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THE West 

 V i r g i n ia 

 Beekeepers' 

 Association will 

 hold a meeting at 

 Charleston, West 

 Virginia, on 

 March 25-26. Ed- 

 itor Geo. S. De- 

 muth is expect- 

 ing to attend. Further particulars m regard 

 to this meeting may be had by writing to 

 the Secretary, Will C. Griffith, Elm Grove, 



West Va. 



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The South Dakota Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its next meeting at Vermilion, 

 S. D., on March 8 and 9. L. A. Syverud of 

 Yankton, S. I)., is secretary of this associa- 

 tion. » « * 



The British Bee Journal reports the value 

 of honey imported into the United King- 

 dom during the month of December, 1920, as 

 £10,333, from a return furnished by the Sta- 

 tistical office, H. M. Customs. 



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The Beekeepers Item comes out in a new 

 dress for 1921, having changed to magaziiie 

 form and added a cover. It is now a 32- 

 page magazine and is filled with good mat- 

 ter. The price has been increased to $1.00 



per year. 



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The 32nd annual meeting of the Califor 

 nia State Beekeepers' Association will be 

 held at Oakland, Cal., March 2, 3, 4, 5. An 

 elaborate program is being prepared for this 

 meeting and a long list of notables are listed 

 as speakers. Editor E. E. Eoot is expected to 

 attend this meeting. 



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A meeting of the Montana State Bee- 

 keepers' Association was held at Billings, 

 Mont., on Jan. 25-26. The big feature of this 

 meeting was a discussion of the proposed 

 foul brood law for the State, which was in- 

 troduced in the Legislature immediately 

 after the close of the meeting. 



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The annual meeting of the Southern Min- 

 nesota and Western Wisconsin Beekeepers' 

 Association will be held in the courthouse at 

 Winona, Minn., on Thursday and Friday, 

 March 3 and 4. An excellent program of 

 papers and talks on live subjects has been 

 arranged for this meeting. Ozra S. Holland 

 of Winona is secretary of this association. 



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An insect, which for some years has been 

 known to occur in the citrus groves of India, 

 has recently appeared in Cuba, the Panama 

 Canal Zone, the Eepublie of Panama, and 

 Costa Eica. There is danger, according to 

 the Bureau of Entomology, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, that the black 

 fly, aleurocanthus woglumi, may invade the 

 United States from these New World colo- 

 nies, but careful investigations conducted 



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by the bureau 

 specialists in the 

 Canal Zone fail 

 to disclose any 

 citrus trees that 

 have been killed 

 by it. The Canal 

 Zone has pecul- 

 iar climatic con- 

 ditions, however, 

 which may limit the ravages of the new 

 pest, and it is possible that it will add a 

 heavy burden to the citrus grower if it be- 

 comes established in the United States. 



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The Department of Agriculture Bill now 

 being considered by the State Legislature of 

 Michigan, if passed, will take tlie bee-in- 

 spection service of that State out of the 

 hands of the university and put it directly 

 under the control of the governor. From this 

 distance, at least, this change looks like a 

 step backward for the inspection service of 



Michigan. 



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The report of the State Inspector of Api- 

 aries of the State of Utah for 1920 contains 

 an estimate of the honey produced in that 

 State in 1920. The data are given by coun- 

 ties and from a total of 39,131 colonies 

 3,002,245 pounds of honey was produced, 

 this being an average of about 76 pounds 

 per colony. Ten per cent of this was comb 

 honey, and 90 per cent extracted honey. 

 Duchesne County, with 7,101 colonies, shows 

 the highest average yield per colony, as well 

 as the greatest number of colonies, the 

 average yield being 120 pounds per colony. 



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At Auburn, Me., on Feb. 15, the Maine 

 State Beekeepers' Association was organ- 

 ized. Lester W. Longfellow, Hallowell, Me., 

 was elected president, and F. L. Mason, Me- 

 chanic Falls, was elected secretary. The 

 immediate object of the association is that 

 there may be an organized effort in support 

 of a foul brood law to come before this ses- 

 sion of the legislature. The first annual meet- 

 ing of the new State Association will be on 

 March 30 at Orono. Dr. E. F. Phillips of the 

 Bureau of Entomology is scheduled as one 

 of the speakers at this meeting. 



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Two short courses for beekeepers were 

 given by the United States Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, one in co-operation with the Ohio 

 State University at Columbus, 0., Jan. 31 

 to Feb. 4, and the other in co-operation with 

 the New York State College of Agriculture 

 at Ithaca, N. Y. Both were well attended 

 and great interest was manifested. Dr. E. F. 

 Phillips of the Bureau of Entomology car- 

 ried his usual course of lectui-es thruout the 

 week in each of these schools. His work was 

 supplemented by other speakers, whose top- 

 ics were chosen to fit in with the main series 

 of lectures. It is to be regretted that more 

 of these short courses could not be given 

 during the winter. 



