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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



the box a foot high, when feeding it is 

 necessary for bees to fly ami discharge 

 their focces. 



Mr. Zimmerman — My experience at 

 Clevehand, Ohio, was, put the bees in a 

 room and place a mosquito-bar between 

 them and tlie window, so as to keep them 

 from tlie glass, give them liglit in the 

 room by the window and they cool ott', 

 fall down and go back, do not put them 

 in until after a cold spell in March, and 

 tlien take tliem in a room and feed tliem 

 up. I intend to continue the experiments, 

 the one made was in 1873. 



Mr. Benedict — I can feed my bees by 

 taking them in a room. 



Mr. D. L. Browne — How many times 

 have you tried tlie experiment? we never 

 put them in winter quarters or even in a 

 room. 



Mr. Benedict — I think it a good plan, 

 I have had bees cured of the disease in 

 that way, received them when they had 

 the disease mildly and they -recoVercd, 

 and came out in good condiliou from the 

 room. I can fly a good many in that 

 way, if the weather is cold for a long 

 time, I bring them in for a flight. 



Mr. Stetsers— Will j^our bees keep quiet. 



Mr. Benedict — When you put them in 

 they will take their flight and fall down 

 (in the top of the hive) and crawl back 

 and do not seem to be much uneasy. 



Mr. J. W. Parker, Chicago— A' friend 

 keeps his bees in a room, well warmed 

 and ventilated, and they consume a good 

 deal of lioney and he expects to loose 

 money. 



Mr. Rush— Mr. Benedict, what do you 

 cover hives with, what you put on your 

 hive to give them a flight? 



Mr. Benedict — I cover the boxes with 

 screen wire. 



Mr. Rush — If you put on glass they 

 will fret too much, and if you put on 

 wire its too cool and besides they will 

 Avorry to much to get out. I put on a 

 good article of muslin (brown) and they 

 have plenty of light and cannot see out 

 and thus save them so much uneasiness to 

 get out. 



Mr. Zimmerman — My musquito-bar 

 keeps the bees from comiug in contact 

 with the glass. 



Mr. Rush — It's too open and they see 

 out too much. 



Mr. Harrison — Mr. Benedict; Avill not 

 the bees fall down and get daubed on the 

 frames ? 



Mr. Jienedit;t — A few times it may occur, 

 when I let them fly in February they 

 don't daub themselves, but in some days 

 in March they will daub themselves some, 

 I let my room cool off gradually, to in- 

 duce them to go back. I have fed up my 

 bees in the fall, fed on white sugar syrup. 



Mrs. Tupper — I don't want the idea 

 that we are to winter bees this way, but 

 must feed up in the fall and you have no 

 more trouble, this talk is only applicable 

 to weak colonies which have been ne- 

 glected. 



PREVENTION OF HONEY CANDYING. 



Mr. Pope — I took honey out and put 

 it in a cold place and it would candy, 

 bring it back and it would become fluid 

 again. Keep it in a warm, dry, dark 

 place and it will keep a long time. 



Mr. Chapman — That is my experience. 



Mr. McLaue— What cause* honey to be- 

 come thin. 



Mr. Clarke — tSouring or ferment causes 

 it to become thin. 



Mr. Betsinger — My experience in keep- 

 ing comb honey is this. I keep it in the 

 cellar and it would get thin and run out. 

 I moved in a thin walled framed house, 

 with tin roof, and when the weather gets 

 cool I build a fire in the room and the 

 houey becomes thicker instead of thiner. 



Mr. Zimmerman — I had a few barrels 

 of honey, some were air tight and some 

 not, the one air tight did not candy and 

 I the other did. 



! Mr. Betsinger — A neighbor extracted 

 some houey and bunged it up tight and in 

 two months it was solid. 



Mr. Zimmerman — We extracted a 

 barrel of honey, bunged it tight and left 

 it some time, opened it and took out some 

 and it was all right, shut it up and looked 

 in a month and it was solid. 



Mr. Betsinger — Will honey air tight, 

 keep longer in the dark than in the light. 



Mr. King — I understand that there is a 

 man here who has a receipt for keeping 

 honey, will he make his receipt, and I see 

 he has ottered to, in the Ameeican Bee 

 Journal ? 



]\Ir. Rush — I have been experimenting 

 with the receipt and it has succeeded well 

 so far, and as soon as the terms are com- 

 plied with in the Journal I will let up. 



Mr. King — Some one sitting by me told 

 me to ask for it, but I see the joke comes 

 on me for the queen. 



TirURSDAY^ AFTEJiNOON. 



Pres't Hoagland— There will be one hour 

 given to exhibtioii of articles pertaining 

 to the apiary. 



Mr J. E. Moore exhibited his sectional 

 liive. 



Mr King exhibited Barker * Dicer's sec- 

 tional honey box and addeil a few words on 

 their hives. Also exhibited Mr. Quinby's 

 bee smoker for quieting bees; it works by 

 a bellows. 



Mr. J. W. Winder, Cincinnati, Ohio, exhib- 

 ited his honey extractor No :5 Qiieen City 

 with stationary can, also his No 1 with revol- 

 ving can, and gave manner of using both. 



