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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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EDITORIAL 



The annual meeting of the Amciican Honey 

 Producers' League was hehl at Indianap- 

 olis, Feb. 15, 16, and 

 The A. H. P. L. 17. Just as we go to 

 Meeting. press we learn that 



among the most im- 

 portant things done at this meeting was the 

 making of plans for an advertising program 

 involving tlie expenditure of $6,000 for ad- 

 vertising honey as a food. This amount of 

 money was pledged at this meeting by those 

 in attendance. Further particulars will be 

 given in these columns later as this adver- 

 tising campaign develops. 



Another matter of importance in the 

 transactions at Indianapolis was the adop- 

 tion of a resolution favoring a tariff of 48 

 cents per gallon on honey imported into the 

 United States. 



KEEN interest is manifested by beekeepers 

 thruout the country in regard to providing 

 a lasting memorial 



The Dr. Miller for the late Dr. C. C. 



Memorial. Miller, as announc- 



^ ed in our last issue. 



Some are already sending in their contribu- 

 tions for this purpose. As Gleanings under- 

 stands it, the plans which are being made 

 provide that a memorial fund is to be raised 

 by popular subscription, the money to be 

 sent on Dr. Miller's birthday, June 10, to 

 designated receivers of subscriptions. It will 

 be well for every beekeeper who desires to 

 contribute to this fund to set aside the 

 money for this purpose now, to be sure that 

 it will be ready to send on June 10. Gleanings 

 will announce the names of the designated 

 receivers of these subscriptions as soon as 

 the committee which has this in charge per- 

 fects its plans as to the handling of this 

 fund. 



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THE Bureau of Markets has just isued a 

 statement covering the calendar year 1920, 

 showing the exports 

 Honey Exports of honey from the 

 and Imports. United States and 

 where this honey 

 was sent, tlie data having been secured thru 

 the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- 

 merce. From this we learn that the total 

 exports by months are as follows: January, 



352,078 pounds; February, 3.35,656 pounds; 

 March, 81,653 pounds; April, 56,835 pounds; 

 May, 13,755 pounds; June, 28,258 pounds; 

 Julv, 10,823 pounds; August, 27,498 pounds; 

 September, 22,256 pounds; October, 152,530 

 pounds; November, 176,367 pounds; Decem- 

 ber, 282,016 pounds. The total for the year 

 was 1,539,725 pounds. 



The largest amount sent to any one coun- 

 try was 436,263 pounds, to the United King- 

 dom, most of this having been sent during 

 January, February, and March. The Neth- 

 erlands stands second as to the amount of 

 honey received, the total being 321,078 

 pounds, most of which was sent during Oc- 

 tober, November, and December. The re- 

 port also shows that 392,118 gallons of honey 

 was imported into the United States during 

 the last half of the year, most of this com- 

 ing from Cuba and Hayti. 



During the last five months of 1920, 113,- 

 804 pounds of beeswax was exported from 

 the United States. During the. same period a 

 total of 1,028,430 pounds was imported. 



DR. JOHN RENNIE, D.Sc, F.R.S.E., gave a 

 paper on the Isle of Wight disease, at a 

 meeting of the Ab- 

 The Isle of erdeen Natural His- 



. Wight Disease, tory and Antiquar- 

 ian Society of Aber- 

 deen, Scotland, on Jan. 21, in which he is 

 reported to have stated that a number of 

 samples of bees from other countries, in- 

 cluding the United States, had been exam- 

 ined in his investigations; but in no case 

 has the organism Torsonemus Woodi, the re- 

 cently discovered cause of the Isle of Wight 

 disease, been found in samples received from 

 any other country. While this may make 

 it appear .doubtful that the discovery of 

 this mite as the cause of the Isle of Wight 

 disease will explain some of the mysteries 

 connected with the adult bee diseases found 

 in this country, such as paralysis, disap- 

 pearing disease, etc., there is no telling at 

 this time what a careful search for these 

 mites in many samples of sick bees gathered 

 in this country may reveal. 



Detailed reports of the results of Dr. 

 Eennie 's investigations have so far not been 

 published, owing to certain formalities. 



