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As the honey is extracted it should be run through a strainer, and it* 

 well ripened can at once be put into barrels or cans if you intend to ship 

 to market. I think a better way is to take the time through the fall and 

 winter and drive through the neighboring villages and work up a trade. 



If one deals honestly he will gradually get a large custom, and will do 

 better than in sending it away to be sold on commission. 



In extracting care should be taken to keep the different grades separate 

 and it will bring a better price. 



When the honey season closes the hives should be examined, and if any 

 are short of stores they should be fed so as to have about twenty-five 

 pounds of honey to take them through till next season. In our cold 

 climate it is safer to winter in a cellar where the temperature can be kept 

 at about forty degrees above zero. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Danforth: I cannot let this subject pass without speak- 

 ing somewhat upon it. I like bees very well, but yet for the 

 fun of keeping them, I would not do it. I keep bees for what 

 money there is in them. I like extracting, because I can secure 

 the largest result in that way, and I am certain of a crop. 



Pres. Wilcox: Do I understand that you extract exclusively? 



Wm. Danforth: Principally. 



Wm. Urie: Now I want to say a word about selling your 

 honey. Grade your honey, first, second and third grade. Let 

 the man you sell to understand that, and then place a reason- 

 able price upon that honey. I know of honey that was sold 

 here in large quantities at eight cents per pound. 



Mr. Mendenhall: I will say that from my young swarms I 

 do not get any extracted honey, but I extract my honey from 

 the old swarms, and I get more pounds of comb honey than I do 

 extracted. Of last year's comb honey, I did not sell any less 

 than fifteen cents per pound, and extracted from twelve to 

 thirteen and fourteen. 



A visitor: I would like to ask how we can sell our comb 

 honey for 12£ to 15 cents per pound, when California honey is 

 shipped in here and sold at 6 cents? 



Wm. Urie: California honey is an inferior honey; it will not 

 bring more than one-half as much in any market as other honey 

 will. I have tested it. I was obliged to take 2, 500 lbs. on a 

 note two years ago from a man from California who got strand- 

 ed here, and I could not get enough out of it to get him to Cali 

 fornia. 



Pres. Wilcox: Perhaps it would be an excellent idea to bring 



