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They came from districts far and wide. Mr. 
Toting, editor of the Norwegian Bee Journal, 
was there at the time, and we were both very 
hospitably entertained by our Canadian 
friends. We also met Mr. Holtermann, our 
Canadian correspondent, Messrs. Pringle, 
Ernigh, Alpaugh, Hall, Rev. W. Clarke, Mr. 
McPherson, Mr. McKnight, Mr. Corneil, and 
others. 1 was honored by the presentation 
from the beekeepers of Ontario of an address, 
and also a walking-stick with a gold top, which 
lies here for your inspection on the table. The 
address has appeared in the columns of the 
Journal, where the walking-stick cannot be in- 
serted. I am glad to say that everywhere we 
went in Canada and the States we met with a 
most hospitable reception. We became on 
good terms at once, our co-workers over the 
water doing their best to make our time agree- 
able; they showed us everything, and our 
difficulty was to find sufficient time to tee all 
there was to be seen. We might have stayed 
several days longer at each place, and been 
made most comfortable and welcome, but it 
was not practicable under the circumstances. 
At the Toronto meeting of course I was asked 
to say something about the B.B.K.A., and I 
made a special point of describing briefly the 
working and organisation of the Association. 
They were very much interested to hear the 
record of our work and system as they have 
nothing of the kind over there. Their Asso- 
ciations are merely Associations of bee- 
keepers in certain districts, who meet for the 
purpose of talking over matters connected 
with their work. After the pleasant time spent 
at the Toronto exhibition, we went to see Mr. 
Hall of Woodstock, Vice-President of the 
Ontario Association, one of the largest Cana- 
dian honey-producers. He has 400 hives, and 
has produced as much as 200ihs. per hive. Of 
course he is not able to do that regularly, 
801 hs. to lOOlbs. being a good average, lie 
makes beekeeping his sole business, and de- 
pends on it entirely for a living, as many 
others do in America. Captain Hetlierington 
is one, for instance ; he was a captain in the 
army during the rebellion. He started bee- 
keeping, and being fond of it, made so great 
a success that he has managed to live suffi- 
ciently well and bring up a family on the pro- 
ceeds of the business. Mr. lleildon hns made 
beekeeping his only means of subsistence, 
besides, lately, the editing of a local paper. 
He had very little money at starting. Mr. 
.Hall was obliged to give up the business he 
was in owing to bad health, and took to bee- 
keeping as a livelihood. He is bringing up 
his family upon it. As a business, speaking 
generally, it answers very well in America. 1 
At Mr. Hall's I picked up a great many ideas, 
but I cannot describe everything on the spur 
of the moment, having seen so many different 
things. I shall, however, be able to enter 
more into detail iu the lies Journal. From 
Mr. Hall’s I went with him to Mr. Pettitt, 
President of the Ontario Beekeepers’ Asso- 
ciation. As he was not able to be present at 
the Toronto meeting, I thought it was only 
right I should go and see him, and I stayed 
with him from Saturday to Monday, and spent 
a very pleasant time there. His hives are 
very similar to ours, and he has adopted a 
frame almost the size of our standurd, which 
he finds answers quite as well ns the deep 
frame he had been using. He works with 
sections of one and three-eighths w idth with- 
out separators. From there Mr. Pettitt ac- 
companied me to see two or three other bee- 
keepers who lived between his place and St. 
Thomas. One of these, Mr. Alpaugh, a young 
man, I found to be an advanced beekeeper of 
gn at intelligence. He is the inventor of the 
machine for fixing foundation in sections, 
which I will show you at work here to-night, 
and which has been sent by Mr. Corneil. You 
will see it is an ingenious contrivance, but, 
unfortunately, 1 cannot show you the working 
of it as well as he did himself From Mr. 
Pettitt’s we went through New York State to 
Washington, and from there to Philadelphia. 
In Carpenter’s Hall at the latter city, we met 
with a hearty reception. This Hall is of great 
historical interest, for it was there that Wash- 
ington sat, and the first Congress met, and the 
Declaration of Independence was signed. At 
Philadelphia we made the acquaintance of 
several scientific beekeepers. I believe there 
are more scientific beekeepers in Pennsylvania 
than in any other part of the States. Dr. 
Townsend is President cf the Association. 
Mrs. Thomas, who goes in actively for bee- 
keeping there, asked if we had any lady bee- 
keepers in England. On my replying “yes,” 
she said we ought to make more of that fact 
in the Bee Journal, because such notices would 
stimulate other ladies to undertake the same 
pursuit. Although it might do iu America, 
beekeeping on a large scale was not suitable 
for ladies in England (laughter). This may 
appear strange, hut there is, undoubtedly, a 
difference between the mode of life led by 
ladies in America and in this country. Ameri- 
can ladies are used to hard work. In every 
household every lady does her share of work 
as much as the man does, and perforins her 
part of the household duties. There is a great 
difficulty in getting servants there, and she 
hns to do cooking, sweep the rooms, or dust 
the furniture. Gentlemen also assist in the 
household duties, sometimes cleaning the 
boots. Y r ou will, therefore, see that what 
American ladies might do ours could not. I 
must nut forget to acknowledge our indebted- 
ness to Dr. Townsend, Mrs 'Thomas, and Mr. 
Arthur Todd for their kindness The latter 
gentleman took us about and showed us every- 
thing of interest in Philadelphia. It was 
there 1 met our friend, Mr. Hooker’s son, who 
also kindly showed us about. From there we 
travelled hack to New York, and across the 
ocean home. I am afraid in the foregoing re- 
