January, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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should be handled by an expert, as it was 

 in most cases, who will give out only ques- 

 tions the discuLsion of which is worth hear- 

 ing by one who has come a hundred miles 

 or so, and is paying hotel expenses. 



THE BETWEEN-SESSION TALKS 



The between-scssions man-to-man talks, 

 as they always are, were particularly valu- 

 able in this chain of conventions; and in 

 a general way we may say the conventions 

 that have just closed were some of the 

 best we have attended. The crop has been 

 large. The attendance at most of the 

 meetings was very much above the average, 

 and the enthusiasm the best. 



BANQUETS AT BEE CONVENTIONS. 



At three of the conventions in the 

 chain of meetings, banquets were held — 

 first at the IVIichigan convention at the 

 close of the second day, as mentioned on 

 page 1176 of our Dec. 15th issue ; second, 

 at the Iowa convention at the noon hour. 

 This was sei'ved in the dining- room of 

 the Chamber of Commerce, at which 

 Governor Clark, Mayor MacVicar, Sec- 

 retary of the School Board Clinite, State 

 Superintendent of Schools Devoe, and City 

 Chemist Harrison were guests of honor. 

 The latter gave a talk on the food value 

 of honey, bringing out some interesting 

 comparisons showing honey to be highly 

 nutritious, and, comp.ared with a large 

 list of other foods, to be cheaper when 

 the nutritive value is considered. 



Thru an arrangement with the Chamber 

 of Commerce, honey and biscuits were 

 sen-ed to all the patrons of the Chamber 

 dining-room on that day. 



Just preceding the banquet, thru the 

 efforts of Miss Belle Mc Connell about 

 124 pupils from Indng school sang a couple 

 of bee songs that " brought down the 

 house." The children were then each pre- 

 sented with a jar of honey, the gift of the 

 A. I. Root Company's branch at Des 

 Moines. 



The last banquet which was largely pat- 

 ronized was held in the dining-room of 

 Hotel Carls-Rite, Toronto, Can., on the 

 evening of the second day. Xo toasts were 

 offered after dinner, but all assembled in 

 the convention room Avliere a lantern-slide 

 talk by former Sec. Wm. Couse, of Strout- 

 ville, Ontaino, was given. The speaker, 

 one of the early founders of the organ- 

 ization, knew intimately all the men who 

 had to do with the making of the Ontario 

 Beekeepers' Association. He was partic- 

 ularly happy in his personal references to 

 each member wliose picture was thrown on 

 the wall Among others he paid a glowing 



tribute to D. A. Jones the one who, at 

 one time, was the leading beekeeper of 

 Canada. He related a number of inter- 

 esting incidents connected wdth the life 

 of that remarkable man — -one who saw the 

 funny as well as the serious side of life. 

 Notwithstanding this lecture lasted over 

 two hours, it was listened to most atten- 

 tively clear thru, often calling forth ap- 

 plause after applause. 



THE NEW TEXAS BEE JOUKNAL 



Vol. I. No. 1 of The Texas Beekeeper^' 

 Item, edited and published monthly by 

 Louis H. Scholl, New Braunfels, Texas, has 

 reached us. The price is 50 cents per 

 annum. As announced in our previous is- 

 sue, it is more in the nature of a small 

 newspaper of four pages than a journal. 

 In fact, it says of itself that it is " to be a 

 newspaper for beekeepers. In this the 

 Beekeepers' Item will be in a separate 

 class." Mr. Scholl is no stranger to the 

 beekeeping public, and as a wa-iter of bee- 

 lore he has had not a little experience. 



Texas is a very large field in itself, to 

 say notliing of the gi-eat expanse of tem- 

 tory in the Southwest. The conditions in 

 the Lone Star State are somewhat differ- 

 ent from what w-e have in the northern 

 states, and somew'hat different from those 

 in some of the southern states; so it is 

 felt that there is a field for the new paper. 

 We not only welcome it among our ex- 

 changes, but wish it a Happy New Year 

 and man}' moi^e of them. 



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The short-coui-se in beekeeping at the 

 Ontario Agricultural College will be lield 

 Jan. 9 to Jan. 27. A copy of the attrative 

 program for this course can be had by 

 writing to Mr. Moi-ley Pettit, Pi'ovincial 

 Apiarist, 0. A. College, Gaielph. Out. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips of Washing-ton, D. C, 

 and E. R. Root of Medina, Ohio, expect to 

 attend the convention of the beekeepers of 

 North Carolina on Jan. 11th in Board of 

 Trade Hall, Winstom-Salem, N. C. 



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The Ohio state beekeepers' convention 

 will be held at Columbus, Feb. 1 and 2, 

 1917, during farmers' week, at the College 

 of Agriculture, Ohio State University. 



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The next meeting of the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be held at Madi- 

 son, Wis., Feb. 6, 7, 8. See editorials and 

 Convention Notices. 



