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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1917 



with prospects of from 10 days to 3 weeks of honey- 

 gathering from that source. If weather conditions 

 favor, crop may be nearly normal. 



NEW JERSEY. — No crop yet harvested (July 

 12) ; prospects of 20 pounds per colony on the 

 average in sight ; no offers for honey reported. 



KENTUCKY. — Crop good, eight or ten days of 

 clover still in sight ; jobbers are oflfering 12 cts. for 

 extracted, 15 cts. comb. 



PENNSYLVA:NIA. — No honey crop yet (July 

 20) harvested; white clover failed to yield, some 

 colonies starving during clover bloom; some sumac 

 coming in ; prospects for buckwheat in central 

 Pennsylvania good because of large acreage ; no 

 honey for sale, so no quotations. 



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The eighth annual field meeting of the 

 Connecticut Beekeepers' Association will be 

 held at the Connecticut Agricultural Col- 

 lege at Storrs, Conn., on August 9 and 10. 



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The Panhandle Beekeepers' Association 

 will hold its summer meeting on Aug. 22 at 

 the apiary of A. J. Yahn, Triadelphia, W. 

 Va. Some notable speakers are expected 

 to be present. 



At the next annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois State Beekeepers' Association, Nov. 

 14 and 15, at Spring-field, gold and silver 

 medals and cash prizes are to be awarded 

 on exhibits of both comb and extracted 

 honey. James A. Stone, Secretary, R. D. 4, 

 Springfield, 111., will furnish details. 



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The Superior Honey Co., Ogden, Utah, 

 reported in early July that the prospects 

 were then very good. The winter loss in 

 that part of (the country was heavy, but 

 package bees to the number of about 2000 

 packages were received in Utah and Idaho 

 to make good the winter losses. 

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The Texas Stalte Beekeepers' Association 

 will meet in conjunction with the Farmers' 

 Congress as usual this summer on August 

 2 and 3 at the A. and M. College, College 

 Station. Pres. E. Guy LeStourgeon will 

 preside at the Association meeting. A 

 meeting of exceptional j^rofit is expected. 

 A special invitation has been extended by 

 the secretary of the Farmers' Congress that 

 the beekeepers furnish an exhibit of bees 

 and apiarian products. M. Falulkneir, 

 Waco, Texas, is secretary of the Farmers' 



Congress. 



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The annual meeting of the Eastern Mass- 

 achusetts Society of Beekeepers, formerly 

 the Ma.ssachusetts Society of Beekeepers, 

 organized in Marcli, 1916, was held in Bos- 

 ton on April 7. The ofTicers chosen are as 

 follows: Pres., S. Lothrop, Davenport, 

 Instructor in Horticulture at the Independ- 



ent Agricultural College, Hawthorne, Mass. ; 

 Sec, Mrs. Goodnough, 1702 Center St., 

 West Roxbury; Directors, Mrs. Susan M. 

 Howard, Wakefield; Mr. Benjamin P. 

 Sands, Brookline, and Mr. Clarence Boyls- 

 ton, Milton. The annual field day will be 

 held on Saturday, August 11, at the Inde- 

 pendent Agricultural School at Hawthorne. 

 The announced speakers are: the Presi- 

 dent, Allen Latham; Arthur C. Miller, 0. 

 F. Fuller, E. R. Root, Chas. Stewart (State 

 Inspector of Apiaries, of Johnstown, N. 

 Y.), Hon. Wilfred Wheeler (Secretary of 

 the Massachusetts State Board of Agi'ieul- 

 ture), and F. A. Smith. 



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The New York State Association of Bee- 

 keepers' Societies will hold its summer meet- 

 ing and picnic on August 3 at the apiary 

 of S. D. House, Camillus, N. Y. The ob- 

 ject of the summer meeting will be prin- 

 cipally to get an idea of what the honey 

 crop is and what the price of honey ought to 



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The Western New York Honey Produc- 

 ers' Association will hold its annual field 

 meeting and basket picnic on Saturday, 

 August 11, at the apiary of J. Roy Lincoln, 

 on the Saunders Settlement, or Niagara 

 Falls-Lockport Road just out of the city 



of Niagara Falls. 



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Mr. H. C. Klinger, secretary of the 

 Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' Association, 

 writes that more than 100 demonstration 

 meetings for beekeepers have been held 

 thruout the Keystone state under the super- 

 vision of the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture. He adds that every part of Pennsyl- 

 vania is being aroused to the possibilities in 



beekeeping. 



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The Tupelo Honey Producers' Associa- 

 tion was organized on May 15 at Wewai- 

 hitehka, Florida. This Association repre- 

 sents the tupelo honey-producers of both 

 Georgia and Florida. J. J. Wilder, of Cor- 

 dele, Ga., was elected president, and J. R. 

 Hunter secretary-treasurer, A committee 

 was appointed to consider a plan for the 

 organization of packing plants and a sell- 

 ing exchange to handle the 1918 crop of 

 tupelo honey. The 1917 crop had been 

 practically sold as early as the middle of 

 May. Those taking part in the organiza- 

 tion of this new association represent about 

 15,000 colonies of bees. 



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The annual picnic of the Toronto Bee- 

 keepers' Association was held on Empire 

 Day, May 24, in the apiary of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College at Guelph, which is 50 



