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we advise every one to make bee-keeping one of the many lines of in¬ 
dustrial pursuits, by no means enter into it without gaining the 
needed information. This can easily be obtained from the u Hive 
and Honey Bee," by Rev. Mr. Langstroth, and other books on ap¬ 
iculture, and from bee Journals. 
One county in Wisconsin has, this past year, produced seventy 
thousand pounds of honey. If each county produced a like amount, 
the product of the state would be four millions two hundred thou- * 
sand pounds of honey besides the increase of colonies. Now, there 
is not a single county in the state that lacks the means, the flowers 
or the brains, but only a little knowledge and'enterprise to produce 
even a greater amount. Then let us put the means in reach of 
every school-boy and girl in our flourishing state and educate them 
in the science and art of apiculture, and nothing will prevent the 
multiplication of swarms until the tons of wasting sweets, now lost 
in the cells of the flora of our state, will be gathered up to sweeten 
and gladden the life of man. 
In response to a question by some member of the convention, as 
to how much honey one swarm of bees would make in one day, Mr. 
Maryatt said: 
I have had them bring me eight pounds a day. It is stated that 
one good swarm will produce, in the basswood season, 15 pounds. 
Question. What do bees make comb from, and how much honey 
does a new swarm carry off when they leave the old swarm ? 
Mr. Maryatt.'I am asked two questions: Bees fill themselves 
with honey at the natural swarming, and a good swarm carries 
away about 8 or 10 pounds to start in their new home with. The 
honey is secreted in the abdomen and forms comb there, and they 
consume 25 pounds of honey in making one pound of comb. Up 
in the northern part of this state this year a man had forty 
swarms and he sold twenty of them to his neighbor, and he took 
them to another locality. The neighbor extracted the honey they 
made and got 2,000 pounds, and the former owner undertook to 
raise honey in boxes, from the twenty swarms kept, and he didn’t 
get 200 pounds in the same time the other man got 2,000, using an 
extractor. 
Now, in relation to wintering. You will find that the honey-bee 
is a native of a warm climate, and though we have a cold one, if 
