1920 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



47 



Departnunt of Agriculture, Marion, 

 Wis. Prof. F. B. Paddock, of Ames, 

 Iowa, State Apiarist of Iowa, repre- 

 senting the Iowa Beekeepei " Asso- 

 ciation. E. E. Tyler, Columbia, Mo., 

 President, and J. F. Diemer, Liberty, 

 Mo., Secretary, and W. L. Wiley, 

 Brunswick, Mo., of Missouri Bee- 

 keepers' Association. W. C. Collier, 

 of Goliad, Texas, President, and E. 

 G. LeStourgeon, of San Antonio, 

 Texas, Manager of the Texas Honey 

 Producers' Association. t)r. J. H. 

 Merrill, Manhattan, Kans., State Api- 

 arist, and Joseph A. Reinecke, 

 Seneca, Kans., representing the Kan- 

 sas Beekeepers' Association. Frank 

 G. O'Dell, Omaha, Xebr., Director 

 of Research, Capper's Weekly. C. B. 

 Baxter, Leavenworth, Kans. R. W. 

 Hardy, Nebraska, President Honey 

 Producers' Association. A. E. Shell- 

 horn, Billings, Mont., Vice President 

 Montana Beekeepers' Association. 

 Frank B. Terriberry, State Inspector 

 of Apiaries, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 Frank Rauchfuss, Denver, Colo., Sec- 

 retary Colorado Honey Producers' 

 Association. Wesley Foster, Boulder, 

 Colo., and Mrs. Cora D. Polhemus, 

 Lamar, Colo., Director National Bee- 

 keepers' Association, of the Colorado 

 State Beekeepers' Association. J. B. 

 Ramage, Yakima, Wash., President 

 Washington State Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation. C. B. Justice, Los Angeles, 

 Calif., Manager California Honey 

 Producers' Exchange. Chas. D. Mize, 

 Mt. Hope, Kans., President Kansas 

 Beekeepers' Association. 



It was decided to organize an en- 

 tirely new association, since there 

 has been much dissatisfaction with 

 the present National and its policies. 

 The name of the new organization 

 will be American Honey Producers' 

 League. The plan of operation as 

 agreed upon is entirelj dififerent 

 from any similar organization. A 

 point of particular interest lies in 

 the fact that while teachers of bee- 

 keeping. State officials and dealers in 

 bee supplies are admitted as mem- 

 bers of the association, they are not 

 permitted to vote. Control of the 

 policies of the association are thus 

 retained in the hands of the produc- 

 ers. 



The policy of the organization will 

 be to foster the development of the 

 industry in every possible way, in- 

 cluding the securing of uniform in- 

 spection laws, better marketing fa- 

 cilities, more liberal appropriations 

 for educational work, legal protec- 

 tion for the beekeeper, standardiza- 

 tion of supplies and a liberal amount 

 of research work on the problems 

 of the beekeeper in the various State 

 institutions. 



Since so many important beekeep- 

 ing organizations were represented 

 and the new plan avoids most of the 

 things which aroused so much an- 

 tagonism to former associations, it is 

 confidently expected that the founda- 

 tion has been laid for a new and 

 powerful organization which will be 

 able to do much for the industry. 

 The organization was completed af- 

 ter a free and full discussion on the 

 part of the delegates and the fullest 



agreement as to details. The follow- 

 ing officers were elected : 



President, E. G. LeStourgeon, San 

 Antonio, Texas. 



Vice President, George H. Rea, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



Secretary-Treasurer, Chas. B. Jus- 

 tice, Los Angeles, Cal. 



Executive Committee — Frank 

 Rauchfuss, Denver, Colo.; F. B. Pad- 

 dock, Ames, Iowa; E. S. Miller, Val- 

 paraiso, Ind. 



The constitution in full will appear 

 in a later issue. 



Tulip-Tree or "Tulip-Poplar," as a 

 Vernacular Name 



By John H. Lovell 



AN important honey plant 

 throughout the Appalachian 

 hardwood forest region is the 

 tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera). 

 A very common vernacular name in 

 use for this species is "tulip-poplar," 

 which is most objectionable from 

 every point of view. The tulip-tree 

 is not a poplar (Populus). It not only 

 belongs to a dififerent genus, family 

 and order, but not improbably is de- 

 rived from an entirely different 

 stock. The name "tulip-poplar" is a 

 misnomer, and it is often misleading 

 in the extreme. Beekeepers not in- 

 frequently omit the word tulip and 

 refer to the tulip-tree as poplar, 

 sometimes corrupted into "popular." 

 There is then no way of distinguish- 

 ing, except from the context, this 

 species from the true poplar, the spe- 

 cies of which are numerous, common, 

 and extend over a large area, inclu- 

 sive of the tulip-tree. The name 

 "tulip-poplar" should, therefore, be 

 dropped both by our bee journals and 

 beekeepers, and tulip-tree used in its 

 stead. The name tulip-tree is prefer- 

 able in every way, and there is no 

 possible objection to its use. It is 



the name given in all the leading 

 manuals of botany; the reader will 

 look in vain fpr "tulip-poplar," either 

 in the 7th edition of Gray's Manual 

 or the Illustrated Flora of Britton 

 and Brown. 



The ecology'' of the tulip-tree and 

 the poplars is entirely different. The 

 poplars are wind-pollinated and the 

 flowers are wholly nectarless, while 

 the tulip-tree is insect-pollinated and 

 a valuable honey plant. Hence it is 

 very undesirable that the two genera 

 should be confounded. The advan- 

 tage of using the name tulip-tree is 

 so clear that it ought to be sufficient 

 to call attention to the above facts. 

 Let "tulip-poplar" drop into deserved 

 oblivion. 



Maine. 



A Novel Swarm Catcher 



The Hayek Brothers at Quincy, 111., 

 have their apiaries in a hollow be- 

 tween two hills. It is a protected 

 situation surrounded by tall trees. 

 Except for the tendency of swarms 

 to cluster high in the tree tops it is 

 an ideal location. 



To overcome the difficulty of hiving 

 swarms which take to the high ele- 

 vations they have invented a novel 

 swarm catcher, which is shown in 

 the accompanying picture. At the 

 lower end are steel spikes to stick 

 into the ground when in use. A dou- 

 ble pole about 25 feet in length can 

 be extended to forty feet by means 

 of a small rope and pulley. A swing- 

 ing basket at the end holds the 

 swarm. A similar pole with a hook 

 on the end is used to jar the swarm 

 into the basket when it is in place 

 below the cluster of bees. It saves 

 much climbing about to get down 

 swarms and is indispensable to the 

 beekeeper in such a situation who 

 does not practice clipping his queens. 



ilyack brothers' adjustable swarm catcher. 



