AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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in the least, if they sprayed in full 

 bloom. Some members said it was yet 

 an open question whether bees were 

 ever injured by spraying f^^^^ trees m 

 full bloom. In support of this Mr. 

 Armstrong read an extract from a letter 

 published in Gleanings by Mr. Ashby, 

 of New York. 



QUESTION BOX. 



Has any one succeeded in getting a 

 strain of bees better workers on red 

 clover than the black bee ? 



Mr. Armstrong thought not, as bees 

 would gather honey where they could 

 get it the easiest, and none of them 

 would work on it when there was plenty 

 of alsike or white clover, and all worked 

 alike on red clover sometimes when 

 there was little or no nectar to be got 

 anywhere else. 



Those appointed to attend the meet- 

 ings of the agricultural societies in the 

 county report favorably, and good prizes 

 will be offered at Jarvis, Cayuga, Dunn- 

 ville and Rainham Centre. 



A vote of thanks was tendered the 

 trustees of the school. 



The next meeting to beheld at Cayuga 

 on the last Saturday in January, IbU^, 

 at 10 o'clock a.m. 



Central Canaia Fair at Ottawa, 



R. F. HOL.TERMANN. 



The exhibit of honey and apiarian 

 supplies, while not nearly so extensive as 

 at Toronto, is very good, the number of 

 competitors in some sections being as 

 high as five. . ^ A^ 



The quality of comb-honey is hardly 

 up to Toronto, and the quality of ex- 

 tracted-honey is decidedly better— in 

 fact, it would be difficult to beat it. 



Mr. Alford has the largest display of 

 extracted-honey, and right here I would 

 say that it is seldom that one meets an 

 exhibitor so universally courteous as Mr. 

 Alford. He lives close to the exhibition 

 grounds, and appears to consider it his 

 special business to see that all of the 

 other exhibitors are helped in every way 

 possible. He will even render assistance 

 when it appears to be detrimental to his 

 own interests. Mr. Alford has about 50 

 colonies, largely Italians and hybrids. 



The award of prizes is as follows : 

 Display of comb-honey— First prize, 

 E. L. Goold & Co., Brantford ; second, 

 Wm. Alford, Ottawa. 



Display of comb-honey by a lady- 

 First, Misses R. and H. Alford, Ottawa ; 

 second, Miss H. F. Buller, Campbellford. 



Display of extracted-honey in mark- 

 etable shape— First, Wm. Alford ; sec- 

 ond, E. L. Goold & Co. 



Display of extracted-honey by a lady- 

 First, Misses R. and H. Alford ; second, 

 Miss H. F. Buller. 



Colony of bees, properly named— 1^ irst, 

 Wm. Alford. 



Display of queens— First, Wm. Alford. 



Beeswax -First, E. L. Goold & Co. ; 

 second. Miss H. F. Buller ; third, Wm. 



Alford. , -M- * -P 



Comb-foundation for surplus— First, i^. 



L Goold & Co. ; second, Wm. Alford. 

 Comb-foundation for brood-chambers 



—First, E. L. Goold & Co. ; second, Wm. 



Alford. ,.. -D ^ 



Honey vinegar— First, Misses R. and 

 H. Alford ; second, W. L. Alford ; third. 

 Miss H. F. Buller. ^ ^ ^ , . o 



Bee-Keepers' supplies— E. L. Goold & 

 Co., Brantford. 



The article which deserves special 

 mention is honey vinegar; the entire 

 three lots taking a prize are exception- 

 ally fine. Miss H. F. Buller has hereto- 

 fore usually taken the prize for honey 

 vinegar. Owing to the illness of Miss 

 BuUer's mother, that lady was unable to 

 attend the exhibition herself. 



Ottawa and the surrounding country, 

 especially Quebec Province, is noted for 

 having no bee-keepers' associations, and 

 the number of bee-keepers having the 

 old box or straw hive system. 



Brantford, Ont. 



ExHiDitinE a Colony ot BamDle-Bfies, 



A. C. DOWNING. 



On page 374 I notice an article on 

 "Bees and Honey at the County Fair." 

 I made an exhibit at our county fair this 

 year, such as I never heard of before, 

 and that was a colony of bumble-bees in 

 an observatory hive, which attracted a 

 great deal of attention. On April 1, 

 1891 I put the queen bumble-bee in a 

 box with a glass sides, and covered it 

 with a shingle. She laid l^er eggs, and 

 soon reared a colony, which built their 

 comb against the glass where it could 

 be seen when the shingle was removed. 

 This box I exhibited in a glass case, so 

 that the bees could go in and out. I fed 

 them in the outer case. ^ 



The colony starts from a queen in the 

 the Soring. She makes her living, builds 

 her nest,%repares 5 or 6 cups, lays 

 eggs in them, and feeds the larvae until 

 niature; then these workers gather the 

 honey, and the queen remains in the 



