EDITORIAL 



THE ANNUAL meeting of the American 

 Honey Producers' League will be held at 

 Indianapolis, Ind., 

 The A. H. P. L. in the Claypool Ho- 

 Meeting. tel, on Feb. 15, 16, 



and 17. The pro- 

 gram for this meeting is given among Just 

 News on page 104 in this issue. We strongly 

 urge all beekeepers who can possibly do so 

 to attend this important meeting. 



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PLANS AEE shaping definitely to provide a 

 lasting beekeepers' memorial for the late Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, in which 

 The Dr. Miller ever y American 

 Memorial. .beekeeper can have 



a share. The memoj- 

 ial committee to have the entire matter in 

 charge, as appointed by the chairman, C. P. 

 Dadant, consists of Dr. E. F. Phillips of 

 Washington, D. C, L. C. LeStourgeon of 

 Texas, B. F. Kindig of Michigan, and E. R. 

 Root of Ohio. It is already decided to raise 

 the memorial fund by popular subscrip- 

 tion — none over a dollar, and a dime as wel- 

 come as a dollar. It is the number of bee- 

 keeper friends of Dr. Miller contributing to 

 this memorial rather than the size of con- 

 tributions, that the committee first of all 

 seeks. Dr. Miller would prefer this if he 

 were living, and a memorial so raised means 

 most and is most fitting the man. Dr. Mil- 

 ler's birthday, June 10, will be made his 

 memorial day, when every American bee- 

 keeper will be invited to contribute his dime 

 or quarter or dollar to the memorial fund, 

 sending it on tliat day to designated re- 

 ceivers of subscriptions. More definite de- 

 tails for the observance of this memorial 

 day and pla'ns for raising the memorial 

 funds will be annouliced later. 



REPORTS FROM beekeepers thruout the 

 country indicate that the colonies were in 

 splendid condition at 

 General the beginning of 



Conditions winter, both as to 



and Prospects, the quantity of 

 stores and young 

 bees. The early part of the winter has been 

 unusually favorable for good wintering. 



In the eastern part of the country the con- 

 dition of the honey plants is quite satisfac- 

 tory. White and alsike clover are reported 

 to be in good condition except in a few 

 small spots where there was prolonged 

 drouth during the summer. 



Recent rains in California have brought 

 the rainfall of this season up to the total 

 of last year in the southern part of the 

 State, while northern California has already 

 had from two to three times that of last 

 year. These rainfalls promise well for Cali- 

 fornia 's 1921 honey crop. 



BEEKEEPERS who live in the North are 

 usually surprised to learn that there is such 

 a thing as a wintering 

 Wintering problem in the South. In 

 Bees in some cases it is more 



the South, difficult to have colonies 

 come thru the win- 

 ter strong and in good condition for an 

 early honey flow in the South than it is in 

 the North. While the bees in the South do 

 not have to contend with extremely low 

 temperatures nor with the terrible wastage 

 of their vitality brought about by restless- 

 ness from accumulated feces, caused by poor- 

 stores and long periods of confinement to 

 their hives, they may suffer even greater 

 destruction of their vitality from useless ac- 

 tivity in the hives and fruitless flights over 

 barren fields when it would be infinitely bet- 

 ter if they would remain quiet within their 

 hives saving their vitality until it could be 

 used advantageously. Under these conditions 

 colonies that were strong in the fall may be 

 reduced in the spring to mere nuclei, which 

 build up so slowly that they are not able to 

 take advantage of an early honey flow 

 when it comes. Excessive winter activity 

 also means an excessive consumption of 

 stores during the winter period, and colonies 

 that would be considered to be well provi- 

 sioned for the long northern winter would 

 in many cases run short of stores in the 

 shorter southern winter. The more rapid de- 

 struction of. the vitality of the bees in the 

 South means, of course, that the period of 

 rest from brood-rearing must be much 

 shorter than further north, and in some cases 

 this rest is reduced to but a few weeks. 



In some cases winter protection as used 

 in the North may be a great advantage in 

 reducing winter activity by preventing the 

 hive from warming up too much during the 

 day; but, as one beekeeper put it, the first 

 thing to do is to "wrap them up in lots of 



