GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1919 



DR. E.F.Phil- 

 lips, with 

 his force oi' 

 Government Ex- 

 tension Workers, 

 will co-operate 

 with the various 

 extension divi- 

 sions of the fol- 

 lowing States, 



on the dates given, in putting on extension 

 short courses for commercial beekeepers, as 

 follows: Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Ind., the week beginning April 7; Iowa 

 State University at Ames, the week begin- 

 ning April 14; Minnesota, at University 

 Farm, St. Paul, the week beginning April 21. 

 These short courses will be given for the 

 benefit of commercial beekeepers, the same 

 as the short courses recently given in Cali- 

 fornia and at Ithaca, N. Y., with such 

 marked success. The tuition in the several 

 courses is free to all residents of the several 

 States. Dr. E. F. Phillips and George S. 

 I»emuth, of the Apicultural Division, Bureau 

 of Entomology, Washington, will be in di- 

 rect charge and will be chief instructors in 

 the courses to be given. No commercial bee- 

 keeper in any of these States can afford to 

 miss the course offered them, because of its 

 proved value. We would refer our readers 

 as to the benefits of these commercial bee- 

 keepers' courses to what E. F. Holterniann, 

 one of the best beekeepers anywhere, has to 

 say in this issue of Gleanings of the same 

 course given at Ithaca. 

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B. F. Kindig recently conducted a short 

 course for beekeepers at the Michigan Col- 

 lege of Agriculture with great success. It 

 is said that this short course was the most 

 popular of any of the apicultural short 

 courses offered at the Michigan College this 

 year. ^ ^ ^ 



Many of the beekeepers and beekeepers' 

 associations of Ohio are seeking affiliation 

 with the county farm bureaus now estab- 

 lished in almost every county in the State. 

 This move is one that may well have the 

 attention of beekeepers in any county wher- 

 ever there may be an agricultural county 

 agent. ^ * « 



The Dixie Beekeeper is the name of a new 

 apicultural journal to begin publication at 

 Waycross, Ga., Apr. 1, devoted to Southern 

 beekeeping, with J. J. Wilder as editor and 

 ])ublisher. Mr. Wilder announces his pi-o- 

 j)osed journal as "the only bee paper pub- 

 lished in Dixie." There is a, field for this 

 new journal, and Gleanings extends its 

 heartiest wishes for its success and the bene- 

 fit it can bring to Southern beekeeping. 



Elton Warner, for 20 years a beekeeper 

 in Porto Rico, is now transferring his bee- 

 keeping activities to North Carolina and 

 upper South Carolina, where he will have a 

 thousand colonies the coming season. He is 

 a successful and practical beekeeper along 



n'.odern and pro- 

 gressive lines, 

 and his faith in 

 the beekeeping 

 possibilities o f 

 the section o f 

 c (> u n t r y to 

 which he is mov- 

 ing clearly indi- 

 cates the great 

 possibilities for better beekeeping now so 

 rapidly advancing in the southern part of 

 the country. 



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In a statement issued to the members of 

 Michigan Afliliated Beekeepers ' Association 

 Secretary B. F. Kindig states that there are 

 apin-oximately 40,000 beekeepers in Michi- 

 gan, who on an average produce annually 

 10,000,000 pounds of honey. 

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The 28th annual meeting of the Connecti- 

 cut Beekeepers' Association will be held in 

 the old Senate Chamber, Hartford, on Apr. 

 5, beginning at 10 a. m. A very practical 

 program has been prepared, and every Con- 

 necticut beekeeper, who can, should attend. 

 L. Wayne Adams, 16 Warren St., Hartford, 



is secretary. 



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The Ontario Beekeepers ' Association has 

 prepared a list of pound-package shippers 

 of bees, with i^riees, for distribution to its 

 members. The Association wrote to South- 

 ern queen-and-bee-rearers, asking for quo- 

 tations, and asking how well prepared they 

 might be to ship bees to the Ontario bee- 

 keepers, and if they could guarantee de- 

 livery in good condition. The Association 

 assumed responsibility to the shippers for 

 any orders placed for its members by the 

 Association. 



Frank Benton, for many years prominent- 

 ly identified with the beekeeping industry 

 of this country, and for a time head of the 

 apicultural activities of the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, died at Fort 

 Myers, Fla., Feb. 28, where he had gone for 

 the benefit of his health.- His home was at 

 Coldwater, Mich., where he was born July 

 5, 1852. From his childhood he was an en- 

 tliusiastic beekeeper and student of api- 

 cultuie. He sj)ent 12 years abroad, living in 

 C.^piess, Beirut, Syria, Germany, and Aus- 

 Iriai investigating the different races of bees 

 in those foreign countries, and shipping 

 them to all parts of the world. During his 

 a'iministration of the Department of Api- 

 culture at Washington he occupied very 

 much of his time in the investigation of 

 the various kinds of bees, and traveled 

 much abroad in this work. He was especial- 

 ly interested in the big bee of India, the 

 Ajiix (li>r!<(iln, and tried to acclimate them 

 in this country. His administration of the 

 department was a stormy one, but today no 

 one questions the right purpose of his great 

 enthusiasm, and his devotion to the cause 

 and advancement of beekeeping. 



