246 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



until the first of April, they consumed ten pounds of honey 

 to keep up the animal heat and sustain the hive. After they 

 were taken out of the cellar, they consumed, by his weight, 

 fifteen pounds of honey in the space of one month. That 

 decrease was not in honey wholly. There were left in some 

 of the cells of the comb, at the time of taking out, some bees 

 that were dead. There were some bees that were old, so that 

 when tliey began to fly, they were worn out by old age, and 

 were lost. There were not, most likely, by actual count, 

 over one-third the number of bees in the hive at tlie end of 

 the month that there was when they were set out. There 

 was a decrease in honey and a decrease in bees, and the 

 cleaning out of the hive is to be considered in making up 

 the fifteen pounds decrease in weight. They did not, and 

 could not, consume fifteen pounds of honey in the thirty days, 

 at that season of the year. 



He did not take them out of the cellar too soon, provided 

 it was warm enough for them to fly. Burying them, unless 

 in a very dry spot (as he asks which is best, to bury them or 

 keep them in a cellar), has a tendency to produce mouldy 

 and rotten comb, which will invariably produce tlie disease 

 called " foul brood," which is as contagious among bees as 

 typhoid fever is among the human family. 



Question. Has any one present ever had any experience 

 in feeding apple-pomace to stock ? 



Mr. Wetherell. My farmer has fed it to milch cows, with 

 advantage. A farmer who furnishes milk for the Boston 

 market, out on the Fitchburg road, who lives near a cider- 

 mill where a very large quantity of cider is made, takes spe- 

 cial pains to secure the pomace. He feeds it reguhirly to his 

 milch cows, increasing the quantity of milk thereby, and does 

 not discover that it impairs the quality thereof. He regards 

 it, therefore, as a valuable feed for his cows when in the 

 stable. 



Mr. Augur. If I understand rightly, the experiment sta- 

 tion has made analyses, which have been published, showing 

 the value of apple-pomace. 



