ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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I extracted, it was the first of Octo- 

 ber. I examined every hive when I 

 put on the bee escapes, to see if they 

 had sufficient stores below for winter 

 and in what condition; set my divis- 

 ion board over where I wanted it to 

 remain during the winter, and put my 

 frames that I wanted to take out on 

 the other sde the division board, but 

 I found only one colony in the whole 

 apiary that did not have enough honey 

 for winter stores, because every frame 

 from one side to the other was full of 

 brood, and that was a queen from 1914. 



What was the result? I could not 

 take those frames out and kill the 

 brood. I had to watch the colony, and 

 as soon as the brood was hatched I 

 took out every frame and gave them 

 frames of honey. 



There was a queen two years old 

 that bred better than any queen on the 

 place. 



I have had queens only a couple 

 months old I had to supersede, and so 

 I believe, and my policy has always 

 been to watch the work of my queen 

 and pay no attention to her age, but 

 as to her work and the results, and in 

 that way I have gotten good results 

 from my colonies. 



EVENING SESSION. 



Convention convened at 8 o'clock, in 

 the Sun Parlor of the Leland Hotel. 



President Baxter — If it is the wish of 

 the Association tonight that we con- 

 tinue our session, we will listen to Mr. 

 Wiley. 



Mr. Wiley — I have been interested in 

 forming an association in our part of 

 the state. I did not know just how to 

 go about it; I did not know whether 

 we should join this Association or 

 form one of our own. 



President Baxter — Form one of your 

 own and affiliate with this Associa- 

 tion. 



Mr. Wiley — That is my opinion. I 

 thought it would be better on account 

 of the distance up here and the ex- 

 pense attached to coming to Spring- 

 field and attending one of these con- 

 ventions. 



I could get them to come together 

 there as it would be closer, where I 

 could not get them to come up here. 



If i can have the help of this Asso- 

 ciation, I can form an association to 



affiliate with this Association, and it 

 may do some good down there. 



I went down there five years ago. 

 There had not been anything done to- 

 ward cleaning up foul brood. 



I took up the work with Mr. Kildow. 

 He gave me the help I asked for. We 

 have got it in my neighborhood pretty 

 well cleaned up. This fall there were 

 three cases of European, one of Ameri- 

 can, so we have had something like 

 fifty cases the last three years. I think 

 that is a pretty good start. 



President Baxter — Where is your 

 home? 



Mr. Wiley — ^Wabash County. So far 

 we know there is only one man down 

 there who has ever belonged to an 

 association or reads anything about 

 bee culture or anything. I want to get 

 the people to reading. It seems that 

 they do not take any of the literature. 

 I have offered several inducements to 

 my near neighbors, offering to loan 

 them books arid publications. 



I have offered them, but they don't 

 seem to want to read. 



It is pretty hard for one fellow to 

 jump into that kind of a country and 

 do much, and it is going to take some 

 other strength besides my own. 



In the inspection work I found some 

 people who don't say anything; others 

 say you can go through my apiary if 

 you want to; others are looking for 

 you to come in and tear things up and 

 go away and leave it. 



Like everywhere else, I believe if a 

 stranger would come in our neighbor- 

 hood, he could do more than one who 

 lives close by. 



I want to solicit the help of this As- 

 sociation to get more people interested 

 down there. 



President Baxter — I would suggest 

 doing that. Do you not have any 

 Farmers' Institutes down there? 



Mr. Wiley — We have Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes, yes. 



President Baxter — That would be the 

 best way to get them interested, by 

 having the speaker at those institutes 

 talk to them and endeavor to get them 

 interested. 



Mr. Wiley — We had one there two 

 weks ago; nothing was brought up 

 about bees at all. 



The Secretary of the Farmers' Insti- 

 tute has got some bees, and Mr. Stone 

 told me he thought he got his appli- 



