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teaching the "young idea how to shoot," 

 in some of the largest and most difficult 

 schools to manage in the whole county, 

 and with every success ; while the sum- 

 mers were mostly spent on the farm and 

 amongst the bees, which, under skillful 

 management, had increased from the 

 original old box-hive to over half a hun- 

 dred prosperous colonies. 



Having readily absorbed the bee-lore 

 possessed by all the wiseacres of the 

 neighborhood, and hearing that a great 

 book had been published on bees, he 

 sent for it and got it in due course by 

 mail. It was Quinby's "Mysteries of 



management of them, supplemented by 

 a long experience, Mr. Pringle has be- 

 come one of the most skillful apiarists 

 in America, and is looked to as an au- 

 thority on bee-culture by all who know 

 him. Though never seeking office, the 

 office seeks him, and he has served as 

 President and Director of the Ontario 

 Bee-Keepers' Association for several 

 years, doing the Association important 

 service while its President. 



Mr. Pringle is a worker in the fullest 

 sense of that term — working with both 

 hands and head with equal facility and 

 effectiveness. He can turn his hand to 





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ALLEN PRINGLE. 



Bee-Keeping Explained." From this he 

 got new hints and valuable information, 

 and rapidly came to the front in the 

 science and art of bee-culture as prac- 

 ticed in those days. He discarded the 

 box-hive and used a movable frame, 

 from which he extracted the honey with 

 an old-fashioned extractor, getting the 

 nearest blacksmith to make him an un- 

 capping knife from an old file, which he 

 still uses, and which, during a quarter 

 of a century, has shaved the caps off 

 many tons of honey. 



Through a strong love of bees and a 

 natural adaptation to the handling and 



many things, and his head and pen to 

 many subjects. He is known as a clear, 

 cogent and forcible writer, not only in 

 the daily press but the monthly maga- 

 zines. Prof. Cavanagh, the expert phren- 

 ologist of Toronto, in a published work, 

 speaks of Mr. Pringle as "one of the 

 ablest writers in America." His style is 

 clear, critical and logical, and the man 

 who enters the controversial arena with 

 him may make up his mind beforehand 

 to come out with a demoralized quill and 

 with his feathers flying. In the field of 

 polemics Mr. Pringle carries the heavi- 

 est kind of guns. He is one of the few 



