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THE BEE KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



teemed friends, and always have a good 

 time, but the best moment of all is when, on 

 my return, I catch sight of my own big 

 pines ; and now, in my 65th year, I am en- 

 joying the most satisfactory period of my 

 life. 



Let me say, before concluding, that when 

 you get once located, stick to it, and don't 

 keep '"swarming out " in the hope of find- 

 ing a better place in some other quarter. 

 One of the worst mistakes I feel to have 

 made in my material affairs was in making 

 two or three moves from one good place to 

 another. Life is too fleeting for such tilings ; 

 for, when we get interested in life's work, 

 old age comes on at railroad spped. 



In this article I have been laying the warp 

 for the fabric of life ; in the next I will give 

 some of the woof in the form of the tilings 

 I have learned by my experiments in practi- 

 cal honey production. 



FoRESTViLLE, Miuu. Nov. 24, 1894. 



A Conventional Feature that May Prove Very 

 Profitable. 



F. A. GEMMILL. 



rri HE discussion of 

 T special topics, 

 wa«, HS I understand, 

 wliiit you had in 

 tnind, when the pub- 

 lication of the Re- 

 view was first under- 

 taken, and, up to the 

 present time, you 

 have, to all intents 

 and jjurposcs, so 

 conducted it. I have 

 observed, however, 

 that you have occasionally digressed from 

 that course, in the way of publishing some 

 selected articles. Now, I make no claim on 

 this communication, either from a special 

 or selected standpoint, beyond the fact that 

 it is to treat of a special feat re which, it is 

 expected, will be carried out at the coming 

 convention of the Ontario B. K. Asso., on 

 January 2'2nd, 23rd and 24th, 1895, and it oc- 

 curred to me you might be willing to give it 

 to your readers, I therefore concluded to 

 forward an outline of it. 



I am a great believer in conventions, and 

 am confident they have done much good in 

 the past, and at the same time, I also believe 



in addition to imparting information to bee- 

 keepers themselves, that a benefit will un- 

 doubtedly result by instructing and educat- 

 ing the general public as to the great impor- 

 tance of honey as a good wholesome food 

 for the human family, and that outside of 

 what has, and still may be done, through the 

 press. 



You no doubt are also aware, that a social 

 entertainment, in connection witli the usual 

 sessions, has been attempted on one or two 

 occasions, but they have not come up to my 

 beau ideal of what I advocated or desired 

 that they should be, and I am now endeavor- 

 ing to have my original plan carried out. 



In order to be brief, I would state that I 

 favor a special entertainment for the benefit 

 of the outside public to be given on one of 

 the evenings while the convention is in pro- 

 gress. For want of a more appropriate 

 name, it can be termed a " Honey Bee Con- 

 cert," or an "Educational Entertainment," 

 and is to consist of choice vocal and instru- 

 mental music, an address by one or more 

 bee-keepers, and a lecture accompanied or 

 assisted by a magic lantern exhibition, illus- 

 trating the manner in which the insects 

 secrete wax scales, build comb, gather and 

 ripen the nectar into the honey of commerce 

 as well as their usefulness in fertilizing 

 flowers, and their modus opera^idi of so do- 

 ing, as well as the gathering and storing of 

 pollen, etc., and last but not least the sting 

 will in a like manner be touched upon, and 

 directions given how to prevent being stung 

 as well as how to behave when stung. 



From the progress and encouragement I 

 have so far met with, I am confident that 

 should the editor of the Review or any of 

 his, or our, American friends honor our con- 

 vention with their presence, they will go 

 away favorably impressed that Canadian 

 bee-keepers have made another step in the 

 right direction. 

 Stratfobd, Ont. Dec. 14, 1894. 



The Germs of Bee Paralysis Seem to be in 



the Honey, and the Disease Confined 



to the Nurse Bees. 



li. aug's aspinwall. 



\F late my attention has been called by 



numerous articles in our bee journals 



regarding bee paralysis. Conspicuously are 



those contributed by T. S. Ford, Adrian 



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