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Mr. Davis — To what extent has foul 

 brood been scattered ? 



Mr. Knight — Mj' bees had it in 

 Littleton. 



Mr. Devinuey — The bees had it in 

 Morrison, but none up near Central 

 Citj'. It is in North Denver and Rals- 

 ton creek. 



Thos. Crisman lives on the upper 

 end of the Ralston, and had heard of 

 none west of Arvada. 



J. W. Bacon said that there was 

 none in the neighborhood of Long- 

 mont. 



Mr. Hurlburt feared that many bees 

 had the foul brood, as it was in the 

 unsealed as well as the sealed honey, 

 although the bee-books taught dif- 

 ferently. 



Mr. De Vinuey corroborated Mr. 

 Hurlburt's statement, as did also Rev. 

 R. H. Rhodes. 



Prof. Cheshire's book on foul brood 

 was highly endorsed. 



Mr. De Vinney said that scien.ce 

 never discovered a gold mine, but it 

 could tabulate experience. He had 

 read much, but stated facts regardless 

 of reading. As a big tire will destroy 

 the whole earth while a little will not, 

 so a little mildew amounts to little, but 

 much will ruin. 



Mr. Lohf had foul brood introduced 

 into his apiary through some old comb. 

 As soon as he found the punctures, he 

 read bee-books, and put all the bees 

 into an empty hive, and smoked the 

 hive with sulphur. He used sulphur 

 to a great extent when in the nursery 

 business in Missouri. It destroys all 

 fungus. It kills fungus also in the 

 human system. He gave tlie bees new 

 combs, and that was the last lie saw 

 of it. 



Mrs. Graves, of Clear creek, found 

 a great deal of foul brood. Mrs. 

 Rhodes advised her to get medicine 

 whicli she gave in syrup, and some 

 queens were now laying, and thej- are 

 thrifty. 



Mr. Rhodes said that he had fol- 

 lowed strictlj' the teachings of Prof. 

 Cheshii'o's book, and the bees ai'e now 

 so lively that thej- act like bees in the 

 spring. 



Mrs. Graves said that she poured 

 this medicated syrup over the broken 

 combs. She used only a very little of 

 the best of the poor comb in feeding. 



Mrs. Rhodes' bees had liad the foul 

 brood all summer. Now she has some 

 strong colonies, but has taken out 150 

 frames with foul brood. Mr. Rhodes 

 <lug a big hole in whicli she buried the 

 frames and honey. She intends to ex- 

 periment in feeding the best of the 

 frames of honey to the bees. 



Mrs. Everett had not found foul 

 brood among her bees, which are 

 lively, and come out each fine day. 



They have averaged 95 pounds per 

 colony, and 5 swarms. 



Mrs. Bacon said that her bees had 

 averaged 150 pounus to the hive in 

 extracting, but only 50 pounds of comb 

 honey. This is not fair, as the bees 

 were weak. 



After a little discussion several new 

 members joined, and the convention 

 adjourned until 1:30 p.m., when Mr. 

 Rhodes, of the committee on foul 

 brood, consisting of H. Knight, Wm. 

 Davis and J. M. Clark, with himself, 

 made a report, showing that the dis- 

 ease was spreading very rapidly, that 

 it was clearly defined, and they be- 

 sought all Colorado bee-keepers to aid 

 them in suppressing it ; urged the ap- 

 pointment of a committee to petition 

 the Legislature to pass a protective 

 law, and to see that it is enforced. 

 They recommended Cheshire's work on 

 foul brood, and requitsted the mem- 

 bers to forward to the Secretary all 

 information pertaining to tlie subject. 



The report was considered in parts, 

 and with a few slight verbal changes, 

 the entire report was adopted. 



" At what season is the best honey 

 gathered ?" 



H. Knight — The first about June. 



Secretary Clark agreed that this 

 was so, whether gathered from alfalfa 

 or other flowers. Early honey has a 

 white comb, as well as a better flavor. 



Mr. Carlzen found that early honey 

 is less gummj-. 



Secretary Clark said early honey 

 would keep the best. 



Mrs. Rhodes said that some tastes 

 preferred the late honey. 



Mr. RhocTes said that a Pennsyl- 

 vauian, accustomed to buckwheat 

 honey, would think our worst honey 

 better than his best. 



Secretary Clark thought that late 

 flowers were yellow, and those of 

 spring, white. 



Mr. Knight wanted to know wliy 

 late honey always granulates. Mr. 

 Rhodes said that it was a question of 

 locality ; his did in the spring. 



Secretary Clark said that alfalfa 

 honej' would candy, also rosin-weed 

 hone}', when extracted. 



Mr. De Vinney said that ra.spberries 

 would be in bloom about June 5, be- 

 fore alfalfa. His bees worked on wil- 

 low, and he wanted to know al)out 

 the quality of the hone}-. Answer — 

 Mr. Root gives it as a honej'-plant. 



Mr. Rhodes offered the following res- 

 olution which was carried unanimously 

 by the convention : 



Resolved, That a committee of three 

 be appointed wliose duty it shall be to 

 search out fraudulent honey, and deal- 

 ers in the same, and work in the Leg- 

 islature to secure laws to check sucli 

 dishonest attempts to injure the honey 

 inilustry of Colorado. 



" Will the queen deposit eggs in 

 cells that have contained foul brood ?" 

 Mr. De Vinney said that they would 

 when crowded. 



Keeping Hoaey from Candjrlns:. 



" What method is best to keep comb 

 honey in winter from candying ?" 



Secretary Clark favored a tempera- 

 ture like that in which it was stored. 

 If we can keep it in the same condi- 

 tions as regards light and heat, as in 

 the hive, we can keep it longer ; but 

 honey stored in some conditions, noth- 

 ing can keep it from candying. Rosin- 

 weed honey would sometimes candy in 

 48 hours. 



" Is foul brood an epidemic, or is it 

 a contagion ?" 



Mr. Rhodes thought that we must 

 treat it as a clearly defined disease. 

 The remedies reconjmended have 

 acted as checks, and he thinks next 

 year will demonstrate. This year he 

 began too late, when brood-rearing 

 had ceased. In Colorado it can be 

 checked easier than elsewhere. Strin- 

 gent legislation is necessary ; at the 

 last meeting one member olsjected to 

 a penalty. In Michigan the law is 

 1100 ; he had made it $50. When a 

 man refuses to destroy his bees he 

 should be punished. He took Mr. 

 Davis to see a man who had lost all of 

 his colonies but nine, and they were 

 diseased. The committee had asked 

 him to destroy the bees, oftering to 

 give him a new start. He would not 

 destroy them, and they are living now. 

 He believed that they had given the 

 disease to Mr. Graves' bees. 



Mr. Carlzen said that we ought to 

 have a foul brood law like that ii\ Min- 

 nesota concerning mustard seed — if 

 they would not clean it, the county 

 would and charge them for it. 



Best Rare of Bees. 



•' Which race of bees are the best 

 honey-gatherers ?" 



Mr. Davis tliought that cross-bred 

 bees stored as good honey as any. 



Secretary Clark and Mrs. Rhodes 

 thought that the Italians were the best. 



Mr. De Vinney saw no difi'erence in 

 regard to honey-gathering. Blacks 

 had done as well as his nearly pure 

 Italians. 



President Milleson said that certain 

 races, whether pure-blooded or hybrid, 

 did better than others. The rule is to 

 adopt the best races, and breed from 

 them to secure a particular strain. 

 This is as important in bee-culture as 

 in cattle-breeding. His experience is 

 that if bees will not sting and fight in 1 

 defense of their honey, they have very 

 little to spare. 



Mr. Bacon thought that this theory 

 would prove the blacks better tlian the 

 Italians, but he did not believe this. 



