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ers' Association will be held in the city 

 of Rochester, N. Y. Oct. 28-29-30. 

 Essays will be read as follows : 



On Wintering Bees, by W. F. Clarke, 

 of Canada. 



" Nectar, by Prof. A. J. Cook of Mich- 

 igan. 



" Marketing Honey," by Thos. G. 

 Newman of Illinois. 



" Fotil Brood," by D. A. Jones of 

 Canada. 



The Committee has decided to use 

 the balance of the time in discussing 

 these and other questions of impor- 

 tance. 



Those who cannot be present, and 

 liave questions they desire to have dis- 

 cussed or answered will please send 

 the same to the Sec'y, Dr. C. C. Miller, 

 Marengo, 111., orto Ilochester in care of 

 the convention on or before the first 

 day of the meeting. 



Those who do not receive further 

 notice will obtain information as to the 

 place of meeting l)y calling at the Pow- 

 ers House on arriving at Rochester. 

 L. C. Root, Vice Pres. 



C. C. Miller, Sec. 



REPORT OF THE ONTARIO 

 BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The annual meeting of the Ontario 

 Beekeepers' Association was held in 

 the City Hall, Toronto, at 7.30 p. m. 

 on Tuesday, Sept. 16, the president in 

 the chair. The attendance was larger 

 than usual; the usual business was 

 gone through with few noteworthy 

 incidents. A valuable article under 

 correspondence was read by the sec- 

 retary, written by Mr. Allen Pringle, 

 in which he brought out the impor- 

 tance of beekeeping in directly increas- 

 ing the revenue of the country. He 

 well i-emarked that while grain, dairy- 

 ing, fruit and stock took from the soil, 

 the gathering of honey by bees in no 

 way diminished the value of the soil. 

 He also spoke of the advisability of 

 electing vice presidents for every 

 county. The idea is a good one, and 

 carried out properly it should do much 

 for the association, as a good active 

 man in every county can add many 

 members to the association. 



It was decided that the Canadian 

 Farmer should again be the organ of 

 the Out. Beekeepers" Association. 



Next came the report of the standing 

 committee. 



Mr. Jones stated that he had met 

 some of the members of the govern- 

 ment, and they expressed their desire 



to do every thing proper for the asso- 

 ciation, and he thought if a proper 

 measure were drawn up, there would 

 be no difficulty in passing an act. It 

 was decided to postpone any further 

 discussion for the present. The first 

 question put by the president was how 

 to get the honey out of surplus combs 

 in the fall. Mr. Emyh of Holbrook 

 uses a top story when he wishes to 

 empty the combs ; he puts them in 

 these tops laying a cloth between them 

 and the bottom, folded back sufficiently 

 to allow bees to come up. Mr. Ellis 

 of St. Davids extracts them ; at night 

 he sets combs in front of the hive, 

 and the bees drain any remaining 

 honey from them before morning; the 

 extracted honey is fed back. Mr. D. 

 A. Jones advocates putting the combs 

 back of the division board but spread 

 apart sufficiently as not to encourage 

 the bees to cluster on them. The 

 meeting adjourned until the following 

 evening with an invitation to all bee- 

 keepers to meet for a chat on the ex- 

 hibition grounds the following morn- 

 ing. 



WEDNESDAY, 7.30 P. M., SEPT. 17. 



The president in the chair. Moved, 

 seconded and carried that to Mr. 

 Pringle the association tender their 

 sincere thanks for his very able article 

 regarding bees and the association, 

 and the article be forwarded to the 

 Canadian Farmer for publication. 



The secretary then read a letter 

 from the Listowel association of bee- 

 keepers, who had sent a delegate, Mr. 

 Brown, to lay before the association 

 the advisability of petitioning the gov- 

 ernment to take the duty off of wax. 



Beekeeping upon scientific principles 

 had become so extensive in Canada 

 that it was impossible to supply wax for 

 the manufacture of comb foundation; 

 many have complained they could not 

 get the article. Mr. Brown had writ- 

 ten to the member for North Perth, 

 whose reply was that he would do all 

 in his power to aid the cause, but that 

 the revenue was very considerable. 

 At this stage, Mr. Jones arose to ex- 

 press his opinion that there was a mis- 

 take regarding the importation and that 

 probably parafflne and cerasine were 

 classed with wax ; the latter is not easily 

 told from wax by an inexperienced per- 

 son ; that in his opinion a committee 

 should be formed to lay the matter be- 

 fore an influential party, who would be 

 willing and able to put the matter in its 

 proper light before the government. 

 The following were appointed a com- 



