. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. \]»I Ttt'EVOY. Prof. Thomas Shaw, of the Ontario Agricultural College, has kindly furnish- ed the following sketch of Mr. William McEvoy, the well-known Foul Brood In- spector for the Province of Ontario,. WILLIAM McEVOY. Canada. Mr. M. is the first Canadian bee-keeper that we have presented in our biographical department since mak- ing it a weekly feature of the Bee Jour- nal. His many friends across the line, as well as those on this side, will read with much pleasure this sketch of his life, and the description of his work in the interest of
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. \]»I Ttt'EVOY. Prof. Thomas Shaw, of the Ontario Agricultural College, has kindly furnish- ed the following sketch of Mr. William McEvoy, the well-known Foul Brood In- spector for the Province of Ontario,. WILLIAM McEVOY. Canada. Mr. M. is the first Canadian bee-keeper that we have presented in our biographical department since mak- ing it a weekly feature of the Bee Jour- nal. His many friends across the line, as well as those on this side, will read with much pleasure this sketch of his life, and the description of his work in the interest of bee-keeping. Prof. Shaw writes thus : The country is a grand place in which to commence life. If our young people could be made to see this truth in its true light, fewer 6f them would ever leave it for the more or less precarious existence of the towns and cities. Nearly all of those who make their mark in life, have been cradled in country homes, and the subject of the present sketch is no exception. Wi!liam McEvoy was boj-n in the county of Walton, in the Province of Ontario, in the year of 1844. Some years previously his parents had emi- grated from Ireland, and while William was still quite young, they took up their abode in Woodburn—a beautiful little country village in the county of Went- worth, where his father fell a victim to the cholera scourge in 1854. Mr. Mc- Evoy, who has lived in Woodburn ever since, was thus thrown at an early age upon his own resources, and, to use his own expression, has virtually had "to paddle his own canoe" ever since. His early education was therefore of the most rudimentary kind. The chasing of butterflies through the happy, livelong summer days, with the writer and other village lads, and the daily summer visits to "Twisses" big raspberry patch, had to give place all too soon to labor for the farmers in the neighborhood. It was fortunate for Mr. McEvoy, that while yet a lad, he engaged for two or three seasons in
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