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 ern Illinois and 

 S o u t hern Wis- 

 consin Beokoep- 

 ors ' Association 

 will be held in 

 the court house 

 at Freeport, 111., 



on Thursday, Oct. 19. B. Kennedy, 416 E. 

 State St., liockford. III., is secretary, and 

 will supply information. 

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The following message of sympathy was 

 sent to Mrs. C. C. Miller at Marengo, 111., 

 l>y the beekeepers attending the Ohio field 

 meet at Medina on Sept. 10: 



' ' We, the beekeepers of Ohio assembled 

 .It Medina, this 10th daj^ of September, 

 1920, are greatlv grieved at the announce- 

 ment of the death of Dr. C. C. Miller, the 

 most beloved keeper of bees in all the 

 world, a man of action, a man of wisdom, 

 a man who loved all nature — the flowers, 

 the bees; and, above all, a man full to the 

 utmost of love for his fellow men. The loss 

 of such a one will be keenly felt thruout 

 the beekeeping world. Therefore, we, the 

 beekeepers of Ohio, extend to the family 

 of Dr. Miller our deepest sympathy." 

 (Signed F. B. Moore, Zona Fowls, J. S. Hine, 

 Committee on Resolutions.) 

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Udo Toepperwein, 42 j^ears of age, oaie 

 of the best-known beekeepers of Texas, 

 died on Aug. 7 as the result of blood poison- 

 ing occasioned by a slight scratch from a 

 mcsquite thorn. A few jcars ago his name 

 was foremost among Texas beekeepers. In 

 his time he greatly developed the Texas 

 honey market, dealt in beekeepers' supplies, 

 and served in every office within the gift 

 of the Texas State Beekeepers' Association. 

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The second manual of the North Caro- 

 lina Beekeepers ' Association was issued in 

 September. Its 22 pages are loaded with 

 beekeeping matter of especial interest and 

 use to North Carolina beekeepers. All in 

 all, it is a very great credit to the Associa- 

 tion, and an emphatic testimonial of the 

 new and better day in beekeeping that has 

 dawned in the Tar Heel State. The officers 

 of this up-and-doing association are: Jas. 

 M. Gibbs, Reidsville, N. C, president; W. 

 "W. King, Jr., Wilmington, N. C, vice pres- 

 ident; J. E. Echert, Winston-Salem, N. C, 

 secretary; these together with R. W. Ether- 

 idge of Selnia, N. C, and D. W. Monroe 

 of Chadbourn, N. C, make up the executive 

 committee. The secretary especially gives 

 unstintedly of his time and interest to the* 

 organization's welfare. 



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Despite very unfavorable weather, .37.1 



Ohio beekeepers gathered at Medina on 



Sept. 10 for the annual field meet of the 



Ohio State Beekeepers' Association. Dr. 



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truest K hn 

 presided in his 

 usual h a p ]> y 

 way. The chief 

 beekeeping talks 

 of the day were 

 given by Geo. S. 

 Demuth and E. 

 L. Sechrist, and 

 bee demonstrji- 

 tions were given by Miss Fowls and Mell 

 Pritchard. The eminent cartoonist, J. IT. 

 Donahey, delighted the crowd with a chalk 

 talk on beekeeping. The A. I. Root Company 

 acted as host, and, besides providing a cafa- 

 toria luncheon and a tent auditorium, the big 

 manufacturing plant and queen-rearing 

 yards were thrown open to the inspection 

 of the visitors. A feature of the day was 

 the deep mark of respect paid to the mem- 

 ory of Dr. C. C. Miller. Not only were 

 resolutions of sorrow and sympathy adopted 

 and directed to the family of the deceased, 

 but several of the beekeeping songs written 

 by Dr. Miller were sung, and A. I. Root de- 

 livered a tender and beautiful tribute to 

 the dead, speaking on "My First Acquaint- 

 ance with Dr. C. C. Miller". 



The 40th annual convention of the OiT-~ 

 tario Beekeepers' Association will be held 

 at the Ontario Agricultural College at 

 Guelph on Dec. 1, 2, and 3, 1920. This is 

 expected to be a great beekeepers' meet- 

 ing, and notice is being given well in ad- 

 vance. The program will be given later. 

 F. Eric Millen, Provincial Apiarist, is in 

 charge. 



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Vvisconsin produced during 1919 4,834,000 

 pounds of surplus honey, of which 18 per 

 cent, or 836,000 lbs., was comb and 4,008,000 

 extracted. These figures issued by the Wis- 

 ionsin crop reporting service are the first 

 estimate ever made of Wisconsin honey pro- 

 duction. This amount is an average of 54 

 pounds a colony, comb honey yielding 34 

 pounds per colony and extracted 61 pounds. 

 There were 90,000 colonies in the State in 

 1519. The total value of the 1919 honey 

 crop of Wisconsin is estimated at $1,207,730. 

 On Jan. 1 the average price of comb honej^ 

 tvas 32.6c; of extracted, 24.8c. The average 

 value per hive is estimated at $8.50, a total 

 value of $765,000. 



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A letter from R. F. Holtermann of Brant- 

 ford, Ont., states that the Hon. E. C. Drury, 

 the new premier of Ontario, is a practical 

 beekeeper; has kept bees in a modern way 

 for years; has gone thru a siege of European 

 foul brood, and is a subscriber and regular 

 reader of Gleanings in Bee Culture. Mr. 

 Holtermann adds, that "before becoming 

 premier, Mr. Drury had studied out some 

 methods of combating foul brood, of which 

 tlic lountry is likely to hear in the not far 

 distant future." 



