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dian iViends that Mr. Holtermau 

 is a gnidnate of the Gnelph Agri- 

 cultural College and has been a 

 pupil of Mr. D. A. Jones for three 

 years. This, with his natural fit- 

 ness for the position, will be a suffi- 

 cient guarantee that he will serve 

 thoroughly and well the interests of 

 his Canadian brethren. 



We have had an extended per- 

 sonal acquaintance with Mr. Hol- 

 ternian and take pleasure in stating 

 that he will add dignity and char- 

 acter to Canadian apiculture as 

 editor of this department. All 

 matter intended for these columns 

 should be addressed to Mr. Holter- 

 raan excepting general articles 

 which should be sent to us. 



Fishersville, Ont. 



Since our last report Aug. 9, 

 there has been little honey gathered 

 with rare exceptions, in fact not 

 sufficient for temporar}^ demands. 

 Golden rod, boneset and other fall 

 flowers yielded well for a few days, 

 but a cold spell stopped the secre- 

 tion of honey and the bees had to 

 make use of stores, in fact the con- 

 sumption has been unusual owing 

 to weather. However the yield has 

 been better than expected. The 

 eastern part of Ontario has not done 

 well, the yield not being one-half 

 of a crop. The reports are brighter 

 as we come west and the south- 

 western part reports a fair crop. 

 About the best is from St. Mary's 

 from a lady : forty colonies of 

 spring count, increased to eight}', 

 with a yield of 8,500 lbs. of surplus 

 honey. 



Bees to do well here require to 

 be very strong. When clover came 

 in, the honey came early and with a 

 rush. Prices have been very vari- 

 able ; beekeeping has made tremen- 

 dous strides. I was in Beeton when 

 Mr. Jones shipped 200 honey ex- 

 tractors in twoda^'s ; and when the 

 early flow came beginners and ner- 

 vous beekeepers rushed their honey 



on the market and flooded it in 

 fact for a time ; the}' sold extracted 

 at 8 cts. wholesale and 10 cts. to 

 storekeepers in exchange for goods. 

 Comb-honey was peddled at 15 cts. 

 retail for nice sections for about 

 two weeks. Then beekeepers com- 

 menced to realize that it would be 

 worth more if held. In fact, those 

 who understood their business 

 never sold for that sum, and prices 

 gradually went up ; and to-day there 

 is nowhere near as much honey in 

 the hands of the producers as there 

 was at this time last year. 



While honey can still be bought 

 at 10 cents in large quantities, 100 

 lb. lots have been selling at 11^ to 

 121 cents per pound and some ap- 

 pear to expect more before spring. 

 Butter is high. To-day 10 lbs. of 

 honey are consumed at tiie table 

 where one was four years ago, and 

 although with the present outlook 

 as to increase in the number of bee- 

 keepers, the prospects almost ap- 

 pear to look toward overstocking. 

 We can produce a first-class article 

 and if beekeepers open up a foreign 

 market properly and encourage 

 home consumption, there is still 

 room, and beekeeping should be 

 profitable. There is agood opening 

 for a thoroughly reliable man who 

 must also understand the business 

 of grading honey to push foreign 

 and home sales of hone}^ We, how- 

 ever, want no glucose ov corn syrup 

 in our honey to keep it from granu- 

 lating. 



Mr. W. J. Rasin's honey of a 

 deep red color from description and 

 time of storing seems to me to have 

 red raspberry juice. 



Of 210 colonies in our apiary but 

 few, if an}', were free from such 

 red cells. At that time there was 

 a patch (probably 30 aci'cs) of ber- 

 ries in my immediate neighborhood 

 and where these red cells appeared, 

 I noticed the bees at work on the 

 very ripe berries. The bees that I 

 managed were Italians, Ilolylands 



