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out in this discussion the fact, which I believe to be a fact, that 

 nowhere can they produce a superior honey to Minnesota honey. 



Wm. Urie: I will except Vermont. 



Pres. Wilcox: I came from Vermont, and they have nothing 

 to compare with it. 



Mr. Haskin: I have produced honey in California, Florida 

 and Tennessee and other states, but I have never tasted any 

 honey that is as good as Minnesota honey. 



A visitor: I got some honey from California and sold it to 

 my customers and they were well satisfied with it. I would 

 not sell them the Minnesota honey that is found in our com- 

 mission houses. 



Wm. Urie: There is not a pound of Minnesota honey in the 

 Minneapolis market this winter. It is all shipped in and then 

 sold under the name of Minnesota honey. 



Pres. Wilcox: I want to correct friend Urie in one respect. 

 I ran across brother Murray's honey in a commission house in 

 Minneapolis one day, and if there is any better honey on the 

 face of the earth I would like to see it. 



J. P. West: I supposed it was generally known that the 

 further north honey is produced the better it is. Canada claims 

 to produce the best honey in the world. I travel all over the 

 state and have been in other states, and whenever I have a lit- 

 tle time I go into the stores and examine the honey, and I never 

 have seen any that equals our Minnesota honey. 



Mr. Ford: I was in the bee business a number of years back. 

 A man that is in the fruit business here w T ants to raise bees. I 

 visited a friend of mine some time ago and he invited me to take 

 dinner with him. He had just got a can of honey, and when he 

 opened it I asked him where he got that honey. He said "That 

 is California honey No. 1." I did not like the honey at all. I 

 think it was the poorest honey I ever ate in my life. 



Mr. Cutler read the following paper, byG. S. Auringer: 

 HOW I MANAGE MY APIARY. 



BY G. S. AURINGER, OF BONNIWELL'S MILL. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been invited to prepare a paper, giving my 

 method of the management of my apiary. 



I have no regular system. Most of my hives are the old style Heddon. 

 I strive to keep my bees from swarming until about the fifteenth of June, 

 by taking brood from the strong colonies, and giving to the weak ones. 

 I keep down increase by putting the old hive from which the first swarms 

 issue, on top of a weak one, when the bees of the weak one will destroy 

 the queen cells, and thus make a strong colony. The new swarms should 

 be placed on the stand from which the old one is taken. I keep the 



