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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Bartholomew's honey exhibit at the 1913 Oklahoma State Fair. 



good attendance of these boys and girls it 

 will be doubly interesting. 



The annual meeting is held each January 

 at the A. and M. College, Stillwater, Okla'., 

 during the " Farmers' Short Course." 



The authorities of this college are recog- 

 nizing the importance of beekeeping, and 

 are lending much encouragement to its ex- 

 tension. Those interested in beekeeping in 

 Oklahoma should make it a point to attend 

 one of these meetings of the Oklahoma Bee- 

 keepers' Association, and both of them if 

 possible. They owe this much to those who 



are keeping up the work of the Association 

 and to the new methods they may learn. 

 Geary, Okla. 



[Prof. Sanborn and Mr. Gardiner, as we 

 happen to know, are live wires. They are 

 doing much to advance the cause of bee- 

 keeping in Oklahoma, not only to make 

 better beekeepers, but to eliminate bee dis- 

 ease. The beekeepers of the State should 

 make an effort to attend the State beekeep- 

 ers' convention, especially if they wish to 

 keep disease out of the State. — Ed.] 



BY H. C. KLINGER, SEC. 



The Pennsylvania State Beekeepers held 

 their tenth annual meeting in the State 

 Capitol, Harrisburg, Feb. 20, 21. It was a 

 very lively meeting, and, from the point of 

 enthusiasm, perhaps the best ever held. 



Dr. H. A. Surface, State Zoologist, who 

 is the President, was in charge of the meet- 

 ing. The address of welcome was given by 

 Hon. N. B. Critchfield, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture of Pennsylvania. 



The subject of comb and extracted honev 

 in the same apiary was discussed by H. P. 

 Faucett. He runs his yard for both kinds 

 of honey, and says that colonies that some- 

 times can not be coaxexd into section supers 

 will work in extract ing-frames. 



F. G. Fox spoke on 500 per cent increase 

 and a crop of honey. He demonstrated how 

 it is possible, with natural swarming, to 

 take the parent colony after the swarm has 

 issued, and divide it into nuclei and build 

 these up into full colonies. 



The foul-brood inspectors, Geo. H. Rea 

 and J. 0. Buseman. made their reports on 

 inspection. These were quite interesting in 

 facts, and exceedingly amusing in the ex- 

 periences the inspectors had with the differ- 

 ent kinds of people they met in their rounds. 

 Inspection is doing a great work for bee- 

 keeping interests, simply by the contact of 

 the inspector and the education that is 

 spread over the State in this way, Bees are 



