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September, 19n 



American Hee Journal 



northern and eastern counties 'got but 

 little surplus, whereas generally they 

 are the best. Some large sales of honey 

 have already taken place in a whole- 

 sale way at 11 to 12 cents. 



The report gives a complete list 

 of the number of colonies in each 

 county, and the honey produced. Went- 

 worth county has the largest average, 

 with 108 pounds per colony ; Kent 

 county, 105 pounds; Welland county, 

 98 pounds ; York county, where Mr. 

 Byer is located, has an average of 92 

 pounds per colony. The total produced 

 by the senders of the 54.3 reports is 

 1,618,489 pounds. Not so bad. Of 

 this, Middlesex county produced 260,- 

 500 pounds; Halton county, 137,200 

 pounds ; and York county, 131,200. 



Ontario Annual Convention. — The fol- 

 lowing is a complete program of the 

 Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association con- 

 vention which is to be held in Toronto 

 during the week of the Horticultural 

 show, Nov. 18 to 21 inclusive: 



TrESDAY Evening. Nov. i8. 



7;30 — Meeting of officers and directors. 



Wednesday Morning. Nov m. 



5:30 — Minutes— Morley Pettit. Secretary. 

 Guelph. 



President's .^.ddress— Denis N'olan. New- 

 ton Robinson. 



ist Vice-President's Reply— 1. L. Byer. Mt. 

 Joy. 



2d Vice-President's Reply— Miss Ethel 

 Robson. Ilderton. 



Co-operative Work in the Counties — Alex 

 Dickson. Lancaster. Secretary Glengarry 

 Association. Blake Miller. Aylmer. Secre- 

 tary Elgin -Association. R. C. Fretz. Forest. 

 Secretary Lambton Association. All other 

 County Secretaries are expected to join in 

 the discussion. 



Wednesday Afternoon. 



2:00— The Office of Director— What Does 

 It Mean ?— R. E. L. Harkness. Irena. 



The Swarming Problem— H. G. Sibbald. 

 Claude. 



Question-Bo.x — D. Donaldson. Carleton 

 Place. 



Thursday Morning. Nov. 20. 



q:30— Queen-Rearing— John A. McKinnon, 

 St. Eugene. 



The Association Organ— H. B. Cowan, Edi- 

 tor of the " Bee-Keeper." Peterboro. 



Question-Box— Jas. Armstrong, Cheapside. 



Thursday Afternoon. 



2;o(>— Address— E. R. Root, Medina. Ohio. 



Address-Dr. G. C. Creelman. L. L D.. 

 President of Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Guelph. 



Election of officers. 



Reports— Secretary. Treasurer. Directors. 

 Committees. Representative to Exhibitions. 

 Judges of Honey. 



Friday Morning, Nov. 21. 



g:jo— The Question of Transportation— 

 Geo. F. Kingsmill, of Ontario Agricultural 

 College. Guelph. 



Notes from the Year's Work— Morley Pet- 

 tit. Provincial .'\piarist. 



Question-Box— Chas. Blake, Snow Road. 



Friday Afternoon. 



2:00— Comb Honey Production— D. Anguish 

 Lambeth. 



Extracted Honey Production— John .-V. 

 Lunn. Fingal. 



Unfinished Business. 



A Modern Honey Conveyance. 



Chester. Pa.. Sept. 6. The day will be 

 devoted largely to practical demonstra- 

 tions in up-to-date bee-keeping. Every- 

 body come for a big day. 



H. C. Klinger, Sec. 



Pennsylvania Summer Meeting — The 



summer meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held in Geo. M. Steele's yard. West 



The Parcel Post.— What seems like 

 the first serious efifort of the express 

 companies to destroy the parcel post 

 and to bring backthe conditions which 

 were resulting in the excessive profits 

 for themselves, is the effort to have the 

 ■'Administrative Clause " of the parcel 

 post law stricken out. This would re- 

 sult, of course, in killing the vital force 

 of the law. It would result in the loss 

 of the work of those men who have 

 been fighting for this law for nearly 40 

 years, and, moreover, it would stop the 

 expansion of this law. 



According to newspaper reports 

 there is a movement to expand the par- 

 cel post so that parcels up to 100 

 pounds in weight will be admitted to 

 the mails. The introducer of this 

 would also make the zone system much 

 more simple than it now is. In oppo- 

 sition to this comes the "express 

 gang "who are bent on not being to- 

 tally destroyed. They count on win- 

 ning all rather than losing it. It is 

 pretty hard, when a person has been 

 making as high as 1000 percent on the 

 original investment each year, to be 

 satisfied on what the average person 

 makes. So these companies think they 

 cannot be content with what they have. 



There is just one way to solve this 

 problem. And that way is for us, the 

 people, to ^i-/ busy. No use to wait for 

 these companies to make the first 

 move, for they have already made it, 

 even though not in the open where we 

 could see it. Letters and telegrams 

 should go from every one who reads 



this to his or her Congressman, Sena- 

 tor, and to the Postmaster General de- 

 manding that the law be let alone, and 

 that the service of the parcel post be 

 extended. .Vozv is the time. The longer 

 we wait the more tenacious will be the 

 hold by the opposition. 



The Benton Cage Plodified 'Various 



ideas for the safe and quick introduc- 

 tion of queens are constanth- being ad- 

 vanced. -A. method of introducing 

 without the use of the cage is fre- 

 quently used and advised, but for the 

 average bee-keeper a safe, easy plan is 

 needed, and the Benton cage is our 

 stand-by. 



A new idea modifying the Benton i 

 cage is brought forward by Mr. .\rthur 

 Stanley, of Chicago, 111., and deserves 

 a thorough test. Its extra cost may 

 be worth more than the queens it will 

 save. The cage measures Jsxl Vx4 V 

 inches, the extra length making a 

 longer passage-way in the end not 

 usually containing candy. This pas- 

 sage-way is filled with candy, and the 

 perforated metal replaced by heavy 

 paper, thus making this end also an 

 opening for introduction. The impor- 

 tant feature of the cage is the single 

 perforated queen-excluderfastened just 

 inside the passage-way. The bees of 

 the hive soon eat their way to the ex- I 

 cluder, and pass in and out of the cage ■ 

 one by one, thus getting acquainted 

 little by little with their new queen. 

 The excluder prevents the queen from 

 emerging until she is released in the J 

 ordinary way. \ 



No time is saved by this method, but 

 a surer method is apparent. The ex- 

 tra weight of the cage, one ounce, 

 makes an extra expense for mailing. 



