284 THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



School for Beekeepers in Massachusetts 



The Essex County Agricultural School is a secondary agricul- 

 tural institution and one of several newly established in the state. 

 Particular emphasis is to be paid to the teaching and promotion of 

 beekeeping. It is their initial step to procure the itinerant instruc- 

 tion from the Agricultural college staff for this instructional work, 

 which is selected in part from the college and part elsewhere. Mr. 

 Geo. W. Adams is a prominent beekeeper of Essex county, having 

 had a considerable apiary for years. Mr. S. L. Davenport is an in- 

 structor of the Essex County Agricultural school and has charge 

 of the beekeeping work there. Mr. Fred A. Smi^h is director of that 

 school, a man well versed in beekeeping. Mr. Gladstone H. Cale is 

 a deputy apiary inspector in Massachusetts. 



Dr. Burton N. Gates, Department of Entomology, Amherst, 

 takes a prominent part in the demonstration work as will be no- 

 ticed by turning to page 304 of this number of the Review where 

 a complete program is published. For detail of arrangement, ac- 

 commodations etc., all inquiries should be addressed to Mr. Fred A. 

 Smith. Director, Essex County Agricultural School, Hathorne, 

 Mass. Application for registration in this school should also be 

 addressed to him. 



The Crop Condition to Date 



As we go to press but few reports have been received relative 

 to the surplus honey crop of 1915. It is our experience that when 

 the crop is good, many will reoort, but on the other hand, few like 

 to report a crop failure. From what reports are now in we draw the 

 following conclusions: Texas has about the same crop as two years 

 ago, and about one third as much honey as a year ago. We have 

 some good reports from sweet clover locations in Louisana and Ala- 

 bama, where one hundred pounds per colony of extracted honey has 

 been secured. Other reports from the south would indicate only a 

 fair crop on the average, with some complete failures which is usual. 

 Further north, in the lower part of the clover belt, but small crops 

 have been secured, for the clover was in bloom during the bad 

 weather of the latter part of May and the forepart of June. In 

 the extreme northern states and Canada, likely a half crop of clover 

 surplus has been harvested. Reports say that the first two cut- 

 tings of Alfalfa have been practically lost to the honey producer, on 

 account of too cold weather for bees to work during its bloom. The 

 third cutting of alfalfa will soon be on, and producers will still get 



