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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
April, 1919 
AMONG WISCONSIN BEEKEEPERS 
The Wisconsin BeeKeepers Page 
Prof. H. F. Wilson Editor 
500 State Members by December 1. 
Warning- 
We now have 245 paid and 84 
unpaid members in the State As- 
sociation. There are 155 now 
members in the Affiliated Associa- 
tions. Secure a new member 
every day. 
Please Pay Your Dues. 
We are mailing Wisconsin 
Horticulture this month to 
l about 75 members of the Bee- 
! keepers Association whose 
dues are not paid for 1910. 
These names will be dropped 
from our list unless fees are 
paid before next mailing date, 
May 6th. Send your dues to 
the proper officer of your As- 
sociation who will clear your 
record in this office. Do not 
send to me. 
Frederic Cranefield, 
Sec. W. S. H. S. 
State Fair Notes 
Brother Gus Dittmer is to be 
Superintendent of the Bee and 
Honey Exhibit at the State Fair 
this year and he asks that every 
member of the Association help in 
making a big display. A new item 
is to be added for the boys and 
girls, $5, $3, and $2 for the best 
display of extracted honey, and 
similar prizes for the best display 
of comb honey. Any boy or girl 
between the ages of 10 and 18 can 
enter. Write for a premium list. 
Do not buy used combs or bee 
equipment from apiaries where 
bees have died out. Have a com- 
petent person look over all colonies 
of bees before buying. You may 
buy foul brood. 
The proposed new bee law, Sen- 
ate Bill 66. carrying an appropria- 
tion of $5,000 and introduced by 
Senator Dennhardt of Oshkosh has 
passed the senate and is soon to 
come up in the assembly. Have 
you seen your assemblyman? 
Pack your bees in fall and 
spring. The farmer builds the 
best he knows how, to protect his 
stock from cold. Why not do the 
same for the bees. It may be some 
trouble and extra expense but the 
increased production will more 
than pay for it. The better the 
protection the stronger the colon- 
ies. Strong colonies prevent 
European foul brood. European 
foul brood usually appears in the 
second hatching of brood and is at 
its worst in May. Plenty of stores 
and good warm hives protected 
from the wind will help the bees 
to rear sufficient brood to over- 
come the disease before it gets 
started. 
Meetings for March. A Bee 
School with an attendance of over 
200 people was held at Reedsville, 
March 6, 7 and 8, in cooperation 
with the North East Wisconsin 
Beekeepers’ Association. 
A meeting of the Fox River Val- 
ley Beekeepers’ Association was 
held at Appleton, March 21, to 
talk over the summer work and to 
buy supplies for the season. Ar- 
rangements for a summer field 
meet were made and also for a bee 
school in December. 
Through the efforts of Mr. Klo- 
fanda, County Agent of Calumet 
county, a meeting of Calumet 
county beekeepers was held at Hil- 
bert, March 22. Illustrated lec- 
tures on bee and bee diseases were 
given and a plan of organization 
for the county talked over. A trip 
among the beekeepers of the county 
was planned for June 5 and 6 and 
a field meet and picnic will be held 
at some convenient place on the 
seventh. 
Two men have applied to this 
office for apiary jobs for next sea- 
son. Any beekeeper needing help 
should write for information. 
Spray Schedule for Apple Trees 
Wisconsin farmers are begin- 
ning to realize that spraying is 
necessary to grow good fruit. 
Many, however, do not know what 
materials to use or how to use 
them. If the growers will fol- 
low carefully the plan as given be- 
low better fruit will result which 
will amply repay the cost of ap- 
plication of spray. 
What to spray for. The plum 
curculio and the codling moth are 
the two worst insect pests of the 
apple. The lesser apple worm 
and green fruit worms although 
of minor importance add to the 
amount of unmarketable fruit in 
the unsprayed orchard. Plant, 
diseases also affect the quality 
quantity of fruit grown if proper 
spraying is neglected. 
When to spray and materials to 
use. First spray — applied just as 
the flower buds separate in the 
