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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



1^ JUST NEWS 



MESSRS. 

 H e n ager, 

 A n d e rsoii 

 and Terriberry 

 of the Utah Bee- 

 keepers' Associ- 

 ation are in 

 charge of ar- 

 rangements for 

 the meeting of 



the American Honey Producers' League 

 which will be held Jan. 30 and 31, 1922, at 

 Salt Lake City. Every beekeeper, whether 

 a member of the League or not, is urged to 



be present. 



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The meeting of the South Dakota State 

 Beekeepers' Association will be held at 

 Mitchell, S. D., on Feb. 13 and 14, 1922. J. 

 C. Tjaden, Vermilion, S. D., is secretary. • 



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The meeting of the North Carolina State 

 Beekeepers ' Association will be held in Eal- 

 eigh at the State College on Jan. 18 and 19. 

 Write J. E. Eckert, State College Station, 

 Raleigh, N. C, for particulars. 

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The annual meeting of the State Pennsyl- 

 vania Beekeepers' Association will be held 

 on Jan. 24 and 25 at Harrisburg. The dates 

 selected are dates during the Pennsylvania 

 State Farm Products Show. 



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The Oregon State Beekeepers' Association 

 will meet at Pendleton, Oregon, Jan. 26 

 and 27. The leading subjects up for exten- 

 sive consideration are disease control and 

 marketing. All beekeepers of the state and 

 neighboring portions of Washington and 

 Idaho are invited to attend and make this 

 meeting a rousing success. H. A. Scullen, 

 Corvallis, Oregon, is secretary. 



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THE MILLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY. 

 The response to the announcement of this 

 committee that the fund collected from Doc- 

 tor Miller's beekeeping friends would be 

 used to establish a memorial library of bee- 

 keeping has been gratifying. As has already 

 been announced, the original fund is not to 

 ~ be spent for books, but only the income shall 

 be used for this purpose; so that in contrib- 

 uting to this fund, beekeepers are taking 

 part in the establishment of a library to last 

 so long as there are bees and flowers. With 

 this plan it is obvious that as time goes on 

 this library will be increasingly valuable. It 

 is planned to put this library into the care 

 of some one of our leading educational in- 

 stitutions so that the proper care of the 

 books and journals will be positively as- 

 sured. It may further be pointed out that 

 this memorial library will grow not only 

 from books purchased from the income of 

 the fund but from books and journals con- 

 tributed by individual beekeepers. 



Several beekeepers ' organizations have al- 

 ready contributed liberally to this fund. In 



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January, 1922 



most cases the 

 names of indi- 

 viduals contrib- 

 uting have been 

 sent in, so that 

 in the published 

 list of contribu- 

 tors these sums 

 do not appear as 

 association con- 

 tributions. As there are many meetings to be 

 held in the next few months, the committee 

 would urge that at each one the importance 

 and value of this library be set forth and 

 that every effort be made to enlist the sup- 

 port of beekeepers in attendance. In each 

 case the funds collected should be trans- 

 mitted thru the secretary or some other per- 

 son indicated to the chairman of this com- 

 mittee. 



(Signed) C. P. Dadant, E. R. Root, E. F. 



Phillips, E. G. LeStourgeon, B. F. Kindig. 



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CHANGES IN PERSONNEL AT MEDINA. 

 The importance of the business of The A. 

 I. Root Company of California, a subsidi- 

 ary company located at Los Angeles and or- 

 ganized under the laws of California, had 

 so increased that it became necessary to re- 

 lease several of the executives of the home 

 plant at Medina, to take full charge of the 

 Pacific Coast business and become residents 

 there. Accordingly, A. L. Boyden, for a 

 long period director of sales at the home 

 office at Medina, was chosen as ably fitted 

 by long experience to take over the Coast 

 business, and he took active charge there 

 the middle of December. He has selected 

 as his assistants his two brothers, L. W. 

 Boyden, formerly sales manager of bee sup- 

 plies for the company at Medina, and R. W. 

 Boyden, formerly purchasing agent for the 

 home plant. In the meantime Mr. J. T. Cal- 

 vert, who has successfully conducted the 

 business in California, returns to Medina to 

 take up his duties in connection with gen- 

 eral administrative work, especially that re- 

 lating to the branches and subsidiary com- 

 })anies. Both A. L. and L. W. Boyden have 

 transferred their holdings from the Medina 

 company to the California company, and 

 will control the latter company and make 

 their permanent homes at Los Angeles. The 

 A. I. Root Company of Medina still retains 

 a large interest in the California company. 

 R. W. Boyden will become manager of the 

 San Francisco branch of the California com- 

 pany, succeeding H. J. Bostwick, who re- 

 cently resigned to accept the management 

 of one of the largest health sanitariums in 

 America. The A. I. Root Company of Me- 

 dina, with A. I. Root continuing as presi- 

 dent, E. R. Root as vice-president, H. H. 

 Root as general manager, and J. T. Calvert 

 as treasurer, will not change its personnel or 

 organization except that the sales manage- 

 ment of both bee supplies and Airline honey 

 will come under the direct supervision of the 

 general manager, H. H. Root, 



