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ILLINOIS STATE BEE -KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



69 



Foul Brood Law, and no man will be 

 more pleased than I will be to see you 

 get it, because you are centrally lo- 

 cated here; you have more bees than 

 almost any other State in the Union, 

 and the foul brood getting into your 

 colonies is bound to hurt you if you 

 do not have it stamped out. 



Pres. Bowen — I am glad thisi ques- 

 tion has come up again, because it 

 gives me a chance to relate an expe- 

 rience I had some years ago. I found 

 a hive that was queenless, and there 

 was not the sign of any brood in the 

 hive except two unhatched drones, 

 and a queen-cell that was very near 

 ripe. I cut that queen -cell out, and 

 didn't let it develop to see what would 

 become of it, unfortunately. I spoke to 

 Dr. Miller about it and he said as a 

 last resort sometimes bees will try to 

 produce a queen from a drone- egg 

 which came from a laying worker; 

 that is the only way he could account 

 for those two drones and' that queen- 

 cell being present. Sometimes as a 

 last resort the bees will try to produce 

 a queen from a drone-egg which came 

 from a laying worker. 



In fact, all the cells were nearly 

 ripe; after I had destroyed them I was 

 sorry I didn't watch the result. Dr. 

 Miller says this sometimes happens. 



A member — Speaking about one of 

 those hives being queenless, I got hold 

 of a hive of that kind myself that evi- 

 dently had been queenless; there was 

 no sign of egg- larva or brood' in the 

 hive — cell's practically all full of 

 honey, and I concluded without exam- 

 ining carefully that it was queenless, 

 and I sent for a queen to introduce. 



I went through the hive in due time 

 to see what the result was of intro- 

 ducing a queen, and found no queen: 

 I took a more precautionary measure 

 towards introducing another queen, 

 and had the same result; but when look- 

 ing after the second one I found where 

 there were eggs and young larvae. 

 Thinking my new queen was doing the 

 work in the hive, I ran across the old 

 queen, without any wings on; I evi- 

 dently had overlooked it. She had 



been dormant and not working. I was 

 sure the hive was queenless, but found 

 the old queen there and the new queen 

 gone again. 



Dr. Bohrer — ^Did you introduce a 

 queen-cell, and did they accept it? 



The member — No, I tried to introduce 

 the queen, thinking it was absolutely 

 queenlesa : 



Wintering Bees in a Cellar. 



"ITow long can bees be kept with 

 safety in a good, dry cellar with the 

 temperature at from 45 to 50 degrees, 

 without! a cleansingi flight,/while winter- 

 ing on combs of sealed honey?" 



Dr. Bohrer — I have kept them from 

 the last of November until the first 

 of March, if not longer. 



Mr. Kildow — They will go very safely 

 in this part of the country along until 

 in May, other conditions being favor- 

 able. 



Mr. Moore — The longest time I kept 

 them was from the 16th of November 

 up to the 28 th of March. 



Mr. Klidow — I take them out from 

 the middle of March until along in 

 April. 



Mr. Kluck — I have kept them until 

 the last of April, from November. 



Mr. iCoppin — ^I usually keep mine in 

 the cellar about four months. 



Dr. Bohrer — These cellars I suppose 

 are all dry; mine is dry and dusty. 



Mr. Moore — iStome of the members 

 want to get through and catch the 

 11:50 train, and the photographer will 

 be done by 11 o'clock. I think we had 

 better hurry through with what little 

 business we have left, and adjourn. 



Pres. Bowen — What is the pleasure 

 of the Convention, is there anything 

 else to bring up? If there is nothing 

 further, a motion to adjourn sine die 

 will be in order. 



Mr. Moore — ^I move that we adjourn 

 Bine die. ' 



Pres. Bowen put the motion, which, 

 on a vote having been taken, was de- 

 clared carried, and the meeting ad- 

 journed sine die, at 11 a. m., to meet 

 at the call of the Executive Commit- 

 tee in 1911. 



