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TWELFTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



honey; I was eight weeks ill, in the 

 house, and five weeks on my back and 

 not able to get honey to the market, 

 and they were hurrying me for another 

 shipment of honey; the grocers were 

 calling on them for honey; I know they 

 are advertising honey, through their 

 circular, at $3.60; they have to pay the 

 freight on the honey; they are adver- 

 tising it for $3.60, two cases, and single 

 one for $3.70, and yet when it gets to 

 the consumer he has to pay 25 cents; 

 I am condemning that. 



Mr. Cavanagh will admit that he is 

 talking for his own interests; we will 

 all honor him for his honesty. 



Pres. Huffman — We had a man in our 

 State who tried the plan of getting 

 comb honey in a large frame, using 

 thin foundation; he had produced 100 

 frames and sold nearly all of them; he 

 says he believes he likes it better than 

 section honey; he gets enough for if, 



Mr. Cavanagh — These plans are all 

 good. Everybody ought to sell honey 

 wherever they get a chance, extracted 

 or comb, but the point I am trying to 

 get at is that a man is not a highway 

 robber when he asks something for 

 his time that he spends out selling 

 hone^^ 



Crating Honey. 



"Would you crate one single case of 

 comb honey, if it went a short, distance 

 (about 20 miles) by express?" 



Mr. Pyles — No. 



Mr. Cavanagh — It would not pay. 



Pres. Huffman — I would say no. 



Mr. Dadant — Is that regardless of the 

 package used? 



Mr. Kannenberg — L^se a package so 

 that the honey can be seen. 



Mr. Pyles — Mr. of our city 



runs for comb honey; this fall he had 

 a little bit of trouble in shipping that 

 way; he would ship 3 or 4 cases to- 

 gether, crated but not packed in ship- 

 ping crates; he told me recently that 

 he had got everything settled satisfac- 

 torily with the Express Companies; one 

 batch shipped was badly broken; the 

 parties he shipped to took the honey, 

 and but held the express co'mpany and 

 got their pay; that is the only time 

 he has had any trouble in four or five 

 years in shipping in single cases. I don't 

 believe in patronizing the express com- 

 panies; I would send by parcel post. 



Mr. Cavanagh — There is a wrong con- 

 ception in the minds of the people about 

 breakage; it is usually due to handling 



and .damage done by the transfer wagon 

 and hot in the car itself. 



Mr. Doyden — It is true af express 

 shipments that nearly all the damage 

 is on the wagon and not the car. 



Mr. Dadant — Have any of you seen 

 this tin package, invented by Paul Hun- 

 ton, advertising in the Bee Journals? 



1 might explain that Mr. Hunton of 

 Colorado has invented this tin sec- 

 tion for the purpose of getting some- 

 thing cheap — ^which is the only thing 

 he has failed in; it is high priced. The 

 bees fill the tin section with comb 

 honey. On one side there is a little 

 isinglass so that you can see the honey. 

 It amounts to a single pound paste- 

 board package; it is the neatest and 

 cleanest looking package you can ima- 

 gine, and it takes the fancy of the eye, 

 but the trouble is — the price; it is much 

 more expensive than the wooden sec- 

 tion. 



Feeding Sugar Syrup. 



"Would you advise feeding about 10 

 or 15 pounds sugar -syrup every fall to 

 each colony, whether they needed it or 

 not? Object: Honey from fall flowers 

 being- not very good; also if foul brood 

 is present." 



Pres. Huffman — I would say if they 

 had planty of honey to winter on, not 

 to feed any sjTup. 



Mr. Cavanagh — I have had a lot of 

 experience in Michigan and here as 

 well. I have never found that a person 

 could get around "fall honey by feeding 

 sugar honey on top of it. In spite of 

 covering it up, the bees would get 

 through that layer of syrup that is in 

 the center of the brood nest. As far 

 as feeding, on account of foul brood, 

 I do not know what the person asking 

 the question is talking about. If you 

 have American foul brood: boil honey 

 fully and feed it back in the spring and 

 render his combs up; with European 

 foul brood, the same thing. There is 

 no particular object as a rule in feed- 

 ing bees because they have foul brood; 

 'the thing is — to get rid of it in the fall 

 of the year and not wait until another 

 season rolls round and then -have a 

 time with it. 



Tin Separators. 



"Will bees work on tin or in tin 

 separators as well as wood?" 



Pres. Huffman — I would say, no. 



Mr. Whitney — Perhaps I have had a 

 little experience in using tin separa- 

 tors that may be of some use in ans- 



