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Mr. Moore asked Prof. Cook if he had 

 experimented with English heather. 



Prof. Cook — It has been repeatedly 

 tried, and always proved a failure. 



Mr. Heddon did not think that legis- 

 lation in favor of the bee-keepers, against 

 the spraying of fruit trees would be 

 advisible. 



Mr. Root said there had been many 

 inquiries as to what course they should 

 take against poisoning their bees, and 

 he recommended the Bee-Keepers' Union, 

 and asked Mr. Taylor to state the law 

 on such matters. 



Mr. Taylor — It is difficult to secure 

 evidence to prove whose bees were killed, 

 or who had poisoned them. 



Wm. Anderson thought that the Law 

 was a good " school master," but should 

 be used lawfully. He thought that if a 

 person was told that it was against the 

 laws of Michigan to spray fruit-trees, 

 when they were in full bloom, it would 

 be a great restraint. 



On a vote being taken, 20 were in 

 favor of making such a Law, and 7 were 

 opposed to it. 



An essay on "Foul-Brood," by R. L. 

 Taylor was then read, and Mr. Taylor 

 had combs in the hall containing foul- 

 brood, and this "object lesson " was of 

 great value to those present. 



Mr. Graden asked, Will foul-broody 

 honey infect another colony, if carried 

 into that hive ? This was answered, yes. 



Mr. Graden said that he had had a 

 great deal of experience with foul-brood, 

 for several years, but he did not think 

 that a remedy existed that would produce 

 a permanent cure. His neighbors' bees 

 robbed his foul-broody colonies, 5 years 

 ago, and they have no foul-brood yet. 

 His new swarms from foul-brood colonies 

 are not affected the first season. 



An essay entitled, "Is Profitable bee- 

 keeping a thing of the past ? " by T. F. 

 Bingham, was then read. 



Mr. Heddon said that he believed there 

 were fortunes to be made in bee-keeping, 

 and fortunes could also be lost. The 

 person who could increase his crop, and 

 decrease his labor, would succeed. He 

 had found that the first thing wanted 

 was a proper hive. 



Mr. Anderson thought that the small 

 bee-keepers kept the prices of honey 

 down, by selling at ruinously low prices. 



Mr. Moore thought that the good honey 

 produced by the specialist, would super- 

 sede the poor honey produced by the old- 

 fogy bee-keeper. 



Dr. Mason wanted to know why we 

 were getting so small a price for our 

 honey, when it was so scarce ? 



Mr. Heddon said why he sold his so 

 cheaply, was that he sold strictly for 

 cash in advance, and it made him a good 

 advertisement. If he got a good crop 

 next season he would sell it for the same 

 price as this year. 



Mr. Walker said that the most of the 

 honey put upon the Detroit market dur- 

 ing the past season, was produced by 

 non-specialists, and he thought that Mr. 

 Heddon ought not to have sold his 

 superior honey so cheaply. He sold his 

 extracted honey to grocers for 11 and 12 

 cents per pound. 



Mr. Root said that the demand for 

 honey was increasing ; that they were 

 now selling their fifth car-load from the 

 the west, and they have a standing order 

 for two tons a month from now until 

 April. 



Mr. Moore said that the masses were 

 not educated to the use of extracted- 

 honey, and were not posted as to the 

 difference between extracted and strained 

 honey. 



An essay entitled "Honey statistics, 

 and their advantages to the bee-keeper," 

 by G. H. Knickerbocker, was then read. 



Mr. Moore thought that the New York 

 Honey-Producers' Exchange was a good 

 thing, as it supplimented the report 

 given in Oleani7igs. 



Mr. Holtermann considered that the 

 report was useless unless it was received 

 immediately after the completion of the 

 honey crop. 



President Cook considered the report 

 in Gleanings superior to the New York 

 Honey-Producers' Exchange, as it was 

 broader in its nature. He thought that 

 the space could be saved by printing a 

 summary gotten up from reports, from 

 every county in the State, as nearly as 

 possible. 



Mr. Heddon wanted the subject of 

 honey-boards brought up. 



President Cook said the break-joint 

 honey-board prevented brace-combs and 

 propolis. He could not get along with- 

 out the honey-board, and did not think 

 that the thick top-bar would ever super- 

 sede the honey-board. 



Dr. Mason had taken solid comfort in 

 the use of thick top-bars ; the bars being 

 as clean at the end of the season as 

 when the bees were first put on them. 



Secretary Hilton was asked his experi- 

 ence with honey-boards. 



He said that he used a sheet of per- 

 forated zinc laid directly on the brood- 

 frames, with one bee-space between the 

 top-bars and sections, thereby bringing 

 the sections within the least possible dis- 

 tance of the brood. 



