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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1921 



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TH E annual 

 convention of 

 the Indiana 

 State Beekeep- 

 er s ' Organizar 

 tion will be 

 held in the State 

 House at Indi- 

 anapolis on Dee. 

 15 and 16. 



The Illinois State Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual convention in 

 Springfield, 111., on Dee. 14 and 15 at the 

 St. Nicholas Hotel. G. M. Withrow, Me- 

 chanicsburg. 111., is secretary. 



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The Wisconsin State Beekeepers' conven- 

 tion will be held Dec. 8 and 9, at Milwau- 

 kee auditorium, Milwaukee. Write for pro- 

 gram to H. F. Wilson, Beekeeping Section, 

 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 

 who is secretary. 



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The annual meeting of the Chicago North- 

 western Beekeepers' Association will be 

 held in Eoom 1811, Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, 

 on Dec. 5 and 6. Routine business will be 

 disposed of on the forenoon of Dec. 5, after 

 which E. S. Miller will give his report as 

 delegate to the American Honey Producers' 

 League. In the afternoon of this day there 

 will be addresses by E. W. Atkins and S. B. 

 Fracker, and on Tuesday E. E. Root, Jay 

 Smith, and G. H. Cale will address the meet- 

 ing. 



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An effort to reorganize the Ohio State 

 Beekeepers' Association as a federation of 

 county societies will be made at the annual 

 winter meeting to be held during Farmers' 

 Week at Ohio State University, Columbus. 

 The officers and executive committee of the 

 association are urging all beekeepers to be 

 present at the winter meeting when this 

 important matter of new organization will 



be decided. 



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The second annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Honey Producers' League will be held 

 Jan. 30 and 31, 1922, in Salt Lake City, 

 Utah. The Utah beekeepers promise the 

 members of the League "the time of their 

 lives." Every beekeepers' association, 

 whether a member of the League or not, is 

 urged to send a representative to this con- 

 vention. "Honey and How to Use It," the 

 recipe book put out by the American Honey 

 Producers' League, is free to any one ask- 

 ing for it. The secretary of the League is 

 H. B. Parks, whose address is Box 838, San 



Antonio, Texas. 



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F. B. Paddock, State Apiarist of Iowa and 

 Secretary-treasurer of the Iowa Beekeepers' 

 Association, is doing excellent work for the 

 beekeepers of his State. He is the moving 

 spirit in the twelve-weeks' winter course 

 extending from Jan. 2 to March 22, 1922, in 



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beekeeping, a t 

 Iowa State Col- 

 lege of Agricul- 

 ture. He has ar- 

 ranged this ma- 

 jor course cover- 

 ing the twelve 

 weeks, to give a 

 thorough exposi- 

 tion of beekeep- 

 ing in all lines, and also a course in beekeep- 

 ing for those specializing in either horticul- 

 ture or poultry husbandry, preparing those 

 who take this minor course to undertake 

 beekeeping on a small scale or sideline. Mr. 

 Paddock is also largely responsibile for the 

 large membership of 625 enrolled in the 

 Iowa Beekeepers ' Association. The annual 

 meeting of this association will be held Dec. 

 15 and 16 at Waterloo, and a very interest- 

 ing program is promised. The Iowa State 

 Association placed 114 orders for its mem- 

 bers during the past year, amounting to 

 $5100, and effected a saving of $1300 by so 

 doing. 



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The New Jersey Beekeepers' Association 

 will hold its annual convention in Trenton, 

 N. J., on Jan. 12-13, 1912. J. E. Crane of 

 Middlebury, Vt., and Messrs. Stewart and 

 Bedell of New York will be on the program 

 as well as other interesting speakers. The 

 annual dinner on Thursday evening will be 

 a very enjoyable occasion with Hon. Emmor 

 Roberts, State Senator for Burlington Coun- 

 ty, as toastmaster. 



Among the speakers on the program of 

 the annual meeting of the Michigan Bee- 

 keepers' Association to be held at Lansing, 

 Mich., Dec. 1-3, are Russell H. Kelty, Elmer 

 T. Beach, G. H. Cale, J. W. Stine, Prof. H. 

 F. Wilson, Dr. Ernest Kohn, E. A. Little, E. 

 S. Miller, and Geo. W. Dial, manager of the 

 Michigan Honey Producers' Exchange. The 

 annual banquet is slated for 6:30 p. m. on 

 Friday, Dec. 2. 



For the first time since 1918 the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College is able to be of 

 service to beekeepers of the State. This fall 

 Assistant Professor N. E. Phillips was ap- 

 pointed to the staff as instructor in bee- 

 keeping, and has written a new correspond- 

 ence course in beekeeping, which is a thor- 

 ough and systematic study for the beginner 

 with bees. The college is able to offer this 

 course to persons interested in beekeeping 

 at the same rate as its other correspondence 

 courses, $2 for enrollment fee. The course 

 may be started at any time during the win- 

 ter and continued as the time of the student 

 permits. 



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Beekeepers in the famous fruit belt of 

 Yakima Valley, Wash., reckon their honey 

 crop at a million pounds this year. 



