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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



gas. I keep it in there for a while 

 and bottle it. 



Mr. Stewart — A man who has only 

 500 or a thousand pounds can sell his 

 honey without bottling it. 



Mr. Hassinger — How large a tank? 

 Mr. Kannenberg— Holds 500 pounds. 

 Mr. Bull — How large space? 

 Mr. Kannenberg — About 5 inches 

 space of water around it. 



President Miller — In order to keep 

 honey from candying it is necessary 

 not to stir it after it is heated. 



I find it sometimes convenient to 

 pass through a settling tank first after 

 we draw it into bottles and heat the 

 bottles in the boiler, that is if you only 

 have a very little common wash 

 boiler; have the temperature about 150 

 and allow it to cool slowly. That will 

 keep a long time without granulation. 

 "We have to have better methods if 

 we have a larger business — larger and 

 better apparatus. 



Mr. Kannenberg — I have kept my 

 honey after I have heated it up for 

 three or four months standing in the 

 same kettle and it never granulated. 

 Mr. Bull— I think that is the idea of 

 heating. I believe I can take honey 

 put up in small tin pails, after having 

 been thoroughly heated and all the air 

 gotten out of it, and it will stay with- 

 out granulation for a year, or until I 

 get ready to use it. 



A member — To what temperature do 

 you heat it? 



Mr. Bull — 120 degrees, to get the air 

 out of it, and it will stay liquid until 

 you get ready to use it. 



Mr. Hassinger — I should like to 

 know how large bottlers bottle honey; 

 at what temperature they bottle it, 

 and how they do that without getting 

 air into the honey again; even hot 

 honey, by draining it from the faucet 

 into another vessel, would get bubbles. 

 Mr. Bull — I had Ernest Root explain 

 their system. Instead of drawing 

 honey from the faucet — they have a 

 goose neck in which they drop it and 

 they have no air bubbles ; you take 'a 

 small bottle of honey, I don't care how 

 hot you heat it, that will cool before 

 the air bubbles get out of it. I have 

 had another plan: After filling those 

 bottles put them where it is warm, 

 120 degrees, and leave them there for 

 a day or two. 



Ml. Hassinger — Mr. Bull just ex- 

 plained my plan — having honey in a 

 warm honey room; put your honey in 



bottles and then have a warm honey 

 room in which to store them; keep it 

 in that room any length of time you 

 desire — until sold. 



Mr. Bull — The Root Company use 

 slow heat until they get ready to 

 bottle that honey; they bring it up 

 to 160 degrees quickly and bottle It 

 right away. 



In regard to air making honey 

 granulate, that is the idea of the honey 

 pump. 



Mr. Hassinger — I would like to ask 

 whether the honey pump will pump 

 honey up two stories, 12 feet or so? 



Mr. Bull — If you have power enough 

 you can pump it 100 feet. 



President Miller — Any further dis- 

 cussion on this subject? 



A member — I use hot air for my 

 liquefying; if the can is real full I 

 turn it upside down a little while; it 

 does not injure the flavor or color — 

 5 gallon cans. 



President Miller — The next we have 

 on the program is the appointment of 

 committees — what is your pleasure, 

 gentlemen ? 



Mr. Kannenberg — I make a motion 

 thsit we have a Committee on Resolu- 

 tions, of three. 



Motion seconded and carried. i 



President Miller — How shall this 

 committee be appointed? 



A member — ^I move the committee be 

 appointed by the President. 



Motion seconded and carried. • 



Mr. Kannenberg — I make a motion 

 that an Auditing Committee be ap- 

 pointed. 



Motion seconded and carried. 

 President Miller — For the Committee 

 on Resolutions I will appoint Mr. 

 Kannenberg, Mr. Wheeled and Mr. 

 Sievers. 



Mr. Kannenberg 1 make a motion 



that the President- appoint an Audit- 

 ing Committee. ; 

 Motion seconded and carried. 

 President Miller — I will appoint on 

 the Auditing Committee — Mr. Mace 

 and Mr. Hassinger. 



Question — Is it possible to have your 

 hives just before the honey harvest 

 filled with 18 frames of Hoffman size 

 brood; if so, how can it be done? 



Mr. Baxter — Have to have two con- 

 genial queens I think. 



President Miller — I think it is done 

 in many cases but we cannot always 

 do it; have plenty of honey in the 



