October, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN 



E E CMJ L T U R E 



647 



Like A. I. Eoot he believes in utilizing the- 

 forces of nature, using not only wind power 

 but water also. A mere description can give 

 but a faint idea of the beauty of the 

 place. It is rather hard to get to, but well 

 worth while after one gets there. 



B. F. Kindig in his address showed that 

 the beekeepers of Michigan in the fight on 

 bee diseases had many times been treating 

 for American when they really had Euro- 

 pean foul brood. He went on to state there 

 is a malignant stage of European that looks 

 very much like the American type, and that 



it is important that the beekeeper know 

 what he is treating. The bacteriological 

 department of the college at East Lansing 

 has now a bacteriologist who is giving his 

 whole time to the diseases of bees. This 

 will be supplemental to the work done in 

 Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Kindig is one of the best bee instruct- 

 ors in the United States. He is certainly 

 making good in Michigan, and Michigan 

 needs just such a man, because it is one of 

 the three leaders in bee culture east of the 

 Mississippi. 



EXTENT OF BEEKEEPERS' MEETS 



Extemion Work Big Factor in Up- 

 building Beekeeping. Number of 

 Progressive Beekeepers Increasing 



By E. F. Phaiips 



IN the August 

 number of 

 Gleanings the 

 editor has given 

 us an interest- 

 ing account of 

 some of the field 

 meetings of bee- 

 keepers which it 

 has been the 

 good fortune of the editor and of the bee- 

 keepers for him to attend. As he says, 

 such meetings are becoming more common; 

 but I wonder if the readers of Gleanings 

 realize how very common they are. For 

 some time the apiary inspectors have been 

 coming more and 

 more to realize the 

 greater benefit to 

 be derived from 

 their work if they 

 could get a number 

 of beekeepers to- 

 gether all at one 

 time for instruc- 

 tion in disease con- 

 trol, and these men, 

 who are our origi- 

 nal extension men, 

 have held, and are 

 holding, many such 

 meetings. A large 

 number of the 

 States now have 

 men who are devoting their time and atten- 

 tion to the upbuilding of the beekeeping in- 

 dustry, and these men have also been active 

 in planning and holding meetings for the 

 betterment of beekeeping. Beekeepers them- 

 selves have long recognized that it is only 

 by getting together for an exchange of 

 views that they make progress in their busi- 

 ness, and various state and county associa- 

 tions have for years been holding meetings. 

 Formerly, as indicated by the editor, most 

 of these were the regular annual meetings, 

 usually held in the winter season, altho the 

 holding of special field meetings or picnics 

 in the summer is becoming more and more 

 common. The summer meetings in New 

 York, under the auspices of the State As- 

 sociation of Beekeepers' Societies, have 



An American foul-brood gathering 



been among the 

 best that have 

 been held, from 

 the standpoint 

 of both helpful- 

 ness and attend- 

 ance. The grand 

 total of the num- 

 ber of meetings 

 so held and of 

 the number of beekeepers who profited by 

 these meetings is only a matter of specula- 

 tion. We' all know, however, that these 

 gatherings have had an important part in 

 making beekeeping the important industry 

 which it is today. 



Since 1916 an ad- 

 ditional factor has 

 been introduced in- 

 t o the plan of 

 things in beekeep- 

 ing, for it was then 

 that the first ex- 

 tension men in bee- 

 keeping were put 

 on the road. From 

 the very beginning 

 of this work it was 

 recognized that 

 there should be a 

 closer organization 

 of the beekeepers 

 of the country, more 

 associations and 

 more chances for them to get together. The 

 bee journals have since then recorded the 

 formation of a large number of new county 

 associations of beekeepers, but none of them 

 have recorded all these. At least 300 such 

 associations have been formed, chiefly thru 

 the efforts of the extension men. What this 

 means for the future of beekeeping we can- 

 not estimate, but several States, notably 

 Wisconsin and New York, are forming all 

 of these associations within the State into 

 a federation thru the state organizations. 

 It is thru such federation that success in 

 the future of beekeeping organization un- 

 doubtedly lies; and this is recognized by 

 the National Association, as shown by the 

 plan to have a gathering of the representa- 

 tives of all associations at Kansas City in 



California. 



