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FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



next ensuing year of the Chicago- 

 Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion. 



Pres. Kannenberg — Whom will you 

 nominate as Vice-President? 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. E. S. Miller. 



Mr. Miller — I have more business 

 than I can attend to. 



A member — I second the nomination 

 of Mr. Miller. 



Mr. Dadant — I move the nominations 

 be closed and the unanimous vote of 

 this association be given Mr. E. S. 

 Miller for Vice-President. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Pres. Kannenberg — Mr. E. S. Miller 

 is declared elected Vice-President of 

 this Association. Whom will you have 

 for Secretary-Treasurer? 



Mr. Baldridge — Mr. Louis C. Dadant. 



Mr. Dadant — I have been in office for 

 several years; I w-ould rather be ex- 

 cused. 



Mr. Bull — I nominate Mr. E. H. 

 Bruner as Secretary-Treasurer. 



Mr. Dadant— I withdraw my nomina- 

 tion if Mr. Baldridge will allow. 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. President, I move 

 you that the unanimous vote of this 

 Association be cast for Mr. E. H. 

 Bruner as Secretary-Treasurer of this 

 Association. 



Motion carried and Mr. Bruner de- 

 clared so elected. 



Mr. France — Before going any fur- 

 ther I am reminded that up in our 

 state we have a standing legislative 

 committee; I think it would be well 

 that you have such a legislative com- 

 mittee. 



Pres. Kannenberg — How many mem- 

 bers do you elect? 



Mr. France — Not to exceed three; a 

 committee of one to three is better 

 than one hundred. 



Pres. Kannenberg — We are now open 

 for the election of a legislative com- 

 mittee of three. 



Mr. France — I would suggest, Mr. 

 President, that one of that committee 

 be your State Inspector, who is the 

 one directly interested in your welfare, 

 and if there is anything that turns up 

 he would be likely to know it first. 



A member — I nominate Mr. Kildow. 



Seconded and carried. 



Mr. Dadant — Your coming Secretary, 

 Mr. Bruner, is right here in Chicago 

 and he probably could do us lots of 

 good here. He would be the man to 

 put on that committee; I would sug- 

 gest our future President, Mr. N. E. 



France, Mr. Kildow, and Mr. Bruner 

 be elected the legislative committee; 

 they are all wide awake; are on to the 

 ropes, and will know what to do when 

 the time comes. I make a motion to 

 this effect. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Pres. Kannenberg — Mr. N. E. France, 

 Mr. Kildow and Mr. Bruner will serve 

 on that committee. 



The next thing on the program is 

 Stimulative Feeding, by Mr. Kenneth 

 Hawkins. 



Stimulative Feeding. 



(By Mr. Kenneth Hawkins.) 



Mr. Hawkins — I am too young in ex- 

 perience to come before a Convention 

 of bee-keepers and tell you very much. 



I do not believe that stimulative 

 feeding is necessary except in very 

 rare instances, especially for the pro- 

 ducer of honey. I know in my own 

 experience that a great many times I 

 have found queens in the spring of 

 the year, after a hard winter when the 

 stores would be light, that had not yet 

 started to lay very many eggs. In 

 fact this last spring I found one or two 

 that even after all the others had got- 

 ten a good start had not yet laid a 

 single egg. You may say, on the spur 

 of the moment, that you would not 

 have such a queen in j'our apiary; it 

 must be a pretty poor one. 



But I think some of you will agree 

 with me that if a colony should go 

 into winter quarters lacking stores, and 

 have a hard w^inter, and having fruit 

 bloom frozen so that the only stores 

 were from a few dandelion, and would 

 struggle along, and in spite of freezing 

 nights and continual rain — that under 

 such circumstances it might be well, 

 and I have found, the feeding of a 

 very thin syrup, not more than once or 

 twice, will do a great deal to start that 

 queen laying immediately; and like 

 a good many other people you might 

 say that all she seemed to need was a 

 little helping hand; and a little stimu- 

 lative feeding of that sort would cause 

 her to lay in good shape and be all the 

 better for it. 



I believe most experienced bee-keep- 

 ers think that stimulative feeding 

 should be done in the fall; that it is 

 very foolish rb put a colony in winter 

 quarters with just stores enough to , 

 carry them through the winter and de- 

 pend on fruit bloom or dandelion or 



