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---- envier everyone to try it. Mow to net Wi
10 a half dozen $Wftrtne in one elector, 1'a
,,, 0 sheet, spread on the ground ; take 1
ro ,euno number of hives, oet them around
The following is a report u1 full of ll
meeting of the Listowel f lee-Iceepcu•s' Ass
elation, held on the 1st1, ult. There we
over 100 present, though the extreme cold
we.tther at that date prevented a large
Lumber from bring present that would
Othorwiee have been, The Association
met at none in the town hall, Lietawol,
]kindly granted for the purpose, and after
the minutes of the previous sleeting had
been road and several resolutions passed,
n deputation was appointed to meet D. A.
Junes, of Beaton, on his arrival at the sta-
tion, and tho meeting adjourned for that
pin'potiotill two o'clock, ell. J011o8 000
Met at the station, and shortly after his
arrival the Association again stet in the
hall to listen to his nedreseon beo•keoping.
He began hie address by exhibiting charts
to the Assoeietion, showing the anatomy
of the beo, with key of description, He
Wanted to occupy the time in giving such
information Ile these present interested in
the bushman might afterwards compute his
visit in the shape of dollars and cents. Ifo
said :—It is important for all bee -keepers
tU 1•a18e good queens for themselves under
the swarming impulse to build a colony up
strong, for queen raining is easy. Take
combs from a strong colony, shako them in
front of the ones you want to raise queens
from, and all the young bees will run in
and bo received when made strong enough.
Cut the corners of the combs to give them
a chance to form queen cells when they
aro ready to owarin, and with combs no pre•
pared telco away their queen. Tho bees
will then raise and properly nurse with
groat caro a lot of the best of queens. You
then require a nursery cut out when the
queen cells aro nearly ready to come out,
put them in the nursery and keep them
not longer than ten days until given an op.
portunity to get mated, Spring dwindling
proceeds from various onuses. Bad food
in winter extends their bodies and weakens
them, Keep them warns when it is cold
by closing the entrance with the blocks ;
keep your bees from going ant if possible,
unless the thermometer ranges about 60.
When cold, 10ntiect the entrance to pre-
vent the blood being chilled. The larger
and closer the bees cluster in cold weather
the better they will bear it. For weak
colonies contract the space, keep them
warm ; if they have food and space accord-
ing to the number of boos they are not lia-
ble to swarm out or kill their queens. blr.
Jones related his experience of adding
young bees at the entrance and building
up a good colony when ho had only 22 bees
to start with. When hives are depopulated
in the cellar if yon desire to unite some do
it when you take them out ; they will not
fight or kill their queens. In extracting
honey from every comb sometimes if boys
in his employ, throws out the larvae, skims
then, puts them on an extracted comb,
puts it in extractor laryae inside. Larvae
should be all put in the cells. To prepare
for winter, comnenoo fit hummer by put-
ting tho combs 1:R inches apart ; they form
their comb thick at the top which leaves a
large space for a good cluster. Result --
less food and healthier bees. By extract-
ing every comb yon make the most honey.
If any person will show DIr, ,Tones a bettor
way he will pity him for it. 1i1, had set
bees out of the Dollar in the middle of Ap.
ril and later. The last put out ahvays
did best. Ile gave special charges concern.
lug ventilation of Dollar or bee house, and
related experience with carbon gas, a con-
sequence of poor ventilation. A damp cel.
lar will boar more heat than a dry one.
;alight keep a cellar cool in spring by ice
elevated near the roof of cellar. 1le gave
a description of clay hives undo in Cyprus -
piled lip like cordwood ; they were mad0
round, small and long ; the combs would
not melt ; perhaps they did not use extract-
ors. If you hive bees on to comb end not
extract, they will not dwell, the queen has
11011 roost for brood. Question—Is there
any new market for honey? Yes. Ho had
or(lots from England, Russia and Germany
he could nut fill. Ho sold 40 bnrrela in
London at lac. per lb. ; freight less lc, per
lb. Mr. McKnight, of Owen Sound, got a
school teaeher in the holtdays to soli his
honey ; sold all he had to the farmers 111
four days. A young peddler bought 1,000
lbs, at laic., and sold it ; this last year he
bought and sold 30,1110 lbs. Another bee-
keeper went to Toronto and disposed of
0,000 lbs. the time of tine exhibition, No
trouble to sell houey if you have it. We
are in the best latitude in the world for
houey ; it !equine a northern latitude or
a high altitude for line honey, 111 Asia he
found the honey in the valleys, black, 1
coarse and unlit for food, while up in the ;
mountains it 00,0 pnl'e and fine. Canada
is unsurpassed in the world fora good (
quality of honey, and equal to any other
country, Take a small quantity of honey,
mix with confectioner's or ground gratin.
lated sugar , knead into a stiff oake keep-
ing the dish into a001110r dish of rearm
water, cool suddenly, put a thin cake over.
The cluster question, is pollen injurious
to bees iu winter ? This pollon theory
was got up by it elan who thought ha had
made a discovery for the cause of diarrhoea.
Well I often noticed when 1 took a young
hound into the woods he will went, but is
just as liable to to take the back track as
the forward one. I leave pollen in all my
hives. All stoney has pollen in it ; uo harm
in pollen. Should frames bo 1ongthw60o et
or•os5wisofrom the entranee? 13y having
them 01'059Wi00 they aro better sheltered
and warmer, breed earlier and later,
Quoetiou, Flow is 511010 for proteetlou ?
He had found it good ; bought 20 hives
once under 10 foot of Snow ; 1111 were safe
and strong. In introducing queens, a nom.
mon way is to use a perforated or MVO
nage, Press the gage hard enough on the
comb that the bees will have to oat the
oepilmn of the (tomb , see that she is ringed
on food. Another way—Put a little honey
from the hive on her ; slip her in between
two combs ; be careful not to jar the hive
110 a very slight jar will male the boos ung•
ry and will frequently cause t110nt to kill
their own queen. Ile had frequently in•
ct
th
lee
he
take a till dteli dividing the bees as near ars
pessih(e, placing it person at enoh hive to
trap I be queen with a tumbler, but don't
let the sun chino 01/ the tumbler. Sonia
queens nuly enter the hives unobserved,
but you will soon tell by the boos which
ones have queens, They will bo satisfied,
while those that have not will be restless,
and ]unplug around, running out and in the
hive, Put a (preen et entrance of enoh dis-
contented colony 111111 1,1)1 them on their
stands. Boee will never be mese if you
handle them right and Have smooth clothes
the hair singed of hands and nrm0. They
muoh dislike a feather in a lady's bonnet.
Bees du 1101 like ornamental trappings,
frills and 00)111000 aro not to their taste ; a
smooth, plain surface suite their delicate
feet hoer ; you ere We without a hat or
veil if you !seep your hair clan-II/and smooth.
Question --What is your remedy for stinge?
Forgot all about it. Cold water—the cold-
er. the bettor -1s good in every case. Bee
pasture--Aleike clover is the very beet, as
well as being the very beet for stock of
every kind in pasture or day. Best kind
of bees—lie had n cross between 111e Can-
adion and Holy Land ; they were the very
best in every particular he had over tried.
Robbing—Two legged robbers were the
worst variety, but wet hay put in front of
the entrance will stop robbing. To seenro
worker comb, take an olcl strong colony,
old queens try to build worker comb ; two
swarms build roost worker o0mb. The
young will not lay in 1110115 comb ; keep
tilling up with starters. He never uses
full 0110515, only starter's. By taking out
fell combs stud giving starters to good
comb builders you oan soon have all the
fine worker comb you want. If you want
to succeed in bee keeping have faith in
your business, neither uplifted by success
nor discouraged by reverse ; keep to it, give
it the attention it requires, and fest assur-
ed there is no other business so profitable
as bee -keeping, considering the amount of
capital invested. Will mice kill colonies ?
They are not friends, but they do not often
kill then. Itut mice are easily destroyed.
Take one part elystalized arsenic, two parts
flour, and two parts sugar ; mix, put it
around their holes dry, and they are Bot-
tled, with no further trouble on that score.
The Canadian Bee Journal,—We allowed
the American people and the world at large
what Canada could produce in honey, by
the mammoth exhibit of 12811. The great.
est bee -keepers of the world gazed upon it
with wondering eyes, as they wrote of it
themselves. 80011 an exhibit the world
never 501V. Tons upon tons of honey, and
isuch honey for beauty and flavor was nev-
er our lot to witness. We never thought
I the combined world could produce at one
1 place such a quantity of such splendid hon -
1 ey. Yot those who showed this wondrous
exhibit of Canadian nectar was and is with.
1 out a boo journal. Mr. Jones is invited and
1 has undertaken its management. It is to
be about the size of Gleanings but issued
weekly. It wifl regnire about 4,000 sub-
scribers to make it not a losing concern.
The response to this was all we .iould wish;
every bee -keeper present subscribed. Dur.
ing the seven or eight hours of speaking all
seemed wrapped in almost breathless at-
tention, The half of Dur members were
absent on account of blooke1 railroads and
050520 weather, but oven then very few
more interesting meetings were ever held
by the boo -keepers of Canada. The gees.
thin of having the Dominion Government
requested to remove the duty from beeswax
was freely and telly discussed with that
spirit becoming bee -keepers, after which
the following resolution was submitted and
unanimously parried :—Movecl by John
Campbell, seconded by John Page, that this
Association unanimously resolves that the
Dominion Government be requested to re-
move the duty on beeswax, as we find it
acts very ruuch egeinst the business of hoe -
keeping, oven 510.80 011 account of its being
entered free into the United States, so that
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of int, . rest to us and after dinner WO ilii w 1 ,1
drove crit to the m(1111.talked of Mod-
el Farm, 400 acres of land malice up
Ulla property and with its fine build-
ing0, (dock yards, etc. meteorite many
points of attraction to the visitor.
We also went to the waterworks and
saw the large trouble engines, forty
five horse -power, performing their
ceaseless operations, In the even-
iug we "took in" the Salvation Army
as their anniversary services were be -
jug held and a number of officers
were present from `Toronto. Only n
year has elapsed since the Army flag
bas been planted in Guelph brit in
that short period they hyo acoolnp•
fished a great work. In addition to
tho building of a largo brick barracks
capable of seating 500 or 600 people,
they have an organized cornet band
of 16 or 18 members, in uniform,
and something like 200 soldiers.
Capt. Smart, a young lady lately
from England, is in command. To
give a description of the service is be-
yond our power for it was 0) strange
mixture of song, experience, jokes,
m
clapping of bandit, ewingiug of Ars,
firing volleys, coupled with a good
deal of drum, but while there were
many things that Wore out of place,
to our mind, at a religious service,
there was a g,od meeting and the
large audience observed the best of
order. tltil,rnul<......
NO, 36.
....'tUI) 01; 10:, 5u
Considering Ilse stormy night a 1 11'h 1r 'l 87 ,fl
Very good audience mite preaeut at 11u}; �ht11 7'G 7+i 84 01,
Melville Church l e 1 „nue"n 410 �,, liJ-! (J0
hear the pastor, Rev, John hoes, de- i buni4
(SO 00 80 00
liver a looter k,eire.odville 402 71 110e 00
887 '9(i 1(36 50
`ro41 3, (178 0(1
58:3 97 201 1'2
:1(!18 1(! (J0
01001010011...... ,73 41. 30 00
Gleu Farrow .., OD 78 10 00
Gerrie ...... 588 80 960 00
Goderleb ...... 5085 01 1700 00
Ilarlucic ,...,..,.84 00 19 (10
Hay,.. ... ... ... ..1011 95 72 OR
Fleufr a ... ..115 52 38 09
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Ilensnll........, ,.585 00 21.1 00
lulls Green .... 00 09 9i, 50
Ilolmesville ... •,208 63 82 5550
Sunday was spent in church going.
On Monday morning we were
shown through the Central School.
It is the most complete building of
the hind we know of. There aro 20
teachers and about 000 pupils. The
building is heated by steam and a
large furnace in the basement, burn-
ing a ton of coal a day in cold weath-
or, generates the steam. There are
iu the building, in addition to the
class rooms aud school rooms, lunch
apartments for the children bringing
their dinner, a music room, in which
is a piano, gymnasium, fitted out
with the necessary apparatus, 2 neat-
ly furnished apartments for the In-
spector and Headmaster, and the
dwelling of Mr, Barret, the caretaker.
The site is a beautiful one and com-
mands a view of the whole city and
its surroundings. Bell's organ fac-
tory claimed our attention. This well-
kuown firm have fine epacloue build-
ings and employ about 225 men and
boys. They turn oat about 400 in-
struments per month and manufact-
ure organs from the little "Gem" to
the large church instrument with
double bank of keys, pedal baso, blow
lever, Sic. They aro shipping 25 or-
gans to the Antwerp Exposition and
have opened a remunerative trade
with Etglanrl, Germany, Prance enol
other distant conntrioa.
Tho one subject of conversation in
file city was the arrest of Buck and
Armstrong, pals of Little, for the rob-
bery of the Jew, Siunouski. At the
Police Court, Monday forenoon, Buck
pleaded guilty and gave an account
of the whole story. Ho says he 10114
forced to eas,st at the muzzle of a
nt is vary hind for ns to pr00010 gee -Mout revolver its the halide of Little. Brack
£o• what we require for artificial comb at
any price; wo (10 1101 ask to have the duty is a Guelph boy and consequently
111,01 off any other kind of wax, only bees.
wax. 11 wa51101' half -past ton o'clock, the
ine.ot(ng cane to a close. Moved by John
Campbell, seconded and supported by a
friendly and appreciative speech by Dr.
Philp, that tho thanks of the meeting be
tendered to Mr. ,sones for his groat and in.
siruotive address mL bee -keeping. Need I
say it was carried ?
German Mows, Secretary.
.A. Holiday Trig).
Last Friday wo boarded the 1/0011
train aud were speedily taken watt
through Ethel, Ilenfry'n, Attwood,
Listowel 1411(1 Gowanstowti and got to
Palmerston shortly rafter' 1 o'clock,
Abont 8 men. saw tt0 soared h1 0 first-
class passenger ear, for we /ravel in
no other, on our way to Guelph. No-
thing particularly liotioeablo »long the
route exoeptingthe great quantities of
anon•, At 5 p.m. wo were deposited
on the platform et the loyal city. To
our miud Gnolpli is rather ra pretty
place, with its hill and dale, perks
aud square, shade trees neer f1nntaius
and the innumerable little 00u00u-
iouCOS 1111(11 go 10 Mak 1111 11 well ord-
ered place. 1;'r'itlay eventing we visit-
ed n Gloss 131ower's enterltaimment
and were greatly ietoreste(1 in the
sitil]Fnl
operations of the persons work-
ing glass into dozens of tasty little
Ornaments, vessels, h .c. 8o1 nrdoy
found ns at the market, police enure,
(avo visited the latter place of nor own
free will) timo offices of the 'Mercury
the decision to be nrrivetl at In the
case of the prisoners at the 1(801008
this week will be eagerly looked for,
'Monday noon we peaked our col-
lar box and took train for Brussels.
We met the "slloezer" of n storm on
the way and after 8 or 4 hours delay
wo got as far west as Listowel whore
w0 were forced to 0t,ay until Tuesday
afternoon, when a train, following the
snow plow, came along. After all
there's no place like home and robed
111 Our old clothes we are 012Oe more
at our Posr, armed with the sciessors
aud paste pot and ready to welcome
all those owing n8 little accounts.
The Supreme Count of New York
State in general toren Friday decided
that the Alt prohibiting the sale of
oleomargarine is conetitutional.
In accordance with the decision of
the Private Bins Colnmittoo, the vote
o11 the question of inoorporiiting
Stratford M a city took place last
week. Great onthneiasm and some
excitement prevailed. The rgonit of
the polling is a majority in favor of
incorporation of 840, the measure
having been carried by nearly 4 to 1.
There was a favorable majority not
only f(1 every ward but in every ward
division. 1Ihnnivations in front of
the Town Hall and a grand torohbght
procession, headed by batolo of mule
celebrated the birth of the youngest
of our Onna(11a13 cities.
on l iday night to , Iy l
e n tbo above subject.)
Ile commenced by saying every � Exeter
person attempting to lecture 5h0nhl Forter
wich
have something to say and then say 1"111.11y011
it as best he can. Ile was enoourag•
ed and much pleased to see so good
an audience and lie could assure them
that his subject wee a good one. Our-
selves, our characters, soma one has
said, "We are all soalptor0." Char-
acter 1:cust not be confounded with
genius or high mental endowment, as
the latter sometimes accompany low
moral character, neither is character
reputation but it is the inner man. Huntingfielrl ... ,.,12 52
Character is the tnoral quality cut in -Jamestown .....115 01
Io our true being. Character is some; I Kingsbridge ... ..,00 08
what hereditary. The very house aud Kipl>eu• •• .. .....218 05
home influences weave themselves in-
to their being. Character is formed Lokelet, , .' .,, „201 20
from within, give attention to rile Lituelet,., ,,, ••202 64
try Lues ....,..,. .,G2 41!
Le,ndbury ........108 31
in- Lochalsh „. nt•.., ...77 11 0l
, Marnoch ,........41 40
ors
bloncrmeff .,..., ...17 55
of Newbrldge........107 52
by Nile... .,81 26
in Port Albert __1St) 42
Porter's Hill ... ,..70 10
Saltford .........89 66
Seafortll ... 4471 74
Slisppardton ..' ...51 40
Sunshine .... 23 81
Varna ,,. .•
Waltou...........868258 8467
Westfield .. ...70 77
iVivallolea....... 78 58
Wingham .,. ,., 8247 56
Winthrop ....., „160 99
Wroxeter ,.......754 00
Zurich ....,......555 98
books we read as they are a migl
living power. The lecturer hero
stanced'the lives of Franklin, Ty
Ball, Dr. Duff and other philoeoph
and philanthropists, the course
whose lives was largely influenced
the association surrounding them
their youth, including the books they
read. Avoid moral contagion. Tell
I me a man's associate.: and I will tell
you his character. The speaker dwelt
upon the influence of a pious mother
and recounted the mighty deeds done
by John Wesley encouraged by a de-
voted and pious mother. maternal
influences contrasted in the cases of
Byron and Livingstone. Byron',
mother, impatient with bursts of tem-
per, and there follows the gifted but
graceless Byron. Not so Livingstone's
mother as she led her son prayerfully
and peacefully up aud on, one termi-
nating in a bplendid wreck of one of
God's choicest earthly pearls, the
other a much loved and lamented
missionary. Evil companions lead
down to perdition while good aesooia-
tions lead us up to good. Example,
Burns at once Scotland's pride and
Scotland's sorrow. Character 1s form-
ed by volitionery activity. We can-
not accomplish much without effort.
Mau is what 11e strives to be. Cus-
tom ripens into habit. pian is largo-
ly the former of his own character
wh1013 is never retidymade hut must
be forged. Wo worlc out our own
characters. Photography pictures
tiro instantaneously made, not so in
sOulpturo, we are sculptors not phot•
ographers. No man become,t tlmr•
ougIJly good Or bad in a day. Char
acter ie not formed instantaneously
but gradually and no mien has risen
to the highest plane nor sunken to
the lowest only gradually but may be
without intermission, like the coral
insect night and day building up.
Character so forming will come to
the surface some clay, will either be
groping up or clown getting better or
worse, Let us examine ourselves
with God's moral measuring line.
The choir discoursed several an.
theme daring the 500111ng. A collec-
tion was taken 1111 (hiring the inter-
mission, P•ev. 5. Jones oconpied the
chair during the eveltiog and die-
cluu'g,di1•, d1.tt15(1 with entire satin
faction. A vote of thauks was tend
ersd the lecturer and gracefully ao
knowlsdged. The meeting closed
with the Doxology by the (their and
Benediction by the chairman.
POSTAL S'l',iTISTICS.
Tho following returns of the busi
nese of the various postoffces in the
minty are taken from the annual re-
turns of the Postmaster General for
the year ending June 80, 1884, which
have just been completed and publish,
ed :
Postoffiiee. Grose rev. Salary.
Amberly $284 00 $ 19 00
Auburn 279 18 1013 60
13audoll 18 88 50 00
33a3)1e1d 468 64 242 50
Belgravo .441 90 194 50
33en0111101 84 01 22 00
Beechwood...,..,.. 48 04 14 00
Belfast 146 20 60 00
I3elnnore...,..,244 80 102 00
Blake 144 85 70 08
Biuevale 484 28 160 00
Blyth 1274 20 400 00
Brumfield 829 68 140 00
Bru00e10.,......... 2066 00 800 00
Bushfield 88 46 10 00
Carlow....,..,122 50 50 00
Chisolhul'st......... 40 22 22 00
Clinton .,,...,.,4008 9(1 1148 00
COD elanon,. 179 50 56 00
5 0(1
49 0(1
40 00
108 50
150 00
81 01)
e0 0(1
40 00
42 DO
90 00
20 (30
5000
40 50 •
53 00
82 00
30 00
1240 00
20 00
10 50
66 00
185 00
32 0(1
28 00
988 00
59 00
346 00
169 00
Brussels vs. Ronald.
To the editor of Tars PosT,
Dzax SM.—Under above caption in
your last issue you make sons wild
remarks and the only really true fact
you intimated was that the corpora-
tion had failed in their appeal, with
all the costs to pay. It is unfair in
you to try and color imaginary decis-
ions to prejudice the people's minds.
Your province is only to deal in facts.
I can well imagine your wish to screen
certain friends from the ire and ig-
nomany of the ratepayers to whom so
much was promised and so little per-
formers. Your $4,000 prospective
verdict is about ILO true as at au earlier
period your quand0m friends promised
the whole foundry, and as a late cor-
respondent said to gent a stronger ver -
diet, and as yourself stated, lately,
you would fight it to the bitter and
and you have got all you have boeu
fighting for.
In your quoting "from authority"
why did you not say that the Chief
Justioc verbally explained his desire
to have been able to hold Eltttt there
had beou 11U brooch of the itgr0Ulllout.
Fespeclively yours,
March 11, 1885. J. 1). ltosar,,,
Why 00111PAM/101'N ria 1101 sneered.
They are not calve and iud(tstri•
ons.
They are slothful ir' everything.
They clo not limp op with hupruve•
111en18.
They etre wedded to old methods.
They give 110 attention to details.
They thiuk email things not im-
portant.
They taste no pleasure in their
work.
They weigh and "teas/Ivo stingily.
They aro wasteful and improvident.
`they let their gates sag and fall
down.
They will not make compost.
They let their fowls roost 1n trees,
They have 110 shelter for stock.
They do not o11r1•y their 11 testis,
They leave their plows iu the field.
They put off greasing the wagou,
They starve the calf and milk the
cow,
They don't know th1 best is the
cheapest,
They have no method Or system,
They have no ears for home enter-
prise.
They see no stood iu to new thing.
They never use paint on the farm.
They prop the barn door with a
rail,
They milk the cows tate in the
day.
They havo no time to do things
well.
They do not read the best books
and nowspaperd,