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And some water cans caused trouble, 

 but that can be managed. 



If the water cans are filled with 

 water and turned upside down the lit- 

 tle hole that the bees get the water 

 from will rust and, after you clean that 

 rust out, will rust again, and then it 

 will work- to perfection. That is a 

 thing I did not know in the beginning. 



Those cages were very indifferent; 

 some worked well, some worked poor- 

 ly and some didnt' work at all and 

 some had too many bees and they 

 suffocated. 



At the last station up Hudson Bay, 

 the parties there were all pleased, and 

 some I didn't hear from at all. When 

 I did not hear from parties' I generally 

 thought they were pleased or they 

 would say something. 



These cages cost almost as much as 

 • the nuclei boxes and they will not make 

 any more kindling wood after you get 

 done with them. I do not think the 

 one and two pound cages are as big a 

 hit as they claim for them, and I do not 

 encourage buying them. 



A member — Is not that a fine way to 

 ship a case of foul brood? 



Mr. Ahlers — You cannot ship it at all 

 in a cage. 



A member — If you ship three frame 

 nuclei? 



Mr. Ahlers — Sure. If you have got 

 some, that is a fine way of shipping it 

 out, too. 



A man who ig shipping bees is not 

 supposed to be shipping any foul brood. 

 I don't think any man who ships bees 

 will willfully ship foul broody bees; 

 not any more than a chicken man will 

 boil his eggs before he sends them out 

 for hatching. 



I shipped combs of sealed brood with 

 enough bees to cover them. Over 



half of them filled up with sealed brood. 



Mr. Baldridge — I tried three comb 

 nuclei of brood and a great many beeg 

 but I set that in place of a strong 

 colony and fill up with empty founda- 

 tion or combs, and I have as strong a 

 colony as there is in the yard. 



Mr. Bodenschatz — If you take a 

 nucleus and set it in place of a strong 

 colony, in a good many cases you get a 

 queen. 



Mr. Baldridge — I do not know as I 

 ever lost a queen by setting them in 

 place of a strong colony when they 

 were busy gathering honey. 



Mr. Dadant — That makes all the 

 difference in the world. 



A member — Would that not be rob- 

 bing a strong colony for a weak colony? 



Mr. Ahlers — Three frame nuclei is 

 strong enough. If I get them there be- 

 fore the ItSh of May I can ship them on 

 the 15th of April if I want to. 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. Ahlers is speaking 

 about 3 frame nuclei to get them there 

 in time enough to build up; Mr. 

 Baldridge says "when the honey flow is 

 on; that makes all the difference in the 

 world. 



Mr. Ahlers — I doubt whether Mr. 

 Baldridge would get any honey in our 

 country at all by that time. 



Mr. Oaks received bees from me last 

 spring; I would like to have him give 

 his experience. 



Mr. Oaks — The nuclei I got from Mr. 

 Ahlers came through in splendid shape; 

 they did remarkably well and they 

 filled a ten frame hive body overflowing 

 with bees, and if we had not such a dry 

 season they would have laid up an 

 abundant supply. 



Pres. Kannenberg — We will ask Mr. 

 E. G. Bacon to give us a talk on 

 "Country-wide Advertising to Increase 

 the Sale of Honoy." 



Talk by Mr. E. G. Bacon: 



Country-wide Advertising to Increase 

 the Sale of Honey. 



I would prefer to speak to you briefly 

 about some of the problems that the 

 bee-keeping fraternity are .confronted 

 with,' to increase the sale of honey. 



In order to carry on a country-wide 

 campaign to increase the sale of honey 

 we must first answer three questions 

 which confront us. 



The first one is — Whom to reach. 

 The second one — How to^^Teach them; 

 and the third one — ^Where is the money 

 coming from to maintain this cam- 

 paign? 



I will answer the first two questions 

 if you will answer the third. 



Whom to reach? It is manifestly 

 obvious that it is the general public 

 that we wish to reach; and, bearing in 

 mind it is the general public we wish 

 to reach, the question is easily solved 

 as to how to reach them. , 



Newspapers, magazines, bill boards 

 and street cars, and such mediums as 

 are generally used to reach the general 

 public. A campaign to increase the 

 sale of honey must necessarily be gen- 

 eral in its scope and character; it 

 must be educational. 



It is not sufficient \o tell the aver- 



