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anything. Put it in a boiler and heat 

 ; it, and the wax is on top. 



Mr. Wheeler — What do you burn 

 while you are heating it, wood? 



Mr. Taj^lor — Burn gasoline if you 

 have a gasoline stove. 



Mr. Hatch — Burn up more gasoline 

 than your wax is worth. You can take 

 the propolis and burn that. 



Mr. Taylor — Malces good firewood, 

 too. If you want to hunt bear, you 

 can take some of it and set it out in 

 the woods and set fire to it, and the 

 bear will come there. 



Providing for a Honey-Dearth. 



"How shall we provide for the honey- 

 doarth which invariably conies in 

 Northern Illinois; by larger hives, by 

 removing honey in early spring and re- 

 turning later, or by feeding?" 



Mr. Taylor — Have enough honey in 

 the hive the previous fall. 



Mr. Howard — Will an 8-frame hive 

 furnish it? 



Mrs. Holbrook — It will not. 

 Mr. Taylor — Depends on whether 

 they have them full of honey or not. 



Mr. Schlader — I started 3 colonies a 

 year ago this fall with 85 inches of 

 honey, going across the frame that is, 

 a full frame would furnish 16 inches; 

 going down one side and down the 

 other would be 85 inches. They came 

 out in the spring with 35 inches left. 



Mr, Stewart — How much did it 

 weigh? 



Mr. Schlader — Probably about 2% 

 Inches to a pound. That would be 

 nearly 35 pounds. 



Mr. Taylor — When they went in? 



Mr. Schlader — Yes. And they came 

 out in the spring, about the first of 

 March, having about 35 inches left. 

 That would be, probably, 15 or 16 

 pounds left — a little Jess than 15 

 pounds. 



Mr. Wilcox — 'How long after they 

 were taken out of winter confinement 

 were they weighed or estimated? 



Mr. Schlader — They were wintered 

 outdoors, and they were estimated as 

 soon as the hive could be opened, 

 which was, I believe, the first week in 

 March. But, another thing, the bees 

 used up every bit of that honey before 

 they got new honey, after the first of 

 March. 



Italians for Central Illinois. 



"Have we not a better race of bees 

 for Central Illinois than the Italians?" 



Mr. Whitney — Let me inquire, why 

 limit it Lo Central Illinois? 



Pres. York — That is the question. 

 I don't know why. Probably, the per- 

 son who asked it is from Central Illi- 

 nois. 



Mr. Howard — Because the conditions 

 are different in Central Illinois than in 

 some other parts. Take, for instance. 

 New York State, with a short, sharp, 

 abundant honey-flow; and Illinois, 

 with a long-drawn out honey-flow, 

 reaching on into September, 



Mr. Whitney — ^I am partial to the 3- 

 banded Italian bee. I don't believe 

 there is any better bee to be found any- 

 where for the locality. 



Mr. Taylor — I don't agree with that. 



Mr. Howard — I don't, either. 



Mr. Taylor — Give me the hybrid 

 every time. Hardly anybody to agree 

 with me; but I am satisfied that' my 

 hybrids are better than any Italians. 

 They don't sting so much, for one 

 thing. They go into the sections ever 

 so much better; store just as much 

 honey. 



Mr. Moore — Dr. Miller produces 

 probably the biggest crops that any- 

 body could have produced with his 

 conditions, and has had uniformly the 

 hybrids, has he not? ./ '^il- /- 



Mr. Taylor — ^Yes. They are different 

 hybrids from mine, because I don't 

 have to tie up my i)antaloon legs, as 

 Dr. Miller does! 



Mr. Whitney — Don't you use the 

 leather-colored Italians? 



Mr. Taylor — No; mine are hybrids, 

 the blacker the better. 



Wr. Whitney — You can keep them! 



Mr. Stewart — Don't they get blacker 

 every year? . ■ 



Mr. Taylor — I suppose they do. ' 



Mr. Stewart — Then they are the 

 stronger race of bees, six to two. 



Mr. Taylor — You can't get the 

 Italian out of a case of sections nearly 

 so easily as you can the hybrids. If 

 you want to get them off, yoii have to 

 pick every one off by itself — stick to it 

 like burrs. 



Mr. Whitney — They do stick to the 

 comb, that is true, pretty well but I 

 never fojind any trouble to take a 

 frame out and give it a little shake in 

 front of the hive, or take a smootti! 



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