. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April : 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 261. Report of the Vermont Bee-Keepers' Convention. BY M. F. CRAM. The 24th annual convention of the Vermont Bee-Keep- ers' Association was held at Middlebury, Feb. 23 and 24, 1899. The meeting- was called to order at 1:30 by Pres. R. H. Holmes, praj-er was offered by O. J. Lowrey, and the minutes of last meeting- were read and approved. The fol- lowing committees were appointed by the chairman : Nominations—A. E. Manum, W. G. Larrabee, and J. I. Clark. RESOLUTIONS—W. H. Bristol, H. L. Leonard, and G. W. Fasset
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April : 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 261. Report of the Vermont Bee-Keepers' Convention. BY M. F. CRAM. The 24th annual convention of the Vermont Bee-Keep- ers' Association was held at Middlebury, Feb. 23 and 24, 1899. The meeting- was called to order at 1:30 by Pres. R. H. Holmes, praj-er was offered by O. J. Lowrey, and the minutes of last meeting- were read and approved. The fol- lowing committees were appointed by the chairman : Nominations—A. E. Manum, W. G. Larrabee, and J. I. Clark. RESOLUTIONS—W. H. Bristol, H. L. Leonard, and G. W. Fassett. Next in order was the following paper by W. G. Larra- bee, on The Production of Extracted Honey. Bees run for extracted honey should be watcht more closely in the springs to see that they do not get short of honey, for I find that I am more liable to be deceived on the amount of honey in the hive, as they will fill all of the combs for perhaps two inches below the super, and the rest of the comb will have no honey in it at all. This is not an invariable rule, but it is more liable to be the case when run for extracted honey than for comb. I use 10 Langstroth frames in the brood-chamber, and a division-board; and 10 Langstroth frames in the upper story without a division-board, spacing the frames a little farther apart. This allows the bees to leng-then the cells a little, and they can be uncapt more readily, and more honey can be put into a frame. I put the upper stories on before the bees begin to get honey to amount to an^'thing, and before white clover opens, sometimes in fruit-bloom. I do this in order to give them plenty of room before they begin to get the swarming- fever, and do not let them g-et their hives too full before ex- tracting. I extract as soon as the combs are about one-third capt, and in most years honey will not sour if as ripe as this, but at the close of the season I like to let them cap the combs nearly all over, as I think it gives the honey a be
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