October, 1919 



(; LEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



667 



FROM NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH 



the large bee moth is the more prevalent. 

 The lesser bee moth has never been report- 

 ed from southwest Texas. It would seem 

 that this moth is migrating westward with 

 less rapidity than its larger relative. 



College Station, Tex. H. B. Parks. 



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In Minnesota ;' Greatest state. Fair 



m Historv — Attend- 

 ance 582,i!17 — Receipts $335,000 — Profits 

 $175,000— Attendance 150,000 Over Previ- 

 ous High Mark— $3,000,000 Expansion Need- 

 ed — Plans Begun." So read the big head 

 lines in the Minneapolis and St. Paul papers 

 at the close of the State Fair. And we re- 

 joice to be able to announce that the bee- 

 keepers of the State took advantage of the 

 opportunity to the extent that the honey 

 exhibit far exceeded that of any of the last 

 few yeai-s. This was due in large measure 

 to Carl B. Straves, superintendent of the 

 apiary exhibit, who has been untiring in his 

 efforts to arouse the interest of the bee- 

 keepers of the State. We have been inform- 

 ed that no other State in the Union allows 

 so much building space for apiary exhibits 

 as does Minnesota. This space was filled, 

 and i^lans are already under way for en- 

 largement of the building and rearrange- 

 ment of the interior jjarts. We are confi- 

 dent that the beekeepers will not disap- 

 point those who are planning for larger 

 things, but will give full and hearty co- 

 operation towards making the apiary ex- 

 hibit of 1920 the best and largest ever made 

 in this country. 



Grover C. Matthews of Colchester, 111., 

 has just come to the State and entered upon 

 his duties as assistant professor of bee cul- 

 ture at the State University. Mr. Matthews 

 has had experience as a practical beekeeper 

 on a large scale in the alfalfa districts of 

 the West and we believe that his coming to 

 the State will be an inspiration to our com- 

 mercial beekeepers to branch out still 

 more extensively in the business. The over- 

 flowing enthusiasm of Professor Jager, and 

 the large practical exi^erience of Professor 

 Matthews as his assistant, give the beekeep- 

 ers of Minnesota reasons to expect great 

 things from the Bee Culture Division of 

 the University. 



On the 16th of August the beekeepers of 

 the southern portion of Mille Lacs County 

 held a field meeting. In automobiles they 

 drove from apiary to apiary where demon- 

 strations of various kinds were given. Dur- 

 ing the day there were fully 100 different 

 persons in attendance at one or more of 

 the meetings. The itinerary was arrangerl 

 by the county agent, Mr. Dahlberg, who is 

 wide-awake to the interests of the beekeep- 

 ers of his county. It is estimated that at 

 least 50 tons of honey will be shipped out 

 from that locality this year. 



The Winona County beekeepers held their 



annual summer picnic at Homer on August 

 28, which was greatly enjoyed by all pres- 

 ent. After a feast of good things prepared 

 and served by the ladies, the neighboring 

 apiaries were visited and various plans and 

 methods illustrated. About 40 were in at- 

 tendance. Chas. D. Blaker. 

 Minneajiolis, Minn. 



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In North Carolina. ^'- ^- ^^ms, bee 



specialist for the 

 co-operative Federal and State movement 

 for the development of bee culture in North 

 Carolina, is rounding out his second year in 

 the State, and the progress of improved 

 beekeeping is quite gratifying. There are 

 a score or more of beekeepers' clubs, and 

 these and many individual beekeepers not 

 yet allied with any of the clubs are putting 

 in improved hives and adopting the improv- 

 ed methods of beekeeping. One bee- 

 keeper is reported as having transferred all 

 but ten of his hundred-colony apiary from 

 old box hives into modern hives and is ob- 

 taining more than three times the quantity 

 of honey formerly obtained per hive. This 

 beekeeper is so delighted with this change 

 that he is putting in 500 more improved 

 hives. 



Along with the adoption of the improved 

 hives is a change from the old black bee to 

 the Italian bees, and the change is spread- 

 ing rapidly, with promise that North Caro- 

 lina will ere long take a front rank among 

 honey-producing States. 



One of the biggest acquisitions in the in- 

 dustry the past year has been the establish- 

 ment by Elton Warner of Porto Rico of a 

 600-hive apiary in Buncombe County, near 

 Asheville. He has thousands of colonies 

 in Porto Rican apiaries, and will now en- 

 large his North Carolina apiaries and make 

 Asheville his home. 



E. E. Kirkham of Jamaica, whose father 

 is a beekeeper in that country, served in the 

 world war with Canadian forces and has 

 now located as a beekeeper in Beaufort 

 County. He has a 100-colony apiary near 

 Washington where he is getting fine results. 

 As a rule North Carolina bees are remark- 

 ably free from disease. Just now two api- 

 aries, owned by the same man, in the edge 

 of Dismal Swamp, partly Perquimans Coun- 

 ty, are infected with European foul brood. 

 It seems that the outbreak there has been 

 traced to a migratory commercial apiary. 

 The disease spread to wild bees in swamps 

 adjacent to the Sound, and has now ex- 

 tended thru the swamps and across a neck 

 of the Sound 12 miles to these other api- 

 aries. It is expected that the disease will 

 be checked before it gets out of Gates and 

 Perquimans counties. Specimens sent to Dr. 

 Phillips have been i^ronounced European 

 foul brood. 



Raleigh, N. C. Wm. J. Martin. 



