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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



August 



FIRST AID TO THE BEEKEEPER 



By Prof. H. F. Wilson 



Co-operatice effort is absolutely 

 necessary for the success of any in- 

 dustry, and until that effort exists 

 there can be no great success in ordi- 

 nary times, and under adverse condi- 

 tions lack of organization means se- 

 vere losses to all. 



Bee husbandry has received a great 

 impetus during the past few years 

 and the methods of manipulation have 

 been greatly improved thereby. A 

 great part of this is due to the efforts 

 of research and extension workers. 

 First we must have the information; 

 this is secured by the research 

 worker. Then the knowledge must be 

 carried to the beekeepers. This is 

 done by the extension agent. 



But in order to do this the beekeep- 

 ers must respond and attend the 

 schools and meetings held by the ex- 

 tension agents. 



It is often a difficult pi'oblem to get 

 the beekeepers to co-operate in the 

 different phases of state and local 

 matters, but it can be done by giving 

 the beekeepers a part in the work. 



In Wisconsin we have been working 

 on this problem for five years and the 

 plan of organization and extension 

 work has developed beyond our high- 

 est expectations. 



Mr. Pellett has asked the writer to 

 give a short outline of our plan for 

 the American Bee Journal. 



Our success has been due to two 

 things: 



First — A well organized plan. 



Second — Thorough co-operation be- 

 tween National and State agents and 

 the beekeepers. 



A plan, to be carried out, must 

 have someone to do the work. In our 

 case we have been very lucky in hav- 

 ing a number of men to help with the 

 meetings. 



At different times we have had Mr. 

 G. C. Mathews, Mr. G. H. Gale and 

 Mr. H. L. McMurry as special agents 

 from the United States Division of 

 Bee Culture, and Dr. Phillips and Mr. 

 Demuth have conducted two summer 

 schools for us. 



In the State we have had: 



Dr. S. B. Fracker, State Entomolo- 

 gist. 



Mr. C. D. Adams, Assistant Deputy 

 in Apiary Inspection Work, and Spe- 

 cial Agent for the Division of Mar- 

 kets. 



Mr. J. I. Hambleton, Apiarist at the 

 University. 



Mr. H. L. McMurry, Special Field 

 Agent working under the co-operative 

 direction of Dr. Phillips, Dr. Fracker 

 and the writer. 



The writer has also given much of 

 his time to the organization work. 



In addition to these men Mr. E. R. 

 Root, of the A. I. Root Gompany, has 

 helped at the bee schools, and the G. 

 B. Lewis Company have placed two 

 men at our disposal, Mr. , Kennith 

 Hawkins and Mr. E. W. Atkins, who 

 are now serving with us when called 

 upon. 



The State is now well organized 

 and all meetings are arranged 

 through the County Agents and the 

 officers of the local associations. 

 There are forty-one local associations 



in the State, twenty-nine of which 

 are an affiliated part of the State As- 

 sociation and have a representative 

 on the Board of Managers of the 

 State Association. This Board of 

 Managers meets annually to decide 

 on the policy of the Association for 

 the following year. 



To carry on the work we plan to 

 hold two meetings a year with each 

 local association. These meetings 

 consist of one winter meeting or a 

 three-day bee school and a summer 

 meeting or demonstration at the yard 

 of some beekeeper. 



The publicity work has been almost 

 entirely conducted from our office 

 and our plan is to send notices of the 

 meetings to each newspaper in a 

 county where the meeting is to be 

 held. The first notice is sent out two 

 to three weeks beforehand and the 

 second a week to ten days before the 

 meeting. 



The three-day bee schools have 

 proven the most successful method of 

 extension work and they have been 

 well attended by the beekeepers. A 

 general program of each school is 

 outlined and published in the local 

 papers. In some cases mimeographed 

 outlines are sent out to every bee- 

 keeper in the country. One local as- 

 sociation now sends a printed notice 

 and program to its members. 



At several of these schools we have 

 had an average attendance of over 

 .50 beekeepers for each meeting and a 

 total registration of more than a hun- 

 dred. 



As a rule the beekeepers do not be- 

 gin to come until about noon of the 

 first day and the afternoon of the 

 third day is given over to the local 

 association, so that two full days of 

 instruction can be given. 



The beekeepers Chautauqua and 

 field meet has been very well re- 

 ceived by the beekeepers and many 

 attend from all parts of the State. 

 This meeting is held always during 

 the third week in August and in 1921 

 it will be at Chippewa Falls, Wis., 

 during the week of August 15 to 20. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, Mr. E. R. Root, 

 Mr. Demuth, Mr. Kennith Hawkins, 

 Mr. E. W. Atkins and Mr.C. P. Da- 

 dant will be with us. Beekeepers from 

 neighboring States are invited to 

 come and meet with us if they so de- 

 sire. 



Wisconsin 



GLIMPSES OF CARNIOLAN BEE- 

 KEEPING 



By M. B. Miklovitch 



The accompanying pictures show 

 something of Carniolan beekeeping: 

 No. 1 represents one of Mr.. Anton 

 Znidersich's migratory apiaries. These 

 hives are specially erected for moving 

 purposes. Mr. A. Znidersich lives in 

 a location where they have several 

 short honey flows in a season and in 

 order to get advantage of these pas- 

 tures he made a hive that can be 

 moved with as little labor as possible. 

 There on the wagon are forty hives, 

 twenty on each side, same kind as in 

 the stack. These hives on the wagon 

 cannot be taken apart, as the whole 

 side of the wagon is a wall with parti- 

 tions. Evei-ything inside is made of 

 very light lumber, but the outside 

 walls are double, with straw between. 

 Each hive opens at the back. The 

 door of the hive has a screen which 

 has to be opened so that the bees 

 get necessary air while on the moving 

 trip. It takes but a few minutes to 

 get such an apiary ready for moving. 

 Picture No. 2 (cover page) shows 

 another of Mr. Anton Znidersich's 

 wagon-apiaries. Posts under the 

 wagon keep the wagon level. Mr. An- 

 ton Znidersich operated, before the 

 war, over 1,500 colonies of bees. He 

 has a large number of American 

 hives in his home apiary. 



Picture No. 3 shows a beautiful bee 

 house of Mr. Frank Zelenik, of Car- 

 niola. This bee house contains forty 

 hives, twenty on each side. Mr. 

 Frank Zelenik keeps his bees as a side 

 line, mostly for pleasure, even though 

 his last year's crop was 45 kilograms 

 per colony, or a little over 99 pounds. 



No. 1. — Apiary and wagon of Mr. A. Zncdcrsich. 



