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V e r s i t y of 



Wise n s i n 

 announces a 

 8 li o r t course in 

 beekeeping to be 

 held at Madison, 

 Nov. 13 to Dec. 

 20. Further in- 

 formation in re- 

 gard to this short course can be obtained by 

 writing to Prof. H. F. Wilson, Madison, Wis. 



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The annual meeting of the Northern Illi- 

 nois and Southern Wisconsin Beekeepers' 

 Association will be held in the courthouse 

 in Freeport, 111., Tuesday, October 17. Fur- 

 ther particulars in regard to this meeting 

 may be had by writing to the secretary, B. 

 Kennedy, 416 East State Street, Rockford, 



111. 



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Dr. S. B. Fracker, State Entomologist of 

 Wisconsin, has accepted the secretaryship 

 for the American Honey Producers' League 

 for the remainder of the year. When the 

 jiew officers of the League were elected there 

 was no secretary chosen, and Dr. Fracker 

 has consented to take this position until a 

 new secretary can be elected. 



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Prof. F. Erie Millen, Provincial Apiarist of 

 Ontario, writes that great preparations are 

 being made for the Ontario Beekeepers' Con- 

 vention on Dec. 6, 7 and 8. The debate by 

 prominent Ontario beekeepers on the merits 

 of the ten-frame Langstroth hive as com- 

 pared with larger hives and an important 

 business session in regard to the handling 

 of supplies are the two outstanding features 

 of this convention. 



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The new officers of the American Honey 

 Producers' League have tentatively set the 

 date for the next annual meeting for Feb. 

 6, 7 and 8, the meeting to be held at St. 

 Louis, Mo. If possible, arrangements will be 

 made to have the Illinois and the Missouri 

 State Beekeepers' Associations meet at the 

 same place on Feb. 8 and 9. This arrange- 

 ment if carried out will permit the beekeep- 

 ers of these two states to attend the meet- 

 ings of the American Honey Producers' 

 League at the same time they attend their 

 own state meetings. 



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The Schedule Committee of the American 

 Honey Producers' League is now arranging 

 the League schedule of winter meetings. 

 This committee arranges the meetings in the 

 various groups of states in such a manner 

 that outside speakers can go from one meet- 

 ing to another without losing so much time 

 and with less travel than was necessary un- 

 der the old plan. In this way many asso- 

 ciations were able to secure outside speakers 

 that could not have been obtained otherwise. 

 Secretaries of beekeepers' associations who 

 have not already been in correspondence 



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side speakers can attend. 



OC'TdliER, 192'J 



with the Sched- 

 ule C o m m ittee 

 should make ap- 

 plication at once 

 to Prof. H. F. 

 Wilson, Madison, 

 Wis., in order 

 that the meeting 

 may be held at a 

 time when out- 



Ray Hutson, formerly of W^est Virginia, 

 is taking up research work in beekeeping for 

 the state of New Jersey. Mr. Hutson will 

 do some work in breeding, investigations as 

 to the value of bees in commercial orchards 

 and an investigation of the damage to adult 

 bees in the state of New Jersey, supposed to 

 be from poisoning. His work is under the 

 supervision of Dr. Headlee, State Entomolo- 

 gist. The turning over of the investigation 

 work to Mr. Hutson will relieve E. G. Carr of 

 this work and permit him to give his time 



to inspection and educational work. 



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Friedman Greiner, the well-known bee- 

 keeper of Naples, N. Y., was accidentally 

 killed on August 22. Mr. Greiner left his 

 home in an automobile at 4 o'clock in the 

 morning, taking with him his shotgun. In 

 driving over a bridge, the shotgun is be- 

 lieved to have been discharged, the charge 

 of shot entering his body. Marks on the 

 road showed that the car zigzagged down 

 the road for some distance, then plunged 

 over an embankment. The shotgun was 

 found in a clay bank where it was probably 

 thrown by the explosion. Mr. Greiner is 

 well known to the readers of this journal 

 through his writings, having been a contrib- 

 utor for many years. 



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The Dr. C. C. Miller Memorial Library 

 Committee, co-operating with the University 

 of Wisconsin and the State Beekeepers ' As- 

 sociation, is planning a Miller Memorial pil- 

 grimage of beekeepers in 1923 in connection 

 with the annual Beekeepers' Chautauqua, 

 which will be held on the university grounds 

 at Madison, Wis., August 13 to" 18, 1923. 

 During this period the Dr. Miller Library 

 will be dedicated, and on Saturday, August 

 18, a pilgrimage will be made to the former 

 home of Dr. Miller at Marengo, Illinois. The 

 committee is arranging for memorial ser- 

 vices to be held at the church at Marengo in 

 which Dr. Miller for many years taught a 

 Sunday school class. If arrangements can 

 be made with the church authorities, a me- 

 morial plate will be placed in the church at 

 that time. During the Chautauqua a regular 

 program of speeches will be given, and Dr. 

 Phillips, C. P. Dadant, E. R. Root and G. S. 



Demuth liavo already agreed to attend. 



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Geo. H. Rca has resigned his position as 

 extension specialist at State College, Pa., to 

 take up work with the A. T. Root Co. as ser- 

 vice representative. 



