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in little feeders out doors. lie does not feed, however, if bees have 

 lots of honey. Increasing 9G colonies to 125 and securing 2G, 000 

 pounds of extracted honey would prove that ^Ir. McKwen knows 

 what he is talking about. 



A very interesting address was given by ^Ir. Clark, of Cains- 

 ville. in which he urged the combination of bees with fruit and 

 poultry. From 25 acres he sold last year $5,000 worth of produce, 

 including honey, fruit and poultry. It developed, however, that ^Ir. 

 Clark was really making more from his poultry, as he was selling 

 very high priced birds for breeders or show purposes, and that he 

 was really combining bees with the fruit and poultry instead of 

 combining fruit and poultry with bees. In other words, bees were 

 his side issue instead of the others. 



I learned that the credit of originating the plan of packing four 

 colonies in one packing case belongs to Jacob Alpaugh. Many 

 Canadian bee-keepers are practicing the plan with success, and it has 

 the preference over cellar wintering with most of them. 



^lorley Pettit, of Guelph. Ont.. in explaining his plan of hand- 

 ling bees and appliances, gave what to me was a novel, and I 

 should judge, excellent way of fastening in foundation in brood 

 frames. He simply wires his frames with four horizontal wires, but 

 puts the top wire within one-quarter inch of the top barb, and then 

 fastens it in the middle by driving a small staple straddle of the 

 wire and into the under side of the top bar. This prevents sagging, 

 and then all that is necessary is to simply imbed the wires into the 

 foundation and the job is done. 



Mr. Kimball increases his colonies and re-queens both at the 

 same time by a simple method. At the close of basswood he divides 

 his colonies, and then simply grafts queen cells from the best col- 

 onies to those he wishes to improve, of course, first destroying queen 

 cells which may have been started in the latter. I am not sure but 

 he has his queen cells started before his general division, and then 

 simply gives the cell soon after the division is made. 



In locating very young larvre for queen rearing-. ^Ir. Hershiser 

 uses a common reading glass. He says he can also light the smoker 

 with it during a hot day, in case he forgets the matches. Which 

 proves that you mustn't let the sun shine through that glass when 

 you are looking for larva?. 



The convention report would not be complete without mention- 

 ing the work of Miss Ethel Robson, who conducts the woman's 

 department in the Canadian Bee Journal. Busy with her note-book 

 all through the convention, yet she was not too busy to contribute 

 her part to the interesting discussions, and what she said would in- 

 dicate that she had a practical knowledge of the cause she is cham- 

 pioning. 



