THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



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The Nattnnal BeBkBepBrs' ^BBXxtiaiwn int. 



^ni its (^tfftliciteri (^ssnriatians 



Officers 



DR. BURTON N. GATES, President 



Amherst, Mass. 



FRANK C. PELLETT, Vice President 



Atlantic, Iowa 



WESLEY FOSTER, Secretary-Treasurer 



Boulder, Colorado 



Directors 



DR. BURTON N. GATES, Chairman 



Amherst, Mass. 



E. D. TOWNSEND Northstar, Mich. 



E. G. CARR New Egypt, N. J. 



GEORGE W. WILLIAMS Redkey, Ind. 



J. H. STONEM AN Blackfoot, Idaho 



E. J. BAXTER Nauvoo. Dlinois 



Mftltxted /(ssoctattons Bnd Ttreic Secretaries 



ARIZONIA HONEY EXCHANGE 



G. M. Frizzell, Temple, Ariz. 



ADIRONDACK— H. E. Gray 



Fort Edward, N. Y. 



COLORADO— Wesley Foster Boulder, Colo. 



CHICAGO NORTHWESTERN — E. H. 



Bruner, 3836 N. 44th Ave., Chicago. 111. 

 HAMPSHIRE — HAMPDEN — FRANKLIN 



Dr. Burton N. Gates Amherst, Mass. 



TWIN FALLS— C. H. Stinson 



Twin Falls, Ida. 



IDAHO HONEY PRODUCERS' ASS'N — 



F. C. Bowman Idaho Falls. 



IDAHO— OREGON HONEY PRODUCERS' 



ASS'N INC.— P. S. Farrell 



New Plymouth, Idaho. 



ILLINOIS— Jas. A. Stone 



Rt. 4, Springfield, 111. 



INDIANA— Geo. W. Williams Redkey, Ind. 



IOWA— S. W. Snyder Center Point, la. 



KANSAS— O. A. Keen Topeka, Kansas. 



LOUISIANA— L. T. Rogers 



Box 316, Shreveport 



MASS. SOCIETY OF BEEKEEPERS (East- 

 ern)— Benjamin P. Sands, 1051 Old S. 



Bldg., Boston. 

 MONTANA— Percy F. Kolb, 134 Broadwater 



Ave., Billings. 

 MICHIGAN— F. E. Millen East Lansing 



MINNESOTA— F. W. Ray, Minneapolis, Minn. 

 MISSOURI APICULTURAL SOCIETY 



INC.— Austin D. Wolfe Parksville. 



NEW .JERSEY— E. G. Carr. .New Egypt, N. J. 

 N. CALIFORNIA— Alwin P. Helm 



16, Fair Oaks, Calif. 



N. MICHIGAN— Ira D. Bartlett 



East Jordan, Mich. 



OHIO— F. R. King Creola, Ohio. 



OREGON— Floyd E. Smith Dallads, Ore. 



THE NEW MEXICO BRANCH 



Henry C. Barron Hagerman, N. M. 



PENNSYLVANIA— H. C. Klinger 



Liverpool, Pa, 



PUERTO RICO— J. W. VanLeenhoff 



Ponce, Puerto Rico, 11 Marina, Ct. 

 SOUTH IDAHO AND EAST OREGON 



R. D. Bradshaw Fayette, Ida. 



TENNESSEE— J. M. Buchanan 



Franklin, Tenn. 



TEXAS— H. E. Graham Cause, Texas 



VERMONT— P. E. Crane Middlebury, Vt. 



VINTON BEEKEEPERS' ASS'N 



E. J. Winder Vernal, Utah. 



WASHINGTON— S. King Clover, R. No. 1. 



Mabton, Wash. 



WISCONSIN— Gus Dittmer Augusta. Wis. 



WORCESTER COUNTY— J. S. Whitte- 



more Leicester, Mass. 



If you are a paid-in-advance member of one of the above associations, you are a member 

 of the National Beekeepers' Association in good standing until the end of this fiscal year with- 

 out additional expense. If you are NOT a member of one of the above associations, you 

 should be. Send $2.00 to Secretary Wesley Foster, Boulder, Colorado, which will pay for the 

 Beekeepers' Review and your National and local dues for a year. Do it today, waiting is 

 dangerous ! If more convenient, the order can come to this office. 



Autumn Mating to Control Inheritance in Honey Bees 



F. W. L. SLADEN 



Apiculturist, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada 



In the course of some bee-mating Experiments carried out 

 in July and August, 1912, at a mating station on the Kazabuzua 

 Plains forty miles north of Ottawa, Canada, it v^as found that 

 queens were quickly mated by local drones, although there were 

 no drones at the mating station and no colonies could be discov- 

 ered within a radius of about three miles of it, at which distance 

 there existed about thirty colonies of black bees containing num- 

 erous drones. This result suggested that a radius of at least about 

 four miles is needed to secure isolation for mating purposes. As- 



