Mar. 31, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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and all, will give your individual interest, and express your 

 views so something- will result that will be the means of 

 perfecting- the plans already begun for the handling of all 

 the honey that we as bee-keepers can produce. 



When such a condition presents itself, there will be 

 such an expansion in the production and exportation that 

 will be as startling as has been in many of our other agri- 

 cultural products. 



Let us also profit, if it is at all possible, by our foreign 

 exhibitions of honey, held in so many parts of the civilized 

 world during the past few years. In all such exhibitions 

 Canadian honey has taken no second place. It is therefore 

 our just claim that Canada produces honey second to none 

 in the whole wide world. 



The Executive Committee have made arrangements to 

 collect an excellent exhibit of honey from our members to 

 be displayed conjointly with that of our Dominion Govern- 

 mefit exhibit of honey at St. Louis, in 1904. 



According to the Ontario Government statistics we have 

 in Ontario this year, 207,936 colonies of bees, being- an in- 

 crease over 1902 of about 5400 colonies. 



The Inspector of Apiaries has, as for as I have been 

 able to learn, attended to every call made for his services. 

 The applications I have received for the inspector's services, 

 I am sorry to say, have all been late in the season for him 



W. A. CHRYSLER, President. 



to map out his work to have it performed in the least time 

 and expense. Although fast disappearing, I would urge 

 every bee-keeper to give his best efforts to rid the Province 

 of foul brood, and also to observe the law on the subject, 

 especially that of Sec. 10, of the Foul Brood Act, which 

 says : 



" Every bee-keeper or other person who is aware of the 

 existence of foul brood, either in his own apiary or else- 

 where, shall immediately notify the President of the Onta- 

 rio Bee-Keepers' Association, of the existence of such dis- 

 ease, and in default of so doing shall, on summary convic- 

 tion before a justice of the peace, be liable to a fine of five 

 dollars and costs." I think by a strict observance of the 

 above, that foul brood in the Province will very soon be a 

 thing of the past. 



I hope you, one and all, will assist to make this one of 

 the most interesting, pleasant and profitable of meetings. 

 As many have come to this meeting from a distance, and at 

 no small expense, it is very important that we employ our 

 every moment in useful and profitable discussion. 



As your President, I shall endeavor to judge without 

 partiality upon every subject submitted for consideration, 

 and that I may confidently rely on the members in support- 

 ing the dignity of the chair, and maintaining the decorum 

 and orderly demeanor of the meeting. 



W. A. Chrysler. 



R. F. Holtermann — As fcul brood has been touched on 

 rather freely by the Presidei. ; in his address, it might mean 

 by passing without commei. that we agree with all that 



has been said. I might say that portions of this matter will 

 come up in the order of business, and can be taken up there. 

 Mr. B. O. Lott read the following paper : 



THE ADVANTAGES OF OLT-APIARIES-HOW, WHEN 

 AND WHERE TO MOVE THEM. 



In choosing this subject from among the many which 

 we might probably discuss at this meeting, I made this 

 choice, believing that, generally speaking, bee-keepers have 

 had little experience with out-apiaries. 



First, I shall reverse the order upon the program and 

 ascertain if near your home apiary (I use the word " near," 

 for I consider it very important for spring building), you 

 have a good supply of willow, soft maple, alder, poplar, 

 hard maple, honeysuckle, moosewood, wild plum, bilberry, 

 and other spring flowers. If so, there will be no necessity 

 to move early in spring. If not so fortunately situated, 

 then select a locality along the lines I have mentioned, 

 where there are also plenty of orchards, and, if possible, 

 raspberries, clover and linden. 



HOW TO PRKPARB TO MOVE. 



First, a hive for moving should not have iron or tin 

 strips for top-bars to rest on, but should rest on wood, as 

 the bees will propolize more quickly to wood than iron. 

 Next, it will be necessary to have screens for the tops of 

 the hives. These are made of I'+inch strips, dovetailed at 

 the ends, made exactly the size of the hive, with wire-screen 

 cloth for covering. These can be fastened by four small 

 wire nails to the top of the hive, then fasten the bottom- 

 board with whatever fastening you may have. I prefer the 

 Van Deusen clamp. Put on the entrance-sticks, and they 

 are ready to move. 



I might also add here the reason we prefer the clamps. 

 Moving in July or August you can remove the bottom- 

 board, and with a screen the same as the top screen, with 

 screw nail on each side. Place the screen beneath the hive, 

 with the screen-cloth next to the hive, fasten down the 

 clamps, and they have ventilation at both top and bottom. 



WHBN TO MOVB. 



In the old settled part, such as Prince Edward and the 

 southern parts of Hastings, Lennox, Addington, Northum- 

 berland, and Durham counties, linden is something of the 

 past, while in the northern parts of the same counties lin- 

 den is quite plentiful. Following the plans which I have 

 already mapped out, with several railways running from 

 south to north, and with good wagon-roads, it is a simple 

 matter to move an apiary SO or 60 miles without any loss 

 whatever. We have learned also by experience that in 

 placing hives in cars for shipment, always place them so 

 that the frames hang lengthwise instead of crosswise, 

 whereas shipping by wagons the reverse position is neces- 

 sary. 



We bee-keepers in Hastings ship our bees north for 

 linden and clover, south to the county of Prince Edward 

 for buckwheat honey, and home for winter quarters. By 

 following this course we usually get a fair crop of clover, 

 linden and buckwheat honey. 



Time will not permit me to go into all the details of 

 moving, but I trust enough has been shown to clear the way 

 for any new or old beekeepers situated in a locality where 

 there is not an abundance of clover, basswood and buck- 

 wheat, and other honey-producing plants. 



B. O. LoTT. 



Mr. Holmes, who had been selected to open the discus- 

 sion, began by saying he had not worked in out-apiaries, so 

 could not offer any suggestions from experience. He 

 thought it an advantage to have apiaries scattered so that 

 a failure in one place would be compensated for by a good 

 crop in another. He also considered it very important to 

 have store-rooms as well as extracting-houses at all the 

 yards, to avoid hauling home in the busy season. 



A member asked Mr. Lott if he had a full outfit of ma- 

 chinery at each yard. He was also asked whether he found 

 it possible to get locations where extra rainfall made the 

 movir.g profitable. 



Mr. Lott said that as he had no communication with the 

 power which made the rain, he could not be sure on that 

 point. He usually took the whole outfit when he moved a 

 yard. 



J. B. Hall — Will the gain in taking off the tin frame- 

 rests counterbalance the trouble of handling the frames 

 when they are glued fast, as they will be ? 



The majority of those who spoke agreed with Mr. Hall 

 that it would not. 



