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a sour year for a sweet operation worst season ive had in 32 years beekeeper ed robertson calls it who coulti wish for a swi or neighbour than ed rol b5rt son n beekeeper who ships al most 00 tons of honey in a peak year fro n his hornby honey s house robertsons hornby apiarles is one of the largost of halt i on county s four commercial i honey operations his 22 bco yards 20 of them scattered ar i ound hal ton county and twa j outside have a total of 10oo t juves i and tending the hives keeps j robertson busy as a bee him j k self inspecting each hive every j ten davs and mounting a mas ijvc collection operation twice a vcar he hires occasional help but most of the work is done by roberston and his 14 year old son jack the sign says roberston and sons but his other son age 4 is still too young to brave the stings and arrows of the business l each hive must be fitted with an average of 10 wooden tram es enclosing a starter comb strung on wires two crops per year from 1 000 hives requires about 20 000 frames many of wh eh robertson makes him self and all of which must be brought to the honey house and placed in the central extractor t j this is the most expensive pie t ce of equipment in the honey x house it whirls the frames ar ound b0 at once extracting honey bv centrifugal force pumped upstairs from here the honey is pump- ed upstairs for straining back down into 14 ton settling tank6 and then into 650pound barrels t for shipping except for a few pails sold to i people who come to hi door robertson sells his honey by the barrel to large producers like kraft billy bee and land o clover an alternative would be to join the honey coop in toronto j a central marketing agency to i which most ontario beekeepers belong but robertson prefers to sell lo the highest bidder large producer tv large producers put the t honey through further stram- x ing pasteurize and homogenize it and pack it for sale to food stores x the top price goes to white i honej produced by he bees in early summer when the do i vcr is in blossom but some buy ers pjrtiularly bake shops prefer dark hdney made from the nectar of goldenrod wild flo vers basswood and sumac robertson has already sold 5 000 pounds to a bake shop this 1 ytar a sideline is beeswax a honey h byproduct which the bees use to plug the cells to keep the honey from spilling and which j mu t be scraped from the combs with a hot knife before the are placed in the extractor robertson produces about a 2 ton of beeswax per year which i j he sells for about 55 cents perl pound it is used as a base fori women 4 cosmetics for waxes and polishes as a coating for thread and to make beekeepers supplies such as starter combs for new frames many of his friends also drop by for a small piece of wax each year because it makes an ex cellent ski wax and keeps snow from sticking to snow shovels for the last five years areal beekeepers have been blessed by a good demand and a very steady market with a barrel bringing about 110 on the wholesale market bad weather but life is not totally sweet r a beekeeper because bad weather can reduce his crop more drastically than farm crops and the weather this year has been particularly bad it doesn t take much to make a bee decide to stay home and eat stored up honey instead of hustling out to work f the threat of rain will do it or even an east wind june and july this year were so changeable that the bee3 hadi eaten all their own honey before robertson arrived for his aug ust gathering there will be no light honey at all this year robertson said ive worked with bees 32 years i and this is the worst year ive ever had total crop this year all taken in the fall gathering will be well below his average of 75 000 pounds but ive had years as high as 176000 so i m not too concerned he said im happy as long as i can main tain the average maintaining a high average re quires constant attention to en sure each hive is operating at top efficiency key to efficiency is the queen and since their egglaying capability drops by one third after two years beekeeper must know the age of every queen in his yards busy be robertson replaces washed up queens at the rate of 250 per year he buys queens from supj pliers in the southern united states and usually orders the italian variety rather than cau cisians but he keeps a careful eye on the catalogues because disease resistant hybrids arc constant ly being developed he knows the strai of each of his queens and keeps records of the sue cess of different combinations of breeds another reason to record the ages of his queens is the fact that eight days before queen hatches the old one swarms away with about one quarter of the hive to prevent this robertson keeps his queens wings clipped and removes the large queen eggs from he colonics once a queen is past her laying peak robertson kills her and replaces her with an un port but often the bees will hense she is not producing and will finish her off themselves i he said the longcbt robertson ovcr itept a queen was nine years i kept her just to see how long she would last he said and she produced near top capacity all that time but she was an exception 32 yean the worst part of robertson s job is the stinging and they hurt justus much after 32 years as they did the first time i was stung he said but years m the business have taught him how to spot a cross hive and to lie careful in bad weather when the bees are idle and cranky a puff or two from his smoker is usually enough to make the bees fill up with hon ey and settle down nobodyl knows why although beekeep- ers have been doing it for cent urics and in good weather when the bees arc busy he has sometimes worked with shirt off whole secret the whole secret is just to remember that the bees arc the boss he said robertso is now in the mid die of his winter packing moving the hives into groups of four surrounded by shavings each with its own pail of sugar water to feed the bees through the whiter he uses about 23 000 pounds of sugar per year after the packing is done ab out a month from now he will be able to settle down to a winl ter of cleaning his equipment and building or buying 10 000 1 now frames for next year s aug ust gathering standard products employee williaa hayward 45 dies a standard products employ ee william harry hayward 4sj of 36 henry street died in g- orgetown bospttal c 14th after a lengthy illness son of harry and ijjly daw son hayward 60 king st e he wai born in terra cotta and bad lived all his life in georgetown and district he was employed at smith stone for ten at orenda engines haifa ten years and latterly with standard products he was a member of credit masonic lodge and hatton chapter raji he leaves his wife hnheth betty adamson two ry of 74 stevens crescent and paul at home his parents and mrs harry hayward and a sister hrs edward brainardl margaret of youngstown ohio rev robert scnvcns of st john t united church conducted the funeral service on october 17 at the harold c hcclnre funeral home and interment was in greenwood cemetery georgetown pallbearers were lloyd mceachern bert hill and merlyn vyse of beaverton al lan hayward gaelpb doug ad1 amson hinden and torn led- widge georgetown ashpnbgistrafeoid ped cohty vacancy john topd heads aojs mens club review fall fair business at meeting of directors maustkate john ord magistrate john d ord of maple avenue w george town has been assigned to sit on the bench m peel county for an wdefhute period to fill the nancy created by the death of magistrate jj burger oct 12 tm a magistrate for the pro- vmce of ontario and fm close- by so ive been named to fill in for the tune hemg said jiagts trate ord ibe appointment u only temporary but i imagine it could last for quite some tunc ril be sitting ra peel until a per manent appointment is made this will be done by the attorn eygenerats de and j sometimes these things require considerable tune magistrate ord had seen scrv ing in the lindsay area he pre sided over chingnacoasy town ship police court wednesday thi oloroitown hirald thursday ocjpbir 2 1967 page 10 the directors of georgetown agricultural society met at the of the secretary mrs george ironside on thursdny evening last there was a good attendance reports were given by tho various committees on the dif ferent phases of the fair and the treasurers report was gra ufying ttoe aeeeury reported that 4he prize money would be com pletely tabulated this week and cheques going out to the prize winners hie prize money paid this year will be considerably in excess of previous years letters of thanks will be mal led to cr steamer brnmerson and jack armstrong for their part in organizing tjhe parade and friday evening s entertain meet at was decided to put corru gated steel siding on the bull ding in the park in order to vtop the vandalism which has seen the aluminum siding punc tiircd with holes and torn off the secretary a and treasur ex s honorarium were increased due to the increasing work load of these offices the midway had asked for i renewal of their contract for 1968 and this will be done af ter clarification of one of the points in the contract directors felt that some clas ses in the prize list should have the prize money graded upward in order to attract more exhl bitors a committee comprising of the president keith webb the lady president mrs graydon chester mr and mrs stuart hall and mr and mrs delroar french were appointed to range for the annual banquet lo two georgetown accountants receive degrees two georgetown men rcceiv ed their degree of certified general accountant saturday evening at a ceremony in new convention hall london they are barry timleck and oscar morgcnstern mr timleck is a member of the firm of pope st goebelle he is married to the former sandra bradley and with their three children marci anne john andrew and jane margaret lives at 15 rcxway dr guests attending the ceremony with mr and mrs timleck were mr and mrs jick timleck mr and mrs jame timleck mr and mrs waller pope and mr and mr graeme goebelle mrs morgenstcrn accompani ed her husband to london fori the ceremony which was follow ed by a dinner dance he is comptroller for the mitchell construction company canada at brampton mr morgenstern his wife jean and their family live at 51 market street at a recent meeting of johns united church aots mens club the new executive j for the years activities was installed by the retiring presi dent carl schenk john todd heads up the elnb i john layman is iiee president garfield mcgilvray crrtlry dj nf uansom and george armitage treasur- 1 wliukl wnmhlj z tj a hodor attend church service ary president the various committees were member wellington dist appointed the first named he- 1 ing chairman ret end ways and means jacki worshro service sunday layman reg broombead carl evening in st george 5 anglican schenk john nichols gordon church gopsui jim marsh alex ma- laren doug madaren les ar m buche dave srmdwick i tervw wxs ranged by program bob mcmcnemy rm noble who is grand sup dennis carr ken faulkner enntendent of the district this coys and youth jack hamtl- year joining georgetown mas- ton harvey hand jun stadlons m members from gait den sherry pew guelph palmerston orange- membership grorst rnu sid durham and oakville am tage ken raulkner ong dotmgnisbed guests nas publicity john todd g m jr comp fwj welham mcgihrray toronto who is grand j of the during the meeting jack ha- grand council nulton made the presentation of the past presidents pn lo or g sh1b imt address by the km d encl the dob took on tie respon- jyj the chore slbiuty of oreanizmg j lessons ie mlblr not- fee time rer the church scr l joto t armslims vice on sunday mormnss i as a fund raising project a ibe clob will sell gift jackets sdesmen of nuts for christmas and also christmas trees if tibey are oh- lodge members and others at tamable i tending the service were invited the aots club meet the t afterwards to a social hour in first tuesday of each month tbe parish hall adams photography weddings passports general photography custom finishing 40 prince charles dr georgetown 77323 toronto by bus low fakes- good ant dat on way 125 ketam 215 time table change efrocstw octaow znh iny new commuter tup added to toronto via brampton express via q e wat 7 is u ar tmh rj5 ajn saturday express trip to toronto via torxdau centre reed down ttfajn 10j5 bjn road up 44jjiu complete daily sbcvke to toronto ft3s exc sal son aaxl bol lun 64b ajn ezc sun and bol s23 pxa 7 is am ezc sal son asxl bol 63s pan 907 am- sal 103 pm sun hoi 913 ajn 1148 a jn for holidar sorrkto saa tarn table me 1 friday and saturday mgmt trip 11 jo pjn toronto ceorcetown cuelph for cun sonne to ft radaawar london smtiaaotablno1 tkfcmsa bees in b mcrtsofn 22 yards fill 10000 of these frames twice year stans restaurant talsaomae 77os21 s wade aooi delrex plaza restaurant tilil i b779194 geo matt centre be held the latter part of nov ember a euchre party committee was also appointed to look after a euchre in stewarttown hall next month the district meeting win be held vbis year in schomberg on tuesday october 31st and the directors were asked to mako a point to attend st pauls baptist church mountainview rd south minister rev g s gammon 9 45 am morning worship service 11 00 a m sunday school canadian citizenship applications appl cations for canad an citizensh p w ii be accepted every wednesday a friday from 9 30 am to4pm at queens square building 24 queen street east brampton ontar o appl cat ons also accepted monday through friday from 8 30 a m to a 30 p m at the court of canadian citizenship 150 main st west ham hon ont for information regard ng documents required fees etc phone brampton 4511240 exten 12 week ial famous for good ice cream 2 bricks 50c m gal 375 gal 79c 5 gals 375 thursday thru sunday urge variety of flavours georgetown dairy ltd 118 guelph street at the end of october or earfy in november it an excellent t me to change your account to recerve the best interest return you are invited to come n to any of our offices and ask us about rhlsl special savings your true savings account no cheque may be issued but you may withdraw a1 any amount at any t me n person or by ma i 4 nterest on the minimum monthly balance chequing account free chequ ng pr v leges there is no service charge made on a reasonable number of cheques rssued your chequ ng account earns 4o nterest on the m n mum quarterly balancol 53 mill street georgetown john a edgar manager 877 226ft north halton advisory board john t armstrong chairman roford gartlhousc mauncc c bcaty midhaci letrwith john goy dr b d young head office oakville other brinch officti brampton srmcoe burlington dclbi cooksville milton convenient office hours monthur 9005 00 frldtys til 600 halton peel trust a savings company your local trust company assets under administration exceed 97s 000 000 member canada deposit tosunmoe corporation