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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



During the year, eleven local associa- 

 tions affiliated with the parent society. 



The Treasurer's report will show the 

 Association to be in a fairly good finan- 

 cial position, although the amount of the 

 balance in hand is not so large as in pre- 

 vious years, because of the drains on the 

 Association purse, which the Treasurer 

 will detail in his report. 



The Association is in excellent condi- 

 tion, and it is hoped that our successors 

 in office, may continue to keep up the 

 interest that the present Directors have 

 endeavored to maintain. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



THE secretary's REPORT. 



The Secretary's Report showed receipts 

 of $323 in membership fees, and $55 

 received from 11 affiliated societies. 



THE treasurer's REPORT. 



The abstract of the receipts and ex- 

 penditures of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association for the year ending Jan. 7, 

 1891. 



RECEIPTS. 



To cash balance from last year $ 299.51 



To fees from Secretary 378.00 



To Government Grant 500.00 



$1177.51 

 DISBURSEMENTS. 



By cash in connection with foul-brood 



Legislation $ 155.25 



By cash for smokers to members 278.05 



By cash Director's expenses 184.40 



By cash grants to affiliated societies. . 299.75 



By cash printing- 21.75 



By cash Secretary's salary 50.00 



By cash sundry items 136.43 



Balance in hand 51.81 



$1177.51 



R. Mcknight, Treas. 



THE AUDITOR'S REPORT. 



The Auditors, D. Anguish and A. W. 

 Humphries, reported having carefully 

 examined the books and accounts of the 

 Secretary and Treasurer, finding them 

 correct in every particular. 



On motion of F. H. Macpherson, sec- 

 onded by C. Urlocker, the Reports of the 

 Secretary, Treasurer and Auditors were 

 received and adopted. 



THE president's ADDRESS. 



President Allen Pringle then delivered 

 his address : 



During the reading of the President's 

 Address, the Mayor of the City of St. 

 Catharines entered, and immediately at 

 its close the Mayor was called on, when 

 he delivered an address of welcome. He 

 stated that during the past two years 

 some five or six associations had honored 

 St. Catharines with their presence, and 

 none were more welcome to the Garden 



City than the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. He then dwelt for a short time 

 on the advantages of St. Catharines as a 

 place of residence, especially dilating on 

 its system of water works, which were 

 on the gravitation system, and were con- 

 sidered by the good people of " St. Kits " 

 as the finest in the country. In closing, 

 he referred to the father of bee-keeping 

 in their city, Mr. Hellems, who, he said, 

 had done much to create an interest in 

 the pursuit in their midst. 



President Pringle thanked the Mayor 

 for his kindly address of welcome, and 

 also for the interest he had taken in 

 furnishing such a comfortable place of 

 meeting. Speaking of the water works, 

 he said that the use of bad water caused 

 an immense amount of sickness. Every 

 family should have a filter. He had had 

 one in use for upwards of 15 years, and 

 instead of using hard water, soft water 

 was filtered, and it was thus rendered 

 free from all impurities except mineral 

 substances held in solution, and he thus 

 had good wholesome, pure water. He 

 advised every one to get a filter. 



In closing, he called on Mr. Hellems, 

 a white-haired old gentleman who had 

 evidently passed the alloted span of 

 three-score-and-ten years. Mr. Hellems 

 explained that he had kept bees for over 

 50 years, and that as a boy at home, 

 when but 10 years of age, he had hand- 

 led them without gloves, veil or smoke. 



resolutions. 



On motion of R. McKnight, seconded 

 by S. Corneil, the President and Secre- 

 tary were instructed to prepare a full 

 report of the meeting, together with all 

 the papers read, to be forwarded to the 

 Minister of Agriculture, together with 

 the usual report. 



Moved by F. H. Macpherson, seconded 

 by S. Corneil, and 



Resolved, That this Association de- 

 sires to place on record its appreciation 

 of the services rendered this Association 

 by the Minister of Agriculture, in the 

 matter of the passage of the "Act for 

 the Suppression of Foul-Brood," and for 

 the generous distribution of an official 

 bulletin relating to the cause and cure of 

 that disease, and that this resolution be 

 embodied in the report to the Minister of 

 Agriculture. 



FOUL-BROOD AND IMPORTED QUEENS. 



D. A. Jones, in discussing the sugges- 

 tion of the President concerning the im- 

 portation of queens, was satisfied that it 

 would be a very difficult thing to prevent 

 the importation of queens from the 

 United States and foreign countries. No 

 danger of foul-brood from the importa- 



