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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Pres. Dadant — I believe you are 

 speaking of different locations; Mr. 

 Baxter was speaking of Illinois, and you 

 of New York. 



Mr. Tyrrell — Mr. Baxter, the plan that 

 I would advocate is a plan that a be- 

 ginner or an inexperienced man could 

 use. As soon as it is ripe on the 

 hives, if it is extracted properly and 

 cared for, you will, I believe, agree with 

 me, that honey would be just as good 

 as if it was left on the hives. 



There are conditions when honey left 

 on the hives might not be good — if you 

 had cold, nasty, rainy weather — those 

 are the conditions that we might run 

 up against in Illinois. 



Mr. Stone — It does happen. You let 

 your honey stay on until it gets real 

 cold; the bees are keeping it warm in 

 the hive and it is cold on the outside, 

 and your honey gathers moisture. 



I left two section cases that I didn't 

 know were there and the next spring 

 those sections were warped out of 

 shape and mouldy and they had been 

 as wet as though thej- had been in 

 water, and the honey was spoiled. 



Mr. Duby — When you are going to 

 extract honey, how do you keep from 

 getting unripe honey? 



Mr. Tyrrell — Sometimes you can't; 

 but if you use your storage tank, that 

 unripe honey will come to the top. 



If it does remain thin, and does not ■ 

 ripen, draw it off and don'L let it go 

 as first class honey. 



Mr. France — Another thing: If you - 

 will follow the advice given in brother 

 Badant's paper, and put your bee-es- 

 capes on the night before, and take 

 those off in the morning, and don't 

 take off today's gathered honey, you 

 will get rid of that thin honey. I don't 

 take off much honey in the afternoon. 



Mr. Stone — I don't run it into the 

 storage tank. 



AVhen I am running on a small scale, 

 I never have any help to extract; and 

 run it off into thirty pound pails that 

 basket into one another — and occupy 

 but little space when empty. I have a 

 great many of them. In running it 

 out, I find I have thin honey on top. 

 I run out as long as it is thick, and 

 then run out some that isi as thin as 

 water. I set that on to the stove, in 

 water, and let it get warm enough so 

 tliat every particle of wax rises to the 

 top; have never strained honey in my 

 life; I skim it; and it is as clear as 

 w-ater; it beats straining to my mind. 



Five or six hundred pounds is as 

 much as I run out in one day. 



Mr. Duby — The gist of these argu- 

 ments and discussions here is for the 

 enlightenment of every one of us. 



I will ask this association — could it 

 not work means to interest people 

 more largely in different methods, and 

 have local conventions in different 

 counties or districts — as we are doing 

 in our part of the state ? We have four 

 counties — Kankakee and Iroquois and 

 two others, and we have had four 

 meetings — two in Kankakee County 

 and two in Iroquois. We have two 

 members -here. 



And I am pleased to state we have 

 larger audiences than we have here 

 tonight. 



Of course the people who attend 

 those meetings are not like Mr. France 

 and Mr. Stone and other of the men 

 here; they are like myself and Mr. 

 Roberts. I think the result obtained 

 has been very satisfactory. It creates 

 an interest. 



I know there are more than a half 

 dozen interested in bee-keeping around 

 this city — Now whre are they? Why 

 don't we have more bee-keepers pres- 

 ent here? That shows a lack of inter- 

 est; we should have more bee-keepers 

 from all over the State. 



I have an idea that the State ought 

 to interest themselves in having these 

 local conventions; of course it has to 

 be done oh a small scale, as we have 

 been doing in our part of the country. 

 It is work, I will admit. But our meet- 

 ings are getting more interesting all 

 the time, and we have a larger at- 

 tendance than e>'er before. 



At the first meeting we had fonr 

 present — and the next time there were 

 fifteen — ^and it has ben growing all the 

 time, until now we have quite a few. 



I wonder if this meeting cannot argue 

 this matter, and try to have local or- 

 ganizations in different pai;ts of the 

 State — that would educate the bee- 

 keepers and the people at large. 



Our local papers have some nice ar- 

 ticles on the meetings that we have 

 had. 



By keeping this before the public 

 all the time, it might built up a line of 

 education, and finally, more people 

 would be interested. 



We have had a strong fight in our 

 country with foul brood; a great many 

 times I have treated my bees, but 

 the trouble is with our neighbor's bees; 



