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Title: American bee journal
Identifier: americanbeejourn531913hami (find matches)
Year: 1861 (1860s)
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Subjects: Bee culture; Bees
Publisher: (Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons)
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Members in Attenhance at G, W, Fehleisen. a. B. A. Aldrich, j. J. S. Myers, i, A D. Clancy, s- J- C. Donahue. 6. M. M. Bruner, 7. B. H. Tripp, 8. G. W, Nance. 0. J, P. B 18. W. H. Pearson. 10. J. F. Diemer. 20. Mrs. E. C. Wheeler. Ji. Miss Nina Secor. 22. E. E. Townsend, 2). 21. Frank C, I'ellett, jo. J. L. Strong. 31. M. G- Dadant. 3' I \o\\^ 4 irj iJ. 10. I. A. Gran Bee Keepers' Meeting. M. Carlson, ir, W. S Pangburn. 12. J. W. Stine, 13. J. B. Espy. i4. W. H. Winch. 15. J. H. Schweer. 16. J. C. Stocks. 17. Arthur WriKht. itham. J4 J. H. Burghduff. 25. A. F. Bonney. 26. E C. Wheeler, n. Eugene Secor. 28. S. W. Snyder. II. 33. Hamlin B. Miller. 34. . (S- F. C. Scranton. Convention ® Proceedings Ontario Meeting BV J. L. BVER. The Annual Convention of the On- tario Bee-Kecpers Association, was held as per schedule, in Toronto, on Nov. 13, 14 and 15. The first session opened with a full house, our efficiimt President Mr. Denis Nolan, occupying the Chair. Aside from the number of Ontario bee-keepers present, both men and women, the latter more in evi- dence than usual- we had a splendid representation from "over the line" among whom we will mention the editor of this Journal. Mr, and Mrs. House and another lady, whose name I cannot recall, from Camillus, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Clark of Borodino, N. Y., and our old friend who is as much a Canadian as a Yankee, Mr. Her- shiser of Buffalo. The President in his opening ad- dress referred to the tact that in many parts of Ontario the crop had not been good during the last season, but to offset this the demand for honey was very keen and prices very good. In a few of the western counties of the Province the crop had been very heavy, and in these favored localities the bee-keeper had reaped a rich har- vest. The grant from the Government had been increased, and judging from the attitude of the Department, it looked as if we could get help from there whenever it was needed. This year for the first time- the Association had put up a collective exhibit at the Horticultural Show, which was in progress at the time of the meeting. Owing to the urgent demand for hon- ey, many apiarists had sold ail their crop quite early, and as a result it was hard to get as much honey for this exhibit as was desirable; never- theless, the exhibit was very credit- able indeed, as the President declared, this being the first attempt in that line of work. Only one County had placed an ex- hibit—namely Middlesex, it being among the fortunate ones in securing a good crop this year. Their exhibit was a credit to the County and to the people who did the work of gathering the goods and arranging such a tasty display of the products of the hive. Middlesex County has a splendid rec- ord for bee-keeping, and has the men and wumen who know how to take advantage of the opportunities that nature has put in their reach in the way of securing large quantities of as delicious honey as is produced in any country in the world, Mr. Tyrrell of Detroit, Editor of the Review, was unable to be present to the great regret of all of us, but in his absence he did the next best thing and sent splendid papers bearing on the subjects that had been allotted to him- namely: "Improved methods of selling honey," and "Problems con- fronting the National." The paper on selling honey was es- pecially good, and I regret that it is too lengthy to appear in a short synopsis like this article. The quali- ties of a salesman are not acquired in a day, any more than man can be a good bee-keeper without special preparation. As the paper pointed out many good bee-keepers are very poor salesmen, and here came a good point in favor of organization for disposing of the bulk of the honey crop. Good salesmen must be neat in appearance, able to talk convincingly and entliu- siastically about the wares they are representing, but it does not pay to exaggerate or make claims that can- not be substantiated by the goods. As an illustration in the methods of so- liciting a sale as compared with an effort rather to discourage than buy Mr. Tyrrell mentioned how one clerk will say after a purchase has been made:— "Nothing else that you want?" while another would say "Here Is a nice ar- ticle that you need " or words to that effect. Generally speaking the man who adopts the latter method will be the better salesman. In his paper on the problems of the National, Mr. Tyrrell gave a thorough history of the Association for a num- ber of yeais, stating the reasons thai led up to the change of constitution as it is at present. At the close of the discussion the feeling of the meeting seemed to be adverse to the Ontario Association be- coming a branch of the National and accordingly no steps were taken to that end. While as a matter of senti- ment many would like to affiliate with the National, it was felt that as a matter of business there was nothing to be gained by taking the step under discussion. One minor objection raised- was that the name, "National" is not appropriate for a society doing business in two countries. At present everything in the bee-

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