38 THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW 



There were 560 invitations sent out, principally to Michigan 

 bee-keepers, so the attendance should have been good. Those who 

 did attend, however, were leading bee-keepers, and the discussions 

 were interesting and practical. 



We were fortunate in having with us a distinguished visitor 

 from Canada, Mr. Morley Pettit, Ontario's Provincial Apiarist. It 

 is needless to say that Mr. Pettit contributed many good pointers to 

 our convention. 



For the first time in a number of years an entire new set of 

 officers were elected. Jenner E. Morse, of Saginaw, was elected 

 president; David Running, of Grindstone City, was elected vice- 

 president, and O. H. Schmidt, Rt. No. 5, Bay City, Mich., was elected 

 secretary. 



Among the discussions taken up was one relative to a proposed 

 new foul brood law. There was a legislative committee appointed 

 previously which has under advisement this proposed law, and a per- 

 sonal report from them showed that the matter was having their 

 proper attention. Those in attendance were practically unanimous 

 in believing that an inspector should be appointed who can devote 

 his entire time to the work, doing educational work in the winter 

 and inspection in the summer. 



Mr. Pettit contributed the statement that the Ontario European 

 foul brood area covered around 7,000 square miles. It was com- 

 posed of three districts, two of about 3,000 square miles each, and 

 the third was smaller. In this territory the bee-keepers having 

 bright yellow bees seem to have no trouble from the disease even 

 though it is found in apiaries all around them. Yellow bees seem 

 to resist the disease better than the dark. 



In speaking of the desirability of the Italian bee, Mr. Pettit 

 stated that in one apiary of 50 hives there was produced over 200 

 pounds per colony last year. Mr. Johnson, of Battle Creek, who has 

 been testing the German black or brown bee, states that while he 

 secured good honey crops from them, their tendency to tolerate the 

 wax moth and allow robbing overbalanced their good points, and 

 that he intended testing the Carniolan. Mr. Crow, of Park Lake, 

 made a good report from the Carniolan bees. 



David Running, of Grindstone City, had a splendid wintering 

 report to make, having lost but two out of 318 colonies last winter. 

 Mr. Running's average crop last year was 92 pounds of extracted 

 honey per colony, and in 1911 it was 90 pounds. He puts his bees in 

 the cellar in November, but wants all winter feeding to be done by 

 the end of September. Mr. Running feeds each fall sugar-syrup for 

 winter stores. He has this winter 309 colonies in a cellar 15 x 23. 

 The cellar has a flue 9 x 13 inches, running from the bottom of the 

 cellar 25 feet hioh. He uses an eight-frame hive and wants each 



