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strengthen them until they get ready 

 for the harvest. ■ 



Another thing: You want to study 

 your location. When your harvest 

 comes in, commence at the right time; 

 don't commence too early; don't com- 

 mence too late, but at the proper time, 

 and if you have fed properly and 

 rightly, you are going to get the bene- 

 fit from such feeding. Take Mr. 

 Crane, for instance. How many 

 pounds of comb honey does he pro- 

 duce and sell? He gained 15,000 to 

 20,000 pounds by stimulative feeding. 

 Also Mr. McEvoy, of Canada. I think 

 they are two of the best authority we 

 can look to, and if they will advocate 

 it, why should not we go ahead and 

 stimulate? 



Will the sugar fed to bees make 

 them build comb? Yes, natural comb; 



1 did it. I had three or four pieces of 

 comb as large as my hand; melted it 

 up, and took it to the bee-keepers' 

 convention and handed it to Mr. Ditt- 

 mer, and told him it was made of 

 sugar syrup, and I knew it; that was 

 the time I stimulated. This speaking 

 so decidedly about adulteration, of a 

 little syrup getting into the honey — 

 bless you, I don't know what to think 

 about it! I have been 35 years in the 

 business. In 1885 I had 215 colonies 

 of bees and took Heddon's plan. I put 



2 to 1 — about 1-3 of that was sugar — 

 I fed that syrup and lost half of my 

 bees, and I have been feeding half and 

 half, and never lost any on sugar 

 syrup. 



Mr. Wheeler — ^I want to answer one 

 question: This man put it pretty 

 strong, about glucose and white sugar. 

 I think if we remember that investi- 

 gation about the National Committee 

 trying to find out of the sugar trust 

 how they manufactured their sugar, 

 we all made up our minds it was — a 

 large percentage of it — glucose; but 

 they had a particular way of turning 

 that into white sugar, that they would 

 not allow the public or the Committee 

 to find out. I believe, myself, there 

 is more than 2 per cent of glucose in 

 (White sugar, just from that investiga- 

 tion. I have no way of finding out. 

 Another point I thought of when Mr. 

 Huffonan was speaking, about buying 

 cheap sugar. It has been my ex- 

 iperience, taught by people who are 

 supposed to know, that it does r.ot 

 pay to buy cheap sugar to feed your 



bees; it pays to buy the finest grade 

 of sugar when you get it to feed your 

 bees; if you put 2 cents of feed in 

 your bees they only store that 

 amount; if you put 5 cents you get 

 enough for the money invested, and 

 more. So I don't see how 2 cent sugar 

 bought for bees would pay any one. 



Another question: That the bees in 

 consuming the syrup and storing it in 

 the combs, never store half of what 

 they are fed. They will consume and 

 put into brood and destroy more than 

 50 per cent of the stuff that is fed, so 

 why in the world will you go to work 

 and extract your honey, lug it to the 

 market, and get very nearly the same 

 price you pay for sugar, and then buy 

 sugar next spring and feed your bees? 



Mr. Chapman — I can help you a lit- 

 tle bit, perhaps, as to granulated 

 sugar and glucose. Granulated glu- 

 cose can be bought in this town, but 

 the gentleman having experience with 

 sugar is speaking from another stand- 

 point. After glucose is put in syrup, 

 if you expect to make granulated 

 sugar out of it, you won't get granu- 

 lated sugar. You might be' able to 

 grind that glucose up and add it to 

 granulated sugar, after the sugar had 

 granulated, but if you put glucose 

 first in sugar syrup it never would 

 granulate. 



Pres. York — I think we will have to 

 stop now. We will come back again 

 at 1:30 o'clock for the afternoon ses-i 

 sion. 



Do not forget, if you like to look at 

 this foundation fastener of Mr. Cop- 

 pin's, it is here on the table. The con- 

 vention stands adjourned until 1:30 

 p. rn. .. 



Second Day — Afternoon Session. 



I*res. York — We come to the closing 

 session of the convention. We have 

 one more paper, I believe, that of Mr. 

 Wilcox. He will probably be here a 

 little later. We will go on with the 

 questions. 



Melting Granulated Honey. 



"What is the best method of melt- 

 ing 60 -pound cans of granulated 

 honey? Has any one tried the 

 Pouder hot-air tank?" 



Pres. York — How many have tried 

 the Pouder method of melting honey? 

 Has any one tried the Pouder hot-air 

 tank? 



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