January, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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A WELL at- 

 tended 

 meeting of 

 the executive 

 committee a ii d 

 friends of tlie 

 American Hon- 

 e y Producers ' 

 League was held 

 at the Great 



Northern Hotel, Chicago, on Dec. 6 and 7, 

 all members of the committee being present 

 as well as a considerable number of promi- 

 nent beekeepers from widely separated 

 parts of the country. This meeting was 

 largely for the purpose of discussing mat- 

 ters of large importance to the League in 

 advance of the second annual meeting, 

 which is to be held Feb. 15 to 17, at Indi- 

 anapolis. Great interest was shown at this 

 executive commitee meeting of the League. 

 As a result, the annual meeting to be held at 

 Indianapolis next month may be expected 

 to be largely attended and its results im- 

 portant. Every beekeeper and every friend 

 of beekeeping in the country, who can at- 

 tend the Indianapolis convention either as 

 delegate or friend, should be there. 



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The Tennessee State Beekeepers' Associ- 

 ation will hold its annual convention at 

 Nashville on Jan. 27, 1921. 



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The annual meeting of the Ontario County 

 (N. Y.) Beekeepers' Society will take place 

 on Jan. 11, 1921, at the courthouse in Canan- 



daigua. 



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Ohio State University will give another 

 beekeepers' short course, Jan. 31 to Feb. 5. 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips of Washington will be in 

 direct charge. Editor Geo. S. Demuth of 



Gleanings is also to be on the program. 



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The Division of Bee Culture, University 

 of Minnesota, will hold a short course for 

 Minnesota beekeepers Jan. 3 to 8, 1921. 

 Francis Jager, chief of division, in making 

 this announcement, says that an effort is be- 

 ing made to make this short course of un- 

 usual interest. 



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O. E. Timm, secretary-treasurer of the 

 Nebraska Honey Producers' Association, 

 Bennington, Nebraska, announces the fourth 

 annual meeting of the Nebraska association 

 to be held on Jan. 4, at the University Farm 

 at Lincoln. There is a very full program, 

 and a special effort will be made at this 

 meeting to get a new foul-brood law enacted 



in Nebraska. 



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An important convention of Florida bee- 

 keepers, comprising several adjoining coun- 

 ties, was held Dec. 3 at Tampa. An organi- 

 zation was effected and a constitution 

 adopted. A recommendation was put thru 

 sotting aside a week in the first part of the 

 year to be observed as "Florida Honey 



JUST NEWS 



Editors 



Week," and p«5- 

 t i t i o n ing the 

 Governor of 

 Florida to de- 

 clare the first 

 full week in 

 .January as Flor- 

 ida honey week. 

 On the follow- 

 ing day at Bra- 

 dentown there was a meeting of the Mana- 

 tee County beekeepers at which W. A. Sel- 

 ser and E. E. Boot were the speakers. The 

 plan of a honey week throut the State was 

 indorsed. 



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The 32d annual meeting of the California 

 State Beekeepers' Association will cover 

 a four-day session Mar. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1921, 

 in Oakland. Cary W. Hartman, president of 

 the Alameda County Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion, and chairman of the program commit- 

 tee for the annual meeting, writes that it 

 is expected to make this the biggest and 

 best meeting in the history of the organi- 

 zation. 



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The beekeepers of Deschutes County, Ore., 

 met at Redmond on Dec. 7 and organized a 

 county association. The officers are: Presi- 

 dent, A. J. Sanford of Eedmond; vice-presi- 

 dent, B. D. Becker of Tumalo; secretary. 

 County Agent Jamison of Redmond; treas- 

 urer, John Marsh of Tumalo. Oregon bee- 

 keeping interests are being well looked after 

 at this time by her extension specialist in 

 bee culture, H. A. Scullen, of Corvallis. 



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Beekeepers of New Jersey are looking 

 forward with much interest to the annual 

 meeting of the New Jersey Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation to be held on Jan. 13 and 14, 1921, 

 at Trenton. C. P. Dadant is on the program 

 to discuss the Dadant hive and system of 

 beekeeping. Geo. H. Rea, extension special- 

 ist in apiculture for New York State, and 

 Mr. Myers, a large honey-producer of the 

 san.e State, will also address the meeting. 



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Thomas Newcastle, the father of beekeep- 

 ing in the Hawaiian Islands, died at his 

 home in Honolulu on Nov. 16. He was not 

 only the first practical beekeeper of the 

 Islands, but also the first extensive honey- 

 producer to operate there. He had been a 

 resident of Honolulu for 42 years and at 

 one time had an apiary of 500 colonies with- 

 in the city limits of the Hawaiian capital. 



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N. B. West, inventor and manufacturer 

 of the West queen cell protector and the 

 spiral queen cage, died at his home at Mid- 

 dleburgh, N. Y., on Nov. 9 last, at the age 

 of 76 years. He once told a friend that 

 both the spiral queen-cell protector and the 

 spiral queen cage were suggested to him by 

 the spiral spring used in the hanging device 

 of a bird cage. 



