November, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



709 



concerning these short courses by writing 

 to the Colorado College of Agriculture at 

 Fort Collins and the University of Califor- 

 nia at Berkeley. 



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The Alabama Beekeepers ' Association 

 held its annual convention at Montgomery, 

 Ala., on Sept. 22. The meeting was large 

 and enthusiastic. The danger of foul brood 

 getting into the State and the need of foul- 

 brood legislation were laid before the mem- 

 bers. At a later meeting, held at Bay Min- 

 ette, Sept. 28, a committee consisting of the 

 executive officers of the association was ap- 

 pointed to see what could be done toward 

 getting emergency legislation at a special 

 session of the legislature, to be held soon. 

 More bees and queens are reared within 150 

 miles of Montgomery than any other equal 

 section of the United States. It was, there- 

 fore, deemed important that Alabama have 

 a good foul-brood law. 



On Oct. 7 there was held at Gainesville, 

 Fla., the second annual meet of the Florida 

 State Beekeepers ' Association^ This was an 

 enthusiastic gathering called for the pur- 

 pose of determining how beekeepers might 

 co-operate among themselves in disposing of 

 their honey. Pres. J. W. Barney, in an en- 

 thusiastic address, explained how it is pos- 

 sible for the beekeepers of Florida to con- 

 vert some of their low-grade honeys that are 

 liaving slow sale into bees and queens, for 

 which there is an active demand. Florida, 

 he said, would have the advantage of Ala- 

 bama and other States further north by 

 at least from two to three weeks in early 

 delivery. A committee was appointed to 

 see what could be done in formulating plans 

 for furnishing bees to the northern market 

 in March and early April. This association 

 has the active support of Dean Wilmon 

 Newell of the Agricultural College at 

 Gainesville. 



When Bees are Packed for Winter.- -By Bill Mellvir 



(With apologies to Walt Mason.) 



When the bees are packed for winter and 

 the honey crop is sold, and the leaves begin 

 to rattle, and the wind is getting cold, and 

 the morniiigs crisp and frosty when a fellow 

 leaves the hay, and the sun each day is low- 

 er, sending just a slanting ray, then I feel 

 quite young and coltish since the season's 

 work is done. Tho I've toiled and sweat 

 and worried, I have had a lot of fun. And 

 it's great to be a-living on a morning crisp 

 and cold when the bees are packed for win- 

 ter and the honey crop is sold. Say, this 

 world sure is a dinger with its buoyant at- 

 mosphere, when the heat of summer's over 

 and the bracing fall is here. So on frisky 

 legs I 'm prancing as I chant this lusty 

 rhyme, for a voter should be happy when 

 bis work is done on time. Sure I'll miss the 



daily troubles and the humming of the bees; 

 miss the big extractor 's whirring and the 

 little motor's wheeze. But I'm fit as any 

 fiddle as my aching arms I fold when the 

 bees are packed for winter and the honey 

 crop is sold. Foolish ginks will put off pack- 

 ing, till the snow and ice are here. Some 

 will let it go all winter, paying for it mighty 

 dear. Spring will bring great disappoint- 

 ment to the rusty shiftless jay who neglects 

 such simple duties, loitering from day to 

 day. Black remorse for things neglected, 

 can not bring dead bees to life that have 

 burned their lives out early in the deadly 

 winter strife. I've insured my bees 'gainst 

 freezing, and a policy I hold when the bees 

 are packed for winter and the honey crop 

 is sold. 



