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GLEANIx\GS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



ties. This has been done 

 in New York, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Wisconsin, and 

 other States for years, 

 and this movement will, 

 no doubt, increase the 

 usefulness and number 

 of the local societies. 



Those of us who have 

 been in close touch with 

 association work realize 

 that State and provincial 

 associations, in affiliation 

 with the National, are 

 desirable and necessary 

 in order to give greater 

 strength and influence to 

 the National. It is al- 

 so desirable and necessa- 

 ry in order to reach the 

 largest number of bee- 

 keepers. In order to 

 carry out the greatest ed- 

 ucational campaign, and 

 reach, as it were, the 

 very door of the bee- 

 keeper, we must have 



county or local associations in affiliation with the 

 State or provincial organizations, and these, 

 again, with the larger. We realize that there is 

 something needed to make bee-keeping a more 

 permanent business with half of the bee-keeping 

 population. Let us treat the industry more se- 

 riously and it will reward us. 



RECENT LOCAL CONVENTIONS AND SOME OF THEIR 

 OFFICERS. 



On April 18 the Simcoe County Bee-keepers' 

 Association met at Barrie. The attendance was 

 good. Reports handed in indicated that bees 

 had wintered well — probably not more than 10 

 per cent having perished, and these died on ac- 

 count of having improper stores for winter. Three 

 members had their bees still in winter quartets. 

 As is generally the case in Ontario, an unusual 

 quantity of stores had been consumed by the bees 



NO 3.— A. I. ROOT'S "COTTAGE IN I HK WnoDS" NKAR BR.AUl-.NTOWN, FLA 



I. ROOT'S "CABIN IN THE WOODS" ON OUR ISLAND NEAR OSPREY, 

 MANATEE CO., FLA. SEE ARTICLE ON ANOTHER PAGE. 



during the past winter. R. F. Holtermann was 

 present, and in speaking on the subject assigned 

 him, " How to increase the average yield per col- 

 ony," gave some of the following points: Give 

 more and better stores, contracting the combs to 

 the strength of the stock, for winter. When pos- 

 sible, shelter the apiary from prevailing winds. 

 Use larger hives; shade and ventilate hives and 

 prevent natural swarms, and thus have more uni- 

 form colonies; pay more attention to blood in 

 bees. 



Pres. C. H. Wilson acted as chairman, and 

 Dennis Nolan, who is also a director of the On- 

 tario Bee-keepers' Association, made an excellent 

 secretary. 



MIDDLESEX BEE-KEEPERS. 



The above association met at London with 

 Pres. Miller in the chair, who is also president of 

 the Ontario Bee-keepers' 

 Association. In relating 

 experience, Mr. Kimball 

 de'^cribed a bee-house for 

 wintering bees above 

 ground. It had a four-inch 

 hollow wall in the center 

 with 12 inches of sawdust 

 inside and 8 inches of saw- 

 dust packing outside, giv- 

 ing four walls of lumber. 

 In reply to a question, he 

 admitted that sometimes 

 the temperature varied 

 greatly in a short time, but 

 he did not find that this 

 injured the bees. An inlet 

 and outlet for fresh and 

 foul air was provided. 



John McEwen related 

 his experience in wintering 

 bees packed in outside cases 

 or summer stands, and 

 showed pretty conclusive- 

 ly the desirability of hav- 



