GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July, 1920 



TH E summer 

 field m e e t- 

 ing of the 

 New Jersey Bee- 

 keepers' Associ- 

 ation will b e 

 held in Samuel 

 Buser's apiary, 

 near North 

 Haledon, Passa- 

 ic Co., on Saturday, July 10, beginning at 

 9 a. m. The principal features of this 

 meeting will be seasonable manipulations, 

 including treatment of colonies for Ameri- 

 can foul brood. Elmer G. Carr of New 

 Egypt, N. J. is secretary of the Association. 



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The annual Chautauqua of Wisconsin bee- 

 keepers will be held August 16 to 21. The 

 meeting place will be Madison. H. F. Wil- 

 son of the beekeeping section of the De- 

 partment of Economic Entomology at the 

 University of Wisconsin is in charge. 

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The beekeepers of Georgia will meet on 

 July 3 at Waycross, Georgia, for the pur- 

 pose of organizing a Georgia State Bee- 

 keepers' Association. J. J. Wilder is the 

 leading spirit in this step toward better 

 beekeeping in this State. 

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The annual sununer meeting and baske! 

 picnic of the Western New York Hone; 

 Producers' Association will be held on July 

 31 at the apiary of Frank W. Churchill, 

 West Valley, N. Y. A good program has 

 been provided and all interested in bees or 

 honey are cordially invited. 



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The Michigan Beekeepers' Association 

 will hold its annual summer meeting at 

 Boyne City on July 28 and 29. Among the 

 speakers will be E. E. Eoot, whose subject 

 will be "A Fourteen Thousand Mile Trip 

 Among the Beekeepers." A very excellent 

 program has been prepared. 



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The Panhandle Beekeepers' Association 

 and the W. Va. State Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold their summer meeting at Elm 

 Grove, W. Va., on Aug. 10, 11 and 12. Dr. 

 E. F. Phillips, Kennith Hawkins, E. E. Eoot, 

 and T. K. Massie are on the list of speakers 

 for this big meeting of the West Virginians. 



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The summer outing of the N. Y. State 

 Association of Beekeepers' Societies will be 

 held at A. N. Coggswell 's apiary, Groton, 

 N. Y., on Friday, Aug. 6. Geo. H. Eea, E. 

 E. Eoot, Dr. Geo. G. Atwood, and Kennith 

 Hawkins are on the speakers' list for this 

 beekeepers' event. 



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The summer meeting and basket picnic 

 of Chenango County, N. Y., Beekeepers' So- 

 ciety will be held at the apiary of George 

 S. Hard, Norwich, N. Y., on Thursday, July 

 22. This will be a meeting of practical 



demonstrati o n s 

 in c n n e c tion 

 with modern 

 beekeeping, i n- 

 cluding an illus 

 trated lecture in 

 the evening. 

 Geo. H. Eea, Ex- 

 tension Special- 

 i s t in Apicul- 

 ture, Ithac-a, N. Y., will be present and take 

 active part in the program. 



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C. E. Millspaugh, who has had 18 years' 

 experience in the marketing of bee prod- 

 ucts in American and foreign countries, has 

 been made general manager of the Cali- 

 fornia Honey Producers ' Co-operative Ex- 

 change in place of Charles B. Justice, who 

 resigned to enter business for himself. With 

 Mr. Millspaugh as active head of the Ex- 

 change it is expected that plans for the co- 

 operative marketing of bee products in Cali- 

 fornia will be materially furthered. 



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At the last regular meeting of the Ohio 

 Beekeepers ' Association held in January a 

 demand for a representative exhibit of bee 

 products at the State Fair was presented. 

 The plan in use in Michigan was selected, 

 and it was voted to give it a trial in Ohio 

 the coming fall. This plan gives the State 

 Fair Board the privilege of stating what it 

 desires for exhibition purposes from each 

 producer who subscribes to send bee prod- 

 ucts, but with the understanding that what 

 is accepted is sold and a fair price returned 

 to the sender. James S. Hine, Secretary 

 Ohio Beekeepers' Association, Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, Ohio, is in charge of 

 the work, and from him any information 

 desired may be secured. 



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The beekeepers of New York won their 

 fight in the State Legislature to secure a 

 larger appropriation for fighting bee dis- 

 ease in the Empire State. A committee 

 appointed at the New York State Beekeep- 

 ers ' convention did effective work at Al- 

 bany last winter and spring which finally 

 resulted in an appropriation of $10,000 for 

 additional inspection of bees. The same 

 committee attended to the amendment of 

 the foul-brood law also. This appropria- 

 tion was secured by a very narrow margin 

 as Governor Smith rejected the appro- 

 priation when first presented, but upon its 

 re-passage, he approved it. At a conference 

 held at the office of George G. Atwood, Al- 

 bany, attended by Messrs. Charles Stewart, 

 Mr. Wright (State Inspectors), S. D. House, 

 and Orel L. Hershiser, the State was divided 

 into 16 districts, each composed of one or 

 more counties according to the amount of 

 disease that is supposed to be present in the 

 locality, each of which is to have a local in- 

 spector to be employed only during the sea- 

 son wlien inspection will do the most good — 

 during the spring and summer. 



