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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Burnett — ^What about comb 

 honey experience ? 



Mr. Ahlers — In selling comb honey 

 the people will nearly all buy one 

 pound, and somebody will come along 

 and stick their fingers in it and then 

 no one wants it; and if I want to 

 sell it I 'have to sell it for 10 cents a 

 pound, and it is very hard work to 

 deliver comb honey on the wagon in 

 small quantities; and those same peo- 

 ple will buy 10 pounds or more of ex- 

 tracted honey. 



Mr. Arnd — I have sold 4,000 pounds 

 of comb honey this year, local de- 

 livery, and I never have had any one 

 stick their fingers in the honey. I 

 don't want to be misunderstood; or do 

 not want to be understood as saying 

 that the railroad companies do not 

 pay their claims; i have had some 

 claims put in one day and paid the 

 next; but the railroad companies, as a 

 rule, do not settle their -claims very 

 well. 



Mr. Ahlers — I shipped 300 pounds 

 to Quincy, 111., to an agent; the h'oney 

 arrived in good condition; he paid for 

 it; when he opened up the last 60 lb. 

 box he found a can missing; the space 

 was filled up with sawdust. He said 

 that apparently you could not see that 

 the box had been opened; he told me 

 about it and It made me feel rather 

 blue about it, so I made it up to him 

 on the next order, and I didn't make 

 a claim. 



Mr. Burnett — You know it is' so easy 

 to get into a misunderstanding; we 

 are talking about two different things. 

 The impression would have gone 

 abroad perhaps if we had not objected 

 to it, that express companies will pay 

 , any damage to honey in transit, as 

 a matter of fact they won't, on comb 

 honey, unless they smash the pack- 

 age. 



The contents can be smashed; they 

 will tell you, "We delivered the outer 

 package as in good order; we don't 

 know anything about the contents; we 

 are not responsible for them." But 

 the express people will, if they bring 

 in a consignment of comb honey, and 

 it is broken down, and it is evident 

 that it has had unusually rough treat- 

 ment — they will, as a rule, pay for 

 their damage. 



Mr. Arnd — I guess it was about the 

 first of the year, or later than that — 

 about March I should think — the 



American Express Co. came up to my 

 place with a couple of crates of comb 

 honey, by express, -with charges about 

 $8.00. I did not know whom it was 

 from; the shipper didn't inform me 

 he was going to send any honey; I 

 didn't order it; I don't handle comb 

 honey, and I rejected it; I could not 

 find out whom it was from. About 

 three or four months afterwards a 

 man wrote me and said, "On such and 

 and such a date I sent you two cases 

 of honey; it seems to me it is p/etty 

 nearly time to pay for it." I told him 

 the circumstances; that I had rejected 

 it because the honey was leaking, and 

 there was $8.00 express charges. 



Pres. York — ^It is always best to 

 correspond in advance before shipping 

 honey to a dealer. 



Mr. Arnd — I tried to get Mr. Burnett 

 over the wire that day; I wanted to 

 know if he would handle it, but the 

 express company would not wait. 



Mr. WTieeler — ^The comb honey was 

 taken out and the case nailed up again 

 in the instance I spoke of. I got the 

 cases home before I knew it. 



Pres. York — We have one more 

 paper or talk from Mr. Wilcox, of 

 Mauston, Wis., on 



Double Walled Hives, Their Advatit- 

 ^ ages and Disadvantages. 



I had a letter from Mr. 'DIadant re- 

 questing me to write this, or if 1 came, 

 to tell it. I sat down and wrote an ar- 

 ticle and when I looked at it I was dis- 

 gusted, and I said that I would be at 

 the convention, and I would not occupy 

 more than three or four minutes. 



Another good reason I have for not 

 taking your time is that you know 

 more about double-walled hives than I 

 do. Their advantages are, first, that 

 they are better out-of-doors for win- 

 tering bees. It is difficult wintering 

 them out of doors without double- 

 walled hives. 



To winter well in our Northern cli- 

 mate, it is decidedly better to use the 

 double- walled hives; they are better 

 for out-door wintering, and in the early 

 spring they are better, as they pre- 

 serve a more even temperature. 



Take the months of April and May; 

 we suffer from cold in Illinois, and se- 

 vere cold and freezing nights. We can- 

 not build up our colonies readily and 

 well without some sort of protection. 



The extreme cold drives them over 





