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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



the increase of the sale of extracted 

 honey. I thinki that I mentioned in 

 this Association a quarter of a century 

 ago, or nearly so, that the bee-keepers 

 stood more in their own light with re- 

 gard to the production of honey than 

 anybody ^e, when it came to ex- 

 tracting it, and something Tess than 

 that time ago there was a great furore 

 among the bee-keepers about some 

 man who could take off honey and get 

 200 or 300 pounds of honey to the 

 colony, and they would get only 100 if 

 they resorted to the old, ordinary 

 method of leaving honey in the hives 

 until it was sealed; and before we got 

 through with it, and got soured on it, 

 the people had all got soured on it, 

 and we sold very little extracted 

 honey. The fact is, and I know from 

 our sales that we are selling to the 

 consumers — that is, it goes to them 

 from us; it goes to the middleman 

 from us, and to them direct — certainly 

 three times the quantity that we did 

 three or four years ago. Now, as to 

 comb honey, I don't know that it is 

 going to interfere with comb honey. 

 As long as extracted honey can be 

 produced at about one-half the price of 

 comb honey, it isn't going to interfere 

 with it, for the reason that the pro- 

 ducer, if he finds there is more money 

 in extracting honey than there is in 

 comb honey, it is a simple matter for 

 him to produce extracted honey. Comb 

 honey will, I think, keep its ratio very 

 largely. It will sell, especially at 

 wholesale, for 5 cents a pound more 

 than extracted honej'. Occasionally 

 we get a preponderant supply of comb 

 honey, and not quite enough of the ex- 

 tracted, and that ratio then does not 

 hold. 



Mr. "Whitii^y — ^I would like to ask Mr. 

 Burnett, isn't it a fact that the passage 

 of- the pure food laws had something 

 to do with the popularity of extracted 

 honey? 



Mr. Burnett — I don't know that it 

 did; but it helped everything that it 

 came in touch with, I am sure. 



The convention then adjourned to 

 meet the following forenoon at 9:30 

 o'clock. 



SECOND DAY— MORNING SESSION. 



Convention met at 10 a. m., Dec. 1, 

 1?10. 



Pres. York — ^We begin, this morning, 

 with a paper from Mr. Aaron Coppin, 



of Wenona, 111., on the "Advantages 

 of the Split Section." Mr. Coppin sent 

 his foundation fastener, and a sample 

 of honey as he produces it. These can 

 be examined when we have a recess. 

 We will have the Secretary read the 

 paper: • 



Advantages of the Split Section. 



I am principally a comb honey pro- 

 ducer, using the split section. The . 

 largest part of my honey is put up in 

 shipping cases holding 24 sections each. 

 These cases are shipped in small or 

 large quantities to retail houses, none 

 of which are crated to help protect the 

 honey from rough knocks and care- 

 less handling it receives while being 

 shipped. 



I have never had a single complaint 

 of my honey being broken, which is 

 due to the section I use, and the way 

 1n which the foundation is fastened on 

 all four sides. 



For a number of years I tried to put 

 full sheets of foundation in both the 

 "split" and the one piece section, which 

 almost proved to be a failure, for when 

 the foundation was put in, there would 

 be any amount of sections that were 

 not perfectly square, but when placed 

 in the supers and wedged up, it 

 naturally gives the section a better 

 shape, and, at the same time, causes 

 the foundation to pucker or push out 

 of place. 



At last I have what I call the "split 

 section." It is 414 by 5 inches in size, 

 and appears to hold a larger piece of 

 honey than the 4% by 4%. It is a 

 taller section, but only 1% inches thick, 

 so in reality the two styles hold the 

 same amount of honey. 



This split section fits the standard 

 hive perfectly, there is no waste space 

 in length, as there is with the 4 by 5 

 inch section. 



As the split section is narrow, I put 

 seven section holders in, making 28 

 sections instead of 24 in each super. 



The section holder that I use has a 

 top bar, which keeps the sections clean, . 

 thus saving much labor after being 

 filled with honey. 



I have planned an easy and quick 

 method of putting full sheets of foun- 

 dation In the split section, and the 

 sections in the section holder at the 

 same time. 



First, I have a form or foundation 

 fastening in which I place a section- 



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