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it is the crop of honey that is coming 

 In. You take an ordinary crop of 

 honey, and there would be places 

 around that — ^unless the bees are differ- 

 ent from mine — when they would not 

 fill it out to the wood. They would eat 

 the foundation out. You have to have 

 a good honey flow to get sections of 

 that kind. 



Mr. Smith — He is the only man that 

 produced those results. Why should 

 we not attribute it to the sections? 



Mr. Hatch — ilt is a very easy matter 

 to pick out 500 sections to take to a 

 Fair. Mr. Taylor can do that; Miss 

 Candler can; I can pick them out; it 

 is the "average" that we want. 



Mr. Wheeler — ^There is nothing much 

 to that. I don't think that is anything 

 to judge from. A man going to a State 

 Fair to exhibit honey, could pick out 

 enough perfect sections to make a good 

 exhibit, but the question is, How many 

 has he like that? and how would the 

 whole crop size up? I know it is a 

 big thing. I will tell you what I have 

 done sometimes: I have taken a box 

 of honey~with that split section to the 

 market; the jolting of the wagon would 

 oftentimes shove those two pieces 

 apart; the bees will have that section 

 of honey full, and when I get to market 

 the wood will be loose in the section. 

 That wood works away from the foun- 

 dation — sometimes; it is not always so. 

 You have all sorts of peculiar troubles; 

 you cannot depend on things; you can- 

 not depend on the crop; you might 

 have a good flow of honey, but you 

 take the average crop, and the bees 

 will not fill out to the wood' — unless it 

 is an extra fine season. 



Mr. Taylor — Some of you here will 

 probably remember the honey I brought 

 here — two years ago, I think it was. I 

 brought the case just as it came off the 

 hive, just as well filled as that. I think 

 our t*resident can recall the crop of 

 honey produced in McHenry County a 

 couple of years ago. 



Pres. York — Mr. Coppin seems to get 

 enough -"or the Fair exhibit every year. 

 He makes the best of any comb honey 

 exhibit there every year; T don't know 

 how his crop would run; I wish he 

 were here to tell us all about it. 



Mr. Taylor — I don't think the sec- 

 tions have anything to do with it; It is 

 the crop; what would the bees care 

 about a split section! 



■Mr. Anderson — The 4% x 4% sec- 

 tions T use regularly, and up to the 10th 



of last July our honey in McHenry 

 County was almost perfect. I have 

 some of my first honey left; I don't know 

 but that it is as good as that. I have 

 perhaps a couple hundred pounds out 

 of 4,000 left that is just as fine honey, 

 apparently, as that section is, take it 

 as it runs; but from that time on we 

 didn't get any honey you might call 

 good. It was light sections all round. 

 It is simply the season, and the amount 

 of honey that is going in, that makes 

 the honey in that shape, and the 

 strength of your colony. 



Mr. Hatch — ^A few men I got honey 

 of the past summer use nothing but a 

 little bit of starter at the top of the 

 section. It is surprising how some of 

 the bees would build their honey 

 sealed like that. One man is a crank; 

 he thinks it is adulteration to put in 

 foundation, and his crop of honey was 

 filled out in good shape. I could easily 

 pick out 500 sections out of his as good 

 as that. 



Mr. Anderson — ^There is another 

 thing I tried last year, putting in full 

 sheets and also starters. I take a strip 

 of foundation and cut it into ten pieces, 

 and for the top starter I cut it into 25; 

 that is what I usually put in. I took 

 those sections and some I filled full — 

 some I filled the super half and half, 

 and before the 10th of July I could 

 not see any difference in the honey 

 that was taken off; one was just as 

 good as the other. It was all imper- 

 fect after that. 



Mr. Taylor — All of it was not im- 

 perfect? 



Mr. Anderson — ^Yes, a large majority 

 of it; honey came in very slow, if at 

 all, after the 10th of July, at that time. 



Miss Mathilde Candler, of Cassville, 

 Wis., next read the following pai)er: 



Bee- Keeping for Women. 



The avenues of labor and profit for 

 women have been thrown open to such 

 an extent within the last 30 or 40 

 years that they embrace nearly every 

 occupation to which men have access. 

 There are women lawyers, doctors, 

 dentists, architects, bankers, farmers. 

 I have even read of a woman black- 

 smith. 



The field of endeavor is limited only 

 by her individual, real capability and 

 desire to do the world's work. 



Among the occupations in which 

 women may be successful is bee-keep- 



