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EIGHTH ANNUAL. REPORT OP THE 



for the foul brood inspector or any 

 legislative acts in reference thereto. 



Now, you know that Paul in the 

 Epistle to the Romans says that the 

 law was made that sin might abound, 

 and the law is made you see not for 

 the man who is doing right, but for 

 the man who is doing wrong. There 

 is no use of a law that condemns the 

 murderer or the man that is doing 

 any violence towards his neighbor, for 

 this body; they are not found here; 

 they are found in lots of places in our 

 large cities and some in the country; 

 but every man that is right is a law 

 to himself; and in reference to this 

 disease of foul brood, if every bee- 

 keeper in the land went into it thor- 

 oughly and took the precaution to look 

 after his own apiary, there would be 

 no need of any legislation. While we 

 are the most progressive people in the 

 world in reference to inventions gen- 

 erally and to the advancement of our 

 pursuits, as far as the financial end is 

 concerned, Europe is ahead of us in 

 reference to the technical and scien- 

 tific side, and we make a great mis- 

 take in not looking after the technical 

 and scientific side of bee culture. I 

 think every book on bee culture which 

 contains the physiology and anatomy 

 of the bee should be read with the 

 same interest by bee-keepers that the 

 practical side is. 



I noticed to-day when the lecture in 

 reference to the anatomy of the bee 

 was taking place that those present 

 kept dropping out of the audience 

 until there were very few left before 

 the discussion ended, among the rest 

 was myself. 



There are other possibilities in bee 

 culture, and these are in reference to 

 minor details in the handling of bees. 

 Mr. Ernest Root gave me some point- 

 ers to-day, and one of them was that 

 the handling and the stirring up of 

 the bees produced more activity. We 

 always say we want to let colonies 

 alone during the working season. I 

 don't know whether it was Mr. Hutch- 

 inson or some one else told me that 

 moving bees from one spot to another 

 during the season increased their pro- 

 duction. I think it was Mr. Dadant 

 said that. 



There are some things in the way 

 of judicious management in the stir- 

 ring up of the bees that produces 

 great activity. The introduction of . 

 slatted frames between the regular 



ones of the colony will do that. I 

 wasn't aware of it until this very fact 

 was brought to my notice. I know it 

 makes a difference to the colonies 

 putting them in new quarters. I will 

 take a colony that has swarmed where 

 there are no slatted frames in — and I 

 think Mr. Holterman will bear me out 

 in some of the work with my hives 

 ^long that line — taking the frames 

 after they have swarmed, removing all 

 the queen cells and introducing 

 slatted frames puts the colony in the 

 light of a swarm that is in new quar-" 

 ters, and they go to work with re- 

 newed energy, and a non-swarming 

 colony works much faster than those 

 which have been put in new hives. 



I thank you for your courtesy and 

 for the attention that has been given. 

 (Applause.) 



The President — The next thing is 

 the cost of honey production, and the 

 gentleman who will respond to this 

 topic or toast is a man so methodical 

 in his every thought and every move 

 that I know he will give us almost 

 the exact results in the production of 

 comb honey and the cost of produc- 

 tion. I will call upon the Hon. R. L. 

 Taylor of Lapeer, Mich. (Applause.) 



Mr, Taylor — The secretary kindly 

 hinted to me, when I was notified I 

 would be expected to speak upon this 

 topic, that I had written a very nota- 

 ble article, as he termed it, a good 

 many years ago. Well, now, I don't 

 suppose he expects I am going to re- 

 hash that, and if you want the math- 

 ematics of it you will find it in the 

 "American Bee Journal" of January 

 29th, 1892; it was also published three 

 or four years ago in Mr. Hutchinson's 

 paper. 



You understand, of course, that the 

 production of honey costs labor and 

 supplies and this thing and that thing, 

 but then this is a_ toast. Now, re- 

 sponding to toasts ha^ always been a 

 bugbear to me, and I will tell you how 

 it was. Several years ago — ^it Is a 

 good many years ago now — 42 years 

 ago to-morrow we were married. 

 Well, a few weeks after that we at- 

 tended a Burns festival and. I was 

 called upon to respond to the toast of 

 "Our Offspring." (Laughter.) Now, 

 ever since when toasts are mentioned 

 or responses to -toasts, and I am ex- 

 pected to respond, it is no go. I am 

 like the boy who lived up outside of 

 our town, he was an inveterate stut- 



