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The challenge for the
Canadian beekeeping
industry
The challenge by the Province of
Ontario to the beekeepers to maintain
100,000 bee colonies to ensure
pollination requirements of the
agricultural industry has not been
fulfilled. The reasons are various.
Considering the research by expert
beekeeping researchers at the
University of Guelph, my methods of
natural reproduction of bee colonies
large quantities of bees can be
produced, without reducing the honey
yield. No government subsidies are
required.
The climatic conditions in
southern Ontario and in British
Columbia are very conducive to
support my bee breeding method.
Considering that in 1997, $3.6
million worth of bees were imported
(statistics for oiher years were not
made public), it is obvious that the
importers were the winners, not the
beekeepers who bought them.
Breeding bees in large quantities
in Canada, particularly in Ontario,
would be an added source of income
for beekeepers and the money would
stay at home. The premier of Ontario
wrote to me in his letter, dated
February 23, 1999, that the Province
of Ontario spends $1 million more
per hour than what taxes bring in. In
aiding such a fiscal problem it should
be possible to find idealists in this
country who would want to help in
rectifying such a problem, if only in a
small way.
When I, as a 78 -year-old
beekeeper, can double my bee
colonies every year, there surely
should be a number of idealists
around who would use my methods
of bee reproduction to the benefit of
themselves and also to the general
economy of Canada.
For several years now 1 have been
teaching my bee management
methods to people free of charge. 1t is
an ideal part-time occupation for
people who have full-time jobs
during the week.
For more information call me
evenings after 6:00 p.m.0
— Ernst Bayer
Mitchell, ON NOK 1 NO
Tel/Fax: 519-348-9128
Diameter -cutting can
be better forestry
practice
In response to Steve Bowers' letter
in the February issue, Tree bylaws
designed for protection, not good
forest management,_ this is not totally
correct. Huron County's bylaw
addresses good forestry practices in
more than one section: Section 7 (1)
(11) and (111). Bylaws cannot be
contrary to the Forestry Act.
There is a shortcoming with using
either basal or diameter cutting
without good forestry practice and
enforcement. Steve Bowers gave
landowners good advice about having
their woodlots marked and getting
competing bids. Woodlots don't have
to be marked by foresters. I have seen
poor jobs done by both foresters and
loggers.
Terry Schwan (Large trees can
quadruple in value) shows his bias
towards basal over diameter selection
by using good forestry practice for
basal but not for diameter cutting.
Diameter cutting protects better
against high grading than basal
because you can get your basal factor
by leaving stems of low value. Over -
mature trees start decreasing in value
if the market value stays the same.
Some of the suggestions for
changes in the Huron bylaw were that
trees be clearly marked on two sides
and that the minimum diameter be
increased. The industry was in
agreement. If the Ministry (of Natural
Resources) had worked with industry
and landowners, the county would
have had an improved bylaw by now.