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to Caaadian. If the bee-keepers of 

 Ontario worked together liarmoniously 

 and took the greatest pains to send 

 the best honey to the British mar- 

 kets, by decrees Ontario honey would 

 find its way in that country and in 

 Germany, "and the bee-keepers of 

 Ontario would have a ready market for 

 all the honey they could produce. 



Mr. Cornell said : The experience 

 of the commissioners was that the 

 honey would have been disposed of 

 far more readily if it had been done 

 up in small packages, the large pack- 

 ages being very unsuitable for making 

 an exhibit. When the small packages 

 had been sold, the delegates hunted 

 around London for some small re- 

 ceptacle into which the large tins 

 could be subdivided, and at last they 

 found a small can holding about two 

 ounces. It took five persons some 

 weeks to fill thousands of these cans, 

 which sold like hot cakes to visitors 

 to the exhibition at twopence each. 



The Ontario exhibit had been well 

 advertised. The Pall Mall Gazette 

 interviewed the delegates, and in this 

 way thousands were led to inquire for 

 the Ontario honey exhibit. As a re- 

 sult of this exhibit, about £930 clear 

 of all the expenses had been handed 

 to ilr. Couse, secretary of the associa- 

 tion, for distribution among the On- 

 tario exhibitors, which was a fair 

 Canadian price. 



A trip to London quickly took the 

 conceit out of a man, even out of a 

 bee-keeper. The bee-keepers of Eng- 

 land knew as much of their business 

 as any other body of men ; and they 

 treated the Ontario delegates in a 

 most hospitable manner. 



Mr. McKnight said great credit was 

 due to the one lady and the 26 On- 

 tario men who had sent over their 

 honey to England, not knowing what 

 its fate might be; and the thanks of 

 the association were due to the On- 

 tario legislature for the generous 

 grant it had been given. To the Do- 

 minion representatives at the Exhibi- 

 tion, Sir Charles Tupper, Mr. Chip- 

 man, and the others, the thanks of 

 the association were also due, those 

 gentlemen having rendered the dele- 

 gates every possible assistance. He 

 ventured to say that no exhibit from 

 Canada had done more to advertise 

 the country than the Ontario exhibit, 

 and he had been told by a prominent 

 English government ofl3cial that noth- 

 ing had done more to remove the 

 erroneous impression which prevailed 

 in Great Britain respecting the 

 climate of Canada than this same 

 exhibit. He said that Mr. Cowan, 

 the president of the British associa- 

 tion, would visit the Dominion next 

 year, and he hoped every bee-keeper 

 in Canada would show him every 

 courtesy. The greatest care had been 

 exercised to get the honey over in 

 good condition. There were 700 cases 

 altogether, and of these only 12 sec- 

 tions, next to nothing at all, were 

 broken. In the event of any Canadian 

 bee-keeper shipping honey over there 

 in the future, ne would advise that 

 comb honey should be exposed as 

 much as possible. The results to 

 Canada from the Colonial Exhibition 

 generally would undoubtedly be great. 



Ontario, it was acknowledged^ had 

 made the best and most sensible ex- 

 hibit of all. Her apples, cheese and 

 honey had created a tremendous sen- 

 sation. The two former ranked high 

 in the English market, and before 

 long, he believed the honey would 

 attain just as high a position. It was 

 not an over-estimate to say that 100,- 

 000 people must have tasted Ontario 

 honey at the Colonial. 



Rev. W. F. Clarke said he regretted 

 that Mr. D. A. Jones, of Beeton, had 

 not yet arrived from England to com- 

 plete the quartette of encouraging 

 reports. He moved " That the mem- 

 bers- of the association hail with 

 pleasure the return of their commis- 

 sioners after the fulfilment of the task 

 which they undertook, and that the 

 thanks of the association were due 

 them for the eminent services they 

 had rendered ; that the association 

 expressed its deep sense of obliga- 

 tion to the bee-keeping brethren and 

 sisters of the Old Land for the great 

 courtesy and kindness extended to 

 the Ontario commissioners, and that 

 the association rejoice in the pres- 

 ence among them of Mr. Abbott, a 

 member of the British Bee-Keepers' 

 Association." Adopted. 



Mr. Abbott said he would have 

 pleasure in conveying to the British 

 Bee-Keepers' Association the sense 

 of the resolution just passed. He 

 spoke very highly of the Ontario 

 honey exhibit, and said the only 

 honey he had ever seen to compare 

 with it was some sent over from Italy 

 and Switzerland a few years ago. He 

 reminded the association that every 

 year the production of honey was on 

 the increase in Great Britain, and 

 prices were coming down. Ten years 

 ago he could get what was equivalent 

 to 50 cents a pound, now he could 

 only get 14 cents. In order that Cana- 

 dian honev might compete success- 

 fully with English, it would have to 

 be put on the market at a cheaper 

 price than the English, and he be- 

 lieved the Canadian bee-keeper could 

 not fairly expect to get more than 8 

 cents a pound for extracted. 



SECOND DAY. 



After some discussion on hives, 

 and queen-excluding honey boards, 

 the report of the Secretary-Treasurer 

 was read and adopted. 



Under the Act of Incorporation, 

 which now rules the association, it is 

 ordered that the officers shall be a 

 President, Vice-President, and a 

 Director from each of the thirteen 

 agricultural districts into which the 

 Province of Ontario is divided. Pre- 

 vious to the election it was resolved, 

 that the old constitution be rescinded, 

 and that the asssociation accept and 

 act under the new order of things es- 

 tablished by statute. It was found 

 that all the districts were not repre- 

 sented, and a resolution was passed 

 that directors be appointed by so 

 many of the districts as could be 

 filled, and instructions obtained from 

 the government, as to filling the two 

 vacancies that were left. 



The following gentlemen were elect- 

 ed officers of the association for the 

 ensuing year : President, S. T. Pettit, 



Belmont ; Vice-President, J. B. Hall, 

 Woodstock ; Directors, 3rd District, 

 M. B. Holmes, Delta; 4th, W. C. 

 Wells, PhiUipston; 5th, S. Cornell, 

 Lindsay ; 6th, Jacob Spence, Toronto ; 

 7th, W. F. Clarke, Guelph ; 8th, J. F. 

 Dunn, Ridgeway ; 9th. Martin Emigh, 

 Holbrook ; 10th, R. McKnight, Owen 

 Sound; llth, A. G. Willows. Carhng- 

 ford ; 12th, Lewis Travis, Alvinston ; 

 13th, F. H. Macpherson, Beeton; 

 Auditors, G. B. Jones, Toronto, and 

 F. Malcolm, Innerkip. 



The meeting decided to make Hon. 

 A. M. Ross commissioner of agricul- 

 ture of Ontario, and Sir Charles Tup- 

 per honorary members of the associa- 

 tion, in recognition of their valuable 

 assistance. 



It was agreed to ask the directors 

 of the Industrial Exhibition Associa- 

 tion to increase and improve the ac- 

 commodation in the apiary depart- 

 ment at the Fair Grounds. 



Mr. Malcolm presented an invita- 

 tion from the Oxford Bee-Keepers' 

 Association to hold the next annual 

 meeting of the association at Wood- 

 stock. The invitation was accepted. 



The following resolution, moved by 

 Mr. Malcolm at the Wednesday's 

 meeting, was adopted : That a com- 

 mittee be appointed to take steps to 

 secure legislation to stamp out the 

 disease known as foul brood by quar- 

 antine or other measures. 



The question of taking action in 

 the case of Mcintosh vs. Harrison 

 was brought up. The action in this 

 case was taken by the plaintiff to 

 compel the defendant to abate a nui- 

 sance in the shape of bees kept on his 

 premises. It was decided to take no 

 action, the defendant not being a 

 member of the association, and it 

 being manifest that the lawsuit had 

 grown out of a dispute between 

 neighbors. Mr. J. B. Hall, of Wood- 

 stock, who had been cited as a wit- 

 ness in the case, expressed the firm 

 belief that the judges would give a 

 fair decision, when the matter came 

 up for final hearing before a full 

 court. 



Mr. David Chalmers read a brief 

 paper on the presence of bee bread in 

 honey exhibited at the Toronto In- 

 dustrial. As one of the judges on 

 that occasion, he deemed it his duty 

 to call attention to this matter. 



Mr. Hall stated that bee-bread 

 would be found in sections where 

 swarms were hived on " starters " in- 

 stead of full combs, and the surplus 

 chamber from each colony was trans- 

 ferred to the new swarm. On motion, 

 Mr. Chalmers received thanks for his 

 remarks. 



The association then adjourned. 



At a meeting of directors held im- 

 mediately after adjournment, Mr. W. 

 Couse was re-appointed Secretary- 

 Treasurer, in accordance with the 

 statute. 



Guelph, Ont. 



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