1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



49 



Convention Notices. 



The thirtieth annual meeting of the Vermont Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be held at the parlors of the 

 Addison House, Middlebury, Vt., Jan. 12, 1905. 



Shoreham, Vt. W. G. Larrabee, Sec. 



A bee-keepers' institute under the auspices of the 

 New York State Bureau of Farmers' Institutes will be 

 held in connection with the winter meeting of the Cay- 

 uga Co. Bee-keepers' Society at the rooms of the Busi- 

 ness Men's Association, Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 12. N. E. 

 France, of Platteville, Wis., is expected to be present. 



Union Springs, N. Y. J. W. Pierson, Sec. 



The Fulton and Montgomery Counties Bee-keepers' 

 Society will hold its next meeting at Amsterdam, N. Y., 

 on Thursday, Jan. 19, in connection with a bee-keepers' 

 institute. Arrangements have been made with F. E. 

 Dawley, Chief of the Bureau of Institutes, to furnish 

 Mr. N. E. France, General Manager of the National 

 Association, as the principal speaker, and all are cor- 

 dially invited to come. This will also be the annual 

 business meeting of the society. 



West Galway, N. Y. T. I. Dugdale, Sec. 



TEXAS BEE-KEEPERS. 



We have before the legislature a pure-honey law and 

 a petition for a liberal appropriation to carry out the 

 foul-brood law that we already have. We want all to 

 write two letters each, one to his Representative and 

 one to his Senator, endorsing both measures, and ask- 

 ing his support for both. Then write me a ringing let- 

 ter in a few words, endorsing the laws; these letters 

 will be presented to the legislature with our petition for 

 what we want. Remember, only a few minutes' time 

 are reijuired in which to write your State Senator and 

 Representative, and a few words to me; and if all will 

 do this it will help wonderfully. F. L. Aten, Round 

 Rock, Texas, is chairman of a committee to raise funds 

 to defray the expenses of legislative committee ap- 

 pointed by the State association ; and any contributions 

 sent him will be thankfully received. Let us be up and 

 doing. H. H. Hyde, 



Assistant Secretary, and Chairman Committee of Sta- 

 tistics, Texas Bee-keepers' Association. 



San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1. 



NEW YORK BEE-KEEPERS' INSTITUTES AND MEETINGS. 



A series of bee-keepers' Institutes and meetings will 

 be held in this State as follows: 



Canandaigua, Jan. 9, 10. Romulus, Jan. 11. 



Auburn, Jan. 12. Cortland, Jan. 13. 



Syracuse, Jan. 14. Fulton, Jan. 16. 



Watertown, Jan. 17, 18. Amsterdam, Jan. 19. 



Mr. N. E. France, General Manager of the National 

 Bee-keepers' Association, has been engaged to address 

 these institutes by the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture, through its Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. Mov- 

 ing pictures of actual operations in a bee-yard togeth- 

 er with a set of new stereopticon slides will be shown at 

 evening sessions at each of the meetings. The moving 

 pictures will show the actual hiving of a swarm, shook- 

 swarming, driving a swarm, opening and closing hives, 

 how bees work, how they they clean their antennae, 

 feed each other, besides many other operations too 

 numerous to mention. The stereopticon-slides are 

 nearly all new, and many of them in colors. Special 

 reference will be made to Western bee-keeping in the 

 great alfalfa-growing regions. This evening work will 

 be well worth seeing. 



The annual convention of the N. Y. State Association 

 of Bee-keepers' Societies will be held in the City Hall, 

 Watertown, January 18th, at 10 A. M., following the 

 meeting of the Jefferson County Society on the 17th, at 

 which, in addition to the regular speakers, delegates 

 from all affiliated societies, and many progressive bee- 

 keepers of this and adjoining States are urgently invit- 

 ed, and many are expected to be present. Officers of 

 all local societies will please see that special invitations 

 are extended to the teachers and pupils of the public 

 schools of the several localities, as well as to the gener- 

 al public to attend. W. F. Marks, Pres. 

 C. B. Howard, Sec. 



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