72 MEETING OF INSPECTORS OF APIARIES. 
4 man put in his place who is competent, but under no circumstances 
subject an inspector to the criticism of the bee keepers of the com- 
munity or of the bee-keeping press. This is unwise, for it gives the 
public a prejudice against inspection rather than against the indi- 
vidual inspector, while those few deserving of censure are perhaps 
una ffected. 
BOILING HONEY FROM DISEASED COLONIES. 
Mr. Morn. Mr. France has said that you can not kill the germs in 
honey until you boil’and boil until the life is all out. 
Mr. Ranxin. All you have to do is to make a hot fire and the 
honey will boil. Of course you have got to boil it sufficiently long 
to kill the germs. 
Mr. Murn. How large is the tank reservoir? 
Mr. Ranxin. Big enough to hold your combs; as Abraham Lincoln — 
said of your legs, they must be long enough to reach the ground. The 
tank used by one bee keeper is 6 feet square and 4 feet high, and you 
would be surprised to see the amount it will take care of. 
Mr. Tues (Wis.). Are the frames destroyed then 4 
Mr. Rannrin. Yes; we never use any secondhand frames. 
Mr. J. A. Rouse (Mo.). I would like to ask if that water does not 
get too thick ¢ 
Mr. Rankin. Not at all. 
Mr. Rouse. How do you get rid of the honey? I tried that plan 
and found that honey and wax hung with the frames until they did 
not look like frames. 
Mr. Arcuiey. Mr. Rankin’s treatment is similar to ours except that 
we burn. The labor for digging ditches is very cheap. It would 
only cost us $5 to get ten ditches, and in each ditch we can burn 30 
or 40 colonies. Our treatment is something like your California treat- 
ment, except that it is not so complicated and is less work. 
Mr. Ranxrn. That is another phase of the proposition. Conditions 
are different in that also. In California you can not hire a man to do 
the work for less than $80 per month. 
Doctor Puiniies. We have gone over the subject of treatment thor- 
oughly, and I think all persons here have arrived at about the same 
conclusion; that is, that it will not do for a man who has a few 
colonies in one part of the United States to write to our bee journals 
and tell us all what to do. We want to know what he is talking 
about. The vast majority of the men who write to-day know 
nothing about the varying conditions. What will work in one 
little county in the East will not work in the West, and vice versa, 
the methods of the West will not work in the East. Suppose that 
Mr. Scholl should sit down here and tell everybody in the United 
States to burn their bees. i 
