State Bee-Keepers' Association. 



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united efforts, give to the public a report that will place us high up in the 

 pinnacle of fame as an industry, and give it a growth that will be healthy 

 and enduring, and which, if properly nurtured, will develop into one of the 

 chief industries of the land. Let us prove worthy of the task, and ever bear 

 in mind that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and that 

 luture appropriations may depend largely upon how wisely and judiciously 

 we spend the one just granted. Therefore, let us advance with care, and 

 put the very best possible means in force that are at our command to 

 awaken an interest and properly develop the industry. 



"We cannot afford to make any missteps. We have no time to theorize 

 or extemporize. We want the pure cream and no skimmed milk. We want, 

 al.so, to fulfill the letter of the law, and not ask one cent from the State until 

 the book is upon the table of the Governor, subject to his inspection. And 

 now. Brother Bee-Keepers, we want your opinion as how best to proceed. 

 There is wisdom in council. 



"So far as my own individual opinion is concerned, I will give it for what 

 it is worth. Let the committee solicit each and every bee-keeper that is 

 handling bees according to modern improved methods, to give us their man- 

 ner of manipulating in about the following order ; 



"What kind of hives they use. 



"What sized frame for brood, and, if running for extractmg, what sized 

 frame and super. If for comb, what super is preferable. And give results 

 in honey, both in comb and extracted. Also give the shape in which comb 

 honey is produced — if it be one pound, two pounds, or odd-sized sections. 



"Also state the kinds of honey produced, and the quantities of each kind. 



"Give the principal resoufces fof honey in your immediate locality; how 

 many of your neighbors have bees, and how they manipulate them. What 

 per cent, of them use movable combs, and what per cent, fixed combs. 



"How many turn off a surplus to the market-s, and in what quantities and 

 condition . Also state as near as possible prices received. 



"Let each and every bee-keeper also give his views upon the best methods 

 of honey production, and how to improve and simplify the art, and weed out 

 the complications. 



"It should also be the duty of the comfnittee to counteract the feeling of 

 prejudice that exists in the minds of the public that all extracted honey is 

 impure and adulterated, with important essays upon that subject from suit- 

 able parties. • -, - 



"Also the belief among many that bees destroy grapes, peaches and 

 other fruit, should have a passmg notice. , 



"There should also be a treatise upon the importance of the numerous 

 existence of insects during the fruit bloom and tlie important part they play 

 in cross fertilization of the bloom in the vegetable kingdom. • 



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