ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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I believe I am giving the bee-keepers 

 right here a trick of the trade, if they 

 do not already know it 



Keep the honey in a warm room for 

 three or four months after it has been 

 taken from the hive and it will not 

 granulate. The change of temperature 

 is what hurts. 



Those of you who have carried honey 

 over, hold it in a warm room and keep 

 the temperature uniform. It ought to 

 be steam heat or gas heat of anthra- 

 cite coal. 



At our Medinah warehouse that tem- 

 perature was kept at a point where it 

 hardly varied any. We had two watch- 

 men, night and day. 



If that honey granulates, we cannot 

 get more than seven or eight cents a 

 pound. 



We have learned, too, there is a 

 special trade in New York that will 

 take granulated honey, and that is the 

 Jews. 



They will take that, and why? They 

 want to use it for their sacrificial pur- 

 poses. They must have a certain 

 amount of honey and a certain amount 

 of comb. By melting up that granu- 

 lated honey they can get just what 

 they want. 



Mr. Coppin — Mr. Root, does it not 

 make any difference in regard to what 

 the honey is gathered from in the way 

 of granulating? 



Mr. Root — All the difference in the 

 world. 



Mr. Coppin — I found that the alfalfa 

 honey will granulate while the Illinois 

 white clover honey won't. 



Mr. Root — You can stop alfalfa if you 

 will treat it. 



Mr. Coppin — I have kept a case of 

 alfalfa honey in the same room with 

 our white clover honey — the white 

 clover honey kept clear, while the al- 

 falfa granulated, kept in the same 

 place. , 



Pres. Baxter — Are there any other 

 remarks on the subject? 



Question — In removing supers from 

 the hive, will a cloth saturated in 

 diluted carbolic acid, spread over the 

 frame, drive the bees down out of the 

 super? 



President Baxter — Get bee escapes is 

 a much better way. 



Mr. Kildow — I dJ not know how 

 strong it has to be. I tried it this 



fall, but I did not succeed. I do not 

 know whether I got it strong enough 

 or not. I do not think I drove the bees 

 over an inch; they got over the rack 

 and that is all. 



Dr. Baxter — I tried it. The first 

 time I did not have any success. I 

 made it stronger the next time — they 

 were all out of the hive. 



Mr. Pyles — Evidently that answers 

 the question — it will do it. 



Mr. Pyles — It has to be a certain 

 solution. 



Mr. Stone — J. A. Green gave that in 

 Gleanings. He said dilute it; make a 

 10 per cent solution to saturate your 

 cloth in. i 



He said when he went into his yard 

 with his motor truck, within fifteen 

 minutes he was ready to load his 

 honey on to the truck and take it to 

 the yard to extract it. He said, smoKe 

 them to start them to moving. (If es- 

 capes are used, you have to make a 

 trip the day before, to place them.) 



Don't leave it on too long or it 

 might flavor the honey. 



When I tried it I thought I would 

 give the bees a little time to get down; 

 they were a little dull; it was when 

 the nights were a little cold. 



I put them on between 11 and 12 

 o'clock; I thought they would be 

 ready after dinner ans^way. 



It must have been 2 o'clock before 

 I got out to examine, and they were 

 all out. 



I didn't have a bit of trouble, and I 

 thought it worked fine. 



The bees, instead of running where 

 that carbolic acid scent is, all run 

 down. 



For the benefit of bee-keepers, I want 

 to tell you something else: 



I had some hivf^s that were so heavy 

 I did not know how to manage them. 

 We had in our corn crib a block and 

 tackle to raise machinery up into the 

 loft. I conceived the idea of taking 

 that block and tackle and making a 

 temporary derrick of it. • 



I took three pieces, 2x4 white pine 

 12 feet long, bolted together at one 

 end — little blocks between so they 

 can be spread at the other end — and 

 you have a derrick that is easily 

 moved. 



Then I had a ring up there to hook 

 the block and tackle into and it is the 

 nicest thing I have tried. When I 



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