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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



January 



the good of the apiary, but also use- 

 ful in their fruits. 



The fruit trees also give honey, but 

 their bloom is of very short dura- 

 tion. We see that Nature has marked 

 a role for the bees in the fertilization 

 of plants, and they are drawn to 

 them at the proper time by the odor 

 of their nectar glands. 



It is to be regretted that the api- 

 aries, which suffered a great deal 

 at first by the seizure of the domains 

 by the peasants, should have again 

 suffered when the bolchevik sol- 

 diers, during the civil war, in their 

 turn, also pillaged the hives, not in 

 the way of beekeeping, but in the 

 way of thieves and robbers, thus de- 

 stroying many apiaries which consti- 

 tuted a part of the wealth of the 

 country. I trust that our own coun- 

 try may be preserved from such a 

 calamity. 



Ph. JEANNERET. 



(Bulletin dc la Societe Romande, 

 Switzerland). 



A CAPABLE BEEKEEPER 



By T. C. Johnson 



While inspecting bees I have met 

 many fine beekeepers, and I always 

 find good beekeepers fine people to 

 deal with, let them be either men 

 or women. It seems to depend a 

 great deal more on the beekeeper 

 than the locality whether the b^usi- 

 ness is successful. I wish to mention 

 F. W. Luebeck, of Knox, Stark Coun- 

 ty, Indiana, whom' I had the pleas- 

 ure of meeting for the first time 

 three years ago. I feel sure that Mr. 

 Luebeck is a wonder. He gets more 

 honey with less work than any other 

 man in Indiana. Mr. Luebeck came 

 from Germany in his young days, 

 lived in Chicago 20 years and then 

 went to Canada. From there he 

 went to -Alaska, crossing Alaska in a 

 self-built boat. He traveled by boat 

 in summer and dog team in winter. 

 He returned to Chicago in 1902, but 

 city life did not appeal to him, so in 

 1902 he came to Stark County, Indi- 

 ana, and settled on a small, sandy 

 farm about 7 miles northeast of 

 Knox, and started beekeeping with 

 9 colonies the first year. The follow- 

 ing winter he built SO hives and 

 bought all the bees he could find 

 from farmers, in all sorts of hives. 

 At present he has 300. He has a Ford 

 1-ton truck and moves his bees, or 

 a part of them, 29 miles twice a year, 

 so as to get two crops of honey, and 

 he sure gets it. He uses the standard 

 10-frame body with shallow extracting 

 super on top, and runs entirely for 

 extracted honey. As strange as it 

 may seem to good beekeepers, he 

 never takes out any frames to look 

 through any colony unless he sees 

 they are not up to standard. He 

 claims he has colonies that he has 

 not had a frame out of in 3 years. It 

 is not everybody that can get by like 

 that, but he has all movable frames 

 and a very fine outfit. He 's a real 

 mechanic, having made his own 8- 

 frame extractor, and all his honey 

 tanks. One holds 3,500 pounds and 



he purchases honey enough to fill it 

 several times every season. He has 

 a fine home that he has built himself 

 and finished inside. He has made 

 all this from his bees, his only busi- 

 ness. In all my travels in Indiana I 

 have never seen supers piled so high, 

 or all colonies so full of bees and 

 honey from top to bottom. I could 

 not look in the top without some- 

 thing to climb up on. He has a crop 

 of 45,000 pounds or better this year 

 from 300 colonies, while some of his 

 neighbors got scarcely anything. 

 Indiana. 



DIRECTORY OF BEEKEEPING 

 OFFICIALS 



An attempt has been made to se- 

 cure the names of all those engaged 

 in teaching, inspection or extension 

 work in beekeeping, and also secre- 

 taries of beekeepers' associations. 

 Every State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and College of Agriculture has 

 been asked to supply the names of 

 those connected with its staff. Since 

 it has been found to be impossible to 

 get the names of all the secretaries 

 of county and local beekeepers' as- 

 sociations, these are not included. 

 This list was compiled in November, 

 and several changes have taken place 

 since that time. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- 

 CULTURE— 



Bureau of Entomology, office 'of 

 Bee Culture. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in 

 charge. 



Mr. George S. Demuth, Apicultural 

 Assistant. 



Mr. Lloyd R. Watson, Assistant 

 Apiculturist. 



Mr. Arnold P. Sturtevant, Special- 

 ist in Bacteriology of Bee Diseases. 



Mr. G. H. Cale, Apiculturist in Ex- 

 tension Work. 



BACTERIOLOGY— 



Dr. G. F. White, Investigations in 

 Bee Diseases. 



NATIONAL— 



H. B. Parks, San Antonio, Acting 

 Secretary American Honey Produc- 

 ers' League. 

 ALABAMA— 



Dr. F. L. Thomas, Auburn, Special- 

 ist in Entomology, Extension Lec- 

 turer. 

 ARIZONA— 



Charles H. Vorhies, Tucson, Ento- 

 mologist, in charge of teaching and 

 experimental work in beekeeping. 



Earl F. Matteson, St. David, State 

 Apiary Inspector. 



Geo. M. Frizzell, Tempe, Secretary 

 State Beekeepers' Association. 



Don C. Mote, State Entomologist, 

 investigations in bee diseases. 



ARKANSAS— , 



W. J. Baerg, Fayetteville, Entomol- 

 ogist, in charge. Secretary State 

 Beekeepers' Association. 



CALIFORNIA— 



Prof. G. A. Coleman, Berkeley, 

 Apiculturist in charge. 

 Ralph Benton, Berkeley, Instructor 



in charge of correspondence course in 

 beekeeping. 



A. B. Shaffner, Los Angeles, Sec- 

 retary State Beekeepers' Association. 



C. E. Millspaugh, Los Angeles, Gen- 

 eral Manager Honey Producers' Co- 

 operative Exchange. 



A. B. Shaffner, Los Angeles, Secre- 

 tary Consolidated Honey Producers' 

 of California, Incorporated. 



Miss E. A. Barr, Los Angeles, Sec- 

 retary Southern California Beekeep- 

 ers' Association. 



Official List of County Inspectors 



Alameda — Cary W. Hartman, Oak- 

 land. 



Butte — J. W. Meakins, Chico. 

 Contra Costa — Geo. W. Moore, An- 

 tioch. 



Fresno — C. R. Snyder, Selma. 

 Glenn — M. A. Sayler, Orland. 



Imperial — A. Logan, Calipatria. 

 Inyo — E. E. Burdick, Big Pine. 



Kern — H. L. Weems, Bakersfield. 



Kings— P. H. Bales, Hanford. 



Lassen — O. C. Miller, Standish. 



Los Angeles — Geo. D. De Sellem, 

 121 Temple St., Los Angeles. 



Merced — W. W. Thompson, Dos 

 Palos. 



Monterey — A. Norton, Pacific 

 Grove, 518, Fountain Ave. 



Napa— W. D. Butler, Napa. 



Orange — J. E. Pleasants, Orange. 



Riverside — T. O. Andrews, Corona. 



Sacramento — B. B. Hogaboom, Elk 

 Grove. 



San Bernardino — B. H. Stanley, Ri- 

 alto. 



San Diego — Fred Hanson, San Di- 

 ego, 4430 New Jersey St. 



San Joaquin — C. H. L. Souder, Lin- 

 den. 



Santa Cruz— Phil J. Strubel, Felton. 



Shasta — E. S. Bartell, Anderson. 



Siskiyou — Roy D. Tait, Hornbrook. 



Stanislaus — Willis Lynch, Salida. 



Tehama — J. P. Summers, Los Mol- 

 inos. 



Tulare— S. J. Miller, Tulare. 



Tuolumne — H. H. Sherrard, Sonora. 



Ventura — Newton Cale, Ojai. 



COLORADO— 



C. P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, State En- 

 tomologist in charge 



Wesley Foster, Boulder, Deputy 

 Bee Inspector. 

 County Inspectors— 



W. C. Evans, Ft. Collins, Larimer 

 County. 



S. A. Mendum, Boulder, Boulder 

 County. 



Walter Martin, Brighton, Adams 

 County. 



N. L. Henthorne, Platteville, Weld 

 County. 



George R. Gilmore, Ft. Morgan, 

 Morgan County. 



Chas. Hollingshead, Sterling, Lo- 

 gan County. 



W. H. Birney, Las Animas, Bent 

 County. 



George McMannan, Carlton, Prow- 

 ers County. 



Harry Ingalls, Ordway, Crowley 

 County. 



A. S. Parsons, Rocky Focd, Otero 

 County. 



