ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



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that desires that kind of honey, but 

 would it pay for us to change all 

 around and go into the bulk honey 

 business? I did think at one stage 

 of that reading I would enquire as to 

 the most direct route to Texas, but 

 from certain points which have been 

 brought out I am led to believe that 

 we are not entirely in the wrong up 

 here. Since I have started in the bee- 

 keeping business I don't believe every- 

 one in every other locality can tell 

 somebodj' else in every other locality 

 how to keep bees. It remains with 

 you and your environment, and the 

 honey- flow, whether it is short or long, 

 as to what you shall do, produce 

 comb honey, extracted honey, or bulk 

 comb honey. 



Mr. Adkins (New York) — I have an 

 order standing on my books for this 

 w^inter to send to San Antonio, Texas, 

 comb honey! 



President York — In a personal let- 

 ter to me iMr. iSchoU says: "One thing 

 that you might say in the discussions, 

 is that we have the greatest advant- 

 age in shipping our bulk comb honey 

 in cans, and these in cases, at the 

 very low freight rate of fourth-class, 

 or the same as that on extracted 

 honey." 



Mr. Stone — In the face of what has 

 taken place down in Texas this paper 

 certainly is correct, because the man 

 who handles bee supplies in Kan An- 

 tonio, Texas, has advertised sections 

 at a very much reduced price. He 

 says he can't sell them down there 

 any more, and he won't send them 

 North again himself. That is good 

 evidence of bulk comb honey being 

 the thing down there. 



Mr. West — For us up here in New 

 York the package seems to be quite 

 bulky. It is bulky over and over 

 again, and with us that bulky stuff 

 would get so hard it wouldn't be as 

 salable here as comb honey put up 

 the way we put it up in our State for 

 our trade. As has been said, it may 

 do better for Texas, but I don't think 

 it would do very well up here in New 

 York. 



President York — ^There is plenty of 

 room for bulk in Texas — it is a pretty 

 big State. 



D. W. Coggshall — ^As soon as that 

 bulk honey is shipped north it candies. 

 I have put it in my trunk and brought 

 it home, and when I got it home it was 



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candied. They can use it down there, 

 but we can't in the *North. 



Mr. Latham — I have had some ex- 

 perience in bulk honey, and the gen- 

 tlemen are right about the candying 

 of it. In any place where honey can- 

 dies readily you can't make a good 

 thing out of bulk honey. If a man 

 has such a class of honey that when 

 it has been heated and strained prop- 

 erly it will stay a long time without 

 candying, he can get a market for 

 that which will steadily grow. In 

 Connecticut we have a honey which 

 does not candy, and it will stand for 

 two years without candying. It is 

 simply a matter of putting that up in 

 bulk, and the people buy it before it 

 gets candied. 



(At this point an intermission of 

 ten minutes was taken). 



Mr. iJYance — I have a few copies 

 still left of the Annual Reports from 

 1905 up to the present time. I think 

 there is a good deal of value in eacli 

 one of them, and I will be glad, in- 

 deed, to send them for just the post- 

 age to any of our members. They 

 are tied up in a bundle, and the post- 

 age on them is about 20 cents. They 

 run from 1905 to 1909 inclusive. I do 

 hope there are members who are will- 

 ing to pay the postage for that valu- 

 able information. 



President York — The next paper is 

 "Ripening Honey on the Hives," by 

 Mr. W. P. .Southworth, of Salix, Iowa. 

 Mr. France will read the paper. 



Mr. France then read the paper as 

 follows : 



RIPENING HON®Y ON TIHE HIVES. 



Ripening honey on the hive, or the 

 best method of producing honey that 

 will "taste like more" to the consumer, 

 is a subject that I have given a good 

 deal of time and thought, and I wish 

 that I could be present in person to 

 defend the stand that I take. 



I contend that it is not enough that 

 honey be entirely sealed in the comb 

 to be ripe and ready for market, but I 

 hold that honey should age in the 

 hive. I can not say how long a time 

 should be allowed for this aging, 

 as much depends on locality, the kind 

 of bloom, and the atmospheric condi- 

 tions. 



My opinion is that this applies to 

 both comb and extracted honey, but 

 it is not so important to age comb 



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