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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



brood foundation before it is first 

 painted. 



I promise myself to put about 1,000 

 sheets through the painting process 

 and get ready for next season's work. 



If you will put to use what you have 

 heard read here, from this paper, that 

 alone will pay you for your trouble of 

 coming here. 



If you want to ask Mr. Hassinger 

 any questions on this painting proposi- 

 tion before we take up other subjects, 

 I am sure he will be glad to answer 

 them. 



Mr. Wheeler — How many sheets can 

 you paint in an hour? 



Mr. Hassinger — That would depend. 



Mr. Wheeler — You paint both sides 

 at the same time, before you let that 

 sheet go out of your hands? 



Mr. Hassinger — Certainly. 



. Mr. Wheeler — Can it be used for 

 comb honey? 



President France — It can be done, 

 but there would be no great amount of 

 gain. I believe Mr. Hassinger has tried 

 that. 



Mr. Hassinger — The wax is all on 

 the side wall, not any on the bottom. 



Mr. Coppin — By painting the brood 

 frame after they are wired, and put in 

 place, after the wire is imbedded, it 

 would make a more perfect job of 

 brood comb; it covers the wire nicely. 



President France — Anything further 

 on this? 



Mr. Bruner — Is there a tendency to 

 get too hard, if it is put in too early? 

 Would there be any advantage in de- 

 laying painting until April, say? 



President France — Two or three 

 years ago I had promised myself when 

 I came home from the Sioux City Na- 

 tional Convention, I would go to work 

 painting. I had too many irons in the 

 fire; I overlooked it until a few days 

 before we wanted to take the founda- 

 tion to my outyards. 



Mind you, that was along in the fore 

 part of June, but we painted about 500 

 combs, though it was warm, and I was 

 well pleased. Since then we have 

 learned to do it when our time is not 

 so valuable and there is a difference in 

 temperature. Wax is quite sensitive 

 to heat and cold. 



Although this last season caught us 

 again in need of more frames than we 

 had expected in making the increase, 

 I think it was about the 12th or 15th of 



June, but we painted them although it 

 was late. 



President France — We have a paper 

 on the "Efficiency in Manipulation of 

 Bees and Production of Honey," by Mr. 

 Miller. 



EFFICIENCY IN MANIPULATION 



OF BEES AND PRODUCTION 



OF HONEY. 



E. S. Miller, Valparaiso, Ind. 



Mr. Miller — I ought to offer an apol- 

 ogy for this sort of paper. It is some- 

 thing different from the ordinary pa- 

 per given at this sort of a meeting. I 

 see a great many people start out in 

 other lines of business; and I think a 

 word or two in this particular industry 

 would give us encouragement and point 

 the way and might be of use. 



It is a w^orthy thing to be a suc- 

 cessful bee-keeper. 



It is more worthy to be efficient in 

 one's work, to be able to organize one's 

 forces, to accomplish the maximum re- 

 sults with the least expenditure of 

 energy. The prime purposos of ad- 

 vanced education are the development 

 of character and efficiency. Both are 

 essential in order to accomplish the 

 . highest purpose in life. 



In mechanics we are taught that the 

 efficiency of a machine is the ratio of 

 useful work gotten out of the machine 

 to the work or energy put into the 

 machine. 



For example: For every 100 units 

 expended upon the electric motor, ap- 

 proximately 95 units are returned in 

 useful work, being an example of 

 greater efficiency. So it is with hu- 

 man workers in every field. There 

 are too many of ten per cent efficiency 

 and too few who approximate 100 per 

 cent efficiency. 



We hear much, nowadays of efficiency 

 — of system — of scientific management 

 as applied to mercantile business — to 

 manufacturing — to transportation and 

 other lines of human effort, doing 

 away with an enormous amount of 

 wasted energy. 



In a small way efficient, scientific 

 management is being applied to agri- 

 culture, in many cases with excellent 

 results. Can the bee-keeper profit by 

 these examples? 



Looking about us we see in apiaries 

 a great waste of time, energy and ma- 

 terial. We find men giving their full 

 time to caring for less than 100 col- 



