1921 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



413 



well attended in spite of heavy rains, 

 which made it necessary to carry out 

 the progTams within doors. The asso- 

 ciate editor of this Journal greatlv 

 enjoyed the opportunity to accompany 

 George H. Rea, beekeeping :pecial- 

 ist of New York College of Agricul- 

 ture around the circle of this series. 



New Hampshire Meeting 



The New Hampshire beekeepers 

 had a very successful meeting at the 

 Agricultural College at Durham, on 

 August 17 and 18. Allen Latham, of 

 Connecticut, was the principal 

 speaker on the first day and greatly 

 interested his audience with a demon- 

 stration of requeening, along with a 

 discussion of the subject of queen 

 rearing and introduction. 



On the second day Frank C. Pellett 

 spoke on the subject of "Locality," 

 discussing the factors that influence 

 the honey flow. 



League Notes 



Announcement was made in last 

 month's papers that the League had 

 ready for distribution the notices of- 

 fering a reward for the arrest and 

 conviction of anyone disturbing the 

 apiary at which this notice was 

 placed. Quite a number of the League 

 members have taken advantage of 

 this, but it is desired that more mem- 

 bers secure these cards. Any bee- 

 keeper belonging to an association af- 

 fiiliated with the League in any man- 

 ner has the right to the use of these 

 notices and can secure them at the 

 cost of printing from the Secretary. 



The first of the series of the League 

 advertisements appeared in the Sep- 

 tember number of "Good Housekeep- 

 ing." It will be found on page 141. 

 It is, of course, hard to estimate the 

 value of an advertisement, but if the 

 ad sells honey in proportion to the 

 requests that it is bringing for the 

 recipe booklet, it is going to be a great 

 success. The Secretary is receiving 

 large numbers of these requests, 

 coming from every part of the United 

 States. This advertising is being 

 hacked up by a circular of informa- 

 tion to the wholesale grocers of the 

 United States and by reading articles 

 on the use of honey and concerning 

 honeybees in the principal home 

 magazines. 



The Legal Department of the 

 League has been extremely rnccess- 

 ful in helping out a considerable 

 number of our beekeepers who were 

 unfortunate enough to live ui cities 

 and villages where moves were made 

 to pass ordinances prohibiting the 

 keeping of bees. Letters from the 

 Secretary, the Legal Advisor and 

 other men prominent in the League 

 were written in every case i .^ported, 

 and in a number of instances the 

 Secretary was notified that s;l! legal 

 proceedings had been abandoned on 

 account of the information sent by 

 the League. 



ers' Associations have agreed to make 

 only those Associations which take the 

 dates appointed by the League Sched- 

 ule. While this seems to be somewhat 

 of a radical move, it is for the best 

 to all concerned, as it makes the travel 

 and expense of the speakei's much 

 less and enables the States to secure 

 speakers whom they get not other- 

 wise interested in their meetings. It 

 is to be hoped before another year 

 passes that there can be added to the 

 schedule the names of the members 

 who will make the territories indi- 

 cated on the schedule. 



The Kansas Honey Producers' 

 League has completed its affiliation 

 with the American League. The 

 Kansas League is composed of a 

 small number of men who are very 

 active and progressive in beekeeping 

 aff'airs, and their guiding spirit is the 

 League's well-known friend, Dr. J. 

 H. Men-ill. 



The Secretary of the League and 

 the advertising manager are supplying 

 every magazine or paper that will ap- 

 preciate them, articles on the use of 

 honey, and any magazine which would 

 like one or moi-e of these articles can 

 obtain them by application to the Sec- 

 retary. These articles are written in 

 popular style and contain no advertis- 

 ing material whatever and make a 

 welcomed variation to the ordinary 

 recipe article. 



The Bureau of Markets of the Unit- 

 ed States Department of Agriculture 

 already sees the value of the Ameri- 

 can Honey Producers' League. In the 

 August 20th number of the Market 

 Reporter occurs the following para- 

 graph: 



'The American Honey Producers' 

 League, which is a super organization 

 of the beekeepers' associatio'is of the 

 country, has outlined plans for an in- 

 creased advertising program during 

 the fall and winter, and considering 

 the fruit shortage, honey may move 

 at better prices by winter." 



The peculiar financial condition of 

 the country and the fact that the total 

 honey crop will be small this year, 

 works a hardship on the beekeepers, 

 but it is one of the factors which are 

 going to help the League to its right- 

 ful position. If the League had the 

 support of every beekeeper in the 

 United States, the League would be 

 able to advance money on honey de- 

 posited in warehouses so such a thing 

 as 4 to 8 cent honey would be un- 

 known. The success of other co-op- 

 erative associations shows that this 

 can be accomplished. 



H. B. Parks, Secretary. 



Prof. H. F. Wilson, of the Sched- 

 ule Committee, has just completed ar- 

 rangements whereby the majority of 

 the speakere visiting State Beekeep- 



PoIlen-CIogged Combs 



Some time ago an article appeared 

 in the Journal explaining how pollen- 

 clogged combs could be scraped part 

 way down to the mid rib, and re- 

 turned to the bees, during a honey 

 flow, and taken from them again in a 

 few days, cleaned up in good shape. 

 This article was written by F.lvin M. 

 Cole, of Audubon, Iowa, and I be- 

 lieve the plan is original with him, 

 and should be impressed upon the 



minds of beekeepers, as thousands of 

 good worker combs can be swved by 

 using the method described by Mr. 

 Cole. I had about eighty pollen- 

 clogged combs carried over from last 

 year, which were treated by Mr. 

 Cole's method, and all of them are 

 good worker combs today. Two of 

 these combs were placed in the cen- 

 ter of the broodnest of two different 

 colonies, after the cells haci been 

 broken down and the pollen disar- 

 ranged, and 72 hours later they were 

 practically cleaned of pollen and 

 drawn to their natural size again, 

 with both queens laying in the treated 

 combs. J. G. Prosser, 



Ft. Dodge, Iowa. 



Illinois-Wisconsin Meet 



The annual meeting of th'3 North- 

 ern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin 

 Beekeepers' Association will be held 

 in Memorial Hall, Rockford, 111., on 

 Tuesday, October 18, 1921. We 

 would be pleased to have samples of 

 comb and extracted honey, also any- 

 thing new in line of bee supplies. 



B. Kennedy, Secretary. 



Hubam Annual Swreet Clover 



Last February I bought 4 ounces 

 of the new Hubam annual sweet clo- 

 ver seed at $1.50. On April 2 I 

 planted the seed in drill rows 35 

 inches apart and it made 5 rows 75 

 feet long, but I got it too thick and 

 could easily have gotten 10 rows 

 from the 4 ounces of seed. 



It started to bloom on July 2, and 

 is 3 to 5V2 feet high and is full of 

 bees from daylight till dark, and some 

 of the seed will do to pick the last of 

 this coming week. 



I have this patch on sandy soil, 

 such as is suitable for melons, sweet 

 potatoes, and rye, and I never saw its 

 equal. I expect to get at l"ast 10 

 pounds of seed from the 5 rows, and 

 I honestly believe that this new clo- 

 ver will verily make this old U. S. A. 

 a land flowing with milk and honey. 



I expect to seed one acre in drill 

 rows next spring and try Ji;d not 

 get it so thick as this year. 



Up to June 15 this year was the 

 worst I ever experienced, and I fed 

 170 colonies 3,500 pounds of sugar, 

 but they have made a living and 

 stored about 25 to 30 pounds of sur- 

 plus honey per colony since June 15, 

 and prospects are real good for a fall 

 flow, and heartsease is starting to 

 bloom now, August, 1921. 



Fred H. May, Meredosia, 111. 



Bees at Wisconsin Univerfity 



The beekeeping work i; now 

 thoroughly organized at the Wiscon- 

 sin State University. A full two- 

 year course and a full four-year 

 course in beekeeping will be offered. 

 Prof. H. F. Wilson is in charge' of the 

 work, with V. G. Milum as i.piarist. 

 L. P. Whitehead will devote his full 

 time to extension work in beekeeping. 



Hambleton to Washington 



J. I. Hambleton has recently re- 

 signed his position in the University 

 of Wisconsin to accept a position as 

 assistant apiculturist in the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



