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The discussion that followed showed 

 that, while some present had made ex- 

 hibits, they did not think the premiums 

 were large enough to pay for their 

 trouble, and the Association voted to 

 have a Committee appointed to wait on 

 the Directors of the Winnebago County 

 Fair, to ask them to adopt a premium- 

 list that would bring out a creditable 

 exhibit at the next Fair. The Committee 

 consisted of : S. H. Herrick, A. J. 

 Sweezey and E Whittlesey. 



CARNIOLAN BEES. 



Mr. Baldwin, of DeKalb, asked the 

 members of the Association what kind 

 of bees they liked best, Italians, Hybrids, 

 Blacks, or Carniolans ? He said that he 

 had one colony of Carniolans, and he 

 thought that they excelled all the others. 



Mr. Whittlesey said that he had one 

 Carniolan queen, but received her too 

 late to give any report about her progeny. 

 She had been 21 days on the road. With 

 his experience, heretofore, he preferred 

 pure Italians. 



Mr. Stordock said that he had some 

 Carniolans, and he was glad that he was 

 rid of them. They would fly when others 

 would not, and "rob" very persistently. 

 They swarmed excessively, and remained 

 on the combs well, but he preferred the 

 Italians. 



Mr. Taylor had bought 7 Carniolan 

 queens. They wintered well, but he 

 could see very little, if any, difference in 

 their work. He thought tliat they 

 became excited more easily than the 

 Italians, and they swarmed excessively. 



KEEPING BEES AND POULTRY. 



Mrs. Woodworth, of Rockford, then 

 read an Essay on "Bee-Keeping Com- 

 ])ined with Poultry Raising." 



[This was published on page 20. — Ed.] 



Mr. Blackburn said that he could make 

 more money in keeping bees than he 

 could from keeping poultry. He said 

 that keeping "fancy poultry" required 

 too much falsification for him to make 

 money out of it. 



Mr. Sweezey said that poultry-keeping 

 might be used to help out the bad years 

 in bee-keeping, but, like everything else, 

 it was not profitable unless well done. 



The President said that he could make 

 poultry work well with his bees, as he 

 could feed the old hen before bee-time. 



On the question being asked : "W^hat 

 sized hives do you use?" most of the 

 members present answered, ten-frame 

 Langstroth ; two used nine-frames. 



The Convention then adjourned until 

 9 o'clock Wednesday morning. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order by 

 the President. Owing to the severe ill- 

 ness of the secretary's wife, he was 

 unable to be present and O. H. Sweezey 

 was elected secretary pvo-tem, who then 

 read the following Essay from Dr. Miller: 



A FEW THINGS THAT I KNOW ABOUT 

 BEE-KEEPING. 



I am requested to write an essay on 

 the above subject. That "few" was 

 well put in. Even with that in, I hesi- 

 tate to be very positive about knowing 

 anything for sure, because so many times 

 I have thought I knew something, for 

 certain, only to find out that I was 

 mistaken. But, here goes, for the effort. 



I linow that there's a fascination about 

 bee-keeping that makes one content to 

 keep on at it, even when a year comes 

 which leaves the balance on the wrong 

 side of the "profit and loss" account. 



I know that, in every field, there is a 

 limit as to the number of colonies that 

 can be profitably supported there, al- 

 though no one may be able to say, 

 positively, just what that limit is. 



I linow that I do not put my bees in the 

 cellar as late as I formerly did. I put 

 27 colonies in, this Fall, on October 28, 

 and the latest on November 8. The 

 weather has been warm ever since. I 

 hnoiD that, but I do not think they would 

 be any better oif out-doors. The cellar 

 door is open much of the time. 



I lirwiD that a bee convention is an 

 enjoyable place, even if little should be 

 learned there. 



I liiioio that I can find use for all the 

 brains I have in running bees, and then 

 they often outwit me. 



I know I would rather keep pure 

 Italians, than to be stung to death by 

 cross hybrids. 



I know I would not like to try to keep 

 bees without taking at least two bee- 

 periodicals. 



I know that you do not know any per- 

 fectly satisfactory way to prevent 

 swarming, when working for comb 

 honey. 



I know that is getting upon ground, " I 

 don't know." 



I know I'd better quit. 



C. C. Miller. 



The reading of the essay was followe'd 

 by a discussion on the time and manner 

 of putting bees into the cellar, and the 

 ventilation of Winter repositories. 



Mrs. Chas. Winn read an essay on 

 "The Lights and Shadows of Bee- 

 Keeping." 



