February, 1920 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



that everyone in the beekeeping fraternity, 

 North, Sonth, East, and West, must imme- 

 diately respond to its appeal and gladly of- 

 fer their support. All sectionalism is lost 

 in the comprehensive statement of its aims. 



As fast as funds will permit, the League 

 will develop bureaus or departments, which 

 will take charge of the League's efforts 

 along the several lines. The following out- 

 line explains the program to be followed: 



Department of Marketing: grading, stan- 

 dardizing of packages, advertising, crop re- 

 ports, market reports, distribution. 



Department of Education: State and na- 

 tional extension work, disease control, bee- 

 keeping courses in colleges, dissemination 

 of information. 



Department of Legislation: appropria- 

 tions, uniform inspection laws, pure food 

 laws, quarantine. 



Department of Legal Aid: apiary protec- 

 tion, illegal ordinances, classification of 

 freight and express, transportation claims. 



Department of research: laboratory re- 

 search, experimental apiaries. 



Department of Equipment: securing sup- 

 plies, queens and bees, standardization. 



Department of Arbitration. — complaints. 



Membership in the League is to be secured 

 by the election of one member by each af- 

 filiated organization. An organization can 

 become affiliated by the payment of $1.00 

 per member per year with a minimum an- 

 nual payment of $100. Each member so se- 

 lected has one vote in the League. Sustain- 

 ing memberships may be secured by indi- 

 viduals or firms by the payment of an an- 

 nual fee of $10, but this membership does 

 not carry with it the privilege of voting. 

 Similarly, professors of apiculture, apiary in- 

 spectors, experiment station workers in api- 

 culture, extension workers, entomologists, 

 and others are given honorary memberships 

 with the right of discussion but without a 

 vote. In this plan all interests are given a 

 voice in the discussion of policies, but the 

 Aoting power is vested only in the elected 

 representatives of the beekeepers them- 

 selves. The board of directors is made up 

 of the president, vice-president, and three 

 directors who serve for three years, the 

 term of one expiring each year. The board 

 selects a secretary-treasurer, who may or 

 may not be a member of the League and 

 who is the only salaried oflScer. The follow- 

 ing officers were elected: President, E. G. 

 LeStourgeon, San Antonio, Tex., Manager 

 of the Texas Honey Producers' Exchange; 

 vice-president, Prof. Geo. H. Rea, Extension 

 Specialist in Beekeeping, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y.; directors, Frank Eauchfuss, 

 Denver, Colo., Secretary of the Colorado 

 Honey Producers' Association, Prof. F. B. 

 Paddock, Ames, Iowa, State Apiarist of 

 Iowa, and E. S. Miller, Valparaiso, Ind., 

 President of the Chicago-Northwestern Bee- 

 keepers' Association. The Board of Di- 

 rectors selected Chas. B. Justice, Manager 

 of the California Honey Producers ' Ex- 

 change, as the secretary-treasurer. 



It is difficult to describe the meeting as 

 it was because it was so different from the 

 beekeepers' meetings and conventions as we 

 know them. Very little talking and argu- 

 ing took place. It was a meeting of busi- 

 ness men. It took but a short time to ar- 

 rive at the decision that an entirely new 

 organization of beekeepers was needed. The 

 delegates were of one mind regarding the 

 policies and the aims of the new organiza- 

 tion. It was therefore a relatively short 

 meeting. Ideas were soon crystalized into 

 a constitution which was unanimously 

 adopted. The League starts with the united 

 support of the following who attended and 

 determined its policies: 



Prof. Geo. H. Eea, Ithaca, N. Y., repre- 

 senting seven beekeepers' organizations of 

 New York and Ehode Island; Clifford Muth, 

 Cincinnati, O., representing Muth & Co.; 

 J. A. Warren, Medina, 0., representing the 

 A. I. Eoot Co.; J. D. Eettig, Wabash, Ind., 

 representing the Indiana Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation; E. S. Miller, Valparaiso, Ind., 

 representing the Chicago-Northwestern Bee- 

 keepers' Association; Colin P. Campbell, 

 Grand Eapids, Mich., representing the 

 Michigan Beekeepers' Association; B. F. 

 Kindig, East Lansing, Mich., President of 

 the National Beekeepers ' Association ; Dr. 

 A. C. Baxter, Springfield, 111., representing 

 the Illinois Beekeepers' Association; L. C. 

 Dadant, Hamilton, 111., representing Dadant 

 & Sons; H. L. McMurry, Madison, Wise, 

 representing the Wisconsin State Board of 

 Agriculture; E. G. LeStourgeon, San An- 

 tonio, Tex., representing the Texas Honey 

 Producers' Exchange; W. C. Collier, Goliad, 

 Tex., representing the Texas Beekeepers ' 

 Association; Dr. J. H. Merrill, Manhattan. 

 Kan., Joseph A. Eeinecke, Seneca, Kan., and 

 C. B. Baxter, Leavenworth, Kan.-^all repre- 

 senting the Kansas Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion; Frank G. O'Dell, Topeka, Kan., repre- 

 senting "Capper's Weekly"; E. E. Tyler, 

 Columbia, Mo., President, Missouri Bee- 

 keepers' Association, J. F. Diemer, Liberty, 

 Mo., and W. L. Wiley, Brunswick, Mo. — all 

 representing the Missouri Beekeepers ' As- 

 sociation; Prof. F. B. Paddock, Ames, Iowa, 

 representing the Iowa Beekeepers ' Associa- 

 tion; R. W. Livers, Hardy, Nebr., represent- 

 ing the Nebraska Beekeepers' Association; 

 Frank Eauchfuss, Denver, Colo., represent- 

 ing the Colorado Honey Producers' Ex- 

 change; Mrs. Cora D. Polhemus, Lamar, 

 Colo., and Wesley Foster, Boulder, Colo., 

 representing the Colorado Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation; F. B. Terriberry, Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, representing State Apiary Inspection; 

 A. E. Schellhorn, Billings, Mont., represent- 

 ing the Montana Beekeepers' Association; 

 J. B. Eaniage, Yakima, Wash., representing 

 the Washington Beekeepers' Association; 

 Chas. B. Justice, Los Angeles, Cal., repre- 

 senting the California Honey Producers' 

 Exchange. B. F. Kindig. 



(President Nat 'I Beekeepers' Assoc.) 

 East Lansing, Mich. 



