. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Apiary of Mr. Cljenat at Delemont—(Photographed by J. Walther.). Overprodaction in Ontario BY MORLEY PETTIT, PROVINCIAL APIARIST. |R. EDITOR, much that has been said on the above subject in the Bee Journal is very flatter- ing to the work done. But I cannot claim any credit for the abnormally large crop of 1913. It was largely due to the unusual weather conditions. It was produced by producers, and not by bi-g-t/i/icrs created at Guelph. Our work may be classified as fol- lows : 1. Apiary inspection. This is done among those who already have apiaries.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Apiary of Mr. Cljenat at Delemont—(Photographed by J. Walther.). Overprodaction in Ontario BY MORLEY PETTIT, PROVINCIAL APIARIST. |R. EDITOR, much that has been said on the above subject in the Bee Journal is very flatter- ing to the work done. But I cannot claim any credit for the abnormally large crop of 1913. It was largely due to the unusual weather conditions. It was produced by producers, and not by bi-g-t/i/icrs created at Guelph. Our work may be classified as fol- lows : 1. Apiary inspection. This is done among those who already have apiaries. A few men have been chosen from among the students and given training as inspectors. But they were mainly already beekeepers before coming to college. 2. Education in beekeeping at the college, consisting of lectures to all first year students. These are given most directly among those who are not beekeepers. " Langstroth on the Honey Bee " is used as text-book and followed closely, chapter by chapter. Next comes the experimental and demonstration apiary work. Then the short course. This seems to be one of the bones of contention. The courses have been held May, lHll, January, 1912, 191:! and 1911; two weeks'courses all except the first, and the attendance has been, in round numbers, l-"i, .50, 75 and 90 re- spectively. I am safe in saying that 75 percent of this attendance has been among those who were beekeepers already. Of the other 25 percent, prob- ably half have not bought any bees yet. Several complaints were made that the instruction was all for the "old heads" and could not be followed by the in- experienced. The experimental work consists of co-operative experiments among bee- keepers. To get their co-operation, as complete a list as possible of those who have bees in Ontario was collected and application forms for the experi- ments are sent to this list each winter or each spring. These beckei-pcrs de- rive benefit from these experiments.
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