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G I. E A N I N G S IX B E K C U I- T U R E 



JULV, 1919 



J_ York State 

 Association 

 of Beekeepers ' 

 Societies hold a 

 field meeting 

 August 1 at the 

 apiary of Deroj' 

 Taj'lor, Newark, 

 N. Y. They plan 

 to make this the largest one yet held in 



their State. 



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Professor F. Eric Milieu of the Depart- 

 ment of Apiculture, Iowa State College, has 

 accepted the position of Professor of Bee- 

 keeping and Provincial Apiarist at the On- 

 tario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario, 

 Canada. To show the loss to Iowa and the 

 consequent gain to Ontario, we quote a lit- 

 tle tribute from a letter we recently receiv- 

 ed. The letter is not supposed to concern 

 Prof. Millen, but rather the Iowa foul-brood 

 law. It is as follows: 



' ' So far, I am much impressed with the 

 result which Mr. Millen is able to secure in 

 Iowa! However, I think Mr. Milieu is a 

 type of man that would get good results 

 with almost any kind of law, and as much 

 credit, perhaps, is due to Mr. Milieu's per- 

 sonality as to the kind of law under which 

 he is working. " 



We all extend our best wishes to Prof. 

 Millen in his new work. 

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Connecticut has a bill before the House, 

 the purpose of which is to secure for the 

 benefit of the state inspectors a list of bee- 

 keepers, together with the number and lo- 

 cation of their colonies. Each person own- 

 ing one or more hives of bees is required to 

 register annually before the 1st of October. 

 The recording fee is 25 cents. The fine for 

 non-registration is not more than five dol- 

 lars. 



The beekeepers of St. Louis have recent- 

 ly formed the Mound City Bee Club, which 

 purposes among other things to discourage 

 nail-keg beekeeping, to co-operate with in- 

 spectors, to stimulate honey consumption, 

 to calculate production costs, ' ' and last, but 

 not least, to enable the enthusiasts to meet 

 and get it out of their systems and be there- 

 by no longer a bore to their long-suffering 

 friends who don't care a rap about bees." 



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On May 8 at the State School Building at 

 Delhi, N. Y., was held the first meeting of 

 the Delaware County Beekeepers' Co-opera- 

 tive Association. This was the first county 

 organization of honey-producers that organ- 

 ized in New York State under Article ISA 

 of the Corporation Law. 



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An important field meeting of the Connec- 

 ticut Beekeepers' Association will be held 

 on June 28 at the apiary of George W. Scho- 

 field of Berlin, Conn. Mr. Schofield is re- 



]»orted to possess 

 a model apiary, 

 and many will 

 doubtless take 

 this opportunity 

 of visiting it. 

 Lunch will be on 

 the basket plan. 

 The program for 

 the day will be 

 in charge of Prof. Lloyd E. Watson, Apicul- 

 turist at the Connecticut Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



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At a recent convention of the Fairfield 

 County, Connecticut, Beekeepers ' Associa- 

 tion, President Eoot gave a good address on 

 the food value of honey. Delegates were 

 chosen to the convention to be held at the 

 State College of Agriculture at Storrs, dur- 

 ing the month of August. 



The Ohio State Beekeepers ' Association 

 hold their annual field meet at Delphos, Aug. 

 7. The meeting will continue during the 

 day and evening and will be held at the 

 apiaries of Fred Leininger and Sons and J. 

 H. Allimier. A good jirogram is planned 

 and a large crowd expected. 



The Provincial Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Victoria, B. C, states that the hon- 

 ey production in the province of British Co- 

 lumbia for 1918 approximated 225 tons. It 

 is stated that this production is essentially 

 a side line, and that the professional apiar- 

 ist is practically non-existent in the fur- 

 thest west Canadian province; but the pros- 

 pect for bigger things in beekeeping there 



is in sight. 



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Two short courses in the elements of api- 

 culture will be given in Los Gates, Calif., 

 June 17-July .'5, July 7-July 18, by Prof. Will 

 C. Steinbrunn, at the Montezuma Mountain 

 School. Special care will be given to the 

 manual part of the course (hive-building 

 and other shop work), and queen-rearing 

 Avill also be demonstrated. Six apiaries will 

 be at the disposition of the class. (See page 

 429 and also the cover.) 



The Imjierial Valley Honey Producers ' 

 Association has purchased a warehouse at El 

 Ceutro and will ship the honey of members 

 of the organization. Imperial County now 

 has about 18,000 colonies of bees. At this 

 season little honey is being taken from the 

 colonies, but they will average 80 pounds 

 each during the year, nuiking the annual 

 jn-oductiou about 1,440,000 pounds. 



John H. Rosser of Queensland, Australia, 

 of the Australian Expeditionary Forces in 

 France, visited us recently. He is a young 

 enthusiastic beekeeper now touring the 

 United States on a motorcycle, visitihg 



