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which form such an imporUint part of 

 the program of any Beekeepers' Con- 

 vention. 



The following is the program: 

 PROGRAM. 

 Tuesday Evening, Nov. 10th, 7:30 P. M. 



Meeting of Officers and Directors. 

 Wednesday Morning, November 11th, 

 9:30 A. M. 



Minutes — Morley Pettit, Guelph, On- 

 tario, Secretary-Treasurer. 



President's Address — J. L. Byer, 

 Markham, Ont. 



1st Vice-President's Reply — F. W. 

 Krouse, Guelph, Ont. 



2nd Vice-President's Reply — Jas. 

 Armstrong, Cheapside, Ont. 



Experiences of the Season of 1914^ 

 O. L. Hershiser, Kenmore, N. Y. 



Discussion — Jno. A. Lunn, Fingal, 

 Ont. 



Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00 P. M. 



Specializing in Beekeeping, Its Ad- 

 vantages and Disadvantages, W. A. 

 Chrysler, Chatham, Ont. 



Discussion — F. W. Krouse, Guelph, 

 Ont. 



Report of Apiary Inspection for the 

 Season — Morley Pettit, Guelph, Ont. 



Question Box Jno. A. McKinnon, 



St. Eugene, Ont. 



Thursday Morning, November 12th, 

 9:30 A. M. 



Putting lip a Honey Exhibit- H. G. 

 Sibbald, Toronto, Ont. 



Question Box — J. F. Dunn, Ridge 

 way, Ont. 



Thursday Afternoon, 2:00 P. M. 



Address — W. Bert Roadhouse, Dep- 

 uty Minister of Agriculture, Toronto, 

 Ont. 



Election of Officers. 



Report s — Directors, Treasurer, 

 Honey Crop Committee, Representa- 

 tives to Exhibitions. 

 Friday Morning, Nov. 13th. 9:30 A. M. 



Sweet Clover, Its Culture and Uses 

 — Wm. Linton, Aurora, Ont. 



Good Combs and How to Obtain 

 Them — Geo. F. Kingsmill, B. S. A., 

 Assistant Apiarist Central Experi- 

 mental Farm, Ottawa. 



Discussion — J. D. Evans, Islington, 

 Ont. 



Question Box — Wm. Couse, Syrects- 

 ville, Ont. 



Friday Afternoon, 2:00 P. M. 



Simple Method of Rearing and Intro- 

 ducing Queens — F. W. L. Sladen, 

 Apiarist, Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa. 



Unfinished Business. 



Secretion or Nectar 



F. W. SLxlDEN, Asst. Entomologist for Apiculture, Central E.\p€a'iiiien- 



tal Farm, Ottawa, t^anada. 



Read before the National Beekeepers' Association Convention, 



Louis, February 19,, 1914 



St. 



The abundant secretion of nectar 

 depends upon many factors. One of 

 these is the stage in the flowering" 

 season of the plant in which the 

 flowers appear. In the southeast 

 of England the White dead nettle 

 (Lamium album) is, in the early 

 part of May visited from morning 

 to night by a constant stream of 

 bumble-bees but by the end of May 

 the flowers, though sometimes more 

 numerous than before, have lost a 

 good deal of attractiveness. The 

 garden plant Arabis alpina, which 

 blooms in England in April and 

 May, lures numerous honey bees 

 during the first half of its flower- 

 in,g period, but during the latter 

 half it is more or less neglected. 

 The gradual desertion of the flowers 



of these and other species of 

 plants by the bees is usually ascrib- 

 ed by beekeepers to the opening 

 of flowers of ethers species more 

 attractive to the bees. But investi- 

 gation has convinced me that the 

 later flowers produced by many 

 spring blooming plants actually se- 

 crete less nectar than the early 

 ones and that this js chiefly why 

 they are neglected. Fresh whorls of 

 flowers keep opening at the top of 

 the spike of the white dead nettle, 

 but they do not bring- any more 

 visitors. 



This peculiarity is not confined to 



spring flowers. How seldom do we 



see bees on the belated heads of 



white clover in August and Sep- 



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