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In November, 1892, I put 40 colonies in the cellar, several of thera 

 being- late and second swarms. They all lived to come out of the 

 cellar, but during- April, 1893, I doubled them back to 32. They in- 

 creased during the summer to 42. They are in ten frame hives, 

 heavy with honej', and apparently wintering well — in the cellar, of 

 course. I harvested 2,400 pounds of comb honej'; no extracted; no 

 beeswax. There was no linden hone}^ capped at the close of that 

 harvest. Much of my honey was dark, but the verj" latest gathered 

 ■was a few hundred potxnds of very light honej', almost water white; 

 this with the dainty golden rod honey was my best grade. We have 

 no white clover yet. 



Report of Mr. Urie, Minneapolis. 



I started to winter 94 colonies and lost 78, leaving 16 colonies to 

 commence the honey season with. I bought seven colonies, or rather 

 small nuclei, and increased them up to 34 good colonies and took 

 about 300 pounds of comb honey and 800 pounds of nice extracted 

 honey, beside raising a good many queens. I did well, considering 

 the condition that the bees were in in the spring, and it was not a 

 first-class honey season. I am very thankful for what I got. 



The question then came up as to the comparative merits of queens 

 reared in the South and North, and was thoroughly discussed. It 

 was unanimously decided that queens from the South, as a general 

 thing, do not compare with Northern reared queens for hardiness. 

 It was the advice of all the old bee-keepers present to purchase 

 queens for Minnesota as far north as possible. The discussion also 

 developed the fact that the majoritj'- of those present preferred 

 queens reared in the natural way, as thej^in majority of cases proved 

 superior to those reared artificiall3^ 



Thursdaj- Morning Session. 



THE HONEY EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN 



EXPOSITION. 



C. THIELMANX, THIELMANTOX, MIXXESOTA. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: The honey exhibit and 

 items of interest at the World's Columbian Exposition, is the sub- 

 ject for a paper allotted to me by our worthj^ president. This really 

 should have been a part of our secretarj^'s duty, but as he is not 

 here I will do the best I can. I do not feel able to give satisfactory 

 information as I did not expect I should have anj'thing to saj^ here 

 about the Columbian Exposition, or I shovxld have made a little 

 closer investigation of the more important things of interest for 

 this association; but I will mention a few things as they came 

 under my observation. 



I started for Chicago in time to meet with the North American 

 Bee-Keepers Convention, which was held from October 11 to 13. 

 This convention turned out to be one of the largest gatherings of 

 bee-keepers that has ever been held in America. It was a pleasure 

 to meet so many bee-keepers face to face whom we never saw before, 

 though I have read their writings in the bee journals. Imustsay that 

 I was verj' much surprised at the personal appearance of some of 



