Gleanings in bee culture . Diego, Cal. THE VICTORIAN APIARISTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE BY E. B. MACPHERSON The meeting was held in Melbourne atthe Flinders Building. There were presentbee-farmers from Great Britain and Den-mark ; also members from distant states ofthis great commonwealth, all of whom tooka keen interest in the different papers whichwere read by live and practical talk and good fellowship reigned su-preme. Mr. D. Morgan, the president, read agood paper on shifting bees to better finds that, the darker the bees are kept, the better they will travel, and also recom
Gleanings in bee culture . Diego, Cal. THE VICTORIAN APIARISTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE BY E. B. MACPHERSON The meeting was held in Melbourne atthe Flinders Building. There were presentbee-farmers from Great Britain and Den-mark ; also members from distant states ofthis great commonwealth, all of whom tooka keen interest in the different papers whichwere read by live and practical talk and good fellowship reigned su-preme. Mr. D. Morgan, the president, read agood paper on shifting bees to better finds that, the darker the bees are kept, the better they will travel, and also recom-mends good strong factory-made hives formigratory beekeeping. He uses looseframes, and says he can put a small nail ineach end of the frames before shifting thebees, and says he can put them in and drawthe nails out as fast as he can pack beeswith Hoffman frames. Mr. Morgan hasshifted his apiaries many times. The members brought samples of I heirown hone,y. Which was the best? Well,you k]]ow every one thinks his own honey. Australia) annual convention. 982 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE is the best; but nextyear there is to be aprize of ten shillings(given by Mr. Pender,of New South Wales)for the best one-poundpot of honey. Mr. Eieh is givinga prize of ten shillingsto the one who gets themost new membersduring- the year forthe Victorian Apia-rists Association. Asis well knoAvn, somelarge honey-producersare not in this associa-tion. If all honey- gxubbers would link up with us we mightbe a power to reckon with. The photo-graphs are some that I took at the Botani-cal Gardens in Melbourne, where we spenta very joleasant day at the close of theconvention.
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