364 THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



Notice to Secretaries of Affiliated Associations 



Secretaries of Affiliated Associations will take notice that they 

 have to notify their members the first of November of any proposed 

 change of the Constitution of the National Beekeepers' Association 

 that may be brought before them, for the new constitution requires 

 a three months' notice be given members so the delegates at the 

 February, 1916 meeting can act upon it. It is customary to pub- 

 lish those notices in the November Review and as the forms close 

 the 20th. of this month, a quick response is necessary. 



Queens of Quality 



Among our eleven-hundred colonies of bees, worked exclusive- 

 ly for extracted honey, a dozen or fifteen colonies far outstripped 

 all others in the quantity of honey gathered. It is too bad some 

 commercial queen breeder could not have such tested honey gath- 

 ering stock as breeders. It would seem as if nearly every one of 

 our eleven yards would develop some few colonies that would gath- 

 er four or five times as much surplus honey as the average of the 

 yard. We have at least a dozen colonies that have stored two-hun- 

 dred-fifty pounds or more of honey this poor season, where the 

 whole average has not been much, if any more than thirty-five 

 pounds per colony. There is likely no queen breeder today who has 

 such an opportunity to test out the honey gathering qualities of 

 his stock as this. If generation after generation of such breed- 

 ing stock were used, good results would most surely be obtained. 



Prof. H. F. Wilson of the Entomological Department of the 

 Oregon Agricultural College has given up his position there and ac- 

 cepted the head of the Department of Economic Entomology at 

 the University of Wisconsin. From a letter just at hand we copy 

 as follows : 



"Since it appears that there is considerable beekeeping in Wis- 

 consin, I shall again try to get into active service in this work and 

 I may possibly be able to take part in investigational activities 

 that will be of some benefit to the state and community at large." 



Until recently. Prof. Wilson has been secretary of the Oregon 

 State Beekeepers' Association and, while in this capacity, we at 

 this office have had an opportunity to learn that the professor was 

 very friendly to the beekeeping fraternity, and we congratulate 

 our Wisconsin subscribers on their good fortune in securing Prof. 

 Wilson at their University. 



