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quence of unavoidable delays in the erection of the apiary build- 

 ing, the bees did not commence fairly their work before the first 

 of June. The result, as nearly as can be ascertained, is as fol- 

 lows : 



Honey in sections, allowing only one section to be taken away 

 from each hive, viz.: one-third of the hive, 2,485 pounds, at 



sixteen cents per pound, |377 60 



Two hundred boxes and jars at $1 . 50 each, 300 00 



Increase of bees, 225 00 



$902 60 

 Expense of feeding, 300 00 



$602 60 



And yet this is made, as we have said, under very disadvan- 

 tageous circumstances. 



Thus, gentlemen, you have some idea of the advantages claimed 

 by Mr. Gilmore in his bee arrangements. We hesitate not to say 

 that the improvements about to be generally introduced in the 

 management of bees is as far in advance of the old mode as rail- 

 road traveling is beyond the old style of stage-coach conveyance. 



We trust that the investigations of your committee will show 

 that we are justified in this expression of our opinion. 



The lioney presented by Messrs. Edwards & Piatt, and that by 

 Roswell L. Colt, of Paterson, by the hands of Mr. Frick, his 

 gardener, were tried. Almost an equal division of opinion pre- 

 vailed as to the several qualities. Both were excellent. The 

 wholesale method of yielding a large crop of honey, of a perfectly 

 uniform quality, by the Edwards & Piatt method is admired, 

 promising as it does to produce a popular supply of that delicious 

 article. The wheat and dark oat sent to the Club by John N. 

 Rose, Esq., of Crooked Lake, are remarkably fine. The oats yield 

 75 bushels per acre. 



The subject of the mines of phosphate of lime ordered for con- 

 tinuation. 



The Club then adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



