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near Ottawa, Collegiate Institute at Ot- 

 tawa, Upper Canada College, and at 

 Day's Commercial College in Toronto. 



Always fond of rural life and occupa- 

 tions, he went to the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College at Guelph, Ont. Besides 

 making many friends there, he left with 

 some of the highest prizes, ranked sec- 

 ond in general proficiency, and took 

 honors in every subject. When leaving. 

 President Mills, amongst other state- 

 ments, says this in a recommendation : 

 " Honest, honorable and upright, a keen 

 observer, and a young man who will do 

 everything in his power to succeed." 



Mr. Holtermann has spent the most 



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R. F. HOLTERMANN. 



of the time since in the country. He 

 became interested in bees through 

 Root's "A B C of Bee-Culture" and 

 Cook's " Manual of the Apiary" at the 

 Ontario Agricultural College. He spent 

 two seasons with Mr. D. A. Jones, of 

 Beeton, Ont. 



In 1882 he was appointed Secretary 

 of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 and has also been a director of it. He 

 attended the North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Conventions at Rochester, Detroit, 

 Chicago, Columbus, Brantford, Albany 

 and Washington. He has twice been a 

 Vice-President of the North American, 

 and once its Secretary, being instrumen- 



tal in bring the convention to Brantford. 

 At Columbus there was a strong move- 

 ment to elect liim President, but he de- 

 clined in favor of another. 



He has been President of the Ontario 

 Agricultural and Experimental Union, 

 which has been pursuing important in- 

 vestigations upon the Foul Brood ques- 

 tion, and for years has been Secretary 

 of the Union. He is President of the 

 Brant Bee-Keepers' Association. He 

 has for two years attended the regular 

 meeting of Farmers' Institutes, being 

 appointed lecturer by the Ontario Gov- 

 .ernment upon bee-keeping. He has just 

 completed a pamphlet for the Dominion 

 Government for distribution by the Emi- 

 gration Department in Europe. 



At Brantford he is a member of the 

 Brant Bee-Keepers' Association, the 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, the 

 Farrington Debating Society, and the 

 Y. M. C. A. He belongs to the Ancient 

 Order of United Workmen, Independent 

 Order of Odd Fellows, and for this latter 

 he cheerfully blames Dr. A. B. Mason. 



There is, perhaps, no one better 

 known as a bee-keeper to the general 

 public ; this is on account of his exten- 

 sive writings through the general press, 

 such as the Qlobe, Mail and Empire., at 

 Toronto ; the Star, in Montreal ; the 

 Farmers'' Advocate, the Canadian Live 

 Stock Journal, the Rural Canadian, and 

 the Canadian Horticulturist, to all of 

 which he has been a paid contributor. 

 He is well known as a writer in apicul- 

 tural journals, and has been a regular 

 contributor to the British Bee Journal. 

 He has also written for the Norwegian 

 Bee Journal. He speaks German, and 

 is fairly well acquainted with French. 



On May 17, 1887, he was married to 

 Lois, daughter of Mr. S. T. Pettit, of 

 Belmont, Ont., having met Miss Lois at 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention at Rochester. They have, be- 

 sides tvs^o daughters, one son, William 

 Ivar, named after Thos. Wm. Cowan 

 and the late Ivar S. Young. 



Last year he secured about 43 pounds 

 of comb and extracted honey per colony, 

 and reared about 500 queens. He put 

 into the cellar 83 colonies and 7 nuclei, 

 and lost only two nuclei in wintering. 



G. 



Your ^eigflibor Bee-Keeper 



— have you asked him or her to subscribe 

 for the Bee Jouknal ? Only $1.00 will 

 pay for it for a whole year. And, be- 

 sides, you can have Newman's book on 

 " Bees and Honey " as a premium, for 

 sending us two new subscribers. Don't 

 neglect your neighbor ! See page 643. 



