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much. As I said before, it doesn't matter so much, tlien, 

 what temperature you have as that you find at what tem- 

 perature the bees seem most quiet, and tlien try to liold it 

 at that. 



Mr. Dadant — I wish to emphasize what Dr. Miller says 

 as to the temperature at which bees are quietest. The 

 thermometer is always needed to tell you whether, when the 



President George W. Yokk. 



bees are not quiet, the temperature is too high or too low. 

 If you find your bees quiet at say 40 degrees and you come 

 back again and find they are not quiet, and the temperature 

 is 42 degrees, you know it is a little too high. If you did 

 not have a thermometer you would not be able to tell whether 

 it was too high or too low. I believe that is the only pur- 

 pose of the thermometer. If you can get your bees quiet and 



