STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATIOX. 143 



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 anv other 

 business that you will have as much enioyment studying 

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

 lems, and wdien 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 wdiy I count it a profitable business, even if you have 

 to have something else to go along w-ith 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 wdien 

 tliey will be able to laj' business aside and go into the 

 countrj^ and enjoy life; and nearly everv 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 

 cither of these two States. 



MAKING AND SELLING HONEY-VINEGAR. 



Pres. York — Some want to hear from Air. ]\Iuth on the 

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

 And is it profitable? 



Dr. ]\liller — Give us the last answer first and then maj^be 

 we won't care to hear the rest. 



I\Ir. 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 wafe 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 dowm about 140 feet on one street and about 50 

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

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

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

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

 people were 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 3.^ cents a .gallon; and it also created a trade 



