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Convention Notices. 



I give you herewith the preliminary announce- 

 ments of the annual conventions of the nursery- 

 men, fruit-srrowers, and bee-keepers of this State. 

 The programs of these conventions wiii be out in a 

 short time and copies will be sent you. 



The State Horticultural Society will meet at 

 Nashville, January 25, 1912. Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, C. A. Kefler, Knoxville. 



The State Nurserymen's Association will meet at 

 Nashville, .January 26, 1912. Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, C. M. Bentley. Knoxville. 



The State bee-keepers will meet at Nashville, 

 .January 27, 1912. Secretary and Treasurer, J. M. 

 Buchanan, Franklin. 



G. M. Bentley, 

 Sec. and Treas. of the State Nurserymen's Asso'n, 

 Knoxville, Tenn. 



The annual meeting of New Jersey Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held at the State-house, Tren- 

 ton, Saturday, Dec. 23. 



PROGKAM. 



10 A.M., roll-call. Reading minutes. Reports of 

 officers. President's address. Reports of standing 

 committees. Reception of new members; other 

 business. 



Report of apiary inspection by inspector J. B. 

 Smith, State Entomologist. Lunch, recess. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



legislation in a bee-line, Wm. A. Selser, Philadel- 

 phia. 



How to obviate the swarming impulse, Geo. M. 

 Steel, Philadelphia. 



Merits of Carniolan bees, Albert G. Hann, Pitts- 

 town. 



Queen-breeding for Improvement in stock, Penn 

 G. Snyder, Swarthmore, Pa. 



Puting up extracted honey for retail market, 

 Harold Horner, Mt. Holly. 



An up-to-date apiary, Franklin S. Fox, Pipers- 

 ville. Pa. 



The above topics will be discussed as time will 

 permit. All bee-keepers are cordially invited, and 

 a good meeting hoped for. 



J. H. M. Cook, President. 



Albert G. IIann, Secretary, 



Pittstown, N. J. 



PREMIUMS AWARDED AT THE TEXAS STATE FAIR, 

 DALLAS, ON HONEY, BEES, ETC., OCT. 14 — 29. 



The following is a list of premiums awarded to 

 Texas bee-keepers who made entries at the State 

 Fair, Dallas, by Judge W. H. Laws. Beeville: 



J. \V. Holland, Rice, best glass jar of white comb 

 honey above 6 lbs.; first. So ; best display of special 

 designs in comb honej', second. So. 



T. H. Ix)ng, Trenton, second on golden Italians. 

 83; second on largest and best display of section 

 honey, So; first on best case of white section honey, 

 S5.00. 



J. A. Simmons, Sabinol. second on three-banded 

 Italians. S3 ; second on Holy Land bees. S3 : second 

 on Banat bees. S3; first on black bees, So; best and 

 largest bees of various races, S(5; second on best and 

 largest display of queens of diflerent races, S3. 



W. M. Jones, Tehuacana, best glass jar of comb 

 honey above (i lbs., second, S3; best six jars of white 

 comb honey, first and second, S8; best display of 

 comb honey put up in glass jars, second, S4; best 

 12-lb. friction-top pail of white comb honey, first, 

 S3; best (j-lb. ditto, second, S2; best display of bulk 

 comb honey, second, SB; best dozen 3-lb. jars white 

 extracted honey, first. S3; best ditto light-amber 

 extracted honey, second, S2; best and largest dis- 

 play of extracted honey, second, S6. best display of 

 special designs in beeswax, second, SIO ; best and 

 largest display in beeswax, second, S5; Tsest and 

 most instructive display of apiarian products and 

 various uses made of honey and beeswax, second, 

 S5.00. 



B. M. Caraway, Mathis, best 12-lb. friction-top 

 pail of white comb honey, second. 82; best 6-lb. dit- 

 to, first, S3; best 3-lb. ditto, first. $3; best display of 

 bulk comb honey, first, SIO: best dozen .3-lb. jars of 

 white extracted honey, second, S2; best dozen 3-lb. 

 jars light-amber extracted honey, S3; best and larg- 

 est display of extracted honey, first. SIO; best cake 

 of bright yellow beeswax, first and second, S8; best 

 display of special designs in beeswax, first, 815; best 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



and largest display of beeswax, first, $8; best dis- 

 play of fruits preserved in honey, first, S3; best dis- 

 play of apiarian products and various uses made 

 of honey and beeswax, first, SlO; best display of 

 comb honey in glass jars, first, 88; best case of white 

 section comb honey, second, S3; best case of light- 

 amber section honey, first and second, S8; best dis- 

 play of section honey in comb, first, 88; best display 

 of special designs in comb honey, first, SlO; best 

 golden Italian bees, first, S5 ; best three-banded 

 Italian bees, first. 85 ; best Carniolan bees, first, 85 ; 

 best Caucasian bees, first, 85; best Cyprian bees, 

 first. So; best Holy Land bees, first. So; best Banat 

 bees, first. So; best black bees, second. S3; best and 

 largest display of bees of various races, first, 810; 

 best and largest display of queens of various races, 

 first, 810. T. P. Robinson, Sup't. 



By Our Business Manager 



In our catalog of combination offers on Glean- 

 ings with books and magazines on various sub- 

 jects, we quote a rate of 81.50 for Gleanings with 

 The Fruit Grower, a big, beautiful, authoritative 

 journal which is published monthly at St. Joseph, 

 Mo., in the heart of the land of the big red apple — 

 both journals one year. I'nquestionaly The Fruit 

 Grower is the finest horticultural publication in 

 America, and we are very glad to be able to offer 

 our readers an opportunity to save just one-half 

 the regular price of this excellent publication by 

 ordering it in combination with Gleanings. 



The publishers of The Fruit 

 Grower have just brought 

 out a book entitled " The 

 Fruit-grower's Guide Book," 

 written by E. H. Favor, As- 

 sociate Editor of The Fruit 

 Grower. This book discuss- 

 es, among other subjects, 

 down-to-date methods of 

 growing and marketing fruit, 

 the selection of a location 

 for the orchard, the prepara- 

 tion of the land and trees, 

 planting the trees, their cul- 

 tivation and care, harvest- 

 ing, packing, all in an au- 

 thoritative and complete 

 way. Entire chapters are de- 

 voted to the subjects of pack- 

 ing and fruit-packages, and the protection of or- 

 chards from frost injury— matters, in whicli there 

 have been great changes in recent years. Spraying 

 for insect and fungous pests is also fully discussed. 

 The Fruit-growers' (4uide Book contains 285 pages; 

 is bound in cloth, and costs 81.00 per copy, postpaid. 

 It is our pleasure to announce a combination offer 

 on this excellent book with The Fruit Grower, 

 monthly, and Gleanings, .semi-monthly, both 

 journals one year for only 81.75. This is a 83.00 value 

 for a trifle more than one-half the regular price; and 

 all of our readers who are interested in fruit-grow- 

 ing (a pursuit which admirably combines with 

 bee-keeping and general farm work) will certainly 

 want to avail themselves of this combination while 

 the low price holds good. Canadian postage on 

 this combination, 80 cents extra; to foreign coun- 

 tries, 81.60 extra. 



One of the oldest and most influential farm jour- 

 nals published in the Southland is The Southern 

 Planter, of Richmond, Xa,. This journal, devoted 

 to practical and progressive agriculture, horticul- 

 ture, trucking, live stock, and fireside interests. Is 

 now in its 72d year, and each monthly issue is a 

 most entertaining volume to whoever desires to 

 succeed in farming in an extensive or intensive 

 way in the great Southern States. One department 

 alone in this excellent journal, " The Poultry-yard," 

 is worth more than the annual subscription price, 

 which is 50 cents per year. Through his intimate 

 writings on poultry in The Southern Planter, the 

 name of '' llusselman " has become a household 

 word on Southern farms, and there is a charm 

 about Mr. Ilusselman's stories which brings one to 

 share his experiences just as a similar feeling comes 



