C. L. Farrar

[Will]

I'm looking for a comprehensive listing of all articles written by C. L. Farrar. Any ideas where one might be found?? Don't find much with google.

Will

[Rebel Rose]

Try contacting Steve Taber :

www.honeybeegenetics.com

[Michael Palmer]

Sadly, Steve passed away last year.

[Rebel Rose]

Sadly, Steve passed away last year.

Sorry, I did not know that.

[B. Haning]

I would try the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was a professor there and director of the USDA bee lab at Madison. I think they have a beekeeping library at the university. My uncle worked with him years ago. When I was a kid learning about beekeeping, my aunt, who worked at the university, sent me some articles from the bee lab authored by Farrar.

[Will]

Cool B. Haning! Is your uncle still living? I bet he has some great stories to tell. I searched the Madcat database at UWM library. All I come up with is this:

Productive management of honeybee colonies in the northern states / by C.L. Farrar.

Large-cage design for insect and plant research. / by C.L. Farrar

Two-queen colony management for production of honey / C.L. Farrar.

The life of the honey bee : its biology and behavior with an introduction to managing the honey-bee colony / by C.L. Farrar.

Does this sound about right??

Thanks,

Will

[Bodo]

Nosema losses in package bees as related to queen supersedure and honey yields
CL Farrar - Journal of economic entomology, 1947 - Entomological Society of America

Two queen colony management
CL Farrar - US Bureau Entomol, 1946

Bees must have pollen
CL Farrar - Glean. Bee Cult, 1934

Nosema disease contributes to winter losses and queen supersedure
CL Farrar - Gleanings in Bee Culture, 1942

Influence of pollen reserves on the surviving populations of over-wintered colonies
CL Farrar - Am. Bee J, 1936

Productive management of honey-bee colonies
CL Farrar - American Bee Journal, 1993 - DADANT & SONS INC

[B. Haning]

Will, Yes my uncle is in his 80's now. He got his masters degree under Farrar. He knows a lot about bees. He maintained the all the different stocks of bees by artificial insemination, and raised hybrids for the lab. He is retired, but still raises queens for beekeepers around Madison, and keeps a few colonies. He used to have 200 to 300 2 queen colonies in the farm land around Madison. He kept his colonies in 20 by 20 inch square, 12 frame medium depth hives. Some the hives were 15 to 16 supers tall! He retired from the USDA when the lab was closed during the Regan budget cuts.

[Will]

Thanks Bodo! And to B. Haning, I would love to hear some stories!!

Thanks,

Will

[dcross]

Roger Hoopingarner worked with him and talks about it during his presentations at HAS.