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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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JUST NEWS 



SINCE early 

 boyhood, E. 

 E. Eoot has 

 suffered much 

 from earache, 

 his last trouble 

 along this line 

 being as recent 

 as two years 

 ago. This sum- 

 mer he noticed that he was gradually be- 

 coming deaf; and^ on going to a specialist 

 who had cared for him in the past, he found 

 that the continued inflammation had finally 

 caused an accumulation of pus in the inner 

 ear, thus necessitating what is known in 

 surgery as a "radical mastoid" operation. 

 This was successfully performed on Monday, 

 Sept. 8. 



Mr. Eoot was able to leave the hospital 

 on Sept. 17, but will have to continue treat- 

 ments for some weeks to come. Fear of 

 any complication now being remote, there 

 is every reason for a complete recovery. It 

 it a strange coincidence that this same trou- 

 ble is what caused the early death of that 

 able apicultural writer and authority, W. 

 Z. Hutchinson, the founder and editor of 

 The Beekeepers' Eeview. 



Later: Mr. Eoot is back in the office and 

 says he is feeling fine. 

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Our Texas correspondent, F. B. Paddock, 

 State Entomologist of Texas, has tendered 

 his resignation and has accepted the posi- 

 tion of State Apiarist of Iowa. A man hav- 

 ing so wide a view of beekeeping is bound 

 to make himself invaluable wherever his 

 work may take him. We are glad to say 

 that, altho in a different State, Mr. Pad- 

 dock has agreed to continue as our corres- 

 pondent. 



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The fall field meeting of the New Jersey 

 Beekeepers' Association was held at the 

 State apiary at New Lisbon on Sept. 10. 

 Demonstrations were given of packing and 

 unpacking, queen-finding, queen-introduc- 

 tion, and treatment of American foul brood. 



The Northern Idaho Beekeepers ' Associa- 

 tion was organized at Sandpoint, June 26, 

 1919. Arthur Sires of Sandpoint was elect- 

 ed president; E. A. Anthony of Eathdrum, 

 vice-president; and Edgar L. Ludwick, the 

 Bonner County farm agent, secretary and 

 treasurer. The new association expects to 

 hold a meet twice a 3'ear. 



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The annual meeting of the Northern Il- 

 linois and Southern Wisconsin Beekeepers' 

 association will be held in Eockford, 111., in 

 Memorial Hall, on Tuesday, Oct. 21. 



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At the Kansas State Fair, held at Topeka, 

 were displayed colonies of different strains, 

 hives, devices, wax, various honeys, honey 

 vinegar, fruit and cookery sweetened with 



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honey, and flow- 

 e r i n g plants 

 from which the 

 different honeys 

 were gathered. 

 The exhibit in 

 the apiary sec- 

 tion was unusu- 

 ally good. The 

 prizes were tak- 

 en by Eoy Bunger, A. V. Small, A. M. Eock, 

 O. A. Keeue, Geo. Pratt, and Jas. A. Murrel. 



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Eenting of bees has become an industry 

 in the Yakima valley, Washington. E. 

 Bowles, who harvested $12,000 worth of 

 cherries from a 6i/4-acre orchard this year, 

 lias comi^leted negotiations with Dr. C. E. 

 Pouting to rent 40 stands of bees from the 

 Pouting apiary next spring at $5 each. . 



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Howard Myers was working over a250-gal- 

 lon honey vat, 9 feet deep and nearly full of 

 strained honey, when he lost his footing and 

 plunged into the vat, sinking into the honey 

 until he was all but covered. His partner, 

 John Adams, grabbed him by the hair of 

 his head and held on until Mrs. Adams 

 brought a chain which Myers fastened 

 around himself, when he was drawn out, 

 stickier, but no sweeter for his experience. 

 —The Buffalo Express. 



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The Cayuga County Beekeepers ' Society 

 held a basket picnic at the home of Geo. 

 L. Ferris of Five Corners, N. Y., on Tuesday, 

 Aug. 26. Between 60 and 70 beekeepers at- 

 tended. Addresses were given by Prof. Eea 

 of the New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture, Ithaca, N. Y., and C. E. Weatherby, 

 Gountv Farm Bureau. 



H. A. Scullen, bee expert from Washing- 

 ton State College, has visited this locality 

 in an effort to determine the cause of ex- ' 

 cessive mortality among bees. W. H. Tucker 

 reports 80 colonies lost and 150 badly de- 

 pleted at a loss of from $10,000 to $12,000. 

 E. E. Starkey of Biggam reports 50 colonies 

 entirely lost and others depleted. His loss 

 is $2,000. K. P. Euna states that of 25 

 thriving hives he has not enough left for 

 one. Harry Fisher, Don Pearl, and others 

 report similar conditions. — Spokesman Ee- 

 view. « . * 



The Kansas Beekeepers ' Association will 

 hold their annual meeting for 1919 at To- 

 peka, Kansas, Dec. 18-19. 

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The following is the program for the Ex- 

 tension Short Course for commercial bee- 

 keepers, to be held in Yakima, Wash., Nov. 

 10-15. Monday: A talk by Dr. E. F. Phillips 

 on ' ' Behavior of Bees in the Fall, ' ' followed 

 by Geo. S. Demuth on "Beekeeping Prac- 

 tice in the Fall." Tuesday: "Behavior of 

 Bees in Winter," Dr. Phillips; "Beekeep- 



