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there is 50, 60 or 75 per cent infection 

 in a colony and then cages the queen 

 ten days he must not be surprised if 

 he finds it unsatisfactory. He generally 

 does not change queens. 



Mr. Kannenberg — I think we have 

 had quite a long session. I move we 

 have a recess. 



Motion seconded. 



President France— Just one thing be- 

 fore we adjourn for dinner; I will give 

 you these figures: Here is a bee yard 

 where there are eight colonies of bees, 

 last spring increased to 32; honey sold 

 out of that yard, 1,240 pounds. 



Here is a bee yard one' mile and a 

 half from there, and — if you will allow 

 my judgment — he has the best location 

 for bee-keeping in the state of Wis- 

 consin. I offered him $20 a year rental 

 for ten years to follow. It is 200 miles 

 from my home, and I would be glad to 

 go that far for such a location to keep 

 bees. 



That yard has never seen a day it 

 sold 1200 pounds. 



This yard (the first one described) 

 sold this year out of three hives as 

 much as that one (the second de- 

 scribed) and it has 75 hives. Euro- 

 pean foul brood got in — hives rotted 

 and tumbled down — no care — no man- 

 agement. Here is a man who is a 

 druggist and makes it pay. 



Young stock of the best of breed, 

 and, may I say he bought his stock a 

 year ago out of this yard. Before he 

 got those bees all transfered he had 

 ordered, and coming by mail, new 

 queens to put in there. 



We will stand adjourned. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 

 December 17th, 1915. 



Meeting convened at 2 o'clock. 



President France — We have left over 

 one subject of this forenoon that 

 should have been taken in its proper 

 place and we ought not to pass by. T 

 do not like to check the viewing of 

 the souvenir of a copy by Father 

 Langstroth on bee-keeping, with blank 

 pages put therein by which he may 

 make notes ready for his second edi- 

 tion. 



We have Langstroth's own hand- 

 writing on the pages for the revising 

 ready for the second edition, which, 

 by chance, found its way into a second 

 hand store and Mr. Whitney was for- 



tunate enough to find it there and has 

 been able to save it. 



President France — But this subject 

 carried over: 



"A Building at Each Out Yard or a 

 Motor Truck— Which ?" by Mr. Bull. 



Mr. France — I would say while I am 

 waiting just a moment: That we may 

 have to vary our program a little to 

 accommodate some who cannot be 

 with us all the way through, and 

 therefore we will not stay with the 

 program, as in print, all the way 

 through and to those of you who want 

 to know whether Wisconsin was rep- 

 resented or not, when we had ' our 

 group picture taken the latter part of 

 last week — there were something over 

 fifty who got away from us before we 

 got the group together (exhibits pic- 

 ture) — and that is probably a reduced 

 copy which you will see in the bee 

 journals in the Review. 



The fact that these are fairly good 

 size meetings shows the interest, and 

 the fact that we had an interesting 

 meeting — all were enthused and I be- 

 lieve we have accomplished some- 

 thing for which I alone have been 

 working for years. Now our univer- 

 sity at Wisconsin sees the need of 

 co-operation with the State Associa- 

 tion. We are to join in co-operation 

 with them and things we hope will be 

 accomplished this next year. 



We have already under way a Bulle- 

 tin to be issued at the university for 

 the benefit of Wisconsin bee-keeping. 



Although not on so large a scale as 

 Father Yaeger has been able to secure 

 for Minnesota, yet we are under way. 



Has any one a volunteer paper while 

 we are waiting for Mr. Bull to come 

 in? 



I do want to have one feature quite 

 prominent — that is the Question Box; 

 that should be prominent. 



If any of you have questions, will 

 you get them written out and I will 

 see that somebody collects them in 

 the near future. 



Mr. Wheeler, will you, in the ab- 

 sence of Mr. Bull, for the time being, 

 distribute some of this paper and we 

 will collect any questions you care 

 to bring up. 



You know a colony of bees don't 

 like to stay clustered long — something 

 wants to be doing, and, when a clus- 

 ter of bee-keepers are together, they 

 must be kept busy. 



Although we will try to take things 



