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A. Root Co., 

 in order to 

 care better for 

 its eon stantly 

 ino'easing trade 

 in the Middle 

 West and West, 

 has secured an 



interest in the Kretchmer Manufactur- 

 ing Company at Council Blutfs, Iowa., 

 and has taken over the conduct of that busi- 

 ness, but under the present name of the 

 Kretchmer Manufacturing Comj^any. The 

 geographical and shipping advantages of 

 the Council Bluffs plant determined the 

 Root comjjany in undertaking part of its 

 manufacture there rather than enlarging 

 its home 23lant at Medina. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



October, 1917 



and by - prod- 

 ucts, leaving the 

 bottling and re- 

 t a i 1 - p a ekage 

 business to other 

 operatore. No 

 application for 

 less than five 

 nor more than 

 thirty - five shares of company stock 

 will be entertained, and share-holders must 

 become suppliers to the co-^operative com- 

 pany within three years of registration, or 

 otherwise their shares may be revoked. In- 

 deed the Queensland Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion appears to be a very wide-awake or- 

 ganization, constantly looking toward the 

 betterment of beekeepers and apieultural 

 conditions in Australia. 



The fourth annual conference of the Na- 

 tional Beekeepers' Association of New Zea- 

 land was held at Wellington, N. Z., on June 

 6, 7, 8, last. Prominent beekeepers from 

 all parts of the state were present. New 

 Zealand's secretary of agriculture, Mr. F. 

 S. Pope, in opening proceedings said that 

 the compulsory registration of all apiaries 

 in the state would probably soon be brought 

 about by law, and that the department of 

 agriculture was likely soon to establish a 

 ciueen-rearing apiary. A good deal of the 

 attention of the conference was given to 

 tlie question of aiding in the care of the 

 apiaries of those who had been called to 

 the front, and as to beekeeping as a live- 

 lihood for the maimed soldiers who might 

 return from the battlefields of Europe. All 

 possible aid was assured the beeke&per 

 soldier and the maimed soldier who might 

 become a beekeeper. Honey prices have 

 materially advanced in New Zealand ; the 

 demand is excellent, and the conditions are 

 promising for the coming summer season. 

 The newly elected officers of the association 

 are : President, W. E. Barker, Peel Forest ; 

 vioe-jnesident, H. W. Grilling, Hawera: 

 secretary and treasurer, F. C. Barnes, Kati 

 Kati ; editor of New Zealand Beekeepers' 

 Journal, F. C. Baines. 

 * * * 



The Queensland (Australia) Beekeepers' 

 Association is promoting " The Queensland 

 Apiary Co-operative Company, Ltd." The 

 capital stock is $100,000 divided into 20,000 

 shares of $5.00 each. The object of estab- 

 lishing this co-operative company in the 

 State of Queensland is to establish suitable 

 means for the marketing of honey on the 

 co-operative principle. In the beginning 

 this company proposes to confine its oper- 

 ations to tlie wholesale handling of honey 



Francis Jager, president of the National 

 Beekeepers' Association, in the latter part 

 of August received a commission from the 

 United States Government as Deputy Com- 

 missioner to the head of the American Red 

 Cross in Serbia, and sailed for Paris a few 

 days after having received the appointment. 

 As D. C. Polhemus, vice-president of the 

 National, died last February, the only re- 

 maining executive officer of the association 

 now on duty is the secretary, John C. Bull. 

 Before leaving, with his usual keen interest 

 in the welfare of beekeepers Mr. Jager ex- 

 pressed anxiety for the program of the next 

 National meeting. He left all the National 

 Association correspondence on file at the 

 University Farm, St. Paul, Minn., in charge 

 of Mr. France. He said that possibly he 

 mlight return temporaiily within a few 

 months, and, if at all possible, on his way 

 to Italy and Switzerland would bring with 

 him some queens and other useful articles 

 and information that he might gather on 

 the journey. Just before leaving, Mr. 

 Jager said to the editor of Gleanings, 

 " Should you hear that we went down, I will 

 die game like a beekeeper who received his 

 last sting from a German sulMnarine." 

 * -» * 



In an article recently appearing in the 

 Minneapolis Trihune, and given still wider 

 circulation by being copied into the New 

 York Herald of Sept. 2, John Jager, super- 

 intendent of the bee-culture department of 

 the Minnesota State Fair, strongly urges 

 beekeei^ing for soldiers who may be disabled 

 in the war. In this article Mr. Jager said : 

 " While the annual honey crop of Minneso- 

 ta is worth close to a million dollars, there 

 is about nineteen times as much that goes 

 to waste. That means that about- $19,000,- 

 000 is wasted annually because that amount 



