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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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JUST NEWS 



Editors 



I HE A m e r i- 

 can Honey- 

 Prod ucers ' 

 League has ac- 

 cepted the gen- 

 erous offer of 

 Colin P. Camp- 

 bell, Grand Eap- 

 ids, Michigan, to 

 conipileand .. 



make a digest of all the court decisions af- 

 fecting beekeeping and the legal questions 

 arising from beekeeping. Mr. Campbell has 

 offered to do this work without compensa- 

 tion asking only that the cost of clerical 

 work be paid. The work will be published 

 in booklet form and sold to beekeepers. The 

 League is now requesting donations from 

 beekeepers and dealers in honey to help pay 

 the cost of publishing this work. It is esti- 

 mated that it will cost about $500 to publish 

 it. Donations for this should be sent to the 

 secretary of the American Honey Producers' 

 League," P. O. Box 838, San Antonio, Texas. 

 In the preliminary report of the Ameri- 

 can Honey Producers' League from which 

 the financial statement published in this 

 journal in the March issue was taken, one 

 important item was omitted, perhaps 

 through modesty on the part of the genial 

 and energetic secretary. The item Avas that 

 of $2400 for the salary of the secretary for 

 1921, which has not been paid. The secre- - 

 tary was employed by the executive commit- 

 tee" on a basis of $200 per month. 



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The Colorado State Agricultural College, 

 Fort Collins, Colorado, reports an enrollment 

 of 62 students taking the course in beekeep- 

 ing- ^ ^ ^ 



The directors of the Idaho-Oregon Honey 

 Producers' Association have decided to 

 close their office and warehouse at Caldwell, 

 Idaho. The business will be transferred to 

 Parma, Idaho, and placed in the hands of the 

 director of that district. All communications 

 to the Association should be sent to Parma, 



Idaho. 



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The A. I. Eoot Co. of California, now 

 owned and operated by the Boyden Bros., 

 has just arranged to handle the bee supply 

 interests of the Miller Box Co. of Los An- 

 geles. While Milton Metzler, owner and 

 general n\anager of the Miller Box Co., re- 

 tains a financial interest in this work, he is 

 now able to give his entire attention to his 

 growing business in sash and doors. 



An international congress of beekeepers 

 has been called to meet at Marseilles, France. 

 Sept. 18-21, 1922. Beekeepers of the world 

 are asked to send delegates to this meet- 

 ing. No doubt many American beekeepers 

 and instructors in beekeeping will want a 

 personal membership, even though they 

 have no thought of attending the meeting. 



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gium. The Secretary of 

 Prieur, Place Ste-Croix, 

 France. 



May, 1922 



The fee for per- 

 s o n a 1 member- 

 ship is 10 francs 

 and for national, 

 state or local as- 

 soc iations 50 

 francs, payable 

 to L. Tombu, 26 

 Eue D'A n g 1 e- 

 terre, Huy, Bel- 

 Publicity is P. 

 Poitiers, Vienne, 



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Prof. E. Owen Wahl of the Grootfontein 

 School of Agriculture, Middelburg, Cape, 

 Union of South Africa, Avho is spending sev- 

 eral weeks in the United States studying en- 

 tomological problems spent a week at Me- 

 dina to study American beekeeping methods 

 and equipment. Prof. Wahl is doing this in 

 order to fit himself better for his work in 

 teaching in South Africa. 



The Mid- West Horticultural Exposition, 

 which is to be held at Council Bluffs, Iowa, 

 in November, will have one of the most ex- 

 tensive and attractive exhibits of honey and 

 wax ever shown in this country, judging 

 from the movement now under way to in- 

 crease further the cash prizes offered to ex- 

 hibitors. The association has offered prizes 

 amounting to $600, and it is expected that 

 this amount will be increased by at least 

 $200 more. The association expects to at- 

 tract exhibitors from Pittsburg to the 



Eockies. 



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Tlie three new bulletins on beekeeping, 

 which were announced in our February issue, 

 page 74, were in some manner unexpectedly 

 delayed in the Government Printing Office, 

 so that many were disappointed in not re- 

 ceiving promptly the copies they asked for. 

 These bulletins are Farmers' Bulletin 1251, 

 "Beekeeping in the Clover Eegion"; Far- 

 mers' Bulletin 1216, "Beekeeping in the 

 Buckwheat Eegion," and Farmers' Bulletin 

 1222, "Beekeeping in the Tulip-tree Ee- 

 gion." They are now being distributed and 

 can now be had free by writing to the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



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The American Honey Producers' League, 

 through its schedule committee, is continu- 

 ing its efforts to arrange a national schedule 

 of consecutive beekeepers' meetings, and 

 the committee has sent out a series of ques- 

 tionnaires to all of the state associations. 

 Any secretaries of state associations who 

 have not received this questionnaire should 

 write to H. F. Wilson, University of Wis- 

 consin, Madison, Wis., and give information 

 as to the time of the year when meetings 

 are held and whether or not your associa- 

 tion would like to be included in the sched- 

 ule of the American Honey Producers' 

 League. 



