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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Decembeb, 1921 



FROM NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH 



ing, because the majority of the consumers 

 buy enough in season to last them as long as 

 they want it or until the next season. Eight 

 down in the bottom of his heart nearly every 

 honey producer, large or small, is desirous of 

 having his entire crop of honey sold before 

 Christmas. 



Co-operative unions are accused of being 

 or becoming selfish and of taking all the 

 traffic will bear for the necessities of life. 

 The producers who are independent of or- 

 ganized groups of producers have to a large 

 extent established honey prices this sea- 

 son, except that association members ask 

 20% more in less than 5-gallon orders. This, 

 of course, is competition in prices. We may 

 be safe in saying that these prices were es- 

 tablished without actually knowing the cost 

 of production and distribution. The very 

 small and the very large producers can and 

 ought to produce honey cheaper than the 

 middle-sized producer. 



With half a crop locally here and a 

 price of 15c. in 5-gallon lots and 18c in 

 smaller lots, all of our association members 

 will be sold out before Christmas. The de- 

 mand was extra good. The price was not 

 too high. Those men who asked less than 

 we did are just that much out. It would 

 have paid them hundreds of dollars to be 

 members of an association, and they would 

 not be obliged to be feel guilty of holding 

 up the consumer with too high a price. 

 Every association needs the aid of these 

 men who refuse to come in just as much as 

 they need the aid of the association. These 

 men should help build up the associations 

 and help guide them in their policies and 

 in the adjustment of prices that are just and 

 fair to both the producer and consumer. 



Greenville, Wis. Edw. Hassinger, Jr. 



In North Carolina.— f^'^/"^*^^^* ^™"^ 



Anderson and 

 his board of directors have called the 

 North Carolina State Beekeepers ' Asso- 

 ciation to meet in annual session at the 

 North Carolina State College of Agriculture 

 and Engineering on Tuesday, Jan. 10, the 

 convention to continue thru Wednesday, 

 Jan. 11. The college has a model apiary 

 maintained under the direction of J. E. Eck- 

 ert, instructor in apiculture, and is also ac- 

 cumulating a valuable and very instructive 

 collection of the latest and best things in 

 beekeepers' supplies. With this excellent 

 apiary and ' ' Museum of Apiculture ' ' at 

 hand the officers of the State Association of 

 beekeepers believe that Raleigh will prove 

 an especially advantageous place for this 

 annual convention. 



One of the special matters to come up in 

 this convention will be the changing of the 

 constitutional time for these annual meet- 

 ings from the second Tuesday in January to 



August so that the meetings can be included 

 in a national chain or series of State conven- 

 tions being scheduled under the auspices of 

 the American Honey Producers' League. 

 This would, under a tentative schedule al- 

 ready prepared, give the North Carolina As- 

 sociation a convention August 9 and 10, 

 1922. There is a very general sentiment to 

 make this change, as it will then be possible 

 to have speakers of national and interna- 

 tional reputation for the State conventions, 

 not otherwise easily obtainable. 



Rapid development in beekeeping in this 

 State is indicated by the fact that in spite 

 of almost the leanest honey year in the his- 

 tory of the State, the Bees and Honey divi- 

 sion of the State Fair at Raleigh was char- 

 acterized by fine exhibits constituting dis- 

 plays many times more extensive and meri- 

 torious than ever before gotten together in 

 this State. 



Reports from practically all sections of the 

 State where beekeeping has any foothold in- 

 dicate that bees are entering the winter 

 season in much better condition than was 

 expected after the early frosts and the fall 

 droughts so terribly reduced the honey crops 

 for the season. However, feeding is neces- 

 sary in some quarters, and beekeepers gen- 

 erally are giving exceptionally careful at- 

 tention to this important matter. Many 

 beekeepers, especially in the northeastern 

 section of the State, report considerable 

 commercial honey crops from the fall flora 

 such as goldenrod, wild aster, and others. 

 In the Piedmont, or central part of the 

 State, while these flowers were very pro- 

 fuse, the dry weather greatly reduced the 

 flow of nectar, in many instances bees be- 

 ing found in an actually starving condition 

 in the midst of an abundance of such flora. 



Wilmington, N. C. W. J. Martin. 



In Ontario. 



Following a month of 

 weather milder than 

 usual for this time of the year, November 

 has come in with a wintry aspect, and today 

 (Nov. 10) the ground is covered with a 

 snowy mantle. For the first time in our bee- 

 keeping experience we have been caught by 

 cold weather before the bees were all pre- 

 pared for winter so far as packing is con- 

 cerned. 



We had nearly 300 new winter cases made 

 to accommodate a lot of bees hitherto win- 

 tered inside, and delay in getting the cases, 

 coupled with more than the ordinary amount 

 of fall work, kept us later than usual. Then 

 the early cold weather and heavy fall of 

 snow came as a climax, and found us with 

 some 150 colonies still minus the planer 

 shavings needed for top packing. 



Fortunately all hives had been placed in 

 eases, and the sides and ends all packed be- 

 fore the snow (.ame, but it is bad enough 



