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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



honey is that every section, in order to get 

 a good price, must be nearly perfect; but in 

 the production of chunk honey the problem 

 is comparatively simple— even simpler than 

 the production of extracted honey. No mat- 

 ter how uneven the comb or the cappings it 

 would all pass as first grade. No special 

 comb-honey appliances will be required. 

 The only requisite is good new combs of a 

 Haky whiteness and a good grade of honey. 

 Our correspondent makes some good points, 

 and we hope our readers will give them care- 

 ful consideration. — Ed.] * 



NEW YORK STATE ^BEE-KEEPERS' 

 CONVENTION. 



Reported by D. Everett Lyon, Correspond- 

 ent for (i! leanings. 



The New York State bee-keepers' conven- 

 tion met at Geneva, N. Y., Dec. 18 and 19. 

 The forenoon of the first day was devoted to 

 the annual business meeting of the Ontario 

 County Bee-keepers' Society. The weather 

 was ideal, which should have brought out a 

 much larger representation than was present. 

 Owing to the unexpected absence of one or 

 two of the speakers, the regular program 

 was not fully carried out. 



Nevertheless a very interesting session was 

 held, and a profitable discusssion of impor- 

 tant phases of bee-keeping was carried on. 



According to the reports of the foul- brood 

 inspectors, there was considerable of the dis- 

 ease present in certain parts of the State; 

 but so thorough has been the inspection that 

 what disease exists is under absolute control. 

 J^et it be said to the credit of New York 

 State that a more intelligent and thorough 

 corps of inspectors does not exist. 



Mr. Charles Stewart read a very interest- 

 ing syllabus of reports from the inspectors 

 from other States, embodying ideas for a 

 foul-brood law that shall be the same in all 

 States. 



Mr. West gave a very instructive talk on 

 the uses of a cell-protector. 



The question of wintering, and selling 

 honey, came in for a good part of the dis- 

 cussions. 



The roll-call of the delegates to the New 

 York State bee-keepers' convention that fol- 

 lowed showed that 36 delegates were present. 



Mr. W. F. Marks, of Clifton Springs, on 

 ballot received 34 votes and was elected to 

 the office of president. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WORCES- 

 TER COl NTV, MASS.. BEE KEEP 

 ERS' ASSOCIATION. 



BY A. H. ESTABKOOK. 



The seventh annual meeting of the Wor- 

 cester County Bee-keepers' Association was 

 called to order Saturday, Jan. 12, 1907, in 

 Horticultural Hall, Worcester, at 2:30 p. m., 

 by Pres. Burton Gates. After brief reports 

 the following officers were elected: 



President, Burton Gates, of Worcester; 

 Vice-president, F. H. Drake, EastBrookfield; 



Second Vice-president, Charles Goodell, Wor- 

 cester; Secretary and Treasurer, Arthur H. 

 Esta brook, Leicester. 



Considering the weather, which was the 

 worst for more than a week, there was a 

 very large attendance, there being present 

 nearly forty bee-keepers. 



Particular attention was paid the status of 

 bee disease in this State. A copy of the pro- 

 posed bill for the State of Connecticut, for 

 protective legislation against bee-disease, was 

 at hand and discussed. Not a little favor of 

 inspection in Massachusetts was manifest. 

 The secretax'y was directed to correspond 

 with the Massachusetts Bee-keepers' Society 

 and see what steps should be taken. Fur- 

 ther details of the status of disease, and the 

 feeling toward inspection, are desired. 



The hope was expressed that inspection 

 would not only reduce the diseases of the 

 State, but that it would do much to elevate 

 the bee-keeping methods and do away with 

 the primitive box hives now not a little used 

 in this State. 



It was voted to hold on the 9th or 16th of 

 Febi'uary, according to the convenience of 

 the speakers, an all-day convention and in- 

 stitute with the State Board of Agriculture. 

 The full program and exact date can be 

 learned from the secretary. There will also 

 be a banquet at noon. Every one is invited 

 to attend the meeting and the banquet (the 

 price of which will be 50 cents) All sorts 

 of implements, of inventions, and the prod- 

 ucts of bees are solicited. Table space will 

 be furnished. The gathering, as last year, 

 will bring together several hundred of the 

 representative bee-keepers of New England. 

 You can not afford to miss it. 



Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



FROM BJFFERENT FIELDS 



GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ON APICUL- 

 TURE, ETC. 



A mistaken idea seems to have gained cur- 

 rency among those making application for 

 government publications; namely, that the 

 authors of publications should be addressed 

 personally, whereas all reqiiests for such pub- 

 lications as are distributed free Ijy the De- 

 partment of Agriculture should be addressed 

 to the Honorable Secretary of Agriculture, 

 or, in case of special publications, to the chief 

 of the bureau under whose direction the pub- 

 lication was pi'epared. Those apicultural 

 bulletins which may be distributed free can 

 be obtained by addressing letters: Bureau of 

 Entomology, adding the words Ajnculture, 

 and also United States Department of Agri'-ul- 

 ture. Publications to which a price has been 



