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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



February 



ODDS AND ENDS 



Inspectors' Meeting 



A meeting of the Apicultural In- 

 spectors of the Upper Mississippi 

 Valley was held at Chicago on De- 

 cember 6, at the request lof B. F. Kin- 

 dig. Uniform methods of inspection 

 and certification were discussed. The 

 States represented by the official Api- 

 ary Inspectors were: Michigan, Wis- 

 consin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, 

 Iowa, Ohio. New York and Ontario. 



Collier to Move 



W. C. Collier, long of Gol'ad, Texas, 

 is making arrangements to move 

 to Hillsboro, in Hill County, in the 

 cotton belt. We understand that he 

 expects to combine the shipping of 

 live bees with production of honey. 

 Collier is one of the well-known 

 Texas producers, prominent in the af- 

 fairs of the Co-operative Association 

 of that State. 



Bees Go to Store for Honey 



A New York newspaper recently 

 gave an account of a case where the 

 bees found a way into a store where 

 comb honey was kept on open 

 shelves and carried away a goodly 

 portion before the owner was able 

 to shut them out. 



Ca'.ifornia Meet 



The thirty-second annual meeting 

 of the California State Beekeepers' 

 .Association will meet for a four-days' 

 session March 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1921, in 

 Oakland. 



Gary W. Hartman, President of the 

 Alameda County Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation and Chairman of the Pro- 

 gram Committee for the annual 

 meeting, writes that they expect to 

 make it the biggest and best meet- 

 ing in the history of the organization. 

 The Chamber of Commerce of Oak- 

 land and University of California at 

 Berkeley, joined with the Alameda 

 County Beekeepers' Association in 

 their effort to get the meeting place 

 at Oakland, and were successful. 



Mr Hartman is anxious to get in 

 touch with beekeepers from the East, 

 who expect to be in California at the 

 time, so as to see they are supplied 

 with literature and in every way kept 

 informed in reference to the meet- 

 ing. 



On the program will be found the 

 leading beekeepers of the West, as 

 well as some of the best from the 

 East. Those inferested can have 

 programs mailed to them as soori as 

 they are off the press, by addressing: 

 Cary W. Hartman, Chairman Pro- 

 gram Committee, 400 Hutchinson 

 Building, Oakland, California. 



program to such iriatters as are of 

 direct interest to those engaged in 

 ttlucational or research work. Prof. 

 H. F. Wilson, of the W'isconsin State 

 University, was elected chairman of 

 the section for the coining year, and 

 Prof. G. M. Bentley was re-elected 

 secretary. The following resolutions 

 were adopted : 



"The Section of .\piculture of the 

 -American .Association of Economic 

 Ent'omoiogists hereby axpresses its 

 approval of the informal agreement 

 made by the apiary inspectors of the 

 north Central States and Canada at 

 a recent meeting, December 6, 1920. 

 held in Chicago, 111., as follows: 



"Section 1. Resolved, That the 

 under.signed apiary inspectors of the 

 North Central States and Canada, be- 

 lieve and agree that inspection cer- 

 tificates for the interstate transpor- 

 tation of bees and used apiary sup- 

 plies should be given only to apiaries 

 which have never been infected, or 

 which have been free from American 

 foulbrood for at least one year. 



"Provided, however, that bees in 

 combless packages supplied with food 

 made from pure sugar only, are ex- 

 empted from the provisions of the 

 section. 



"Section 2. It is further agreed 

 that whenever a case of the inter- 

 state transportation of bees or used 

 bee supplies, with or without an in- 

 spection certificate, comes to the at- 

 tention of the apiary inspector of any 

 State, fuill information will be sent to 

 the State inspector of the State of 

 destination. 



"It is the further belief and recom- 

 mendation of the Section of Apicul- 

 ture that Federal Legislation provid- 

 ing for the regulation of the inter- 

 state transportation of bees and used 

 apiary supplies sbould be enacted." 

 E. D. Ball, 

 E. C. Cotton, 

 S. B. Fracker, 



Commiittee. 



A Notable Meeting 



The Chicago meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists during the holiday vacation 

 was well attended. The program of 

 the section devoted to apiculture was 

 the best in its history. It is the 

 policy of the section to cionfine its 



A Co-Operative Association 



The newly-organized W'isconsin 

 Honey Producers' Co-operative As- 

 sociation will be guided in its des- 

 tinies by A. Swahn, of Ellsworth, 

 President, and F. F. Stelling, Reeds- 

 ville. Vice President, and H. F. Wil- 

 son, Madison, Secretary-Treasurer. 

 These temporary officers were chosen 

 at a recent meeting of the new asso- 

 ciation at Madi.son, and the Wiscon- 

 sin movement has received the sanc- 

 tion of the State authorities by in- 

 corporating for $1,000. This tempor- 

 ary incorporation capital is to be in- 

 creased to $25,000 by the end of the 

 season, shares being sold by solicita- 

 tion of the officers at $10 each, 



,At the last State convention the 

 movement received the official ap- 

 proval of the beekeepers of Wiscon- 

 sin and the organization has been 

 completed as rapidly as possible. The 

 purposes of the body are to "aid its 

 members in marketing their honey 

 crop at a reasonable and just price," 

 accordi'ng to statements issued by 

 the Secretary. It is proposed to de- 

 velop some plap of advertising and 



distilibutfing the honey crop. The 

 movement is necessitated, according 

 to Mr. Wilson, because thousands of 

 pounds of honey are being dumped 

 on the market by small dealers at 

 prices which do not justify the time, 

 labor and expense involved in their 

 beekeeping work. 



Speed in Honey Production 



A farmer desirous of keeping bees 

 decided tO' buy a swarm from one of 

 his neighbors. So he bought an 

 empty hive. The swarm was late in 

 coming, but it came at last. As the 

 parents were not at home, the neigh- 

 bor who brought the bees followed 

 the advice of the daughter of the 

 house and placed the bees in the new 

 hive. There were neither combs nor 

 comb-foundation. The following day 

 the same lady happened to have the 

 visit of a few girl friends. She 

 served tea, butter sandwiches, pastry. 

 Then a happy thought struck her: 

 "We have bees, we will have 

 some honey. Yes, it will be so nice!" 

 Quick as lightning she goes to the 

 looking glass, puts on her hat, and 

 runs to the neighbor with a glass jar. 

 "Oh, please will you not take some 

 honey from Our bees for us? I 

 have some visitors." Just think; they 

 were hived yesterday! — .Adapted from 

 the "Bulletin de la Societe Ro- 

 mande." 



Honey Sales 



Co-operation is in the wind. The 

 beekeepers of the "Federation Vau- 

 doise," Switzerland, are organizing a 

 ■'sales agency" for honey. No one 

 will be compelled to sell through th[s 

 agency, those who sell through it 

 paying a premium for the benefit of 

 the association upon the quantity sold 

 through this agency. The margin 

 thus made, after paying expenses, will 

 be expended in advertising, sending 

 out slips and pamphlets, for the pur- 

 pose of making honey more popular 

 and increasing the demand. 



The editor of the "Bulletin" com- 

 ments upon this by saying that al- 

 though honey has always sold re-idily 

 in Switzerland, it would be a mistake 

 to wait till the shipwreck before 

 building salvage boats. That is very 

 well put. The Swiss can give us good 

 example in many things 



Loss of Bees in Maryland 



According to available 1920 census 

 figures, there are only 16,117 colonics 

 of bees in Maryland, as against 

 25,156 colonies in 1910, or a loss of 

 nearlv .30 per cent. The honey crop 

 for 1920 was 215,685 pounds, or a per 

 colony production of 13^i pounds. 



Gleanings $1.50 



In a recent issue of Western 

 Honeybee the .A. 1, Root Co. an- 

 nounce that after February 1 the 

 subscription price of Gleanings will 

 be $1,.50 per year. In view of the 

 fact that publishing costs have in- 

 creased out of proportion to costs in 

 other lines, and also of the fact that 

 many publications have increased 

 their subscription rates from two to 



