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Capt. Wray was a beginner, but had 

 removed honey by setting a small tent 

 over the cases, and clearing them of 

 bees. 



E. R. Root wanted to know about tlie 

 new races of bees. 



M. H. Hunt said that he had a yellow 

 Carniolan queen, but liad lost her. He 

 then placed a nest of bumble-bees in the 

 cage and placed them on exhibition. 

 These were what some reports said that 

 he paid $80 for. 



E. R. Root said they had one Cyprian 

 colony, and they drove the whole family 

 out of the yard. He said there was 

 another new thing, yet old — that of put- 

 ting starters in sections with a heated 

 metal, and described a machine which 

 they now have for doing it. 



Cellar vs. Out-Door Wintering. 



A. J. Acker said that he had not found 

 time to prepare an essay, but remarked 

 that he commenced with out-door win- 

 tering, packed in chaff, and, while it was 

 not a failure, it was not satisfactory, 

 and he now wintered his bees -in the 

 cellar. 



J. P. Berg believed that he had as 

 good a cellar as could be made. He 

 wintered some of his bees in the cellar 

 and some in chaff hives out-doors, and 

 while he has never lost a colony out- 

 doors, he invariably lost some in the 

 cellar. His experience was that those 

 wintered in chaff hives were always 

 ready for the honey-flow early in the 

 season. The protection of the chaff 

 hives enabled them to build up faster 

 than those in single-walled hives. His 

 bees wintered in the cellar would dwin- 

 dle on being brought out in the Spring, 

 while those wintered out-doors were 

 building up. 



President Taylor and others gave their 

 plans for carrying bees into the cellar. 

 Fixed frames were a great help in the 

 handling of hives. 



E. R. Root said that they had lost less 

 bees by out-door than by cellar winter- 

 ing. 



J. H. Larrabee thought that the tem- 

 perature in Vermont was lower than it 

 was in Michigan, but he wintered bees 

 in chaff hives successfully. 



M. H. Hunt had always wintered his 

 bees in chaff hives, witli one exception, 

 and then he had to buy a new stock in 

 the Spring : he had not tried it since. 



Adjourned to 8 a.m. 



MORNING SESSION — JAN. 1. 



After wishing one another "A Happy 

 New Year," the next topic was taken 



up, beginning with the following essay 

 by Wm. E. Gould : 



What Business Can toe Profitably 

 Comtoined with Bee-Keeping ? 



The title of my essay is a question 

 that is often asked, and seldom answered 

 satisfactorily. 1 can but little more 

 than give ray opinion upon the matter, 

 but that opinion is based on several 

 years' experience. 



The first thing to consider is the man 

 who is to carry on this business. More 

 depends upon the man than on anything 

 else. 



I suppose that friend Hilton had some- 

 thing like this on his mindv^en he gave 

 me this subject : What business may a 

 successful bee-keeper combine with bee- 

 keeping, and thereby increase his in- 

 come ? Hence, I shall not dilate upon 

 human nature or psychological condi- 

 tions. We will take it for granted that 

 a successful bee-keeper may success- 

 fully perform the work of any other 

 business, for which by education he has 

 the requisite talent. Then the question 

 resolves itself into what business com- 

 bined with bee-keeping will allow the 

 proper division of time '? 



Even here we must stop and consider 

 the different conditions as regards bee- 

 keeping, which our imaginary questioner 

 may be in. There are three conditions : 

 1. Having only a few colonies; 2, hav- 

 ing a full apiary; 3, having two or 

 three full apiaries. 



To one who is in the first class, I 

 should say you are not combining some 

 other business with bee-keeping ; but 

 rather, bee-keeping with some other 

 business. Perhaps you ask, why this 

 distinction ? The question which I am 

 to answer presupposes that bee-keeping 

 is the principal occupation, at least dur- 

 ing the honey season. 



To answer the question, means that 

 we miist name some trade or business 

 which will allow this to be possible ; or 

 rather, some worlv which will not re- 

 quire much attention at the time when 

 the bees require attention. 



To those who own two or three api- 

 aries, I would say, increase until you 

 have enough bees to keep you busy dur- 

 ing the whole year. 



But to those who possess only one 

 apiary, tliis becomes an important ques- 

 tion. 



To one who resides near a railroad 

 station, and who has the requisite skill 

 and means, the supply business may be 

 profitably combined with bee-keeping. 

 A long article might be written on this 



