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STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. 79 



saying, "In my locality." There were three or four bee- 

 keepers out there, and they had had considerable discussion 

 about this extracted and comb honey business, and one man 

 was radical on the side of comb honey, and he didn't believe 

 that they could produce so much extracted. One of them 

 ran about 40 colonies for extracted and the other ran 40 

 for comb, and they came out very nearly even, and they 

 gave both -parts of the apiary the same kind of care. By the 

 way, the one party who ran entirely for comb took more comb 

 honey than any of the other parties did of extracted, and all 

 in a circle of five miles, and the locality was very nearly the 

 same. The one comb-honey man took and weighed it care- 

 fully, and I helped him weigh it. By the way, he produced 

 it in two-pound sections, and he took 215 pounds of comb- 

 honey to the colony in big hives, 35 of them. I agree, al- 

 though he is perhaps a little too much on the other side, 

 but I believe extracted ought to sell for very nearly the 

 same amount as comb. 



Mr. Wilcox — Supposing there were 225 pounds of comb 

 honey to the colony, then we will agree that there should 

 not be much difference in the price. 



Mr. Horstmann — There is a great difference in locali- 

 ties, judging from the report of my own colonies this year. 

 The best colony I had this year produced 1.39 pounds of comb 

 honey. I had a double-hive colony which produced 163 

 pounds of comb honey. The best for extracted was 117^2- 

 Now, you see the comb honey is away ahead. It must be the 

 locality; I don't know what else. I have never yet produced 

 twice as much extracted honey from one colony as comb. 

 There has been many a time that I have produced more ex- 

 tracted than comb, but very seldom. 



Mr. Meredith — Perhaps it might be that the man that is 

 running for comb honey might be able, with his manipulation, 

 to produce more comb honey than extracted; but at the same 

 time a man like Mr. France could double the amount of 

 extracted over comb. 



Mr. France — I would plead for the rest of the country 

 not to be as my own State. Many of the bee-keepers in 

 Wisconsin, when they have hold of the extractor handle they 

 don't know when to stop. They extract too late. 



Mr. Wilcox — There are some bee-keepers that can have 

 all of the honey put into the supers so that the bees scarcely 

 have any to go into winter quarters with. That's in the 

 management. 



Mr. Moore — There is a whole lot of this that enters into 

 the comparative production of comb or extracted honey. The 

 bees, of course, fill the comb all new. If you make them 

 build the large frames out of which we take extracted honey 

 of new — if, as in my brother's case, you have thousands or 

 tens of thousands of empty combs which simply have to be 

 filled with the liquid honey by the bees, you might get a greats 

 deal more extracted honey than comb honey. 



Mr. Longsdon — The parties had the combs all stacked 

 aviray — ^nice, clean combs, and the test was given fair and 

 square in favor of the extracted business. 



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