ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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The nominations for Vice-President 

 were: Mr. Kannenberg; Mr. Arnd and 

 Mr. Cavanagh. 



Mr. Pyles — I move that the informal 

 ballot be made formal, and that Mr. 

 Kannenberg, having received thei ma- 

 jority of votes cast, be declared elected 

 as Vice-President of this Association. 



Motion seconded and carried, and the 

 vote of the Association cast for 1913 

 for Mr. Kannenberg. 



Pres. Huffman — The next under the 

 election of officers is that of Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer. 



Mr. Kannenberg — I nominate Mr. L. 

 C. Dadant. 



Nomination seconded. 



Mr. Dadant — I nominate Mr. Cavan- 

 agh. 



Mr. Pyles^ — Before Mr. Cavanagh 

 gets a chance to second his own 

 nomination: I move that the rules be 

 susipended and that Mr. Dadant be de- 

 clared elected. 



Mr. Dadant — I would rather you 

 would elect some one else as Secretary 

 and Treasurer; I have had the office 

 for two or three years. 



Pres. Huffman — I think that is the 

 reason they want to re-elect you, they 

 are so well satisfied they do not want 

 anybody else to have the office. 



Mr. Kannenberg — I move you that 

 the nomination be closed and that Mr. 

 Dadant be elected by acclamation. 



Motion seconded. 



Pres. Huffman — All in favor of the 

 last motion, that Mr. D. C. Dadant be 

 elected by acclamation as Secretary 

 and Treasurer of this Association, say 

 aye. It is unanimous. 



Pres. Huffman — ^We have a name be- 

 fore VIS — the name of Mr. Cavanagh in 

 regard! to "The Use of the Automobile 

 in. Out-Apiary work." 



"The Use of *he Automobile in Out- 

 Apiary Work." 



Mr. Cavanagh — Mr. President: I 

 wish to explain to the Convention that 

 I hove not prepared a paper, for the 

 reason that I am so full of the sub- 

 ject of automobiles, I think it is span- 

 taneous comibustion with me when I 

 stand on my feet. Wihich do you want 

 me to talk aJbout the more — 'Automo- 

 (biles or Out- Apiary work? Now I 

 suppose the reason I am requested to 

 give a talk on automobiles today is be- 

 cause I featured the automobile trailer 

 in Gleanings for out-apiary work. 



When I started in the automobile 



business it was with a definite sys- 

 tem in mind of curtailing expenses. 



The automobile trailer plan was a 

 success in theory but a failure in prac- 

 tice because the car would not stand 

 up under it. I did not have a car that 

 was ibuilt for that kind of work; the 

 ordinary car in use will not stand 

 truck work; neither will the tires stand 

 it; yet as far as the trailer was con- 

 cerned, and £s far as the system was 

 concerned, it was a success. Some of 

 you may not know just what this 

 trailer car was; so let me explain that 

 it was an ordinary pleasure car at- 

 tached to which was a two wheeled 

 trailer, with platform QV2 x 11; this 

 trailer was hung on the tonneau. 



On this platform, 6 x 11, was built 

 a wire cloth and canvas honey house 

 containing mounted power extractor 

 and gasoline engine to run it and 

 steam decapping knife outfit with gen- 

 erator. 



When we went to the yard to do the 

 extracting, instead of the usual routine 

 of running around and getting our 

 working tools together, and finding we 

 had forgotten something and that we 

 did not have- everything in hand which 

 we needed — we had the outfit right 

 there, and when we ran into the yard 

 we had on the trailer empty cans and 

 everything was there all ready to 

 start. 



We would run into the yard in a 

 convenient place to reach all the hives 

 right in among the bees, and we could 

 go anywhere, where it was smooth 

 enough. We would take our cans and 

 start our gasoline stove, put on our 

 generator to generate steam for the 

 decapping knife, and touch off the en- 

 gine, while one man starts at the j^ard 

 and begins to take off honey, and the 

 other man gets inside with his equip- 

 ment all set for honey, going in and 

 fixing his gasoline stove ready; the 

 engine is oiled up, and the third man 

 is on the outside setting his strainer 

 tank under the spout of the extractor. 

 So far we had to build a hole to stet 

 the strainer tank down under the tank. 

 That system worked out fine. We 

 would start out lots of d'ays and drive 

 from eight to fifteen miles, extract two 

 to three thousand pounds of honey, 

 case it all up, weigh it; come back at 

 night, leave the honey in the honey 

 house. When the man get home at 

 night if they have time they go to the 

 shop and empty out the cappings 



