GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Michigan, norlheni Illinois, Wisconsin, ami 

 Minnesota will produce clover honey when 

 those parts of the country further south will 

 not is because they have more snow. It has 

 been shown that Ontario, Canada, will very 

 often produce a crop of clover honey when 

 the season will be almost an entire failure 

 in Ohio. The former has snow when the 

 latter does not. Well, we are having a 

 large amount of snow this winter, and this 

 is one of the most hopeful signs we can 

 have that there will be a good crop of clover 

 honey providing a drouth does not come on 

 in late spring or early summer. Without 

 such a drouth a clover crop is assured. 



Another thing, snow assists materially in 

 the matter of wintering bees when placed 

 outdoors. See what J. L. Byer says on 

 page 97 of our last issue. 



The MassacliMsettg Convention 

 Farmers^ week at the Massachusetts 

 Agi-icultural College at Amherst, March 15, 

 IG, and 17, is to be featured by the Massa- 

 chusetts Beekeepers' Convention and Apiary 

 Inspectors' conference. A program and 

 information may be secured by addressing 

 the Extension Service of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. 



Dr. Burton N. Gates will open the con- 

 vention with an address on "Honey Products 

 for Massachusetts," and on the following 

 day will explain the Massachusetts wax- 

 rendering service. Rev. D. D. Gorton, of 

 West Spring-field, Mass., will talk on swarm- 

 control measures as practiced in Michigan. 

 Geo. B. Howe, of Black River, N. Y., who 

 has silent years in developing a race of bees, 

 will explain methods and results. One of 

 the most unique addresses will doubtless be 

 that of C. C. Dowdey, entomologist from 

 Uganda, East Africa, who will talk on bee- 

 keeping in that little-known region. Dr. H. 

 P. Fernald, J. L. Byard. and G. H. Cale, all 

 of the agricultural college, will give talks 

 respectively on the following subjects: 

 " Orchard Spraying Practices with Relation 

 to Beekeeping;" " A Procedure for Late 

 Fall Queen-mating;" " Experiences in a 

 NeAv York State Commercial Beeyard." 



On Wednesday, March 17, the second 

 convention of apiary inspectors in eastern 

 United States will be called. The program 

 will be open to all interested with a session 

 for official inspectors, and speakers will be 

 selected from the inspectors and authorities 

 who may be in attendance. The subjects 

 l)roposed comprise the methods and duties 

 of inspectors, ways of combating European 

 and American foul brood, and other bee 

 diseases, transportation problems in relation 



to the sin-ead of these infections, and resis- 

 tance of race, variety, or strains of bees in 

 European foul-brood suppression. 



Doubtless the subject of spraying in 

 relation to beekeeping will come up for 

 consideration since it is very closely asso- 

 ciated with apiary-inspection work, and is 

 quite a prominent point in the minds of 

 beekeepers in eastern Massachusetts to-day. 



ional Convention at Denver 



The National Beekeepers' Association 

 convention in Denver was a more harmo- 

 nious gathering than for some years past. 

 The delegate sessions were handled with 

 dispatch, and a better understanding among 

 all the naturally diverse interests was evi- 

 dent. 



Twenty affiliated organizations were repre- 

 sented, and the physical fact of separation 

 by wide expanses of country and the result- 

 ing altered conditions made absolute har- 

 mony of interests impossible. There was, 

 however, a spirit of compromise manifested, 

 and it was apparent that things have been 

 given a decided turn for more harmonious 

 action for the future. 



The publishing of an official organ and 

 the carrying on of the business features has 

 been apparently happily adjusted, and there 

 seemed to be a general feeling that the re- 

 sult will inure to the satisfaction of all 

 concerned. 



Those of the National affiliated organiza- 

 tions that are more vitally interested in the 

 business features will doubtless arrange to 

 incorporate an auxiliary corporation with a 

 capital stock that will assume the manage- 

 ment and control of Tlie Beekeepers' Revien\ 

 While this organization will be separate and 

 distinct from the National Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation proper, the relation between the 

 two, it is believed, will be friendly and 

 voluntary. 



The Revietv will remain the official organ 

 of the National Beekeepers' Association as 

 before. Each organization, however, reserves 

 the right to discontinue the official recogni- 

 tion of the other. But as both will be made 

 up of National members to a great extent 

 the relationship seems likely to be perma- 

 nent. 



The business sessions were entirely sepa- 

 rate and distinct from the other sessions 

 for the consideration of papers and general 

 discussions. The former were held at earlier 

 periods; and, while they were open to the 

 public, only delegates had a vote. 



President Gates showed that he was a 

 good presiding officer in that he didn't hesi- 

 tate to use the gavel when occasion required. 



