Fp:brvary, 1922 



GLEANINGS IN B E K CULTURE 



THERE is now 

 in effect a 

 q u n raiitine, 

 v/hich prohibits 

 the importation 

 of bees on i-onibs 

 or useil beekeep- 

 ers' e([uipnient 

 into any part of 

 the Upper Pe- 

 ninsula of Michigan, Cheboygan 

 and Charlevoix Counties, Mich. 



Eniniit 



The Governor of California has issued a 

 ])roclaniation making the week of Februarv 

 6-11 "California Honey Week." This is 

 the week of the 33d annual convention of 

 the California State Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion. 



The state of Georgia has amended its 

 foul brood law, requiring that persons who 

 desire to sell bees and queens shall secure 

 a license from the state before selling any 

 bees or queens. The fee for this license is 

 $25.00. 



E. F. Phillips is to speak on "The Honey- 

 bee, Its Type of Individuals; the Eelation- 

 ship of Bees to Flowers and Their Economic 

 A'alue in Ensuring Cross-pollination; Bee- 

 keeping as an Industry and an Important 

 Branch of Agriculture," at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 19th and 

 Race streets on April 3, this being a part 

 of the Ludwick lectures. 



At the annual meeting of the New York 

 State Association of Beekeepers' Societies, 

 held at Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 4, 5 and 6, 

 1921, it was voted to abide by the motion 

 of Feb. 20, 1920, and merge into the Em- 

 pire State Federation of Beekeepers' Co- 

 operative Associations, Inc. The above 

 change was made to give the state organi- 

 zation a financial and business standing for 

 the mutual benefit of its members, continu- 

 ing, too, the social and educational activi- 

 ties. The board of directors, with the aid 

 of representatives from the Bureau of 

 Farms and Markets at a recent meeting, 

 mapped out tentative plans and framed by- 

 laws for the Federation and local associa- 

 tions for their approval. To further per- 

 fect this organization the directors have 

 called a meeting of representatives of all 

 the local or regional beekeepers ' associations 

 thruout New York State at 10 o'clock, 

 ^Yednesday, Feb. 1, 1922, at the courthouse, 

 Syracuse, X. Y. While this is a meeting 

 of representatives of local organizations, 

 the meeting will be open to all beekeepers. 



C. B. Gooderham has been appointed Do- 

 minion Apiarist of Canada. The Beekeep- 

 er, published at Peterborough, Out., has the 



following to say 

 of the new aj)- 

 pointee: " M r . 

 (tooderliam was 

 l)orn in England 

 a n d came to 

 Canada in 1908, 

 residing first in 

 Xova Scotia. lie 

 attended Truro 

 Agricultural College and Macdonald College, 

 Quebec, graduating from the latter as a 

 Bachelor of the Science of Agriculture in 

 1916. In his final year, he led his class, spe- 

 cializing in entomology. After graduation, 

 he went to Nova Scotia as Assistant Ento- 

 mologist and foul brood inspector where he 

 did splendid work in cleaning up the apiar- 

 ies as well as teaching modern methods of 

 beekeeping. In 1917 he came to the Cen- 

 tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, as assist- 

 ant to the late F. W. L. Sladen, and has 

 had charge of the apiary. The Department 

 of Agriculture has been fortunate in their 

 choice of Dominion Apiarist, as other in- 

 stitutions, having recognized his worth, 

 were anxious to secure his services." 



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Beekeepers in the cotton belt Avill be 

 pleased to learn that, so far as experiments 

 have been conducted by South Carolina 

 and other states on sweetened poisons, these 

 apparently have no advantage over poisons 

 not sweetened, for control of the cotton 

 boll weevil. Some beekeepers in the cotton 

 belt have expressed the fear that the use 

 of sweetened poisons would destroy honey- 

 bees. 



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The Nebraska Honey Producers' Associa- 

 tion at its annual meeting, held at Lincoln 

 on Jan. 3, had the largest attendance of 

 beekeepers in its history. At the business 

 meeting, C. E. Carhart of Wayne was re- 

 elected president, and Charles E. Gaydou of 

 Blair, secretary. It is the plan of the as- 

 sociation to increase its membership in a 

 state-wide drive by several hundred mem- 

 bers. 



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In a press article prepared for the San 

 Francisco Chamber of Commerce, R. B. 

 Calkins recently said: "California bees 

 have just finished gathering their 1921 crop, 

 that may take .50 trains of 50 cars each for 

 its transportation. California apiaries add 

 three million dollars annually to the produc- 

 tion record of the state. * » * * -pj^g 

 largest part of the California honey crop 

 of ten million pounds a year is marketed 

 thru the beekeepers' organization, the Cali- 

 fornia Co-operative Honey Producers' Ex- 

 change. This organization, with business 

 and collecting branches thruout the state, 

 sells to honey jobbers and to the bottling 

 trade thruout the United States, and also 

 bottles a large amount of e.xcellent houey 

 under its own label." 



