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home until I get to where I am going. 

 That is my system; summer or win- 

 ter; I move all times of the year. 



Mr. Bull — I never use a cloth and 

 don't want to. I want something pretty 

 solid; I use a screen made of double 

 lath, nailed on with either four- or 

 five-penny nails — four nails. 



Mr. Bruner — Would you undertake 

 to move more than four or five miles 

 w^ithout the entrance being closed, and 

 how long would it be safe to stop under 

 ordinary conditions at 40 degrees tem- 

 perature? 



Mr. Bull — Leave your motor run- 

 ning; stop as long as you please. 



I would not want to even start the 

 machine without going around and 

 smoking these colonies, not for one or 

 two minutes, and start again. 



When you get into your yard, ready 

 to unload, you have to handle those 

 hives carefully before you get through. 



I would not attempt, with open en- 

 trances, to ever stop my motor from 

 the time I start until the bees are 

 ready to unload. 



Mr. Wheeler — What if your motor 

 stops? 



Mr. Bull — You will have to smoke 

 them. 



Mr. Coppin^ — My idea is that it is the 

 best way to fasten up the entrance 

 with screen wire like you were repre- 

 senting there. When the weather is 

 hot, a screen over the top as well. We 

 are liable to get accidents on the road 

 and the bees would be let out if the 

 entrances were left open. 



A number of times by the time I 

 have got away on the road I have 

 found bees enough out without leav- 

 ing any out. 



Question: What is a first class up- 

 to-date bee-keeper? 



Mr. Kildow — One who makes a suc- 

 cess of it. 



Mr. Wheeler — One who can keep 

 bees without doing any work. 



Question: What are the advantages 

 and disadvantages of the Pearce sys- 

 tem of bee-keeping? 



President France — Has there any 

 any one here used it? 



Mr. Kildow — That means queen 

 rearing, does it not? 



Mr. Kindig — I never tried it and I 

 am not going to either. I find it costs 

 enough to buy equipment for ordinary 



bee-keeping equipment. If you are 

 going to keep two or three hundred 

 colonies of bees, what an outlay you 

 would have to have, all those build- 

 ings, all that would have to be estab- 

 lished in connection with this Pearce 

 system of bee-keeping. 



It seems to me that any one in 

 business for a financial profit — the fact 

 you have got to build a cow barn in 

 order to hold them, looks to me as 

 though that would discount it on the 

 face of it. 



Mr. Bull — In regard to that Pearce 

 system of bee-keeping: That was 

 discussed pretty well at the Michigan 

 Convention. Nobody had much to say 

 for it except the inventor of it. 



President France — I don't know 

 whether it is possible to bring up more 

 subjects or not, when we are tired. 



To make tomorrow a successful 

 meeting, and in order to be home to 

 another meeting at the last hour to- 

 morrow night, my only show will be 

 to leave on the four o'clock train, 

 getting home at 10:30, pretty late hour 

 to go into an assembled body. 



I want to make tomorrow's meeting, 

 if you please, a hummer; something 

 this is worth our while. We have fired 

 at random todaj'; some thoughts 1 

 hope will land where they will prove 

 worth something to us. 



Various subjects have been taken 

 up. My crank idea this year has been 

 to advocate better brood — young 

 queens; if that is worth your while 

 to think of that subject later on, all 

 right. 



This idea of painting comb founda- 

 tion. If you have not tried it, do so. 



If you have not tried the wire 

 screen bee escape, do so. 



When a man like Mr. Holterman 

 will lay aside all the others — in its 

 favor; and others say it is worth 

 three of the old ones — it is worth pay- 

 ing attention to. 



Some of these new ideas may not 

 meet with our approval, but let us 

 not go back on them if they will im- 

 prove our conditions. 



Prove them out in your locality and 

 surrounding conditions; our pasture, 

 our forage, the condition surrounding 

 our individual yards, is what we must 

 be guided by. 



I hope that no one would under- 

 take to imitate my methods until thej' 

 have proven that those things were 

 practical in their own home locality. 



