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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



NOVEMBEB, 1921 



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THE new Ital- 

 ian 10-c e n- 

 time copper 

 coin has on one 

 side an emboss- 

 ed figure of a 

 worker bee sip- 

 ping nectar from 

 a flower. We are 

 indebted to Dr_ 



Alberico Molinari, Terre Del Greco, Italy, 

 for two of these beautiful coins, which in- 

 dicate the appreciation of the Italian. Gov- 

 ernment — 'appreciation of the worth of the 

 honeybee. 



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Geo. W- Dial, formerly with the A, I. Root 

 Co., has taken active charge as manager of 

 the Michigan Honey Producers' Exchange. 

 His address is 7739 Linwood Street, De- 

 troit, Mich, 



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C. A. Hatch of Richland Center, Wis., well 

 known among beekeepers as the inventor of 

 the Hatch wax press and a former contribu- 

 tor to this journal, died on Sept. 19, at his 

 home in Wisconsin. 



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The Canadian Horticulturist and Bee- 

 keeper was changed to The Beekeeper on 

 Sept. 1, and is now devoted solely to the 

 interest of beekeepers. It will be published 

 at Petersboro, Ontario, as heretofore. 



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The annual convention of the Chicago 

 Northwestern Beekeepers ' Association will 

 be held in Room 1811, Hotel La Salle, Chi- 

 cago, Dec. 5 and 6, 1921. Write to John C. 

 Bull, Valparaiso, Ind., , secretary, for a pro- 

 gram. 



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The annual meeting of the Michigan State 



Beekeepers' Ass'n. will be held in Lansing 



on December 1 and 2. A good program is 



promised. Among the notables to appear will 



be a representative of the American Honey 



Producers ' League. 



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The Montgomery County (Ohio) Beekeep- 

 ers ' Association is planning to hold its next 

 meeting at the grave of L. L. Langstroth in 

 Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio, on Nov. 

 5. Mrs. Anna L. Cowan, daughter of Langs- 

 troth, is expected to be present at this meet- 

 ing. 



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The Western New York Honey Producers' 

 Association will hold its annual fall meet- 

 ing at the Genesee Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., on 

 Tuesday, Nov. 15. A good program has been 

 arranged and all beekeepers are invited to 

 attend. J. Roy Lincoln, Pembroke, N. Y., 

 is secretary of this association. 



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Professor P. Eric Millen, Provincial Api- 

 arist of Ontario, has just recently returned 

 from England, where he spent a part of his 

 summer vacation. While in England he 



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spoke at several 

 b eekeepers' 

 meetings, de- 

 scribing the 

 methods in hon- 

 ey production in 

 Canada and the 

 IT n i t e d States. 

 His lectures 

 were greatly 

 Appreciated by British beekeepers. 



The Domestic Beekeeper, which was for- 

 merly the Beekeepers ' Review, has gone 

 back to the old name given by its founder, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, in 1888. The arrival of 

 the September issue, with the familiar title, 

 ' ' The Beekeepers ' Review, ' ' seems like the 

 return of an old friend. 



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The Ontario Beekeepers' Association are 

 holding their annual convention on Tues- 

 day, Wednesday, and Thursday, Nov. 22, 23, 

 and 24, in Toronto. The convention will be 

 held at the same time as the Royal Winter 

 Fair. An excellent program is in the course 

 of construction, and the Hon. Manning Do- 

 herty will address the beekeepers on ' ' Mar- 

 keting. ' ' Other prominent speakers are ex- 

 pected to be present. Full particulars may 

 be obtained from the secretary, F. Eric 

 Millen, Apicultural Department, O. A. C, 



Guelph, Ont. 



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The Crop Report Committee of the On- 

 tario Beekeepers' Association met in Tor- 

 onto on Tuesday, Sept. 27, to consider the 

 Dark Honey Crop Reports. Three hundred 

 and twenty-nine reports were received in 

 time for the committee 's meeting. The total 

 dark honey reported was 395,445 pounds 

 from 16,817 colonies, an average of 24 

 pounds. The committee recommends 9 to 11 

 cents wholesale as the price for dark buck- 

 wheat extracted honey. The reports showed 

 that the light honey has moved freely at 

 the prices rcommended by the Association 

 Crop Report Committee. 



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Definite announcements have been made 

 of a circuit of short courses in beekeeping 

 in which Dr. E. F. Phillips of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, Washington, D. C, and Geo. 

 S. Demuth, Editor of Gleanings in Bee Cul- 

 ture, will take part. The first of these will 

 be held at Fort Collins, Colo., during the 

 week beginning Nov. 21; the second at 

 Grand Junction, Colo., during the week be- 

 ginning Nov. 28; the third at Los Angeles, 

 Cal., during the week of Dec. 5; and the 

 fourth at Berkeley, Cal., during the week 

 beginning Dec. 12. Frank Rauchfuss, Wesley 

 Foster, and Kennith Hawkins are among 

 the speakers announced for the two short 

 courses in Colorado; and J. D. Bixby, Geo. 

 A. Coleman,' Willis Lynch, Fred Hanson, 

 and Gary W. Hartman for the California 

 short courses. Full particulars may be had 



