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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



honey-dew Caused great destruction in 

 our county I was called in a good 

 many cellars along towards spring to 

 see the condition of the bees; they 

 had dysentery very badly. There 

 was one thing I observed that spring: 

 we had two sizes of hives, one a ten, 

 and one an eight-frame, and when I 

 first discovered that it was troubling 

 my bees also, we got our bees out 

 as early as possible to give them a 

 spring flight, because after they have 

 a flight outside the honey-dew does 

 not seem to do them the same harm. 

 But I noticed in the ten-frame hive 

 the bees had gathered quite a quan- 

 tity of good honey in the earliest 

 part of the season, which was stored 

 and remained in those' outside combs, 

 and where these larger hives had had 

 an abundance of good honey the bees 

 didn't trouble the poor honey in the 

 cellar so very much; and those bees 

 were not affected by the honey- dew 

 like those in the sm9,ller hive that 

 had less good honey in it. 



MANIJIFACTURED COMB HONEY. 



"At the National Convention held 

 at St. Louis, in 1904, a resolution was 

 passed offering $1,000 for two sec- 

 tions of honey made by human hands. 

 Has it ever been called for?" 



Mr. France — No; and not likely to. 



FOUNiDAlTION IN SECTIONIS. 



"What is the easiest and best way 

 to put foundation in sections?" 



Pres. York— Dr Miller uses the 

 Daisy foundation fastener. 



Mr. Cyrenius — After trying almost 

 all of the plans advised and recom- 

 mended, I cut the foundation into 

 strips half an inch wide, and 

 with the Daisy fastener I put it on 

 the bottorn of the box, then I invert 

 it and use section foundation, and put 

 as large a piece in the box as I can 

 with the Daisy fastener. It makes 

 one solid comb all the way through. 



Mr. Davison — I have had some ex- 

 perience in putting foundation in sec- 

 tions. The way that I put it in now, 

 and which I think is the best, is to 

 put it in with melted wax. I take a 

 board with about three or four little 

 blocks on, just large enough so that 

 a section will fit down over the 

 blocks. I put in a bottom starter 

 about a quarter of an inch, and the 

 top starter you can put in just as 



much as you please, fill the section 

 half full, less or more. Then I 

 have a ittle oil-stove on my table, 

 and I have two cans, one with water 

 and the other with melted wax in it- 

 The one with the melted wax sits in 

 the other one — one telescopes into 

 the other — and the heated water 

 keeps the wax warm; it doesn't cool 

 suddenly. After I have put the sec- 

 tion on these blocks and put the 

 foundation in, I take a little wax on 

 a brush and let it run down, and in 

 that way fasten the foundation to the 

 sections. You can fasten one or two 

 starters at one dipping. I have used 

 the Daisy foundation fastener and I 

 have thrown that away. This other 

 way there is no breaking down at all; 

 you can throw the section clear across 

 the room after it is cool and it won't 

 break. 



Mr. Cook — Allow me to suggest 

 that instead of using the little brush, 

 you take a plain piece of tin, cut 

 about half an inch narrower than the 

 section; dip this piece of tin in the 

 hot wax about a quarter of an inch, 

 and enough hot wax will hold on to 

 the tin, and the tin will hold the heat, 

 and by moving it a trifle edgewise 

 the hot wax is distributed all along^ 

 the angje right at the point you want 

 it. 



Mr. Morford — Use a medicine drop- 

 per with the wax, and^ it will run 

 right along down. 



Mr. French — We have had a great 

 deal of trouble with the foundation 

 dropping in our boxes, and I have 

 been using the Daisy. I visited Ar- 

 thur C. Miller's place last April, and 

 the question arose as to what kind 

 of foundation fastener we could get 

 that would fasten the foundation into 

 the boxes so that it wouldn't drop. 

 I told him I was having bad luck. 

 Mr. Miller says, "I don't know; but 

 if you can help me out we will try." 

 We had the Dewey, the Daisy, and 

 Miller foundation fasteners, and we 

 started. We laid the Daisy to one 

 side and used the Dewey and Mil- 

 ler, and by using a piece of one and 

 a piece of the other we got a machine 

 that would fasten the foundation in 

 so that it wouldn't shake. The next 

 thing came the cost. We couldn't get 

 over that, so we dropped it. Then 

 after I got the machine all ready and 

 in good shape Mr. Miller said, "Will 



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