February, ’20] 
PELLETT: SYSTEM AND LOCALITY 
95 
The value of local organizations in stimulating interest should not 
be overlooked. A county association was organized in Fairfield County 
in October, 1918, and Professor Watson, who was then the extension 
worker with bees, told me that he should not be content until he saw a 
live organization of beekeepers in each county of the state. Professor 
Watson has since gone into the Bureau of Entomology, and his successor, 
Prof. L. B. Crandall, is just beginning his work in the state, and though 
I have not conferred with him on this point, I am certain from the tone 
of his paper prepared for this meeting that he will leave no stone 
unturned to promote the interests of beekeeping within the state. 
I have mentioned these conditions in connection with my own state, 
but no doubt they are common to other states. The welfare of the 
business demands better beekeepers rather than more of them. With 
most beekeepers in Connecticut, the keeping of bees is not the chief 
business but is only a side issue. The few colonies in the average apiary 
are not enough to warrant a large outlay in time or equipment, and in 
many cases they do not receive proper treatment. It is believed that 
the registration of beekeepers, more money for inspection, and the 
right kind of extension work will make for more intelligent manage¬ 
ment, and prove a great benefit to the business as a whole. 
Chairman W. E. Britton: We will now listen to a paper by Mr. 
Frank C. Pellett. 
Mr. F. C. Pellett: It was accident rather than intention that 
two subjects were assigned to me on the program. I shall present 
only one. I might say, incidentally, that Boys’ and Girls’ Bee Clubs 
was a subject I chose last year, and I expected to give an outline of 
some of the things I had observed in localities where such clubs existed. 
In Kansas, where a demonstration agent introduced this, especially 
in the localities where there were no commercial beekeepers, he re¬ 
quired parents of each boy or girl who became a member to have bees 
and they were also required to furnish the club member with the proper 
equipment for transferring them. One thing especially which at¬ 
tracted my attention was the fact that one farmer made a good deal of 
fun of one of these boys for taking up these newfangled notions. In 
the fall of the year, the boy had more honey to sell from his two cells 
than the farmer had from fifty. The boys’ work prospered in that 
locality from that time on. 
My paper is entitled “ Adapting System to Locality.” 
ADAPTING SYSTEM TO LOCALITY 
By Frank C. Pellett 
Locality is a badly overworked word in our beekeeping literature. 
