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taking. I do not believe we have a 

 man who is fit to take Mr. Hutchin- 

 son's place and continue the Review. 

 I cannot see any benefit in my be- 

 longing to the National. 



President Baxter — We will lay this 

 question over until tomorrow. 



Mr. Stone — I will say in this matter 

 that, if we have to affiliate with the 

 National in a body or not get the 

 benefit of it, I am opposed to it be- 

 cause I believe a good many members 

 stay out of our Association because 

 the fee is so high and they cannot 

 join one without joining all; by all I 

 mean, the Review as one, the National 

 as another, and the Illinois State as 

 another. 



One man sent in $1.50; he said, if 

 that is enough to join the State As- 

 sociation, all right, but, if I have got 

 to take the Review to join the State 

 Association, you can send me back 

 my money; I put him down for $1 

 for joining the State Association and 

 sent him back $.50. 



Pres. Baxter — I think we decided 

 last year it was not necessary; that 

 they could join the State Society and 

 not the National, if they desired. 



Mr. Stone— Since they were reor- 

 ganized I didn't know how it stood. 



President Baxter — Our State corpor- 

 ation compels us to accept the fee of 

 any one who wants to .join this so- 

 ciety. 



We will defer this matter until to- 

 morrow. 



Mr. Stone — Before we adjourn: The 

 Secretary of the Commercial Associ- 

 ation has offered us the room that is 

 just off from their ofl^ce in which to 

 meet this afternoon. We will me 

 there after dinner, on account of the 

 City Commission needing this room 

 for an hour or two in the afternoon. 



QUESTION BOX. 



Question — Queens reared in June — 

 will they swarm the same season? 



Mr. Kildow — Sometimes they will. 



Mr. Dadant — I know of an old col- 

 ony that swarmed twice; and of 

 course the queen rearing in June it 

 was the same season. 



Mr. Kildow — A little out of the usual 

 but they will do it. 



President Baxter — I have caught as 



many as seven or eight queens in one 

 swarm, the second swarm. 



Mr. Pyles — I imagine the Idea was 

 — A queen reared and mated in June, 

 in the same colony, w;ill it swarm 

 again the same year? 



President Baxter — That depends 

 upon circumstances. 



Mr. Kildow — After a colony swarms 

 and rears new queens, they will 

 swarm again that season and some- 

 times they will swarm twice after 

 that; that is unusual. 



Mr. Handle — I got a swarm around 

 about the 24th of June. They swarmed 

 three times. 



Mr. Dadant — I think it would be a 

 mistake for us to lay down cast iron 

 rules for bees to follow; I don't be- 

 lieve they would follow them. 



Mr. Pyles — It has been given out by 

 a great many leading bee-keepers 

 that Italian queens re-hatched and 

 mated from the same hive will not 

 swarm if they have been given room 

 enough that year. They can be forced 

 to swarm, I believe, and yet there are 

 some colonies that will not be forced 

 to swarm. The first time I was in St. 

 Anne I went to Mr. Duby's; he had 

 been trying to force his bees to swarm 

 but they could not be forced; but in 

 most cases I believe that, if you give 

 the bees sufficient room to start with 

 and then crowd them down on room, 

 they will swarm. 



Mr. Coppin — The way I understand 

 it, it is the honey flow that causes 

 them to swarm; if there is no honey 

 flow, they will not swarm. You may 

 try to force them, but it is the honey 

 flow that causes them to swarm; of 

 course it is different if the bees have 

 not room to start the honey and there 

 is a good flow of honey in the field; 

 but we don't have many such swarms 

 because we generally look out for 

 them and see that they have all the 

 room they want. 



President Baxter — I would say, it 

 all depends upon circumstances and 

 management by. the bee-keeper. If 

 you are raising extracted honey, and 

 you know how to manage your Ijees, 

 I guess you will not get any swarms. 

 In my two apiaries this year I did 

 not get any that I know of; in comb 

 honey raising it would be different. 

 I believe you can make conditions so 

 that you can force them to swarm; 



