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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mr. S. Oorneil and Mr. McKnight, 

 two gentlemen who, as representa- 

 tives of that Association, had honored 

 tliem with their company that day. 

 He recommended all present not to 

 leave the Exhibition without seeing 

 the splendid display of honey from 

 Canada then on view. They might 

 be quite sure of the courtesy of the 

 gentlemen named. He had experi- 

 enced it, and was much gratified with 

 what he had witnessed under their 

 guidance. Although English bee- 

 keepers had made great strides of 

 late years, they would still find some- 

 thing to learn from their Canadian 

 fellow-workers. 



Mr. S. Cornell said it afforded him 

 great pleasure to be present at that 

 meeting. Bee-keeping in Ontario 

 was quite a new industry. It was 

 only a very few years ago since he 

 remembered noticing in one of the 

 papers an announcement that their 

 friend Mr. Jones was taking a barrel 

 of honey per day. That would be 

 considered a very small affair in the 

 present day. It was, however, only 

 during the last 12 or 1.5 years that the 

 industry liad grown to such great 

 proportions. He was quite sure that 

 the news of the cordial reception he 

 and his friends iiad met with from 

 English beekeepers would be re- 

 ceived with gratitude by his fellow- 

 countrymen. Bee-keepers all over 

 the world had a great deal in com- 

 mon. They wished to discuss and 

 compare notes. They were all learners. 

 He had learnt several matters of im- 

 portance since his arrival in London. 

 With regard to the production of 

 honey in Canada, he well knew that 

 they had climatic advantages, owing 

 to the large amount of sunshine with 

 which they were favored during the 

 summer months. Their climate was 

 everything that could be desired for 

 the secretion of nectar in the (lowers. 

 The assistance rendered by bees to 

 the agriculturist was well appreciated 

 in his country. They gathered the 

 finest honey from the clover fields, 

 and the farmers found from common 

 observation that when their farms 

 were close to a large apiary of bees, 

 their fields yielded them far more 

 seeds per acre than would otherwise 

 be the case. Thus the bees conferred 

 a double benefit on man ; so much so 

 that most farmers took to bee-keep- 

 ing in order to increase their crops of 

 clover seed. In Canada there were 

 only five or six millions of people. 

 They were scattered over a large ex- 

 tent of territory. Hitherto Canadian 

 beekeepers liad kept at home all the 

 honey they produced. In Britain 

 there were a great many more than 

 five million people, and having heard 

 that honey was constantly being im- 

 ported from other countries into Eng- 

 land, tlie bee-keepers of Canada 

 thought that whatever profits were to 

 be obtained by imports, friends might 

 as well get them as strangers. They 

 had, therefore, come over in the hope 

 of securing a small share in the ad- 

 vantages of the honey trade. 



Mr. McKnight desired to thank the 

 British Bee-Keepers' Association in 

 the name and on behalf of Canadian 

 beekeepers for the splendid enter- 



tainment afforded to their delegates. 

 They recognized the right hand of 

 fellowship extended from the mother 

 country. He could tell his audience 

 that he and his friends would carry 

 home the most pleasing recollections 

 of the way in which they had been 

 entertained by the bee-keepers of 

 Britain. They, as representatives of 

 the Ontario Association, came over to 

 show what their country could pro- 

 duce. Their land was veritably the 

 Canaan of America, flowing with 

 milk and honey. If any one doubted 

 that, let him make his way to the 

 honey exhibition, where he would find 

 conclusive evidence of the fact. They 

 came over to make glad the hearts of 

 their own mother England. Every 

 mother ouglit to be proud of her off- 

 spring, and it must afford her gratifi- 

 cation when they conducted them- 

 selves in life so as to win her appro- 

 bation. He was sure that England 

 must be proud when she saw what 

 they had been doing beyond the seas. 

 They had proved that they had not 

 been lying on their oars, and, in fact, 

 that they liad added as much to the 

 glory of Great Britain as her soldiers 

 and sailors had done in years past. 

 They had made primeval forests to 

 disappear, and in their place raise up 

 the fruits of the earth. Those were 

 the battle fields on which their vic- 

 tories had been fought and won, and 

 it required a stout heart to engage in 

 those fights. It was an old saying 

 that bee keepers were a very fine class 

 of people. (Laughter.) Well, there 

 was no question that they possessed 

 some excellent characteristics. Their 

 pursuit necessitated a large amount 

 of moral courage, patience, and per- 

 severance. One seldom found a suc- 

 cessful beekeeper to be a cross- 

 grained and bald-hearted man. Pos- 

 sibly the reason of this was that he 

 had a peculiar being to deal with, and 

 one who would defend its home and 

 property with Spartan courage. 

 (Cheers.) 



The chairman regreted the absence 

 of Mr. Pettit, the President of the 

 Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 who had been obliged to leave that 

 day. Before his departure he re- 

 quested the chairman to express his 

 cordial acknowledgements of the 

 kindness of the British Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. 



The Rev. F. Jenyns said he had 

 been asked to propose the liealth of 

 those who were amongst them as 

 visitors, and whose presence added 

 much to the pleasure of the gather- 

 ing. He trusted they would do their 

 best to carry into their respec- 

 tive districts a knowledge of what 

 they had seen and heard that day. 

 The meeting was honored by the 

 presence of two distinguished vis- 

 itors, namely, the Secretary of the 

 Swiss Association, a most advanced 

 bee-keeper, and also the President of 

 the Devonshire Association, whose 

 connection and relationship with Mr. 

 Woodbury would alone entitle him to 

 the respect of all bee-keepers. He 

 felt sure all present would be able to 

 look back on that day with happy 

 remembrances, for it was a remark- 

 able day, not only for the pleasure it 



afforded to so many bee-keepers of 

 coming together, but because it 

 showed the wonderful development 

 of their favorite industry, which,upon 

 a retrospect of a few years, one would 

 hardly have believed possible. That 

 was a source of great gratification to 

 the British Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 to whose efforts that result, to a large 

 extent, was due. Of course they 

 could not but be delighted to find that 

 their objects and aims had spread so- 

 far west as Ontario. He hoped that 

 the meeting would tend to promote 

 the good work in which they were 

 engaged, and strengthen the bonds of 

 friendship which he believed existed 

 among all bee-keepers. 



Pasteur Descoulayes (who spoke in 

 French), Secretary of the Societe 

 Ilomande d'Apiculture, said it gave 

 him the greatest pleasure to be able 

 to be present, and to thank them on 

 behalf of himself and other visitors 

 present. He said the bee-keepers in 

 Switzerland were greatly indebted to 

 their Chairman (Mr. Cowan) for much 

 information, always willingly given 

 by him at all times personally, and to 

 his writings. He was well known and 

 appreciated by the Continental bee- 

 keepers. He compared the British 

 Bee-Keepers' Association to a large 

 and strong hive that did its work well. 



Mr. Horton Ellis also briefly ac- 

 knowledged the toast, expressing his 

 great pleasure at being present on so 

 memorable an occasion ; he added a 

 few words to the effect that he looked 

 forward to the time when an im- 

 provement of the honey-bee might 

 take place, by means of judicious 

 crossing of the breeds, possibly the 

 Indian with the Ligurian. 



The proceedings in the luncheon- 

 room being adjourned, the guests 

 were conducted to the honey-show in 

 the Exibition, where the magnificent 

 display of Canadian honey, exhibited 

 by 27 members of the Ontario Asso- 

 ciation, was inspected, there being 

 about forty tons of comb and ex- 

 tracted honey. 



System and Snccess. 



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 their work in the apiary, should get a copy of 

 the Apiary Register and commence to use it. 

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" 100 colonies (220 pages) 1 2,5 



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The larger ones can be used for a few col- 

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