(i I. K A N I X G S 1 X B ]•: K U T. T V R K 



SKr-rKMi'.icR. 19'Jo 



JUST NEWS 



Editors 



TH E O h i () 

 Beekeepers " 

 A ssoeiation 

 will hold its suiii- 

 iiier meet at Me- 

 ilina, O., on Sept. 

 lU next. Elabo- 

 rate plans are 

 under way to 

 make this the 



largest gathering of beekeepers ever held in 

 Ohio. Arrangements are being made to get 

 speakers from other States. The latest ma- 

 chinery for extracting, including a machine 

 uncapper, will be on exhibition. Besides a 

 full program beekeepers will be taken to the 

 A. I. Root Company's queen-rearing yards, 

 where some of the latest tricks of the trade 

 will be shown. All beekeepers invited. 



The finding of vitamines in honey, as told 

 bv Stancy Puerden, in her department in 

 this issue of Gleanings, is important news 

 to the beekeeper, and every reader's atten-. 

 tion is directed particularly to the article 

 lieginning on page 538. Every lover of 

 honey, and particularly every booster of 

 honey as a food, should read this carefully, 

 because it will help him to boost the sale of 

 honey, always bearing in mind that honey 

 is a natural food while sugar is an artificial, 

 man-made food. 



The Beekeepers' Association of British 

 Columbia will hold a convention of bee- 

 keepers at the Vancouver Exhibition, Wed- 

 nesday, Sept. 15, at 2:30 p. m. The evening 

 session will be of a social nature, with short 

 addresses on beekeeping topics. Visiting 

 beekeepers from Washington and other 

 States will be heartily welcomed, and are 

 requested to make themselves known to John 

 Brooks, secretary, or the president, Wil- 

 liams Hugh. 



Vigo County (Ind.) Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion recently conducted a four-days' inspec- 

 tion and demonstration tour, which proved 

 to be a very interesting and instructive af- 

 fair. The association "secured the services 

 of a moving picture artist and outfit and 

 succeeded in getting some very good pic- 

 tures, shown in Terre Haute at the leading 

 moving picture house. So there is a set of 

 moving pictures available, showing a colony 

 of bees transferred from a box hive to a 

 modern hive; cutting of a bee-tree and trans- 

 ferring the bees to a modern hive; burning 

 the contents of 100 hives infected with 

 American foul brood and disinfecting the 

 hives, supers, lids, and bottoms by fire; also 

 transferring a colony of bees from a log gum 

 to a modern hive, and other educational fea- 

 tures, that are very interesting, and should 

 prove beneficial to modern bee culture. W. 

 A. Hunter, Terre Haute, Ind., can be ad- 

 dressed regarding the possible use of these 

 moving picture films. 



The Western Canadian Beekeeper, printed 

 and published by the Mutual Printing Co., 



U 





Vancouver, B. ('., 

 and edited by 

 L y n n Broune, 

 is a newcomer 

 in the field of 

 apicultural jour- 

 nalism, and the 

 official organ of 

 the British Co- 

 lumbia Honey 

 Producers ' Association. This new journal 

 makes a very creditable appearance and is 

 well filled with matter that is both inter- 

 esting and valuable to the British bee- 

 keeper 



The Crop Report Committee of the On- 

 tario Beekeepers' Association met in Toron- 

 to on July 31, when reports were received 

 from 470 members, together with reports 

 from Quebec and various States. With a few 

 exceptions the croj) reported is fair. Owing 

 to the extreme winter loss of 1919-1920 there 

 was only half the normal number of colo- 

 nies to harvest the crop. Members are urge.! 

 either to save an abundance of honey for 

 wintering, or secure sugar. Sugar is avail- 

 able, but may not be cheaper before the 

 bees should be prepared for winter. The 

 committee recommended the following prices 

 and should an}- conditions arise which will 

 materially alter the market, members will 

 receive due notice: Best quality light ex- 

 tracted, wholesale 27c-32c per lb.; best qual- 

 ity light extracted, retail (to consumer), 

 o2c-40c per lb.; No. 1 comb, wholesale, $3.75 

 to $4.75 per dozen; No. 2 comb, wholesale, 

 $2.75 to $3.75 per dozen. (All prices f. o. b. 

 shipping point.) The minimum price is rec- 

 ommended for barrels or whole crop; the 

 maximum price for part ci-op or 2V.-, 5-, and 

 10-lb. tins. 



The Oklahoma Free State Fair will be 

 held at Muskogee, Okla., the week of Oct. 

 4 to 9, 1920. A large exhibit of apiary 

 products and beekeepers' supplies is de- 

 sired, and to this end a premium list of $437 

 is offered. Competition is open to the world. 

 Here is an opportunity for beekeepers to 

 advertise their products and help the indns 

 try at large, by exhibiting honey in its dif- 

 ferent forms in appetizing ])ackages. Send 

 for a premium list to Ethel Murray Simonds, 

 secretary of the Oklahoma Free State fair, 

 Muskogee, Okla., or to Robert A. Hole 

 kamp, Superintendent Apiary Dept., 4263 

 Virginia Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

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The Henry Field Seed Co., of Shenandoah, 

 la., have sold 20 busliels of seed of the Prof. 

 Hughes new annual white sweet clover to the 

 DeGraflf Canning Co., of De Graff, O., at 

 $300 per bushel, to be delivered as soon as 

 harvested this fall. Mr. Crites of the De 

 Graff Comi>any is intending to use this as 

 a cover crop and green manure in their farm- 

 ing operations. He has been growing this 

 experimentally, and has recently visite.l 

 fields of it in all parts of the country, and 



