THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



so far as my own use is concerned 

 and the experience of the most ex- 

 tensive and skilled apiarists of my 

 acquaintance goes, they embody a 

 disadvantage in addition to the ordi- 

 nary inconvenience of handling. 



To be removed, the frames must be 

 pried apart. In a full colony the 

 bees crowd out at every opening, and 

 they will covef- the edges of the 

 frames. When the frames are again 

 brought together, the operator must 

 either kill bees or use a degree of 

 care that still further retards his prog- 

 ress. That able apiarist and ac- 

 complished writer, Mr. P. H. El- 

 wood, writing for January " Api," 

 T885, claims for the closed-end Quin- 

 by that " Capt. Hetherington, prob- 

 ably the largest producer of comb 

 honey in the world," uses it, and that 

 " Chas. Dadant, the largest producer 

 of extracted honey in the west^ uses 

 the same." 



I believe that the most extensive 

 producer of comb honey in Amer- 

 ica — possibly in the world — is or has 

 been Mr. J. S. Harbison of San Die- 

 go, than whom no more skilful or ex- 

 perienced beekeeper can well be 

 found. This gentleman has num- 

 bered his colonies higher than 2,000, 

 and his product of comb honey in a 

 year has reached 100 tons. In 18S0 

 he shipped ten car-loads of comb 

 honey to the eastern market. Mr. 

 Harbison uses an admirable hive of 

 his own, a hive that is wholly unlike 

 either the Langstroth or the Quinby 

 in principle. The frames are sup- 

 ported at the upper front corner, 

 steadied and partially supported at 

 both lower corners and removed at 

 the back or end. The end bars are 

 of the same width as in the Lang- 

 stroth. The lower corners do not 

 touch the bottom of the hive. Mr. 

 H. has always found this style satis- 

 factory and has not, to my knowl- 

 edge, ever discarded it. 



The hive was some time in general 

 use in San Diego County and among 

 comb honey producers in this (Mon- 

 terey) county. It is of late giving 



way to some extent to the Lang- 

 stroth. 



Gonzales, Cal. 



{To be continued.') 



Reported for the American AjncuUiirist. 



SEVENTH ANNUAL MEET- 

 ING OF THE ONTARIO BEE- 

 KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



R. F. HOLTERMAN. 



At the meeting of the above 

 association at Toronto, Jan. 5 and 

 6, 1887, there was an attendance 

 of from sixty to seventy members. 

 Three of the commissioners in con- 

 nection with the exhibition of hon- 

 ey of the O. B. A. at the Colonial 

 were present : Messrs. S. T. Pet- 

 tit, S. Cornell and R. McKnight. 

 The show of honey at Kensington 

 has been the largest ever held in 

 the world. The ingenuity mani- 

 fested in popularizing Canadian 

 honey while there reflects great 

 credit on our commissioners. Tons 

 of honey were given away in spoons- 

 ful to visitors, and many thousands 

 more in four ounce, eight ounce and 

 one pound packages, so that a safe 

 estimate would be to say that this 

 delicious sweet had reached half a 

 million to a million people. And 

 not only had it reached the labor- 

 ing class, the mi<ldle class and the 

 upper class, but it has also reached 

 such tables as those of our queen, 

 the Prince of Wales and such as it 

 is well known are difficult to reach 

 in these matters. 



The referees, after deducting the 

 expenses of comijiissioners, over 

 and above the $1,000 granted by 

 the Canadian government and the 

 expenses of distributing samples 

 free, still left a high wholesale price 

 for Canada. But while this is the 

 case, Ontario beekeepers must re- 



