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Mr. Seastream. — When you have them piled up on top of each 

 other they are more or less damp. I never could get them so nice 

 and dry. 



Mr. Bishop. — You do not leave them more than one day? 



The Secretary. — I have had them over one or two hives where 

 they would accumulate the honey, put it into certain cells and seal 

 them over. You do not get them cleaned out; it is candied before the 

 next year. 



The President. — Well, we will proceed to the next question. 



Question. — Is there any law on spraying in Illinois? 



Mr. Heinzel. — I suppose the man that wrote this meant spray- 

 ing for fruit bloom. 



The President. — Yes, we will take it as meaning that. To my 

 mind there is no law in the State of lUinois against spraying. There 

 is a law in some state, in New York. 



Mr. Dadant. — When I was President of the State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association I had the task, with our Secretarj^, of going before the 

 Legislature and offering a number of bills, and we succeeded in getting 

 an appropriation; we also succeeded in getting opposed particularly 

 by Senator Dunlap, who has 1,600 acres of apple orchards; when we 

 went to him with our proposed anti-spraying law, that is, a law against 

 spraying when the trees are in bloom : He said to us : "It is impossible 

 for a large orchardist to wait until all the bloom is down before beginning 

 spray, he must begin and he does begin, if he is sensible, after the main 

 bloom is down, and then moves on until he is through. Apple trees 

 do not all bloom at the same time, that is different varieties do not, 

 but, if you have positive proofs, and can bring them, that bees have 

 been actually killed or poisoned by the spray, we will consider your 

 law, otherwise we will have to set it aside." Well, we had a great 

 many hearsay cases, we had no positive proof, not one, of bees or 

 apiaries suffering from the spray. There were cases, we were told, but 

 nobody came forward with a statement that he had lost bees and that 

 he knew it was from spraying, and so all we could do was to acknow- 

 ledge that Senator Dunlap had the right against us, and he was the 

 chairman of the committee who was to consider this matter of laws on 

 spraying. Senator Dunlap said to us, "The sensible orchardist will 

 not spray his trees in full bloom; a few of the dealers in sprays advised 

 spraying in full bloom, but they have quit it because it is not the 

 thing to do." 



Mr. King. — In my neighborhood there is a party that has an 

 orchard, not such a large orchard and they said the only time they are 

 going to spray is when they are in full bloom. They know it will kill 

 the bees and the intention is to kill the bees. 



Mr. Dadant. — I have an expression too strong for publication 

 on that fellow. 



Mr. Kildow. — That fellow will get into my way. 



Mr. Ressinger. — Mr. King, did you ever notice any difference 

 in your bees after spraying of the trees, did you notice any weakening? 



Mr. King. — There never was any spraying done. That is, there 

 was no spraying done after the trees had fairly leaved out. They 

 always sprayed for San Jose scale and that is as far as they went in 



