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using. He works with sections of 

 1% width witliout separators. 



From there Air. Petlit accompanied 

 me to see two or three other bee- 

 lieepers. who lived between his place 

 and St. Thomas. One of these, Mr. 

 Alpaugh, a young man, I found to be 

 an advanced bee-keeper of great in- 

 telligence. He is the inventor of the 

 machine for fixing foundation in sec- 

 tions, which I will show you at work 

 here to-night, and which has been 

 sent by Mr. Cornell. You will see it 

 is an ingenious contrivance, but, un- 

 fortunately, I cannot show you the 

 working of it as well as he did him- 

 self. 



From Mr. Pettit's we went through 

 New York State to Washington, and 

 from there to Philadelphia. In Car- 

 penter's Hall, at the latter city, we 

 met with a hearty reception. This 

 Hall is of great historical interest, for 

 it was there that Washington sat, and 

 the Hrst Congress met, and the Dec- 

 laration of Independence was signed. 



At Philadelphia, we made the ac- 

 quaintance of several scientiBc bee- 

 keepers. I believe there are more 

 scientitic bee-keepers in Pennsylvania 

 than in any other part of the United 

 States. Dr. Townsend is President 

 of the association. 



Mrs. Thomas, who goes in actively 

 for bee-keeping there, asked if we 

 had any lady beekeepers in England. 

 On my replying, " Yes," she said 

 we ought to make more of that fact 

 in the Bee Journal, because such no- 

 tices would simulate other ladies to 

 undertake the same pursuit. Al- 

 though it might do in America, bee- 

 keeping on a large scale was not 

 suitable for ladies in England (laugh- 

 ter.) This may appear strange, but 

 there is. undoubtedly, a difference be- 

 tween the mode of life led by ladies 

 in America and in this country. 

 American ladies are used to hard 

 work. In every household every 

 lady does her share of work as much 

 as the man does, and performs her 

 part of the household duties. There 

 is a great difficulty in getting ser- 

 vants there, and she has to do cook- 

 ing, sweep the rooms, or dust the 

 furniture. Gentlemen also assist in 

 the household duties, sometimes 

 cleaning the boots. You will, there- 

 fore, see that what American ladies 

 might do ours could not. 



I must not forget to acknowledge 

 our indebtedness to Dr. Townsend, 

 Mrs. Thomas, and Mr. Arthur Todd, 

 for their kindness. The latter gen- 

 tleman took us about and showed us 

 everything of interest in Philadel- 

 phia. It was there I met our friend, 

 Mr. Hooker's son, who also kindly 

 showed us about. From there we 

 traveled back to New York, and 

 across the ocean home. 



I am afraid in the foregoing re- 

 marks I have only given a slight idea 

 of what we saw and did, and the dis- 

 tricts we have traveled over, but the 

 pages of the Bee Journal shall give 

 you fuller particulars from time to 

 time. Wherever I took my micro- 

 scope it was a source of great inter- 

 est and delight, and the preparations 

 were attentively examined. I have 

 ab-eady told you how hospitably we 



were received everywhere both in the 

 United States and Canada. All bee- 

 keepers seemed pleased to meet me, 

 not only as a brother bee-keeper, but 

 as the representative of the bee-keep- 

 ers of this country. I assured them 

 that the compliments paid to me 

 would be appreciated by the members 

 of our association here, and I can now 

 only repeat my expression of thanks 

 for all the kindnesses I received on 

 the other side of the Atlantic. 



Our trip was a very enjoyable one, 

 although traveling is not so easy 

 there as here, and one becomes 

 wearied by the long distances. Of 

 course, my wife could not bear the 

 fatigue of accompanying me every- 

 where. Accommodation is not so 

 good there as here ; sometimes, in 

 out-of-the-way places, we have had 

 to sleep on the floor, owing to un- 

 welcome bed-fellows. In conclusion, 

 let me say I shall be happy to give 

 you any information in my power, if 

 you will ask me questions on any 

 specific points. (Loud and protracted 

 cheering.) 



After answering some questions, 

 the following resolution was unani- 

 mously carried : 



That this meeting expresses its best 

 thanks to Mr. Cowan for his kind and 

 lucid description of American apicul- 

 ture in the United States and Canada, 

 and also desires to record its sense of 

 the kindness and hospitality shown 

 to him as the representative of British 

 bee-keepers by American and Cana- 

 dian bee-keepers. 



Mr. Sambels proposed that a copy 

 of the resolution should be sent to 

 the American Bee Journal, the 

 Canadian Bee Journal, and Gleanings. 

 which proposition was seconded and 

 supported by two gentlemen among 

 the audience,and carried unanimously. 



We are very sorry that Mr. Cowan 

 could not have remained long enough 

 to have attended the present union 

 meeting of the bee-keepers of North 

 America, where he would have re- 

 ceived a cordial welcome, and made 

 the acquaintance of hundreds more of 

 our representative apiarists than he 

 could have met in any other way. 



One of the resolutions passed by 

 the "North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Society," after receiving the report of 

 its President, who had officially vis- 

 ited European apiarists in 1879, reads 

 as follows : 



Resolved, That this AssocIatiOD rejoices 

 In the cordial and enthusiastic reception 

 accorded to President Newman by the api 

 cultural societies and leading- bee-maeters 

 in Britain and on the European continent, 

 trusting that the harmonious feeling evinced 

 may always be chei-ished by the bee-keeners 

 of the world towards each other. This 

 Association hopes that the friendly visit 

 which has been made, will ere long be 

 returned by some one or more of prominent 

 apiculturlsts of Europe, to whom it will be 

 our pride and pleasure to extend as hearty a 

 welcome as that given to our representative. 



The latter part of the abov* reso- 

 lution has been realized by our hav- 



ing the opportunity of showing how 

 we welcome our representative Euro- 

 pean brethren in the persons of Mr. T. 

 W. Cowan,of England, and Mr. IvarS. 

 Young, of Norway, as well as the 

 late Mr. .James Anderson, of Scot- 

 land, who made us a visit in 1882. 



Now we would gladly welcome 

 many more of our European apiarists 

 whose names are "■ household words " 

 the world over ; and whose personal 

 acquaintance, in nearly every in- 

 stance, we made seven years, ago, 

 viz : Dr. Dzierzou, the Baroness of 

 Berlepscli . Hern Vogel, Hilbert,Denn- 

 ler, and Gravenhorst, of Germany ; 

 Karl Gatter, of Austria ; .Visconti 

 de Saliceto, Count Barbo, and Dr. 

 Dubinl, of Italy; Ed. Bertrand and 

 Pastor Jecker, of Switzerland ; 

 L'Abbe du Bois,and J. De Layens, of 

 France ; Dr. Butlerow, of Russia ; 

 and many others too numerous to 

 to mention. 



London Journal of Horticulture. 



?mm Bees for Winter, 



A. PETTIGREW. 



Feeding bees at some seasons has 

 of late years been necessary and im- 

 portant. Those who have attended 

 properly to this work have been the 

 most successful and have had but 

 few, if any, losses by death from 

 starvation. If any reader has not 

 given his bees enough to keep them 

 till March, I would advise him to do 

 so as soon as possible. Autumn feed- 

 ing, in my opinion, should be com- 

 pleted in "September, for more than 

 one reason. The quieter bees are 

 after September ends, the better ; the 

 quieter they are, the less honey they 

 consume. Feeding excites bees to fly 

 abroad, and in doing so many colo- 

 nies may be lost during cold or in- 

 clement weather, and feeding often 

 excites the bees to set eggs widely in 

 mild autumn weather. Cold weather 

 may come and cause the bees to draw 

 themselves within the lines or limits 

 of their brood, and thus leave it to be 

 chilled to death. Foul brood results, 

 and ultimately the ruin of the bees, 

 from feeding at untimely seasons. 



Colonies this autumn are, generally 

 speaking, strong in bees, which have, 

 during the last few weeks, consumed 

 much of their winter stores. In mild 

 winters and open weather the bees in 

 very strong colonies require or eat 

 from 12 to 15 pounds of stores from 

 the middle of September till the mid- 

 dle of March. The bees of small and 

 weak colonies will not consume half 

 as much. 



While autumnal feeding is going'on, 

 the entrances of hives should be con- 

 tracted, in order to prevent robber 

 bees from entering and extracting the 

 honey. 



After feeding has been completed, 

 the boards of the hives should be well 



