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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



THE Kansas 

 1 e gislatnre 

 has recent- 

 ly appropriated 

 $5000 for in- 

 spection of api- 

 aries in that 

 state. This aid 

 to Kansas bee- 

 keepers is badly needed. Thus the beekeep- 

 ers' cause goes marching on in the Sun- 

 flower State as well as almost everywhere 



else. 



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Mr. E. L. Sechrist, of Fair Oaks, Cal., 

 is now employed as an assistant to Dr. E. F. 

 Phillips at Drummond, Md., in the U. S. 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



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The Northwest Missouri Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation has been organized at St. Joseph, 

 Mo., with A. V. Small as president, and L. 

 E. Altwein, secretary - treasurer. Prof. 

 Haseman, of the University of Missouri, 

 who is secretary of the Missouri State Bee- 

 keepers' Association, was pi-esent at the 

 organizing meeting and delivered an ad- 

 dress, 



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The department of Agriculture of British 

 Columbia estimates that province's honey 

 crop of 1916 at 240,000 lbs. This was a 

 decided inci-ease over the ('Vo\) of 1915 de- 

 spite a very unfavorable season. Thru the 

 efforts of Mr. William Hughs, Victoria, 

 there was organized early in the year the 

 Beekeepers' Association of British Colum- 

 bia, and already one-tenth of all the bee- 

 keepers in the Province are on its roll of 

 membership. It has made an excellent be- 

 ginning, and is doing much to standardize 

 hives, packages, and methods. 



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Hamlin B. Miller, secretary-treasurer of 

 the loAva State Beekeepers' Association, is 

 the real thing in the line of enthusiasm and 

 hustle. He approximates walking dyna- 

 mite. " Bee Pep," Vol. I., No. 2, dated at 

 Marshalltown, la., March, 1917, contains a 

 concise report of the proceedings of tlie fifth 

 annual convention of Iowa beekeepers, to- 

 geilier with much pithy comment on the 

 beekeeping business in general and the Iowa 

 State Beekeepers' Association in particular. 

 Mr. Miller has made this association pretty 

 nearly (if not quite) the livest beekeepers' 

 organization under the sun. 



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Good news from Iowa. The legislature 

 of that state recently passed a bill providing 

 for bee inspection, regular instruction, and 

 both short-course work and extension work 



May, 1917 



at Iowa State 

 College. This 

 bill was passed 

 despite the fact 

 that another bill 

 was introduced 

 into the Iowa 

 legislature to re- 

 peal all laws 

 pertaining to bee culture. Mr. F. C. Pel- 

 lett is entitled to much credit for helping 

 secure this new bee legislation in Iowa. 



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Mr. B. F. Kindig, formerly one of the 

 state inspectors of apiaries of Indiana, has 

 been appointed as state inspector of api- 

 aries for Michigan, taking the place of F. E. 

 Milieu, who resigned to accept a position in 

 Iowa State College, at Ames, Iowa, in the 

 Department of Entomology. Mr. Kindig 

 is making good in the state of his adoption. 

 He has prepared a number of valuable press 

 bulletins on bees, and the control of bee 

 diseases in particular, which he has sent 

 out to between 650 and 700 papers publish- 

 ed in Michigan. The beekeepers of Michi- 

 gan will be interested in si^eeial bulletins 

 58, 64, and 76, dealing with treatment of 

 European foul brood, and which may be se- 

 cured fi'ee from the Michigan Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, or by addressing State 

 Inspector Kindig at East Lansing, Mich. 



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On page 283, in our " Just News " depart- 

 ment for April, appeared an item to the 

 effect that bees in hives or in nuclei contain- 

 ing combs, if shipped into Ontario, Canada, 

 would be quarantined at the port of entry 

 for a period of not more than nine months. 

 Bees in pound packages without 

 combs were to be exempt from this deten- 

 tion provided they were accompanied by a 

 satisfactory certificate fromi a state or pro- 

 vincial inspector declaring them to be free 

 from disease. We have been advised by 

 the authorities that this is a mistake; that 

 bees can be shipped into Canada on or off 

 combs with or without an inspector's cer- 

 tificate. Gleanings received a re(]uest that 

 such notice be inserted. We will en- 

 deavor to locate the original source of in- 

 formation and see what was back of it all. 

 In the mean time our apologies are due to 

 ihe pound-package men as well as to the 

 beekeepers of Canada. 



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A letter from Louis B. Hochstein, of 

 Paradero de Mangas, Province Pinar del 

 Rio, Cuba, informs us of the death of his 

 father, C. F. Hochstein, who was one of 

 tlie most successful producers of extracted 

 honey in Ihe island republic. He died 



