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Mr. Wilcox — I sometimes lay a wide 

 board between two hives, extending out 

 a foot or two. . Tliat creates a separa- 

 tion. At other times I turn one hiVe 

 facing the other way — in the opposite 

 direction — then there is no difficulty. 



Mr. Taylor — It depends some on how 

 the swarm comes back, or is put back. 

 If they return voluntarily, they come 

 in a swarm, and, the best you can do, 

 some of them are apt to go into the 

 reighboring hives; but if they have 

 become caught in a basket, by a little 

 action you can easily get them into 

 the right hives. 



Mr. Macklin — If the queens are 

 clipped, they will very seldom cluster. 



Mr. Taylor — When I used to clip 

 queens (which I don't do now), some 

 years they v>'ould all cluster, and some 

 years hardly any of them would 

 cluster. 



Mr. Wilcox — Spread a sheet over the 

 hive while they are returning. 



Mr. Macklin — ^Suppose you have 5 

 swarms coming off all at once? 



Mr. Wilcox — You can have 5 sheets. 



Mr. Macklin — ^Tou can't be in 5 

 places at once. 



Mr. Wilcox — I have had 8 or 10 at 

 once, and had to separate them; I have 

 liad them all alight in a bunch, and 

 had to separate them. 



The secretary then read the paper 

 by Mr. E. B. Tyrrell, of Detroit, on 



"Hoyv Bee- Keepers Can Help Each 

 Other." 



There are a great many ways in 

 which bee-keepers can help each other, 

 but I have in mind at present three 

 which I consider of much importance: 

 First, by Encouragement; Second, by 

 Instruction, and Third, by Organiza- 

 tion. 



Taking the first under consideration, 

 let me say that this applies more es- 

 pecially to the young bee-keeper who 

 is taking up the business as a voca- 

 tion. Well can I remember in my 

 early days of bee-keeping, when I 

 would scan the bee papers for articles 

 of encouragement, and with what rel- 

 ish I would consume such an article, 

 when found. How many times, though, 

 was I discouraged by reading articles, 

 and editorials too, that placed bee- 

 keeping in the "side issue" class. We 

 were told that it was too uncertain. 

 Writers seemed to think that it was 



their duty to flaunt continually the 

 red flag of danger. 



I am frank to say that I do not look 

 with favor upon methods of that kind. 

 There are already too many "Doubting 

 Thomases" in the world to-day. We 

 meet the obstacles in our business 

 soon enough. When we find ourselves 

 in the spring with dead bees we don't 

 need the fellow who said, "I told you 

 so," but we welcome the one who says 

 "That's nothing; that's one of the ob- 

 stacles in the business to learn to 

 overcome. Just make those old combs 

 into wax, buy some more bees, and 

 start again." 



So help your fellow bee-keeper by 

 encouragement. Remember that what 

 the average man needs is confidence. 

 We can generally do what we think 

 we can. The fellow who stands in the 

 road yelling that a thing can't be done, 

 js generally knocked over by the other 

 fellow doing it, simply because he 

 didn't know that it couldn't be done. 



There aro many men to-day who are 

 making bee-keeping their life work. 

 A few years ago we would have 

 thought this impossible. We do not 

 read so many discouraging articles as 

 formerly, and for that reason a bee- 

 keeper has a better chance to succeed. 



Second, we have Instruction. Did 

 you ever meet that bee-keeper who 

 was afraid to give you some instruc- 

 tion because you might be his com- 

 petitor? And did you stop to think 

 what a narrow view that fellow took'' 



It is a universal law that the more 

 we give the more we receive. How 

 much better for us to tell our fellow 

 bee-keepers the Kinks we have learned, 

 and get from him what he has learned. 

 In this way we are both the gainers. 



How unwise for us to withhold from 

 the new man instruction which will 

 help him get the best product, put it 

 in the best selling condition, and help 

 hini get the best price. By doing this 

 we have placed him under obligations 

 to us, and he will be slow to spoil our 

 market by lower prices, or poor goods. [^ 

 Help the man and he is your friend. 

 Refuse help and he is not so particular 

 whether he injures you or not. 



So help your fellow bee-keeper by 

 instruction. Both of you will gain, but 

 the instructor will gain the most. You 

 can not teach unless you learn. It 

 will demand analysis of your methods. 

 You will leirn your weak methods, and 

 you will see those pet methods of 



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