. Gleanings in bee culture. o grocers di-rect, but he had no patience with the fool pol-icy of some of the small producers who wouldrush otT and sell the first of their crop at two-thirds the regular market price, thus smash-ing prices right and left. HAtLS WIT AND McEVOYS BLARNEY. Mr. J. B. Hali., of Woodstock, Ont., Can-ada, whose picture appears elsewhere in thisissue, is one of the live spirits of Canadianconventions. From what little I could gatherfrom the Canadians themseves it would seemto me that a convention without Hall wouldbe pretty nearly like Hamlet with Hamlet leftout. This year
. Gleanings in bee culture. o grocers di-rect, but he had no patience with the fool pol-icy of some of the small producers who wouldrush otT and sell the first of their crop at two-thirds the regular market price, thus smash-ing prices right and left. HAtLS WIT AND McEVOYS BLARNEY. Mr. J. B. Hali., of Woodstock, Ont., Can-ada, whose picture appears elsewhere in thisissue, is one of the live spirits of Canadianconventions. From what little I could gatherfrom the Canadians themseves it would seemto me that a convention without Hall wouldbe pretty nearly like Hamlet with Hamlet leftout. This year I think he said he could notafford to be present. As soon as the officersknew this they immediately wired him thathe must come, expenses guaranteed, andso we had the pleasure of Mr. Halls has an inimitable vein of spontaneous goodhumor that bubbles over every now and long-winded, he has a happy faculty oftelling sound hard facts from a long experi-ence, in a few words that delight and edifyevery WM. mevov, foui, brood inspector. — Ca nadia n Bee Jon rnal. At the close of Wm. McEvoys report asfoul-brcod inspector, Mr. Hall, in comment-ing on the inspector and his work, spoke ofhim after this fashion : He can get alongwith cross old men and crooked old is his Irish blarney that gets him did not hear any of this Vjlarney that ourfacetious friend tells about; but on everyhand I learned that Mr. McEvoys success layin the fact that, while he rigidly enforced thefoul-brood law, he did it in such a nice splen- did sort of way that, so far from being thecause of oflFense, he was invariably inviled to call again. VICIOUS LEGISLATION IN During the session of the Wiscoubin con-vention we learned that a bill had been intro-duced in the Legislature, then in session, hadbeen printed, passed to its second reading,was then in the hands of the House committeefor recommendation. The bill starts out witha very innocent preamble, but wi
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