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Oct. 18, 1906 



American Ttee Journal 



finality. Cheap, thin stuff to be had 

 by cutting up boxes good enough for 

 the outer roof, which might be called a 



shade-roof, or a fly-away. And here's 

 a striking sentence very likely true : 

 " We have more need of a rain-proof 



roof in a shaded apiary than in one 

 which is exposed to the broad sun- 

 light." Page 735. 



Mention 



NATIONAL AT CHICAGO 



Report of the 36th Annual Convention of the 



National Bee-Keepers' Association, held in 



Chicago, 111., Dec. 19, 20 and 21, 1905 



[Continued from page 845.] 

 HONEY DEALERS AND CARLOADS OF HONEY. 



"Why do honey-dealers ship carloads of Colorado and 

 Cuban honey to commission men, to a white clover market?" 



Mr. Hershiser — They do that to take advantage of the 

 good market which the clover honey has made. 



Mr. Muth— That question is wrong, because they don't 

 ship on commission. 



"Why don't the honey-producers and sellers get to- 

 gether, and then do business?" 



Mr. Wheeler — I think they are together. 



Mr. Muth— They do. 



"Why do bee-keepers ship their honey to commission 

 men?" 



Mr. Muth — Because they know no better. 



Mr. Taylor — Because they haven't a cash buyer. 



TAKING BEE-PAPERS. 



"Should a bee-keeper take more than one bee-paper?" 

 Voices — All of them. 



PREVENTING BEES FROM "DRIFTING." 



"What is the most desirable position to place hives in 

 the yard to prevent 'drifting,' especially when setting them 

 out in the spring, or placing them for swarming?" 



Mr. Hershiser — The term "drifting" means where bees 

 are set out from the cellar, when they take their first flight, 

 when they come back they are likely all to settle in the most 

 convenient place. 



Mr. McEvoy — In many places in Ontario that happened 

 last spring, in the front rows, with the majority of the bees. 

 If the rows had been kept back farther from one another it 

 would have been better. 



Pres. Dadant — I think you have more drifting because 

 you don't pay attention to putting them back in the same 

 spot. If you put the bees back in the same spot where they 

 were before the winter, you will have very little trouble. 

 Put the covers on the stand and bring the hives back to that 

 spot. 



Mr. Huffman — I had some trouble last spring. The day 

 set them out it was a nice, warm day, but it was windy 

 and they went to the south end of the yard. I couldn't 

 prevent it. 



"Will bees drift when returned from the cellar to the 

 same stands?" 



Mr. Hershiser — I asked that question in order to get a 

 chance to answer it. I moved my bees about $4 of a mile 

 and placed them in the cellar, and when I placed them out 

 again they were set right near the places where they had 

 been wintered. I found last spring that my bees drifted very 

 badly, and it wasn't because they were not returned to their 

 original stand. 



Mr. Taylor — I don't think there is any difficulty in pre- 

 venting that drifting when you take them out at the right 

 time. Never take your bees out when it is warm. That is 

 contrary to what is talked of, but I don't practice it any 



more. I take them out when it is rather cool — too cool for 

 them to fly, a little before soft maple. At all events, take 

 them out when it is a little cloudy and cool, so that they 

 will stay in their hives; and when they come out they will 

 come a few at a time and won't fly far, and will learn the 

 new location. 



FUMIGATING FOUL-BROODY COMBS. 



"Has fumigation of brood-combs exposed in a tight 

 room ever been tried on foul-broody combs with formalde- 

 hyde?" 



Mr. France — Yes, and as a rule not successfully. 



Mr. McEvoy — It will never be a success in an apiary. 



STOPPING LIES ABOUT COMB HONEY. 



"How can we best stop or prevent lies about manufac- 

 tured comb honey?" 



Mr. Muth — Don't try to argue with foolish people and 

 toolish reports. Say nothing. 



Mr. Stone — I have never found a better way to beat that 

 lie than just to explain to them the difficulty of the rolling 

 out of the foundation comb, and then ask, How you are 

 going to roll out a cell an inch deep, and as fine as silk all 

 around? 



HONEY OOZING FROM MASON JARS — FOR NATIONAL MEMBERS. 



"What causes honey to ooze from the common Mason 

 fruit-jars when they are not filled quite to the top, and are 

 kept level?" 



Mr. Hershiser — Capillary attraction. 



Mr. Arnd — I think by screwing down the top it com- 

 presses the air and forces it up through the rubber. 



"What does the National Bee-Keepers' Association do, 

 or what is it going to do, for members of such associations 

 who pay half their dues to the National?" 



Mr. Holekamp — In my work in our State I have sent 

 out many hundreds of circulars asking bee-keepers to join 

 our association, and I have received many and many a 

 letter : a which the question was asked, What are you 

 going to do? What do we get for our money? I 

 have answered those letters to the best of my ability. 

 Formerly the National Association held out the inducement 

 that we would defend the bee-keepers against unfair prosecu- 

 tion, a resolution was passed that we pay only half the ex- 

 penses of defending the bee-keepers in such cases. I put in 

 that question to find out what could be done for them, 

 because it is certainly of great importance that these bee- 

 keepers can receive an answer which would bring in appli- 

 cations. We have protection that is worse than nothing to 

 them. If a olain bee-keeper in a town must pay half the 

 expenses of defending himself, it is better for him to pull 

 out. 



Mr. Stone — The question is put from the wrong thing. 

 The man that pays the dollar has become a member of the 

 National, and is the one that ought to have asked that ques- 

 tion, because the one that joins the State Association and 

 pays half a dollar in the State Association, and half a dollar 

 in the National, and gets the benefit of the State Associa- 

 tion, gets as much in the National as the one that pays his 

 dollar. 



Mr. France — The point Mr. Holekamp wanted to bring 

 out was this: When A gets into trouble with neighbor B, 

 and gets into a lawsuit now, the Association asks him to pay 

 one-half of the costs to get him out of it. 



Mr. Stone— Does he, by joining the National, get fully 

 paid for the defence? 



Mr. Taylor — There is no difference between them. 

 Mr. France — As a word of explanation in that line, when 

 this was first started the Association over-reached what it 

 should have done. It did pay every dollar of it, and we 

 foresaw that it was going to be ruinous to the Association, 

 inasmuch as it had the record of never losing a case, and 

 our members were over-stepping their privileges with their 

 neighbors, and were doing things they would not have done 

 had they not been members of the Association. I submitted 



