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and I just catch the four corners up 

 and hang it up above the honey, and 

 while the first cne is straining the 

 second one is getting clogged up, and 

 when they are sufficiently drained they 

 are ready for use again. There is no 

 need to go to the trouble of adjusting 

 this cloth over the barrel every time It 

 gets clogged. 



Mr. Cyrenius — Look at it in this 

 way. I thought very seriously of the 

 suggestions of Mr. Hershiser, but 

 usually we have got some straining to 

 do anyway, and I know we can get 

 my honey put up in the cans and 

 sealed up as quickly as I can from 

 the time it leaves the hives; I be- 

 lieve it holds the flavor better. When 

 you come to put it in large tanks and 

 evaporate it you are losing a great 

 deal of the delicate flavor, which, once 

 lost, never can come back. When I 

 leave the yard mj" honey is all in 

 cans and sealed. 



Prevent Robbing. 



Mr. Stone — I followed the plan of 

 taking honey from the bees this year 

 in the robber season without any tent 

 and without anj'- brush, or anything of 

 that kind. Just make a box very 

 tight so that the bees can't get into 

 it, and you can have it large enough 

 to put half a dozen supers in at one 

 time; let the supers be comb or ex- 

 tracted honey." I use the brood-frame 

 size for extracting, and have a cover 

 that fits very tight; I put the sur- 

 plus cases of honey into the box, and 

 you can put in as many as you want, 

 and pile them zig-zag so that the 

 bees can get through. Then I put 

 the cover on the box, and it fits 

 tight, and in that box cover I cut a 

 hole five or six inches in diameter, and 

 if the box is large, cut more holes. 

 Then I put a wire screen in that like 

 a cone with a hole at the top large 

 enough for the bees to get out, and 

 they will fly out there faster than you 

 can count them, and not one of them 

 will come back. If I put combs into 

 that box one day and go back the next 

 day I would not find a bee in the 

 box, unless it was a case where a 

 queen happened to get up into them, 

 and then the bees won't leave it. I 

 haven't used any escape on the hives, 

 and I didn't have to brush any bees, 

 and I never took a bee to the honey- 



house, and I never saw a robber 

 around. 



Mr. Cyrenius — How long does it 

 take the bees to get out of that box? 



Mr. Stone — They will get out in 

 one night. 



Mr. Cyrenius — You don't know how 

 much I appreciate the benefit of that 

 animal heat in the combs, and I want 

 to do the extracting while I have that 

 animal heat, and do it right away. I 

 have tried this plan, and tried a 

 thick icloth over the hives, but, as 

 the last speaker says. It generally 

 takes till the next day to get all the 

 bees out. You might use a bee- 

 escape just as well. 



Mr. Stone — You don't get the ani- 

 mal heat in one night. 



L. C Root — With regard to sealing 

 the honey as soon as it is taken from 

 the combs, I used to think that the 

 honey would cure if it was left in an 

 open vat, that it was better to let it 

 stand, and it would cure in the stand- 

 ing; but I found in purchasing casks 

 to put honey in, that if I purchased 

 tihem where they were thoroughly 

 kiln-dried that thej^ were so dry that 

 if you put them in a moist place the 

 hoops would burst, and if you took 

 those same dry casks and put your 

 honey in it would shrink them so 

 that th^ hoops would drop ofE. That 

 was proof to me that honey was ab- 

 sorbing the moisture rather than 

 throwing it off. I have found lately 

 that the honey seemed to me to be 

 of much better quality, and held its 

 flavor better, to can it and put it in- 

 to the 60-pound cans and screw the 

 top on tight. I like it very much bet- 

 ter. I believe that point is extremely 

 well taken 



Mr. McEvoy — That is just what I 

 have noticed on sealing it up the very 

 day. . I strain it through double 

 cheesecloth over barrels. If it won't 

 go fast enough I use five or six bar- 

 rels. If one barrel is not quite full 

 I draw sufficient from another and 

 fill it, and I put newspapers over that 

 and shut the air off at once, and the 

 barrels are waxed ; it holds the flavor 

 and it is choicer honey. You can't 

 afford to let anything out of clover; 

 you want to hold- all you have got. 



Mr. Wright — We will now listen to 

 the address of President York. 



The President then read his address 

 as follows: 



