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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPHRS' AiSSOCIATIOX 



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Mr. Moore — It does not matter about 

 the dampness if you can keep the tem- 

 perature up. A damp cellar with low 

 ventilation is death to the bees. 



Pres. Bowen — Keep the temperature 

 up to how many degrees? 



Mr. Moore — About 45 degrees; if you 

 let it get down low it is bad, 



Mr. Kluck — ^Were honey-boards on 

 all your hives in the cellar, Mr. Die- 

 bold? 



Mr. Diebold — There were super- 

 covers on most hives. On those that 

 didn't have super-covers, I used flat 

 covers, something made after the style 

 of the Danzenbaker, manufactured in 

 Michigan. They all had deep en- 

 trances; I had an opening from 2 to 

 3 inches. 



Mr. Kluck — A majority of bee-keep- 

 ers take the cover off and put on a 

 gunny sack. 



Mr. Diebold — When I brought my 

 bees out in the spring I found only one 

 colony dead. 



A member— iHow many colonies had 

 you in the cellar when you lost the 

 one? 



Mr. Diebold — I had 46 last fall, and 

 I think I wintered 10 or 11 in the bee- 

 cage, and didn't lose any last win- 

 ter; the rest were in the cellar, so 

 that was 38 or 39. 



A member — 1 suggest that the first 

 hour of tonight's meeting be given to 

 the question-box, and let the resolu- 

 tions committee report at 8:30; they 

 can be out during that time. 



Mr. Stone — There are some things 

 that should come before the Resolu- 

 tions Committee that have not been 

 attended to as yet. I asked that some- 

 thing be done about the time of send- 

 ing out the reports. If the report is 

 sent to a member in June or July, he 

 gets the report that has been issued 

 and he is a member next year when 

 the other report is issued, and gets 

 two reports, with one fee. 



Mr. Kluck — ^In regard to these re- 

 ports; when we have them printed and 

 lying idle, it seems to me it is all right 

 for those people to have them. If you 

 have not got them, then I would not 

 see that they got any; I would not go 

 to the expense of re-printing them. 



Mr, Diebold — As I understand, there 

 ought to be a time limit as to when 

 Mr. Stone is going to send out those 

 reports. 



Mr. Kluck — If you have them on 

 hand, why not distribute them? 



Mr. Stone — Who has a right to them, 

 the man pays 25 cents, or any bee- 

 keeper in the State? They all have 

 the same right so far as the reports 

 are concerned, but they do not have a 

 right to a cloth-bound copy that the 

 members have. 



Mr. Kluck — Rather give them out 

 than have them lying idle. 



Pres. Bowen — There is one thing I 

 would like to suggest; we are a long 

 time in getting the reports. 



Mr. Stone — We send out our blank 

 applications for membership just as 

 soon as we can after this meeting; 

 then the members begin to send in 

 their names, and we begin to form an 

 idea of how many reports we are going 

 to need for the members ; we got 

 within ten reports this year of what 

 we have used; we have only 3 or 4 

 cloth-bound copies left. We could 

 not guess that close if we sent out 

 the reports in January when there are 

 no members. After we know about 

 how many we will want we put it in 

 the hands of the printer, and we have 

 to wait for them to get some jobs out 

 that they have that are more urgent. 



Mr. York — ^Are there not very few 

 members coming in after the first of 

 July? Suppose you make the end of 

 the year July 1st? All members that 

 come in up to July get the present re- 

 port; those that come in after that, 

 they will wait until the next Report. 



Mr. iStone — ^Then, Mr. York, if you 

 should join in June you would get the 

 last report; and when the next re- 

 port came out you would still be a 

 member and would get that. 



Mr. York — ^My dues would end July 

 1st. 



Mr. Stone — Then that would cut 

 those out; that would work if you 

 passed such a ruling, and advertised it. 



Mr. Kluck — In joining the State Hor- 

 ticultural Society you get the back 

 numbers if it is for ten years back. 

 When I joined it I got ten books. If 

 you join today, and they have got five 

 years back, you get the five books. - 



Mr. Stone — Ours would be the same 

 if you pay the postage on them. 



Pres. Bowen — If you want some ac- 

 tion on that, Mr. Secretary, a motion 

 had better be made. If we are going 



