. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Rev. W. F. Clarke. On this page we give our readers an engraving of the Rev. W. F. Clarke, which will be recognized by those who know him, as a very good likeness. Mr. Clarke is an Englishman, and was born in the city of Coventry, March 31, 1S24. He was educated for the ministry, having been one of the earlier students in the Congregational College of British North America. Before going to college he spent a couple of years on a new Canadian farm, and there contracted that love of agriculture, which has been with him a strong, if not a " ruli
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Rev. W. F. Clarke. On this page we give our readers an engraving of the Rev. W. F. Clarke, which will be recognized by those who know him, as a very good likeness. Mr. Clarke is an Englishman, and was born in the city of Coventry, March 31, 1S24. He was educated for the ministry, having been one of the earlier students in the Congregational College of British North America. Before going to college he spent a couple of years on a new Canadian farm, and there contracted that love of agriculture, which has been with him a strong, if not a " ruling pas- sion " ever since. Mr. Clarke bought his first hive of bees in the spring of 1864, with a view of investigating the secrets of apicul- ture, in order to fit himself to write on that branch of moral economy. In January of that year, he had under- taken the editorship of the Canada Farmer, owned by the late Hon. G. Brown, and published in connection with the Olobe newspaper, the leading daily and weekly of the Dominion, lie continued editor of that paper for S years, and during that time pursued the study of apiarian science with un- flagging interest. He was one of the first to introduce the Italian bee, the honey extractor, and other improved appliances to the bee-keepers of Can- ada. He represented the Dominion at the Apicultural conventions held at Indianapolis, Dec. 21, 22, 1871, and at Cincinnati, in Feb., 1872, out of which by the harmonious blending of conflicting interests, the North Amer- ican Bee-Keepers' Association, now so prosperous, was organized. Mr. Clarke held the Presidency of this body for 2 years, and, until laid aside by ill-health for a time, was one of its most active members and officers. On the death of the lamented Samuel Wagner, Mr. Clarke purchased the American Bee Journal, and, act- ing under the advice of leading bee- keepers, effected its removal from of professional and literary labor. In June, 1880, he became pastor of the Congregati
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