September, 1919 



G I. E A N I N G S I N BEE CULTURE 



THE East 

 Tennessee 

 Beekeepers ' 

 Association, 

 on July 29, held 

 its first all-day 

 field meeting at 

 the a p i a r V of 

 Curd Walker, 

 Jellieo, Tenn. 

 The organization 

 meeting at an ear 



will 1 

 V date. 



Ian anotluM' ficli 



P. C. Chadwiek of Eedlands has moved 

 to Delano, Calif. A lack of honey flow 

 caused the move as his queen-rearing busi- 

 ness could not be maintained at a profit in 

 the South. This is perhaps the most giant 

 undertaking by truck transportation yet at- 

 tempted. He made a 30-hour continuous 

 run, with relief drivers, and transported 200 

 two-story standard colonies, and 200 queen- 

 mating hives, with a loss of only one-half of 



one per cent. 



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The annual field-day meeting and basket 

 picnic was held by the Massachusetts So- 

 ciety of Beekeepers at the nurseries of M. 

 W. Barrett, Hyde Park, Mass, Aug. 9. Prizes 

 were given for the best sections of honey, 

 the best demonstration of handling bees, 

 and for the best hive of Italians. Professor 

 A. C. Miller was the principal speaker. 



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The Minnesota State Fair and Victory 

 Exposition, which is to be held at Hamline, 

 Minn., from August 30 to September 6, 

 gives considerable emphasis to bee culture, 

 offering in this department $1,100 in prizes. 

 There are now 20,000 people engaged in bee- 

 keeping in Minnesota and it is estimated 15 

 million dollars ' worth of nectar is going to 

 w^aste each year. Minnesota appears to be 

 keenly awake to the possibilities of beekee])- 



ing in that State. 



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Mr. Eae, formerly of the Bureau of En- 

 tomology, as announced in our last issue, 

 had been working in New Yoi'k, helping the 

 beekeepers of that State to solve their bee- 

 disease problems. He left the State to go 

 into other business; but so long and urgent 

 was the call for him to return that now he 

 is a regular employee of the Department of 

 Agriculture at an increased salary. When 

 we heaid that he had left beekeeping and 

 gone into an entirely new field of work 

 we felt just as we now feel about Dr. Gates 

 — that the business had lost a valuable man. 

 Mr. Rae has reconsidered and is now back 

 in the ranks. May we indulge the hope 

 that Dr. Gates will likewise come back to 

 his own. He still loves the bees and his 

 many friends engaged in keeping them. 



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There was a large field meet of Ohio bee- 

 keepers on August 7 that met at the apiaries 

 of F. W. Leininger & Son at Delphos, 0. 

 Ohio beekeepers were especially favored 



by the presence 

 of B. F. Kindig, 

 State Inspector, 

 of Lansing, 

 Mich. Mr. Kin- 

 dig gave an ad- 

 dress on the sub- 

 ject of organiza- 

 tion and bee dis- 

 eases. He is one 

 of the wideawake state apiarists of the 

 country and at the present time is president 

 of the National Beekeepers' Association. 

 There were other addresses given; among 

 them were two by E. R. Root, editor of 



Gleanings. 



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There was another enthusiastic field meet 

 which the editor attended on August 9. It 

 was held in South Lancaster, Mass., at the 

 apiary of Miss Morse. While the crowd was 

 not large, the enthusiasm was of the very 

 best. Dr. Burton M. Gates, formerly pro- 

 fessor of bee culture at Amherst, Mass., and 

 later of Guelph, Ont., was scheduled to 

 speak, but was unable to come. After some 

 business was transacted, Mr. Root was given 

 the whole afternoon. A basket lunch was 

 served at this meet that was very enjoyable. 

 The general report was that the season had 

 been exceptionally good. 



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The editor recently attended two very im- 

 portant field meets, which he intends to 

 mention at greater length in the next issue. 

 The Eastern Massachusetts Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation was held on July 26 at the home 

 of Charles I. C. Mallorey, Boston. The prin- 

 cipal speakers were Dr. Burton N. Gates, 

 Arthur C. Miller, J. C. Frisby, and E. R. 

 Root. On August 1, next to the largest field 

 meet ever held in the United States was 

 held at Newark, N. Y., at the home of De- 

 roy Taylor. The speakers were Pres. O. L. 

 Hershiser, Kennith Hawkins, E. R. Root, H. 

 L. Case, Geo. H. Rae, S. D. House, and oth- 

 ers. Between 500 and 600 beekeepers were 

 present. ^ ^ ^ 



A very successful field meeting of the 

 Maryland State Beekeepers ' Association 

 was held at the home and apiary of Walter 

 E. Atkinson of Glyndon, Md., July 26. The 

 Association voted to purchase its supplies 

 co-operatively, and the purchase of approxi- 

 mately .$2,000 worth of supplies was secured 



at the meeting. 



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We regret to learn that the Western Hon- 

 ey Bee is losing its able editor, J. D. Bixby, 

 who has recently handed in his resignation. 

 We have not learned the name of his suc- 

 cessor. ^ ^ ^ 



By recent act of the Pennsylvania Legis- 

 lature the old Bureau of Economic Zoology 

 of the Department of Agriculture has been 

 eliminated, and there has been created a 

 Bureau of Plant Industry embracing all the 

 duties of the old Bureau with additional 

 ones. 



