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November, 1915. 



American Hee Journal 



mentioned case, the poison had reached 

 an artery or a vein, so as to get into 

 the circulation instantaneously. Luck- 

 ily such instances are rare. 



Iowa State Beekeepers' Convention. — 



The fourth annual convention of the 

 Iowa State Beekeepers' Association 

 will be held at Des Moines, Dec. 13, 14, 

 and 15. Following is the program : 



Monday. Dec. 13. 



10:00 A.M.— Welcome and Response. 



Address of President. C. E. Bartholomew, 

 of Ames.' 



Report of Secretary-Treasurer— S. W. Sny- 

 der. Center Point. 



Appointment of Committees. 



2;uo p, M. — "The Ad van tatjes of Beekeepers' 

 Associations to the Industry "—C. P. Dadant, 

 Kditor American Bee Journal. 



■■ The Advantages of Cooperative Honey 

 Exchanges for the Marketing of Honey "—P. 

 .1. Doll. Manager Tri-State Honey Exchange. 



Answers to Questions. 



7 :3i) P.M. — Lecture on " Beekeeping"— (illus- 

 trated —E. R. Root, Editor of Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture. 



Tuesday. Dec. 14. 



o:uo A.M. — "Outdoor Wintering"— Dr. E. F. 

 Phillips. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington. D. C. 



"Something"— Dr. A. F. Bonney. Buck 

 Grove 



"Queen Rearing"— Prof. Francis Jager. 

 University of Minnesota. 



2:ooP. M— "Bee Diseases in Iowa in igis " 

 —Frank C. Pellett. State Bee Inspector. 



Answers to Questions. 



7.311 P.M.— Lecture on "Ecology of Honey 

 Plants" — (illustrated —Dr. L. H. Pammel. 

 Iowa State College. 



Wednesday. Dec. 15. 



o-.MO a.m. — "Pollenization of Economic 

 Plants'— L. A. Kenoyer. Iowa State College. 



"Honey Vinegar"— C. E. Bartholomew. 

 Iowa State College. 



2:011 PM— Reports of Committees. 



Election of Officers. 



Adjournment. 



Note. — The time not filled by the 

 above papers will be taken up by the 

 answering of many questions by shorter 

 papers. These "Questions" will be 

 assigned to members who will be given 

 time to prepare their answers and thus 

 fully cover the subject. 



Propagating Basswoods. — I have ob- 

 tained some basswood seed from the 

 timber and intend to grow the same. I 

 understand that it is rather difficult to 

 get the seed to grow. Please give the 

 benefit of any experience and knowl- 

 edge you may have available on this 

 subject. J. F. CoYLE. 



Penfield, 111. 



Although I have never planted bass- 

 wood seed myself, I was informed long 

 ago that, like a number of other seeds, 

 it is slow in germinating. A writer in 

 one of the bee papers, some 30 years 

 ago, gave the information that it did 

 not usually germinate until the second 

 year. It should be kept in the ground 

 so as to let it dry as little as possible. 

 Perhaps a scarifying such as is in use 

 for sweet clover seed would have a 

 beneficial effect. 



A number of people have recom- 

 mended growing basswood trees from 

 cuttings. The cuttings should be of 

 straight, young wood and about G or 8 

 inches long, the lower end being cut 

 about an inch below a good bud. By 



keeping the cutting in warm earth in a 

 hot-bed, it is said it will make roots 

 readily, like grapevines or willows, 

 provided it be kept moist enough. 



Our method of growing basswoods 

 has been to take sprouts from the for- 

 est where basswood trees have been 

 either cut down or grubbed. Those 

 sprouts usually have rootlets in suffi- 

 cient number to keep the tree alive 

 after it has been separated from the 

 main root upon which it grew. 



Canadian National Exhibition. — The 



exhibit of the Apicultural Department 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College at 

 the Canadian National Exhibition oc- 

 cupied one table and part of another, 

 the rest of the end of the building be- 

 ing taken up by the other departments 

 of the college. The exhibit consisted 

 of a model of an apiary constructed of 

 hives built to scale 3 inch to the foot. 

 These were arranged in order as they 

 would be in the regular apiary, the 

 table being covered with green tjurlap 

 to represent sod, and the hives inter- 

 spersed with small palms and ferns to 

 represent trees and shrubbery (Fig. I). 

 There was also a model of a quadruple 

 hive winter case also built to a scale, 

 and several small implements used in 

 beekeeping, including the gearing of a 

 new friction drive power honey ex- 

 tractor (Fig. 2). 



The feature of the exhibit which at- 

 tracted the most attention, however, 

 was a tall observation hive containing 

 five Langstroth combs, one above the 

 other, covered with bees, also a single 

 comb observation hive and a pound 

 package of bees (Fig. 1). An attend- 

 ant was constantly in charge of this 

 exhibit during the two weeks of the 

 exhibition, and was kept busy most of 

 the time answering questions about 

 bees and honey. 



This Canadian National Exhibition 

 is an annual affair, which has been 

 conducted for a great many years. In 

 1913, there was a total attendance dur- 

 ing the two weeks of about 1,000,000 

 people. Owing to war conditions, 

 however, the attendance this year was 

 a few hundred thousand less than that, 

 although it was more than last year. 

 As the entertainment features of the 

 exhibit are very small comparatively, 

 and are confined to the midway which 

 is placed off in one corner of the 

 grounds, the educational value of this 

 exhibition on the whole is very great. 

 Guelph, Canada. Morley Pettit. 



Province. Exceptionally fine and warm 

 weather prevailed during March and 

 April, when the bees went ahead and 

 promised well, but the following three 

 months. May, June and July, were ex- 

 cessively wet and cold, consequently 

 the clover, on which we mainly depend 

 for our surplus honey crop, yielded 

 but very little nectar. The honey that 

 has been taken is much darker in color 

 than usual. In many instances colo- 

 nies were actually starving in June, and 

 would have succumbed had they not 

 been fed with sugar syrup. 



"The honey label adopted by the 

 association for the useof the members, 

 to promote uniformity in putting up 

 honey for sale, has met with general 

 approval, and 3825 have been sold to 

 date." 



The balance sheet, showing an ex- 

 cess of assets over liabilities of $43.35 

 was approved and passed. 



The following officers were elected 

 for the year ending Sept. 30, 1916: 



Hon. President, W. E. Scott, Deputy 

 Minister of Agriculture, 'V^ictoria ; Pres- 

 ident, Major General Lord Aylmer, 

 Queens Bay. Vice-Presidenls, G. E. 

 Parham, Superintendent, Dominion Ex- 

 perimental Farm, Invermore; G. Flem- 

 ing. Nelson. Executive Committee, J. 

 J. Campbell, Willow Point; Mrs. Cas- 

 ler, J. Hyslop, C. G. Johnson, W. H. 

 Hixon, W. J. Mohr, of Nelson ; J. 

 Blinco, Creston ; B. Lockwood, Fruit- 

 vale ; E. Alpaugh, Kaslo ; R. E. Plow- 

 man, Roseland ; J. H. Vestrup, Nakusp ; 

 N. W. Collins, Grand Forks; H. G. 

 Slater, Westley ; T. S. Gill, Cranbrook; 

 G. F. Attree, Queens Bay; James John- 

 stone, W. Romain, Nelson ; A. E. Watts, 

 Wattsburg. Hon. Secretary-Treasurer, 

 W. J. Sheppard, Nelson. Hon. Auditor, 

 Hixon, Nelson. 



Kootenay Beekeepers' Association — 



The first annual meeting of the Koot- 

 enay Beekeepers' Association was held 

 at the City Hall, Nelson, on Friday, 

 Sept. 24, 1915, the last day of the Nel- 

 son F-ruit Fair, at which there was a 

 representative attendance of members 

 from Nelson and the surrounding dis- 

 tricts. The report is as follows : 



"The association, organized in Sep- 

 tember, 1914, is the first beekeepers' 

 association to be formed in British 

 Columbia. Seventy-eight members have 

 been enrolled. Unfortunately the past 

 season has not been a good one for 

 honey production in this section of 



Michigan's 50th Annual Meeting. — 



On Dec. 15 and 16, the Michigan State 

 Beekeepers' Association will hold their 

 50th annual meeting at Grand Rapids. 



This meeting promises to be one that 

 will set a new record in interest and 

 attendance, and one that will be re- 

 membered by those present as the best 

 ever. 



One of the special features will be a 

 banquet supper on the evening of the 

 15th. This banquet is the gift of 

 Messrs. G. B. Lewis, of Watertown, 

 Wis., and A. G. Woodman, of Grand 

 Rapids, Mich. A banquet at which all 

 the members get together seems to add 

 a finishing touch to any gathering, and 

 we feel sure the beekeepers will show 

 Messrs. Lewis and Woodman their 

 appreciation by turning out in record 

 numbers. 



The program will be brimful of good 

 things, and many of the notables of 

 the beekeeping world will be there. 

 Full particulars of the program will be 

 published next month. 



The headquarters of the association 

 will be the Eagle Hotel. This hotel 

 has been our headquarters on many 

 previous occasions, and is well known 

 to the beemen. Rooms range from 75 

 cents up. 



Many beekeepers do not attend meet- 

 ings of this kind because they fail to 

 realize their full value. The program 

 alone will repay the trouble of attend- 

 ing, but this is only a part. The bee- 

 keeper who wants to learn more about 



