June, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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AFIELD 

 inocting of 

 beokocpers 

 will bo held un- 

 der the auspices 

 of the Colorado 

 Houey Produc- 

 ers ' Association 

 on S a t u r d a y , 

 ■lime 14, at Ice- 

 land Park, Greeley, Colo. A large attendance 

 is expected and a good program will be pro- 

 vided. Several beekeepers of national repu- 

 tation are expected to be present. The Gree- 

 ley beekeepers will provide refreshments 

 and will also have automobiles at the trains 

 to meet beekeepers that may arrive by rail- 

 road. Everybody interested in beekeeping 

 who can possibly arrange to- be present, is 

 cordially invited. C. H. Wolfe is chairman 

 of the entertainment committee, and Frank 

 Eauchfuss is secretary of the Association. 



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Beekeepers of Arkansas, representing the 

 various county associations, will convene in 

 Little Eock at 9 a. m.. May 31, at the court 

 house for the purpose of organizing an Ar- 

 kansas Honey Producers' Association. 



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There will be a field meeting of the bee- 

 keepers of three counties of southern Michi- 

 gan and two counties of northern Ohio on 

 July 11 or 12 at or near Jasper, Lenawee 

 County, Mich. The summer meeting of the 

 Michigan State Beekeepers ' Association 

 will be held on the 15th and 16th at Boyne 

 City. » * * 



The Michigan Beekeepers ' Association 

 succeeded in getting the legislature of that 

 State to appropriate $10,160 per year for the 

 next two years for inspection work. The 

 Michigan Beekeepers ' Association now has 

 a membership of 375 members and is aiming 

 to have 1,000 members by the end of this 

 year. It is a real association and i^ con- 

 stantly doing excellent work. 



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The newly-organized Montgomery County, 

 Pa., Beekeepers' Association held a very 

 successful outdoor meeting at the apiary of 

 J. S. Shaeffer of Trooper, Pa., on May 3. On 

 June 14 the Philadelphia Beekeepers ' As- 

 sociation and the Pennsylvania State Asso- 

 ciation will hold a combined meeting at the 

 School of Horticulture for Women at Am- 

 bler, Pa.; and on June 28 a combined meet- 

 ing of the Philadelphia and Montgomery 

 County Beekeepers ' Associations will be 

 held at the apiary of Wm. Wakcman at 

 Washington Square, Pa. 

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The Birmingham, Ala., Ledger of date of 

 April 26 said: "The Alabama extension 

 service is making a beekeeping survey of 

 Alabama to ascertain and develop the in- 

 terest and investment in bee culture in the 

 State. Dr. F. L. Thomas, the extension en- 

 tomogist at Auburn, has just sent out 



5,000 circulars 

 requesting own- 

 ers of bees to 

 give full infor- 

 mation of their 

 l)lans, numbers 

 of colonies, 

 kinds of bees, 

 surplus hone y 

 produced in 

 1918, where marketed, and important honey 

 plants in the locality. A systematic and 

 continuous effort is thus being made to de- 

 velop one of the great natural resources of 



agricultural life in Alabama. 



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TJie older readers of Gleanings will be 

 pained to learn of the death of Eugene Se- 

 cor. Forest City, la., aged 75 years, who 

 was, on May 14, gored to death by a bull. 

 It will be remembered that he was, from 

 1897 to 1902, the very efficient General 

 Manager of the National Beekeepers ' As- 

 sociation, and that much important work 

 was done during his tenure, of office. His 

 few prose writings were of value; but it 

 was as a poet that he was best known to 

 beekeepers, being for many years the fa- 

 vorite poet of beedom. 



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The fifth annual report and balance sheet 

 of the New Zealand Co-operative Honey 

 Producers' Association for the year 1918 

 shows the total sales of the Association for 

 that year to have been more than $176,000. 

 The number of shareholders in the Associa- 

 tion increased during the year from 238 to 

 420, and the subscribed capital increased 

 from $22,550 to $33,580. Eeviewing the 

 1918 season 's operations the annual report 

 states that the Association 's business was 

 beset with many difficulties and perplexing 

 situations. The shortage of shipping proved 

 a very real difficulty, and up to the end of 

 the year 1918 only 135 cases of the 1918 crop 

 had been shipped. But since then, the re- 

 port states, due to the cessation of hostili- 

 ties, 329 tons of honey were shipped during 

 the first two months of the present year. 

 The report contains this rather significant 

 statement: "Some of our suppliers appear 

 to have been at fault in the handling of 

 their honey, quite a number of lines having 

 been held up from time to time by the 

 graders, and a much larger percentage than 

 usual finally rejected." It is evident that 

 careful grading of food products is one of 

 the specialties of the New Zealand govern- 

 ment. One of the regulations of the Asso- 

 ciation reads as follows: "Honey forward- 

 ed to the Government grading stores must 

 be granulated hard and must in all other re- 

 spects comply with these regulations and 

 any regulations issued by the Department 

 of Agriculture in respect to honey to be 

 passed by the Government graders for ex- 

 port. The Company is not bound to accept at 

 Government grading stores honey that does 

 not comply with the standard required by 

 the Department of Agriculture for export." 



