mr. Leininger, 

 demonstrations in queen-rearing were 

 made and general manipulations car- 

 ried out. 



After dinner the visitors were taken 

 to one of the out-yards where the gen- 

 eral manipulations and the processes 

 of queen-rearing were repeated. Live 

 bee demonstrations, consisting of fill- 

 ing hats with bees, shaking bees over 

 their heads and placing them in their 

 mouths, were given by D. H. Morris, 

 of Springfield, one of the Deputy State 

 Inspectors, and by A. .\. Doenges, of 

 Defiance. 



During the whole day, as chilly as it 

 was, everybody walked freely among 

 the bees and not a veil was to be seen. 



At the same yard a talk was given by 

 Mr. E. R. Root, of Medina, on '' Live 

 Bee De.Tionstrations," " Sweet Clover," 

 " Wintering Bees." and " This Season's 

 Honey Crop." Mr. Root believes one 

 of the coming ways of wintering bees 

 is in tenement winter cases. Mr. A. C. 

 Ames, a State Inspector of Peninsula, 



gave a talk on the tenement winter 

 case. 



Mr. F. L. Webster, a prominent 

 banker of Van Wert, gave a talk on 

 sweet clover as a forage crop. In his 

 talk Mr. Webster stated that a man in 

 his vicinity pastured ()5 head of cattle 

 on 20 acres of white sweet clover last 

 season, and sold them with a net profit 

 of $970. This year the farmer is going 

 to harvest the seed and expects to re- 

 ceive a nice return from it. He said 

 the farmers in that vicinity are plant- 

 ing large acreages of it now. 



.•\ panoramic picture was taken of the 

 beekeepers at this yard, after which 

 they returned to the apiary of Mr. 

 Allemier. Here they listened to an 

 interesting talk by F. W. Summerfield, 

 of Toledo, on his experiences at mov- 

 ing bees to Florida during the winter 

 and back in the spring. 



Mr. Root said that those who wanted 

 to keep bees should not leave Ohio, 

 especially the northwestern part of the 

 State. 



At the close of the meet a vote was 

 taken which was unanimous in com- 

 mending the work of N. E. Shaw, State 

 Entomologist as head of the inspection 

 in the State. 



It is the intention of the association 

 to hold a greater number of field meets 

 each year in various parts of the State 

 as time goes by. The association is 

 prepiring an exhibit for the State Fair, 

 at which will be given out a list of all 

 paid up members and their addresses, 

 and if any have honey for sale this will 

 be indicated together with the quantity 

 and kind. E. R. King, Sec. 



Creola, Ohio. 



National Beekeepers ol New Zealand. 



— In New Zealand they are pushing to 

 get a market, and it is noticeable that a 

 good share of the changes proposed in 

 their constitution at their last meeting, 

 held recently, have to do with the mark- 

 eting end of the business. 



Some of the changes proposed are. 

 to create a defence fund for the pro- 

 tection of members, to act in conjunc- 



A Bee Caught by a Si-ider S.maller than 



Itself 

 Courtesy of Dr. A.J. Hocking. 



Crystal Falls, Mich. 



tion with the Cooperative Honey Pro- 

 ducers' Association to get a better 

 price for honey, to urge that the regis- 

 tration of apiaries be brought into 

 force as soon as possible, and to insist 

 that honey be carried on the railroads 

 at the same rate as butter. 



We find the familiar name of our old 

 friend Isaac Hopkins on the program. 



Yakima Valley Pioneer Dies. — Legh 



Richmond Freeman, editor of Free- 

 man's Farmer for years and one of the 

 pioneer beekeepers of the Yakima Val- 

 ley of Washington, died at North 

 Yakima on Feb. 8, 1915. 



Mr. Freeman has the distinction of 

 having brought into the Yakima Valley 

 the first colony of bees in a movable- 

 frame Langstroth hive. It was he who 

 first advocated the organization of the 

 Washington State Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation, and it was partly due to the 

 publicity which he gave this associa- 

 tion that it so early took rank as one 

 of the leading beekeeping associations 

 of tlie country. 



New Jersey Field Meeting — The New 



Jersey Beekeepers' .'\ssociation will 

 hold a field meeting in the apiary of R. 

 D. Barclay, of Riverton, on Sept, 16, 

 when live topics will be discussed. 



E. G. Carr, Sec- J'reas. 

 H. Root, Pres. 



THE CHILDREN' AT THE I'OLK COUNTY PICNIC 



Who Owns the Bees ?— A Legal Ques- 

 tion Last Thursday, July 15, a swarm 



of bees escaped from Chris Anderson's 

 apiary. Dave Reese saw them flying 

 over Mr. Dickinson's lot and threw 

 dirt among them, which so confused 



