GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Octobp;r, 1919 



Dr. Gates, formerly Professor of Bee Cul- 

 ture at the Amherst Agricultural College, 

 had severed his connection there and gone 

 to Canada to fill a like position. Another 

 call brought him back home, but not into 

 bees. He said with some regret that he had 

 no bees and might never again give any at- 

 tention to bee culture. This will be regret- 



Kennith Hawkins, formerly of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, Washington, D. C, but now of the G. B. 

 Lewis Co., addressing the big New York field meet 



on Aug. 1, 1919. 

 ted by Dr. Gates ' friends, as he was not 

 only one of the leading experts in apiculture 

 but one who was able to impart to others 

 what he knew. His many students all over 

 the country testify to the excellent work 

 that he did. 



Arthur C. Miller spoke on the use of large 

 hives and how to use a bee-smoker. Paper, 

 he said, is not good to use to ignite fuel. 

 Loose wood shavings from a hand plane are 

 the best. When thru with the smoker he 

 stops it up with a cork, and then it goes out. 

 As Mr. Miller 's views on large hives are so 

 well known we will not repeat them here. 



Mr. Frisbee told how the bees in Massa- 

 chusetts were killed by sprays that are de- 

 signed to destroy the gypsy moth that still 

 threatens the destruction of shade trees. 

 He threw out the suggestion that the State 

 use repellents in their poisonous sprays — re- 

 pellent to bees but not repellent to the 

 gypsy moth. This, he was sure, would elimi- 

 nate the heavy losses of bees in some sec- 

 tions. 



The largest field meet that was ever held 

 in the United States except the pne in Jen- 

 kintown, near Philadelphia, in 1906, was 

 held on August 1 at Newark, N. Y., at the 

 home of Deroy Taylor. The number of ice- 

 cream cones handed out indicated there were 

 between 500 and 600 beekeej^ers present, 

 many of whom had apiaries running all the 

 way from 300 to 1,000 colonies. 



The president, 0. L. Hershiser, delivered 

 an interesting address on the price of honey 

 and the price of supplies. Among other 

 things he said: 



' ' Since 1912 the values of cattle, sheep, 

 hogs, corn, oats, clover seed, raw sugar, 

 beans, butter, cheese, eggs, chickens, pota- 



Pig. 2. — Eating 



honey ice cream at tlie big field meet lof beekeepers held at the home of Deroy Taylor, 

 Newark, N. Y., on Aug. 1. 



