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can hardly get pure cider vinegar made by fermentation, 

 and that's the advantage of honey-vinegar. 



Mr. Johnson — The matter of fermentation is by ferments 

 and germs, and it is the same way if you can a jar of fruit 

 If no air gets into the jar it is impossible, but as soon as a 

 little air gets into the jar, fermentation takes place, because it 

 is the same as the oxygen that gets into the barrel. Tha 

 more surface you have the more microbes you get, and they 

 could be at work on that and fermentation would take place 

 much faster, and, besides, the degree of 98 Fahrenheit is the 

 favorable degree for any kind of fermentation. 



Mr. Meredith — I would like to say that the cheap vine-r 

 gar, or white wine, as it is generally called, is given the 

 name of distilled, and I also understand that the pure grades 

 of malt vinegar are worth 40 cents, and they are also dis- 

 tilled, so that if they can manufacture one and both by the 

 same process — fermentation — why can't they by some other 

 means? 



Mr, Wheeler — One word of warning to you people. I 

 have used, I suppose, a barrel of honey trying to make vine- 

 gar, and I have taken the recipes I have read in the bee- 

 papers for making that vinegar, and I have wasted my honey. 

 If you want to try it, try it on a small scale, and find out 

 what you can do. 



Mr. Meredith — I accidentally made a gallon of vinegar 

 superior to any I ever had, and I tried making a quantity 

 and I couldn't get it as good. I sent it over to my brother- 

 in-law and he thought it was very good sour wine. 



Mrs. Stowe — Can you make vinegar with feour honey? 



Dr. Miller— Sure ; it is that much on the way. 



Pres. York — I am sure this is the largest closing session 

 of the Chicago Nor|;hwestern Bee-keepers' Association I 

 have ever seen. I want to congratulate you on what I 

 think has been a successful meeting. It has been on ac- 

 count of the interest you have taken in it, and the prompt- 

 ness with which you have taken up the questions. I thank 

 you all for your courtesy in bearing with me as President. 

 I have tried to do my best, and it seems that everything 

 has worked so that we have had a grand time. I trust you 

 all feel that way. We now stand adjourned until the call 

 of the Executive Committee, probably in a year from now. 



