Mrs. Z. Hollingsworth. I keep my bees 

 in by shading the front of the hives ; it is a 

 good preventive. 



L. H. Scudder. I would suggest placing 

 the entrances to the north and shading well 

 would be a great help. The first spring 

 dwindling I ever had was before I ever saw 

 an Italian. I think the queen gets the dis- 

 ease as well as the bees and stops her laying. 



What "Will Pay to Plant or Sow ? 



D. Rider. Have not paid much attention 

 to this, but think to fill up vacancies in 

 early spring it would be well to plant trees 

 and shrubs, currant, raspberry, gooseberry, 

 etc. Think all who keep bees should have 

 a good supply of these, as also of cherry, 

 plum, pear, etc. The fruit is very nice with 

 honey. White clover comes in next ; mign- 

 onette is very good. Previous to flowers I 

 would feed liberally to stimulate brood 

 rearing. 



To Keep Bees from Swarming. 



E. D. Godfrey. 1 go through my colonies 

 once a week if I can, extract some and keep 

 them at work. Extract from outside combs 

 and put them in the center. I have no 

 white clover ; get the larger part of my sur- 



Slus in the fall. Expect to feed my bees in 

 une. We have very little fruit. 



C. P. Dadant. Have young queens ; if we 

 have old ones the bees want to supersede 

 them and raise queen cells. We use large 

 hives ; allow no drone comb in the brood 

 chamber ; drones make a great deal of 

 noise around the bees and make them rest- 

 less, which is one cause of swarming. 



D. D. Palmer. Deprive the colonies of all 

 drone comb ; put the boxes on early ; give 

 plenty of room ; don't take off the sections 

 all at once, but changing empty ones for full 

 ones. To get bees started to work in boxes 

 give them a section already started by some 

 other c61ony with the bees in it. Shade 

 thoroughly. 



Where and How Dispose of Oar Honey t 



C. P. Dadant. I think the best place is as 

 near home as possible. Hunt around home; 

 people don't know our honey is cheap ; are 

 surprised at its cheapness when told. We 

 are in favor of extracted honey ; we get 

 about one-fourth comb honey, the rest ex- 

 tracted. We sell as much as possible in 

 bulk. 



Thos. G. Newman. The question is a 

 very important one. Mr. Dadant is correct; 

 sell near home as much as possible. We 

 are letting our bees gather a great deal of 

 honey, but we have not created honey con- 

 sumers ; not a tithe is used that ought to be. 

 The Good Book says, " Eat of the honey as 

 it is good." Our neighbors don't know that 

 we sell our honey so cheap; we ship it away 

 off. Give them tastes of it ; get them to 

 using it. Have both comb and extracted ; 

 people have a fancy for comb honey, edu- 

 cate them that extracted is the best, then 

 you have done a great deal as to the how. 

 I don't want to eat wax, I want extracted 

 honey for my stomach, and candied honey 

 at that. I think the Dadants' way of put- 

 ting up honey for the market in tin cans, is 

 the very best way. That is one answer to 

 " How to sell our honey ? " We must fos- 



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ter all ways of bringing honey into com- 

 mercial use as much as possible. 



O. Clute. I think we should produce both 

 comband extracted, and cater to which is 

 most demanded. Let us make them pro- 

 duce pure honey whatever we do. 



D. D. Palmer. Canada is full of glucose ; 

 300 to 400 grocers sell it ; not more than 2 or 

 3 have pure honey. 



Do Bees Injure Blossoms ? 



D. D. Palmer. What do bees do about 

 these blossoms ? They go from one flower 

 to another, leaving each flower just as they 

 found it, and never injure it. 



Recess. 



A recess was taken for the rmrpose of ex- 

 amining and explaining the articles on exhi- 

 bition, among which were the following : 

 Picture of Rev. L. L. Langstroth; Quinby 

 smoker from L. C. Root ; Bingham's smo- 

 ker, 3 sizes ; C. W. Dunn's Quincy smoker ; 

 Dadant's specimen of honey pails, 2 kinds of 

 honey wine, honey vinegar, bottle of queens 

 in alcohol, ancient bee books, observation 

 hives showing queens, samples of honey of 

 1873, improved Quinby hive, double-walled 

 paper hive ; Bingham, Novice and Muth 

 honey knifes ; Novice, Muth and Everett 

 (2) honey extractors ; Barnes' foot-power 

 saws, 2 styles ; Shuck's Universal bee-hive, 

 described by T. G. Newman ; Lewis & 

 Parks, Watertown, Wis., section box; swarm 

 catcher, made of a cloth sack, wire hoop 

 and a handle (Dadant's). 



D. D. Palmer gave a short article of in- 

 struction in regard to raising the raspberry. 



Adjourned to 7:30 p. m., at which hour 

 the meeting was called to order and listened 

 to an able lecture on " Honey and Money" 

 by Rev. O. Clute, of Iowa City, Iowa. The 

 large hall was crowded and many were 

 obliged to stand up. The Hamilton Brass 

 Band played a number of excellent pieces 

 before and after the lecture. After the lec- 

 ture was over the floor was cleared and 

 those who wished, to the number of some 50 

 or 60, passed two or three hours in a pleas- 

 ant, social dance. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. 



The Committee on Adulteration handed 

 in their report, which is as follows : 



Report on Adulteration. 



About 10 years ago in August, I had sold 

 to a honey dealer in Chicago several bar- 

 rels of extracted honey. The price then 

 was high— 17c. per lb. Soon after I was in- 

 formed that the same firm retailed clover 

 honey in small bottles and in tumblers, for 

 about the price or even less than it had paid 

 me at wholesale. Of course, I became con- 

 vinced that my pure honey had been used 

 to give the taste of honey to some cheap 

 article, and that the mixture was sold as 

 pure clover honey. But it did not occur to 

 my mind that so poor an article as glucose 

 could be used, and I imagined that a strong 

 solution of white sugar had been used, the 

 comparative low price of sugar giving a fair 

 margin to the adulterators. 



The readers of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal can remember that I then wrote an 

 article on adulteration, showing that un- 



