1919 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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Manage 



Justice, of the California Honey Producers' Association, and Charlie Edsi 

 so busy discussing honey markets that they did not see the camera man. 



as one hundred tons of honey in one 

 season, in California, his word car- 

 ried weight and everybody seemingly 

 wanted to shake his hand and ask 

 him to help with their particular 

 problems. 



E. R. Root, the genial editor of 

 Gleanings, gave some interesting his- 

 tory of the development of the bee- 

 keeping industry. He appeared on 

 the last day of the course, after the 

 tension was somewhat relaxed. Anec- 

 dotes of Langstroth, Heddon and 

 other pioneers furnished an interest- 

 ing diversion after the heavy grind 

 of fundamental instruction. Of spe- 

 cial interest was his account of the 

 controversy over the size of the hive 

 in the early days when Charles Da- 

 dant advocated the large hive, while 

 Hutchinson and Heddon went to the 

 other extreme. Mr. Root paid a 

 tribute to the constancy of the advo- 

 cates of the large hive and was free 

 toadrrit that a larger brood-chamber 

 than that furnished by a single-story 

 10-frame hi\e is necessary for best 

 results. 



Frank C. Pellett, associate editor of 

 the American Bee Journal, discussed 

 the subject of bee inspection. As 

 State Inspector for Iowa for a period 

 of five years, he has been through 

 the mill and tried to present the sub- 

 ject from the standpoint of practical 

 protection for the beekeeper. He out- 

 lined the difficulty of getting results 

 by the quarantine method, after a 

 disease has been widely distributed. 

 He outlined the difficulties of an in- 

 spector and pointed out possible dan- 

 gers through improper methods of 

 law enforcement. The substitution 

 of educational for police methods was 

 recommended as more likely to se- 

 cure satisfactory results. 



Sidelights on the Courses 



Thanksgiving day came during the 

 San Diego meeting and it was fin red 

 that most of the beekeepers would 

 go home to celebrate the day and 

 leave the staff to themselves. Not so, 

 however, for although the attendance 

 was not quite up to the high day, it 

 was very good for every session. 



To celebrate the end of. the war 

 and to give a grand finale to the 



training of the boys at the aviation 

 field, a great display of Uncle Sam's 

 flying craft was given one day dur- 

 ing the short course; 212 machines 

 were in the air at one time in battle 

 formation. There has probably never 

 been a larger number of airships fly- 

 ing together at any place outside the 

 battle zone. The boys performed all 

 kinds of stunts for the amusement of 

 the crowds watching from below, and 

 not an accident was reported to any 

 of the machines. One youngster 

 frightened scores of people terribly 

 by throwing overboard a suit of 

 overalls. As the garments turned 

 over and over in the air many people 

 thought that they were witnessing 

 the final act in the career of some 

 daring flyer. 



Of course it was impossible for any 

 speaker to talk beekeeping in the 

 face of such competition as was of- 

 fered by the flyers, so the session 

 was adjourned for about an hour 



during the flight, but was promptly 

 resumed when it was over. 



The San Diego short course was 

 wedged in between two "flu" bans by 

 the merest, scantiest possible chance. 

 The ban was raised at the end of one 

 week, the sessions began on Monday 

 and the ban was clamped down again 

 on Friday night at midnight, thus 

 cutting off the final day's sessions. 

 Many had failed to get the word, so 

 gathered outside of the hall for final 

 goodbyes. Since Editor Root had not 

 yet appeared at a regular session, the 

 crowd sat on the steps of the hall 

 and listened in the open air, to the 

 speech which could not be given in- 

 side because of the regulation of the 

 board of health. 



Doctor Phillips thought -that they 

 served us well at San Diego, having 

 raised the "flu" ban for the week, 

 declared a National holiday (Thanks- 

 giving) and given the greatest dis- 

 play of aeroplane activity in the na- 

 tion's history. 



No account of the San Diego meet- 

 ing is complete without some men- 

 tion of the hustling County Agent, 

 H. A. Wineland, who presided at the 

 various sessions and to whom much 

 credit should be given for the suc- 

 cess of the course. Everybody in the 

 county, whether a beeman, raisin 

 grower or just a plain hobo, seems to 

 be strong for Wineland. He knows 

 everybody and is constantly on the 

 job, no matter whether it is bee- 

 keeping, orange growing or rabbit 

 hunting that is under consideration. 



It is a long trip from San Diego to 

 Davis, near Sacramento, in northern 

 California. The journey requires 

 nearly 24 hours of travel, and gives 

 one an idea of what a tremendously 

 big State California is. 



At both Davis and Visalia, trips 

 were made to nearby apiaries, and 

 part of an afternoon spent with the 

 bees. There were informal discus- 

 sions of various things of interest to 



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