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devours a great deal more than it can assim- 

 ilate. The excess is voided in the form of 

 excreta. This is " bug-juice " pure and sim- 

 ple, and not honey-dew. We are often de- 

 prived of a good crop by the presence of 

 these creatures, and the fact that their void- 

 ings co-mingle with what would otherwise 

 be a pure, healthy article of food. 



I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the 

 attentive hearing you have accorded me 

 while giving expression to the few crude re- 

 marks I have been able to offer in the short 

 time allotted me. Before taking my seat I 

 desire to thank Mr. Pringle, because it is to 

 him indirectly I an indebted for what I know 

 of the subject. It came about in this way : 

 A few years ago when he was president of 

 this Association, he asked me to prepare a 

 paper to be read at our then coming meet- 

 ing on the " Honey producing plants of On- 

 tario." In acceding to his request, I was led 

 to look into a branch of natural science, 

 from the study of which 1- have since derived 

 much enjoyment. 



A Brief Summary of the Ontario Bee - Keep- 

 ers' Convention. 



ALLEN PEINGLE. 



" Hand 

 Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship. 

 And great hearts expand, 

 And grow one in the sense of this world's life." 



ROBERT BROWNING. 



|HE annual meeting of the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association was held at Lind- 

 say, Out., on i)th, 10th and 11th of Jan. 

 This was a most successful and profitable con- 

 vention running through eight long sessions. 

 The attendance w-as good throughout, and 

 the discussions animated and instructive if 

 not always quite parliamentary. The even- 

 ing sessions were popular in character, be- 

 ing varied by music, singing and extempore 

 addresses. Mr. R. McKnight's address the 

 first evening on " Honey," being able, enter- 

 taining and instructive and was well re- 

 ceived. Mr. S. Corneil, of Lindsay, the ef- 

 ficient Secretary of the Association, had 

 made the arrangements for the convention 

 and had done everything to make it pleasant 

 and saccessful. At the first session an ex- 

 pert lady stenographer was engaged to re- 

 port the entire proceedings of the conven- 

 tion, including, of course, the discussions 

 following the various papers read, and the 

 ''Question Box" discussions. This is a 



new departure by onr Association, the wis- 

 dom of which is apparent. In the summary 

 reports of convention discussions usually 

 published, much valuable matter is often- 

 times lost. When a verbatim is taken all is 

 preserved — even that, it is true, which ought 

 not to be preserved — but to secure a survival 

 only of the " fittest " the stenographer's 

 type-written report is to be gone over by a 

 committee named for the purpose and the 

 suparfluites, excrescences, ebulitions, and 

 " you're another " — if there are any such — 

 careful y excised from the official report. 1 

 mention these things as hints to other Asso- 

 ciations. The time was, not many years ago, 

 when it was not a little difficult to get the 

 members generally in convention assembled 

 to engage in the various discussions. They 

 were " backward in coming forward," but 

 now they are forward and hardly ever back- 

 ward, and the reporter has no lack of ma- 

 terial — ripe or raw as the case may be. The 

 annual report of the 0. B. K. A. is official, 

 being printed and published by the Ontario 

 government which makes a yearly grant of 

 $r)00.00 to the Association, duly incorporated 

 according to law. I do not know how it is 

 with the State Associations over there, but it 

 seems to me, if I may be allowed a sugges- 

 tion, that they would do well to proceed on 

 similar lines, and thereby secure "rants 

 from their respective States, as one prece- 

 dent for which Ontario could be referred to. 

 You know legislatures, like lawyers, always 

 want precedents ; and the precedents 

 strengthen them in their efforts to cover new 

 ground. When we were seeking legislation 

 on the foul brood pest almost the first ques- 

 tion was " have you any precedents ?" 



The following papers were read and dis- 

 cussed : " President's Address ; "Extract- 

 ed Honey," by R. H. Smith ; " How to 

 Make Bee-Keeping Profitable," by S. F. 

 Holtermann ; "Apiculture at the World's 

 Fair," by Allen Pringle ; "Management of 

 Out-Apiaries and Shipping Bees by Rail in 

 Summer," by C. W. Post. The editor of the 

 Review was expected to be present and read 

 a paper on "Being Stung," and the conven- 

 tion regretted to hear that owing to sickness 

 in his family he was unable to attend. 



The following officers were elected for the 

 current year : President, A. Picket, Nassa- 

 gaweya ; Vice President, R. F. Holtermann, 

 of Brantford ; Secretary, S. Corneil, Lind- 

 say ; Treasurer, Martin Emigh, Holbrook ; 

 Foul Brood Inspector, Wm. McEvoy, Wood- 



