PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANPG CO. 



VOL. I. 



NOVEMBER, 1891. 



NO. II. 



Apiculture in Canada. 



BY ALLEN PKJNGLE. 



Ontario is the banner province of 

 the Dominion in apiculture, as well as 

 in everything else. Quebec is back- 

 ward in this as in other things, and 



izalion, legally incorporated, and re- 

 ceives an annual government grant, 

 which enables it to do much towards 

 the development of bee culture in the 

 province. But the industry recently 

 found itself seriously menanced by 



the lower provinces are far behind the prevalence of foul brood in some 

 Ontario in honey production and pro- 

 gressive bee culture. British Colum- 

 bia is rather better. As for the great 

 North West its possibilities in bee 

 culture, as well as other things, are 

 before it. With the abundant and 

 widely diffused flora it must ultimate- 

 ly become the home of the honey bee. 

 While in Manitoba and some of tl^ 1 

 other provinces ihe length and sever- 

 ity of the winters will he the chief 

 draw-back for a while, that will 

 eventually be overcome, as the win- 



of the best honey portions of the 

 province. To remove this evil we 

 sought and obtained from the legisla- 

 ture an "Act for the suppression of 

 four brood among bees," under the 

 provisions of which we have a foul 

 brood inspector and sub inspector 

 appointed by the Ontario Association, 

 but paid by the government. With 

 such facilities the disease will speedi- 

 ly be under control, if not entirely 

 suppressed. 



The honey of Ontario is not only 



tering problem is now being success- unsurpassed in quality, as wasderuon- 



fully solved. strated by her magnificent exhibit a 



The number of bee-keepers in this year ago at the Indian and Colonial 



province of Ontario is roughly esti- exhibition in London, England, but is 



inaled at 50.000 to 75,000. Compar- abundant in quantity. No matter 



atively few of these, however, are ad- what the failures elsewhere may be, 



vanced and progressive apiarists. The we have a crop, for if one part of the 



local societies, some of them embrac- province fails another yields. Alsike 



ing two or three counties, number clover, linden, white clover and in dry 



about 25, while the provincial society, seasons red clover, give us the bulk of 



called the Ontario Bee-Keeper's Asso- our light colored honey. Basswood, 



ciation, is a strong and thriving organ- golden-rod , and a multitude of scat- 



