thought he could get more honey in tliem. 



President Cheney preferred small packa- 

 ges for market ; favored mostly 1 pound 

 sections, but thought some larger ones 

 might be advisable ; thought as much 

 honey could be obtained as by the old way; 

 would not give too much room ; good results 

 can be obtained in this way. 



HOME COXSIJMPTION OF OUR HONEY. 



Mr. Allison said one of his neighbors was 

 in favor of this, as he consumed all his 

 honey. 



Mr. Rouse said he would be in favor of 

 home consumption and a uniform price 

 agreed upon, among producers. 



Mr. Walker found universal prejudice 

 against extracted lioney ; we should encour- 

 age the market in every way we can. 



Mr. Bingham could sell all of his honey 

 at home, but he sold at the rate of 11 lbs. 

 for $1, and at these rates he had no trouble 

 to sell what he produced ; and if we would 

 make it an inducement to people to buy in 

 quantities, there would be no trouble. We 

 should educate the tastes of the people, and 

 they would not buy so much cheap syrup. 



Mr. Whiting said he had sold extracted 

 honey to the poor, in place of syrups, to a 

 considerable extent, and he expected the 

 demand would increase each year. 



Prof. Cook said that extracted honey was 

 preferred by the students at the college, 

 which he considered a Lood test ; also the 

 same at the groceries in the village of Lan- 

 sing, but he put it up in small packages. It 

 should be put up in small, neat packages, 

 and it will sell readily, after people have 

 tried it once and found what the quality is. 



Mr. Hetherington offered the following, 

 which was carried unanimously : 



WHEREAS, We recognize any real invention and 

 improvement in implements and methods of man- 

 agement of the apiary, as a source of all our real 

 advancement in apiculture. Therefore, we, the bee- 

 keepers of Michigan, recognizing the mutual and 

 wide-spread benefit derived from inventions and 

 improvements, recommend that he who shall place 

 within our reach any improvement or real invention 

 shall receive our hearty co-operation, and the undi- 

 vided recognition and honor due for such service.— 

 Therefore ... , ,^ 



Resolved, That we observe with heartfelt sorrow 

 the course pursued by parties, who, in their efforts 

 to control the manufacture and sale of theiiiven- 

 tions of others, without their consent, or the recog- 

 nition of their rights, discourage invention, and 

 worthy and valuable zeal in the production of im- 

 provements and methods alike valuable to us all. 



Resolved, That while we heartily extend the hand 

 of fellowship and every consideration of honor to 

 the inventor of any valuable method or improve- 

 ment, we do most emphatically condemn, as detri- 

 mental to our mutual interests as bee-keepers, the 

 production of implements embodying the inventions 

 of others, except with due credit, and the produc- 

 tion of a superior article or implement ; that we do 

 not regard the mere production of an article— the 

 successful workings of which are due entirely to 

 another invention- as an improvement, but merely 

 as an evasion, unless such change shall, of itself, 

 render more practical and convenient the original 

 inventor's machine. 



Prof. Cook said that we, as an associa- 

 tion, should sustain all worthy inventions.— 

 It costs as much to sell an invention, gener- 

 ally, as it does to manufacture it, unless it 

 should be so worthy as to be indispensable 

 to those using the invention. 



Dr. Whiting favored the above heartily. 



President Cheney favored it, but thought 

 we should be cautious in trying many new 

 inventions. 



The afternoon session was opened bj^ the 

 President, as Chairman of the Committee 

 on Statistics for 1878, reading a circular 

 letter, to be addressed to bee-keepers to fill 

 out and return to the Secretary, asking a 

 series of questions in regard to matters per- 

 taining to the subject. 



WHAT KIND OF HIVE SHALL WE USE AND 

 WHAT FRAME ? 



President Cneney said it did not make 

 much difference what kind of hive or frame 

 we had, provided we used only one kind ; 

 the same amount of honey could be pro- 

 duced. Each kind should have a style of 

 management peculiar to itself, and should 

 be a special study. 



Mr. Fey said he had used several kinds. — 

 In box hives you could not detect the loss of 

 the queen as soon as in others. For winter- 

 ing, he thought it the best. 



The Committee on Apparatus made the 

 following report, which was received and 

 adopted : 



Mr. President :— Your committee feel some- 

 what embarrassed in reporting upon the large 

 and interesting assortment of apparatus on exhibi- 

 tion, as our duty to bee-keepers requires that we 

 shall speak disapprovingly of some of the imple- 

 ments submitted for inspection. We first examined 

 smokers, of which there were 3 on exhibition, the 

 Bingham, the Quinby and the A. I. Root. We give 

 our unqualified recommendation to the BingHam 

 smoker. Two of the committee who have used all 

 of the 3 smokers think that in view of the superior- 

 ity, the additional price is no objection to this 

 smoker. 



The Bingham hive is remarkable for its shallow 

 frames, great simplicity and adaptability to the 

 securing of comb honey. We should not e.xpect that 

 the hive would be salable, and should fear, from 

 the shallow brood-chamber, that the queen might 

 give trouble by entering the sections. 



The Quinby improved hive is also very simple, 

 quickly manipulated, and for the large space for 

 surplus comb is very commendable. 



The similar Russell hive is in every way inferior to 

 the Quinby. 



The Concord hive is a malformed Langstroth, 

 which, from its complexity and waste room, is not to 

 be commended. 



The Langstroth hive, exhibited by Dr. Whiting, i» 

 essentially a Langstroth hive, and so needs no com- 

 mendation. 



The hive exhibited by John Coates is the same in 

 form and principle as the hive disseminated a few 

 years ago by Dr. Conklin, and has been generally- 

 discarded by all who tried it. 



The only extractor on exhibition is one from Mr. 

 B. O. Everett, of Toledo, Ohio. This is the Root 

 machine improved. Your committee thitik they 

 have seen no better. They are specially pleased 

 with the deep can, the attached baskets for pieces 

 of comb, and the unprecedented cheap price or $7.00. 



There are several fine honey section crates on 

 exhibition ; one very fine one from O. J. Hethering- 

 ton, one excellent one from Dr. Whiting, also one 

 on the Concord hive. 



There are 2 fine shipping crates ; one from H. M. 

 Bradley, of Bay City ; the other from Cyula Lins- 

 wick, of Farwell. 



The sections are almost innumerable. Sections 

 very neatly dovetailed and in the Langstroth frame, 

 from Messrs. Sayles, of Hartford, Wisconsin ; 

 others of same style from G. B. Lewis, Watertown, 

 Wisconsin ; from Willis D. Parker, Defiance, Ohio ; 

 A. 1. Root, of Medina, Ohio, and E. J. Scofleld, of 

 Nashua, Iowa. Nailed sections— very neat— are ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Bradley, and from Mr. Alley, of Mass- 

 acliusetts. Mr. Hetherington exhibits his neat sec- 

 tion, put together with glue and grooves. From the 

 Agricultural College are sections, veneer sections, 

 foundations, blocks, one for fastening foundation, 

 and one for making true frames, and one Gallup 

 frame, prepared to receive foundation. 

 A. J. (":ooK, 

 o. j. hetherington, 

 Bykon Walker. 



Prof. Cook made a motion that the next 

 meeting be at Grand Rapids, on the 4th and 

 5th of December, 1878. Carried. 



