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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July, 1917 



SPECIAL NOTIfE TO ALL BEEKEEPERS IN WISCONSIN, 

 ILLINOIS, INDIANA, AND MICHIGAN. 



At the last meeting of the Chicago Northwestern 

 Association a committee was appointed to recommend 

 prices for honey, wholesale and retail. The com- 

 mittee wants the name and address of every bee- 

 keeper in the above states, who has ten or more colo- 

 nies of bees, for a mailing-list. We expect to send 

 out three letters about July 15, Sept. 15, and Nov. 

 15, provided we have sufficient funds. Hurry up 

 and send in your name and the names of your 

 neighbor beekeepers ; and if not a member of this 

 association we should like to have your dues of 

 $1.50, as we shall need all the funds we can get to 

 send out these letters. 



Any beekeeper outside of the above - mentioned 

 states who is not a member can have these reports 

 by sending 10 cts. to pay for printing and postage. 

 Send all names or dues direct to the secretary. 



John C. Bull, Sec. 



1013 Calumet Ave., Valparaiso, Ind. 



The Eastern New York Beekeepers' Association 

 will hold a field day and basket picnic under the old 

 elm tree, at the apiary of the president, W. D. 

 Wright, Altamont, N. Y., on Wednesday, July 25, 

 at 10 A.M. A cordial invitation is extended to all 

 who are interested. Bring your families. 



Indian Fields N. Y. S. Davenport, Sec. 



BOOKS AND BULLETINS 



"STATE INSPECTION WORK. "—New 

 England beekeepers may well rejoice in the 

 fact that their state authorities are right 

 up to the front apiculturally. Massachusetts 

 and Connecticut have each state inspection 

 of apiaries, and their 1916 reports are valu- 

 able. 



Mr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist, 

 supervised the apiary work for Connecticut, 

 aided as he was in the actual work by two 

 able assistants, both expert beekeepers. In 

 all of Connecticut 467 apiaries were inspect- 

 ed, in 96 different towns, with a total of 

 3898 colonies inspected. Of this total of 

 colonies 289 were found with some form of 

 disease, largely the European foul brood. 

 Disease was found in every county in the 

 state, and every year the spread of disease 

 diminishes. Better facilities are being se- 



cured, and the work broadened and made 

 more efficient. 



In Massachusetts, while the primary ob- 

 ject of inspection is to control disease, still 

 the inspectors also teach methods, give ob- 

 ject-lessons, and in every way strive to make 

 the beemen more careful and systematic and 

 skillful. An able corps of deputies assists. 

 American foul brood is on the decline in that 

 state, but 80 colonies showing any trace of 

 it. European foul brood is also decreasing 

 slowly, but is by far the worst foe yet of 

 the Ijeemen there, and 377 colonies were 

 found infected with this disease. Dr. Gates, 

 the State Inspector, urges resistant strains 

 of Italian bees for this disease, and promises 

 that a publication is soon forthcoming that 

 will give the data on circumstances, condi- 

 tions, etc., that make for "immunity to 

 European foul brood. ' ' Dr. Gates considers 

 the European more evasive and hence more 

 subtle than the American type. 



The 1916 report details the state work of 

 all sorts, including disease eradication, apiary 

 supervision, spraying, reports of wintering, 

 exhibitions, etc. Every beeman of the state 

 ought to have this bulletin. Every beeman 

 of the country would do well to read it. 

 * * * 



"HAPPY, THE LIFE OF A BEE," by 

 Walter Flavius McCaleb — Harper and Broth- 

 ers, is the title of a charming little mono- 

 graph just from the press of the big book 

 firm of Harpers, containing 120 pages of de- 

 lightful imagination. It aims to do for the 

 ' ' kiddies ' ' what Materlinek lias done for the 

 "Grown-ups," and we think he has succeed- 

 ed. The publishers say, ' ' A fascinating 

 story of a bee scientifically true as to facts, 

 and poetic as a fairy tale." I have been 

 reading it to our youngsters and find they 

 listen spell-bound. Even the older ones be- 

 come interested in the personality of 

 ' ' Happy ' ' and his faithful comrade ' ' Crip. ' ' 

 Poor old Crip! How his mishaps and vicissi- 

 tudes do touch the heart! We notice that 

 the author seems a beekeeper himself; but 

 two or three points show a little variation 



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