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The Listing of Extractors. 

 The oflSce of the Inspector of Apiaries has maintained a list 

 of beekeepers who have offered the services of their extractors 

 to near-by beekeepers, similar to the arrangement of the pre- 

 vious year. In a large number of instances, the extractors, 

 listed as available, have been utilized. There are 46 listed and 

 available machines. Some beekeepers have done considerable 

 extracting for their neighbors. The extractor service, therefore, 

 has been of particular emergency value. Moreover, it would 

 seem to have increased the interest in extracted honey pro- 

 duction and to have stimulated the beekeeper, in some in- 

 stances, to own his extractor. Beekeepers are again urged to 

 consider more seriously the advantages of extracted honey pro- 

 duction, and the advisability of producing, in 1919, even more 

 extracted honey than heretofore. It is again safe to predict 

 that there will be no overproduction. 



The Formation of The Federated Massachusetts Bee- 

 keepers' Association, Inc. 

 On March 23 there was held, as announced to the beekeepers 

 of the State, a meeting at Horticultural Hall, Worcester, for 

 the purpose of considering the perfection of the organization 

 of a beekeepers' association, which should be State-wide in its 

 scope, and which should bond, or federate, the several local 

 beekeepers' associations. On this day there was duly organized, 

 and subsequently incorporated, "The Federated Massachu- 

 setts Beekeepers' Association." The following officers were 

 elected: — 



President, Mr. 0. M. Smith of Florence. 

 Vice-president, Mr. 0. F. Fuller of Blackstone. 

 Secretary-treasurer, Miss Dorothy Quincy Wright of Chelmsford. 

 The Commissioner of Agriculture and the State Inspector of Apiaries 

 were voted to be ex-officio members. 



Beekeeping Exhibition at Worcester. 

 The Inspector of Apiaries held at the winter meeting of the 

 Board of Agriculture, January 9, 1918, not only a series of 

 lectures and demonstrations, but an exhibition of honey and 



