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STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. I43 



Mr. Londgsdon — You mean a financial success? 



Dr. Miller — In the bee-keeping business a lot of suc- 

 cess comes just from the fun you have in it. There is hard 

 work, and- a lot of enjoyment. I don't know of any other 

 business that you will have as much enioyment studying 

 out problems. You have gone to bed studying out prob- 

 lems, and when you are gray-headed you will still be study- 

 ing out problems that way. It is a paying business in that 

 way. It is an enjoyable business. I will give you one rea- 

 son why I count it a profitable business, even if you have 

 to. have something else to go along with it to make your 

 living: There are a great many men, thousands of men in 

 this city to-day, men who have a great deal of wealth, and 

 are working hard, and they are counting on the day when 

 they will be able to lay business aside and go into the 

 country and enjoy life; and nearly every one is looking for- 

 ward to the time when he can take things easy. I -am going 

 fishing every day. I am having fun every day at bee- 

 keeping. I am having a good time as I go along, and that's 

 one of the reasons I can keep on at the bee-keeping and 

 make less money because I don't need to look forward to 

 the good time by and by. I am having my good time right 

 now. Again, a man could do it in Illinois or Indiana with no 

 other object in view except making money Then I say it 

 is doubtful if he can count it a very profitable business in 

 either of these two States. ; _ . 



MAKING AND SELLING HONEY-VINEGAR, 



Pres. York — Some want to hear from Mr. Muth on the 

 manufacture and sale of honey-vinegar. How is it done? 

 And is it profitable? 



Dr. Miller — Give us the last answer first and then maybe 

 we won't care to hear the rest. 



Mr. Muth— It pays if we can develop the trade, just 

 like developing a home-trade for your honey. I made four 

 or five barrels of honey-vinegar two or three years ago. I 

 told my good wife, "Well, this is pin money for you, and 

 if anybody wants honey-vinegar you can sell it to them at 

 40 cents a gallon." The first barrel we gave away to the 

 neighbors. I told my wife to talk about it. We gave away 

 a barrel of honey-vinegar, the finest in the world. I never 

 had anything like it. Well, I believe some of the neighbors 

 came in for two cents' worth. But I would rather let some- 

 body else develop that trade. Years ago my good father 

 made lots of honey-vinegar. I recall on Freeman street, 

 our lot ran down about 140 feet on one street and about 50 

 or 60 on another. We occupied a corner lot. Early in thd 

 spring we put out barrels and barrels of honey-water for 

 vinegar, and by August we had the finest vinegar you ever 

 tasted. In those days we had a retail grocery, and th^ 

 people wfere coming and going, and we gave them a sample 

 of honey-vinegar once in a while, and thereby developed a 

 wonderful trade in that line, and it created a trade that took 

 it all for 40 or 35 cents a gallon; and it also created a trade 



