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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST 



delicacy, which was perfect in it- 

 self and reciuired no preserving. Al- 

 though some valuable ideas were 

 advanced, in my estimation the 

 question in its entirety has not 

 been considered ; although we 

 should always hold out prominently 

 the fact that honey requires no ad- 

 ditions to make it a wholesome and 

 delicious food, I can see no injury 

 arise from advocating its use as 

 al)Ove stated. The man who eats 

 to live still has all the benefit that 

 can be derived from eating honey, 

 although mixed with other food, 

 and the man who more largely 

 takes into consideration his taste 

 still has an appetizing food. 



The most interesting part of the 

 meeting was the visit the associa- 

 tion paid to Mr. Goldie's grounds 

 to view Mr. Clarke's ''Chapman 

 honey plants." There were fifty in 

 bloom,\and although late in the 

 afternoon and a cool day, the visits 

 of the bees were continuous and 

 numerous. This and Mr. Goldie's 

 apiary and grounds decorated with 

 shrubs and evergreens were a treat 

 to all. 



It was resolved : 

 That members present find that 

 the '-Chapman honey plant " is 

 evidently much frequented by hon- 

 ey bees, whether yielding honey 

 profusely or not ; or, if desirable to 

 introduce as a honey plant, we are 

 not in a position to judge. 



After the close of the meeting I 

 paid a visit to the apiary of Mr. 

 A. Gilchrist. The apiary consists 

 of some seventy colonies. Tiie 

 increase has been considerably over 

 100 per cent and thus far the yield, 

 if I remember correctly, 60 lbs. to 

 the colony. The summer in that 

 locality had been too dry. 



Mr. Gilchrist besides keeping 

 bees has a nursery and fruit busi- 

 ness ; he uses a chaff-hive and win- 

 ters outside and thus far has been 

 very successful. I may say I here 

 saw some Heddon hives in opera- 



tion and also heard reports from 

 others who were much taken with 

 the hive. Mr. Gilchrist stated he 

 liked the idea very much at first 

 and intended getting a large num- 

 ber of the Heddon hives, but his 

 experience had convinced him it 

 was not what he had expected. He 

 wanted a frame that would make a 

 shallow frame in summer and a 

 deep one in winter. There was also 

 at the meeting a gentleman who 

 had given the Heddon hive a very 

 warm and public reception when 

 it first came out, but who felt by 

 experience bound to say the inven- 

 tion had not come up to his expec- 

 tations. Our honey crop throughout 

 Canada has been probably two- 

 tliirds or less. Linden was almost 

 a complete failure. 

 Bnmtfo7'd, Ontario. 



For the American Apiculturist. 



THE CHAPMAN HONEY 

 PLANT. 



N. AV. MCLAIN. 



KEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINT- 

 ED TO INVESTIGATE ITS MERITS. 



The Committee appointed by the 

 North American Beekeepers' Asso- 

 tion to investigate the merits of a 

 honey-producing plant now being 

 cultivated by Mr. Hiram Chapman 

 of Versailles, New York, met at 

 that place the 28th ult. One mem- 

 ber of the committee, Mr. Manum 

 of Vermont, was unavoidably de- 

 tained at home. 



Mr. Chapman exhibited a speci- 

 men of this plant and made repre- 

 sentations concerning its value to 

 beekeepers, at the Detroit Conven- 

 tion in Dec. last, which led to the 

 appointment of a committee which 

 was instructed to investigate and 

 report at the next annual meeting 

 of the Association. 



This plant, which Dr. Beal, of 



