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it of co-operation shown by the ladies. 
The wives of the officers-Mrs. Knud- 
son, Mrs. Yancey and Mrs. Calkins 
rented a vacant store building in Lady- 
smith.--set up a modern kitchen and 
arranged a tasty dining room and hon- 
ey display in the windows. During 
the entire week they served meals and 
lunches at reasonable prices. Accord- 
ing to Mr. Calkins the ladies boosted 
honey from morning until night and 
besides having a good time, netted $25 
which they placed in the Treasury of 
the Rusk County Beekeepers' Associa- 
tion.   Contributions of honey were 
made from non-members as well as 
members and honey salks were im- 
proved greatly throughout the County. 
   Mrs. Calkins reports that she be- 
lieved that a great deal of good had 
resulted in educating the public to the 
many us.s of honey and it is their 
plan to make a much greater effort 
this coming year. 
   Mr. Knudtson, Mr. Calkins and Mr. 
Yancey slipped into the booth one day 
and had their pictures taken and sent 
us a photo, but the ladies discovered 
the false representation and proceeded 
to have a picture of their own taken- 
a copy of which is being included. We 
would also have liked to have printed 
the picture of the men, but having 
space only for one and knowing that 
the ladies really deserve the credit for 
taking care of the booths, we think it 
is only fair that they should be given 
the preference.               H.F.W. 
 
  HONEY DEW HONEY MAY BE 
       SERIOUS THIS FALL 
 
   Beekeepers throughout Wisconsin 
should be prepared to feed their bees 
this fall to prevent serious losses from 
honey dew during the winter. Condi- 
tions have been ideal for plant lice and 
scale insects and honey dew has been 
more plentiful for a good part of the 
season than was nectar from the flow- 
ers.  In practically every section of 
the state some honey dew was gathered 
 
 
and in the central and western regions 
where peas are grown extensively, the 
pea aphis is reported more abundant 
and causing more damage than in any 
previous year. 
   The plant lice on oaks, elms, willow 
and populars were so plentiful that the 
foliage of the trees were stickey with 
honey dew and on many trees honey 
dew dripping to the ground. Among 
the ornamental plants; roses, snow- 
balls and spirea were so badly infested 
that the early shoots were in many 
cas-s destroyed.   During all of this 
time there was very little nectar com- 
ing in from the field and examinations 
of a few samples which we have se- 
cured to date show that a high percent- 
age of dextrin is present, indicating 
the presence of honey dew. The color 
of this early honey had a grayish-green 
tint which some of our beekeepers be- 
lieve came from a plant source. But 
any beekeeper who leaves some of this 
early honey in the brood chamber this 
winter runs considerable risk of losing, 
a portion of his bees. 
   The flow from clover has been rath- 
er small and did not start until late. 
There will be less danger from dysen- 
tery if stores gathered in the middle of 
July are used. 
   We do not believe that it would be 
a wise policy to give out any news- 
paper publicity relative to honey dew 
or feeding sugar to the bees in the fall 
because it may affect the public opin- 
ion of honey and produce some wrong 
impressions that will affect the sale of 
honey not only this season but in later 
seasons. 
   If any of our members have reason 
to believe that their bees have gathered 
any honey dew, we would appreciate 
very much receiving samples so that 
we can examine them and form some 
idea as to the abundance of the honey 
dew. We are particularly interested in 
securing samples from the central and 
western part of the state, because we 
believe that more honey dew is likely 
to have been gathered in those regions. 
 
 
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