1918 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



25 



How did I do it? By following your 

 wise suggestion of wider spacing of 

 frames, with plenty of ventilation 

 and abundance of super room. 



To get the wider spacing of frames 

 — mine are all 10-frame Hoffman 

 spaced \y% inches — I just pulled out 



one and divided up the room with 

 the others. I wonder if I can suc- 

 ceed again. But I feel very grateful 

 to you and the Journal for the advice 

 you gave me. C. H. CROFUT. 



Arlington, Vt. 



The next annual meeting will be 

 held at Battle Creek. 



B. F. KIXDIG, Sec'y. 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 * NEWS ITEMS f 



New Jersey Meeting. — The annual 

 meeting of the New Jersey Beekeep- 

 ers' Association will be held at Tren- 

 ton. X. J., on Jan. 24 and 25, 1918. 

 Among the speakers will be Dr. Phil- 

 lips, editor Root, S. D. House and 

 N. L. Stevens. The meeting is held 

 during Agricultural Week and in 

 conjunction with the Allied Agricul- 

 tural meetings, and a large attend- 

 ance is expected. E. G. Carr, 



Secretary-Tresurer. 



Ontario Bulletin on Wintering 



Bees.— "The Wintering of Bees in 

 Ontario" is the subject of Bulletin 

 256 of the Fruit Branch of the On- 

 tario Department of Agriculture. It 

 is a 24-page booklet written by Mor- 

 ley Pettit, who has just resigned as 

 Provincial Apiarist for Ontario.^ 



The need for such a bulletin is 

 very evident, since Mr. Pettit, in his 

 opening remarks, states that the loss 

 of bees in Ontario from winter 

 and spring dwindling is yet from 10 

 to 50 per cent each year. 



In his estimation the prime fac- 

 tors in successful wintering are: 

 plenty of young bees, with a young 

 and vigorous queen; plenty of good 

 stores; a well-made and well-adapted 

 hive ; a good, sunny location, well 

 protected from winter winds, and ex- 

 tra outside protection from extreme 

 cold and piercing winds. 



The major part of the bulletin is 

 taken up with a thorough description 

 of different methods of outdoor win- 

 tering, of cellar wintering, of set- 

 ting out cellared bees in spring, their 

 protection, and spring feeding. 



The bulletin is a compact source of 

 information for any beekeeper con- 

 fronted with similar wintering con- 

 ditions. 



The Indiana Meeting.— The meeting 

 of the Indiana State Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation, held in Indianapolis, though 

 not overly large, was certainly an en- 

 thusiastic one. The sentiment seemed 

 to be against trying to put the price 

 of honey too high, 25 to 30 cents be- 

 ing considered a fair retail price. Af- 

 ter going into the matter very care- 

 fully, Prof. D. A. Rothrock gave the 

 opinion that the production of honey 

 in Indiana last season was not nearly 

 so large as reported in the Govern- 

 ment Crop Bulletin. 



State Inspector Wallace reported 

 a large number of cases of American 

 foulhrood, due mainlv to the fact 

 that most of the inspections were 



made in answer to requests from bee- 

 keepers having trouble with disease. 

 The following are the officers : 

 Mason J. Niblack, President; F. N. 

 Wallace, Vice President ; E. A. Dit- 

 trick, Treasurer; R. B. Scott, Secre- 

 tary. 



Notes From the Michigan Beekeep- 

 ers' Association Meeting Held at 

 Saginaw, Nov. 27 and 28. — The num- 

 ber of members attending was small 

 for Michigan, owing to poor train 

 service, nearness to Thanksgiving 

 and the short crop of this year. 



Mr. Floyd Markham, of Ypsilanti, 

 won the manufacturers' gold medal 

 for the third time and it thus became 

 his, permanently. 



Upon solicitation of Mr. Tyrrell, of 

 Detroit, a committee was appointed 

 which will have charge of making an 

 exhibit of bees and honey at the 

 State Fair. The exhibit will be fur- 

 nished by members and after the fair 

 it will be sold and the money re- 

 turned to those who furnish the ex- 

 hibit. All exhibits of honey will be 

 made in uniform containers which 

 will be furnished by the committee. 



The organization of County Bee- 

 keepers' Associations was authorized. 

 Any persons interested in securing 

 local organizations should correspond 

 with the Secretary at once. 



A committee was appointed to 

 make an effort to secure an extension 

 specialist in beekeeping for Michigan. 



Mr. Cremer, an advertising special- 

 ist from Theo. McManus, Inc., ad- 

 dressed the convention on the subject 

 of advertising and showed that co- 

 operative advertising is successful. 

 He advised that the annual produc- 

 tion be increased to a point where a 

 demand created for honey by adver- 

 tising could be satisfied. He made it 

 clear that the first step beyond pro- 

 duction would be the formulating of 

 a plan for selling after a demand is 

 created by advertising. 



Mr. E. R. Root spoke on the future 

 of the honey market. His belief is 

 that the prices will not drop during 

 the war, and that after the war the 

 prices will not become as low as they 

 previously have been. 



The paper on the "Proper Spacing 

 of Frames," by C. P. Dadant, was 

 read by the Secretary in the absence 

 of Mr. Dadant. 



A banquet was enjoyed on the eve- 

 ning of November 27. 



North Carolina Meeting. — The 



State Beekeepers' Association of 

 North Carolina will meet in conven- 

 tion at Newbern, N. C, on Thursday, 

 January 10, in the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of that city. The editor of the 

 American Bee Journal has promised 

 a paper for that meeting and will 

 bring it in person if it is possible for 

 him to be there. 



Information concerning the meet- 

 ing may be secured by addressing 

 the President of the association. Pro- 

 fessor Franklin Sherman, State Ento- 

 mologist, Raleigh, N. C. 



It is a pleasure to see the South- 

 eastern States coming to the front. 

 President Sherman states that their 

 membership is now 127 beekeepers, 

 owning 7,869 colonies. 



Northern Pennsylvania Beekeepers 

 Organize. — At the Inter-State Fair at 

 Athens, Pa., on Sept. 19, 1917, there 

 was organized a Northern Pennsyl- 

 vania Beekeepers' Association with 

 35 members, representing about 1500 

 colonies. The following officers were 

 elected: 



Chas. N. Green, President, Troy, 

 Pa.; W. H. Allen, Vice President, 

 Wysox, Pa.; Harry Beaver, Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer, Troy, Pa. 



The Northern Pennsylvania Bee- 

 keepers organized a few years ago at 

 Williamsport, Pa. Either for lack of 

 interest or more interest and more 

 beekeepers in the southern part of 

 the State, the association moved to 

 Philadelphia. Pa. 



The National Meeting. — -The annual 

 meeting of the National Beekeepers' 

 Association will be held Feb. 19, 20 

 and 21, 1918, at Burlington, Iowa. 

 Remy Hall, one of the finest in the 

 city, will be the meeting place. Do not 

 forget the dates. A full program will 

 appear in February. 



JOHN C. BULL, Sec.-Treas. 



Tupelo Honey Exchange. — Bee- 

 keepers are taking an increased in- 

 terest in organization, the best evi- 

 dence of which was the Tupelo 

 Honey Exchange, which came as the 

 result of the meeting held at Wewa- 

 hitchka, Fla„ by Georgia and Florida 

 beekeepers of the Apalachicola river. 

 J. J. Wilder, of Cordele, who was 

 elected President, was the principal 

 mover in the work and was assisted 

 by Kennith Hawkins, of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. It is un- 

 derstood that Mr. Hawkins plans to 

 spend several weeks in the State, 

 working on the organization of the 

 beekeepers for foul brood eradica- 

 tion. 



The officers who were named were 

 J. J. Wilder, Cordele, Ga., President; 

 L. L. Lanier, Dalkeith, Fla., Vice 

 President; J. R. Hunter, Wa.wab.itch- 

 ka, Fla., Secretary; J. O. Hallman, 

 Helena, Ga., Treasurer, and J. K. Is- 

 bell, Wewahitchka, Fla., manager. 

 The directors are : T. T. Wilder, G. G. 

 Hensler, C. F. Glenn, H. E. Rich, R. 



