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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



March, 1920 



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WE HAVE EECENTLY received from sev- 

 eral beekeepers confirmation of the report 

 that the 1920 U. S. 

 A Rank Census is going to 



, Injustice to be pitifully inac- 



! Beekeeping. curate in its re- 



turns as to bee- 

 keepers and beekeeping. This is because of 

 the fact that only the regular farm schedule 

 provides for the listing of bees and bee- 

 keeping statistics. 



Let us quote from the letter of a bee- 

 keeper living in a small village in southern 

 Ohio, who writes: 



I have just had a visit from the census taker, 

 and I was surprised when I was unable to list my 

 15 stands of bees, as the only schedule that had a 

 place for the bees was the regular farm schedule. 

 The census taker informed me that he listed as 

 farms only lands producing more than $250 worth 

 per year. There will not be more than one-eighth 

 of the bees in my township listed. Looks as if the 

 bee associations should look after the interests of 

 the business, and see that there is a fair census re- 

 turn of the business. 



As the census is now being taken, thou- 

 sands and thousands of beekeepers and 



their colonies of bees will not be reported. 

 Very many of the small beekeepers (and 

 possibly all the migratory beekeepers) will 

 be entirely ignored, and the importance of 

 the business, not only in the eyes of the 

 general public but of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture and the U. S. Congress, great- 

 ly weakened. This is a serious considera- 

 tion when it comes to securing state and 

 national aid for beekeepers. Government 

 officials, state and national, when making 

 appropriations, go to the U. S. Census for 

 their information as to the importance of a 

 business and the number that may be bene- 

 fited by governmental action. 



The census of 1910 was extremely faulty 

 in that no account of bees in cities and 

 towns, and no record of bees and specialist 

 beekeepers up in the mountains and on 

 waste lands was taken. The farmer bee- 

 keepers of the country by no means repre- 

 sent the industry of beekeeping in the Unit- 

 ed States. At several large beekeepers' 

 conventions held since 1910, every beekeep- 

 er present in such conventions has reported 

 that none of his bees were reported in the 

 census-taking. Now, it seems, the census 

 farce of 1910 regarding bees and beekeep- 

 ing is being repeated. 



Why was this injustice to the beekeeper 

 and the beekeeping business permitted in 

 the present taking of the Census? 



THE OHIO STATE Beekeepers ' Associa- 

 tion and the Extension Department of the 

 Ohio State Univer- 

 Beekeepers' sity at Columbus, 



Short Course at O., held there a 

 Columbus, O. very successful 



short course in bee- 

 keeping the last week in January. The 

 principal speakers were Dr. E. F. Phillips 

 and Geo. F. Demuth, of the Bureau of En- 

 tomology, Washington, D. C. There were 

 other speakers, such as B. F. Kindig, State 

 Apiarist, and David Running, the Dee-cellar 

 expert of Michigan; F. W. Leininger, Del- 

 phos, 0., a big beekeeper and queen-breed- 

 er; Dr. Ernest Kohn, President of the As- 

 sociation; E. C. Cotton, State Foul-brood 

 Inspector, and E. E. Root. Secretary J. S 

 Hiue, one of the University professors who 

 was present at all the meetings, did much to 

 look after the comfort of the beekeepers. 

 Mr. Moore, Vice-president of the Ohio State 

 Beekeepers' Association and a reporter on 

 the Ohio State Journal, is the man who ad- 

 vertised and got the beekeepers of the 

 State together. It is worth much to have 

 a newspaper reporter who can give the cor- 

 rect dope to the papers. Mr. Moore certain- 

 ly did this, as the Journal was full of the 

 proceedings of the great meeting. 



The attendance was the largest and most 

 enthusiastic of any bee meets ever held in 

 Ohio. There were not only many backlot- 

 ters but practically all of the large pro- 

 ducers of the State. The latter especially 

 acknowledged their indebtedness to Dr. 



