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ILLINOIS STATE BEB-KEBPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



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dozen or so that will show here and 

 there pollen; we overcome that fea- 

 ture if we place a new colony that has 

 just been hived on two combs in the 

 brood-nest to catch the pollen. 



J. E. Crane — You recommend ar- 

 ranging - them so that they wouldn't 

 swarm. In that case you would keep 

 them on the old combs? 



Mr. House — Yes, practically old 

 combs. Most of our honey is produced 

 on new combs, or combs a year old. 

 The combs are freshly drawn out, and 

 undoubtedly brood filled therein, and 

 honey or pollen, and then the super 

 that is put below for them to build 

 comb honey over, being most of it 

 larvae and unsealed brood at the time 

 it is reduced down, catches all the 

 pollen next to the brood. 



A. A. French — Do I understand that 

 is for the extracting super? 



Mr. House — No, that is the brood 

 super. 



Mr. Cook — In tiering up in sections 

 do you put the comb honey supers un- 

 derneath the other? 



Mr. House — ^^Thej- come next to the 

 brood. 



J. E. Crane — How large are your 

 supers? 



Mr. House — 2-4 sections. 



Mr. Musgrove — When you reduce 

 the number of brood frames and put 

 the supers on for section hone^, do 

 you put a queen excluder between? 



Mr. House — I certainly do. 



Mr. Ross (Quebec) — 'Mr. House men- 

 tioned that one of the important fea- 

 tures of this system was re-queening 

 in August, or about August. That in 

 volves the catching of a great number 

 of queens in a short time. "Would he 

 mind telling us how he accomplishes 

 that? 



Mr. House — ^We make a wholesale 

 dequeening, and also a wholesale 

 rearing of queen-cells from one of our 

 best queens that has been tested out. 



Mr. Ross — Is the^ actual finding of 

 the queens done by the removal of the 

 comb? 



Mr. House — I use a method of tak- 

 ing two or three sections of hives and 

 placing an excluding zinc about half~^ 

 way in the hive, making two spacesy^ 

 above and below; I have several of 

 those, and when we get ready to look 

 up the queens we go along and leave 

 a little smoke at the entrance and 

 run them up through, and then we 



come back and run them down again. 

 We can run out easily 100 queens a 

 day. We use one piece of zinc, but 

 it gives an equal space above and be- 

 low. Our zinc would run about the 

 centre. • As we smoke a hive the bees 

 would run up above, and we turn that 

 upside down, and they go back down 

 through the smoke. 



(Mr. Hershiser — 'Any combs in the 

 lower, part? 



Mr. iHouse — 'No combs in the lower 

 part. 



Mr. Pettit — How do 5-ou use the 

 loose hanging frames? 



Mr. House — 'There comes a time 

 when you want to handle frames. I 

 don't want to spend all day to get a 

 frame out, and in the matter of spacr 

 ing, I can space ten hives while you 

 are getting out one closed-end frome. 

 We space up very rapidly, and after 

 the bees have glued it to the fasten- 

 ings, there is no danger of the frame 

 coming away. 



Mr. Hershiser — Are they close fit- 

 ting? :. V 



Mr. House — Not very. 



Mr. MoEvoj-— What is the width of 

 the frame? 



Mr. House — Seven-eighths of an 

 inch. ■ 



Mr. Latham — ^Do you use hanging 

 frames? 



Mr. House — Yes; I shouldn't want 

 anything else. I have a super frame, 

 and one or two of those separators 

 with me. (Produces same.) 



President York — You can examine 

 these at the close of the session. Mr, 

 House will leave them on the table. 



At 5 o'clock p. m. the Convention 

 adjourned for the purpose of having a 

 photograph taken, to meet at 8 o'clock 

 p. m. 



. EVENING SESSION., 



8 o'clock p. m. 



President York — 1 will ask Mr. W. 

 D. Wright, Vice President of the As- 

 sociation, to preside this evening. 



Mr. Wright — 'Ladies and Gentlemen, 

 I would rather ■ Mr. York would pre- 

 side, but in as much as he is on the 

 programme for the evening we will 

 have to excuse him. The first thing 

 on the programme will be , "Comforts 

 and Conveniences of the Apiary" by 

 Mr. F. H. Cyrenius, of Oswego, New 

 York. 





