. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VA' (Convention l^roceedinds. Convention of Bee-Keepers' Associations at Brantford REPORTED BY J. L. BYER. (Continued from pa^e 190 } Thursday Morning Session. The convention was addressed by Mr. P. W. Hodgetts, Secretary of the On- tario Bee-Keepers' Association, as fol- lows : IMPROVINQ THE BEE-KEEPINQ INDUSTRY Since accepting the position of Sec- retary of the Provincial Bee-keepers' Association last fall I have been look- ing over your reports for the past 15 years. I have done this with the idea of finding out if possible just what you have been
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VA' (Convention l^roceedinds. Convention of Bee-Keepers' Associations at Brantford REPORTED BY J. L. BYER. (Continued from pa^e 190 } Thursday Morning Session. The convention was addressed by Mr. P. W. Hodgetts, Secretary of the On- tario Bee-Keepers' Association, as fol- lows : IMPROVINQ THE BEE-KEEPINQ INDUSTRY Since accepting the position of Sec- retary of the Provincial Bee-keepers' Association last fall I have been look- ing over your reports for the past 15 years. I have done this with the idea of finding out if possible just what you have been doing in the past, and what your aims are for the future. In 1895 I find that you had thirteen affiliated as- sociations. In 1905, ten years later, eleven associations. In the years between the number varied from nine to twelve. In this respect j'our experience seerns to hare been very similar to that of the Fruit-growers' .Association with which I have been more closely connected. I want therefore to tell you a little of what they have done in the past, and what they are striving to do at present. The Ontario Fruit-growers' Associa- tion has now been in existence some forty-seven years and is, therefore, somewhat older than the Bee-keepers' Association. For about thirty or thirty- five years the association devoted the greater part of its time to the considera- tion of questions which are called pure- ly educational. Such, for instance, as "Best Varieties for Planting," "Care of the Orchard," "Pruning," etc. It seemed as if the officers had got into this rut, if I may call it so, and were content to stay there. However, about ten years ago one of their most enterprising di- rectors suggested that associations should be formed in various parts of the Province in afliiliation with the Ontario association. As the Provincial association was do- ing considerable work among amateur horticulturists, the first organization w'ork was carried on among the h
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