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-only a suggestion. Does it rest there? 

 I move that the matter of the increase 

 of his salary or compensation for his 

 services be taken into consideration 

 by the standing committee of three, 

 and the President, Secretary and 

 Manager. 



On the motion being duly second'ed, 

 it was adopted. 



The President called for the paper 

 by Mr. F. H. Cyrenius, on "When and 

 How to Re-queen With a Fall Honey 

 Flow." 



Mr. Cyrenius — In my talk last night 

 some of the people complained in the 

 back part of the room that they 

 couldn't hear all of my demonstra- 

 tions, and as I have some to make, 

 if you will excuse me, I will take the 

 platform. Last evening I omitted 

 two or three of my conveniences and 

 comforts in the bee-yard, and with 

 the President's permission I will try 

 to explain them to you now. 



BEE ESCAPE. 



First, I had a bee- escape board with 

 me, but it has been misplaced. We 

 have had a good many directions 

 about placing a bee-escape under the 

 boxes, and how to pull the boxesi over 

 them. Now, if you will make your 

 bee-escape in two pieces, one piece oc- 

 cupying about three-quarters of the 

 hive's length, and one piece ono-quar- 

 ter of its whole length, then when you 

 glo to put it on the hive lift up the 

 super and put the long piece under, 

 then the short piece can be slipped in. 

 It saves a whole lot of lifting. It 

 doesn't matter in which part you have 

 the bee-escape. 



DRAIN THE CAPPINGS. 



Now, we have talked a good deal 

 about cappings and capping holders 

 for extracting honey. Lately I have 

 adopted this plan: If you have a good, 

 stiff honey -knife, all right; if not, 

 take a small sized trowel, and after 

 you get a little bunch of cappings in 

 the tub of melter, mix it up into a 

 regular mortar. Tou have no idea 

 how much more honey will run out 

 in that way. One time I had about a 

 bushel of those cappings. that had run 

 out, and I put them on a big piece of 

 brown paper, and there wasn't enough 

 honey left to wet through the paper. 



One more comfort to me has been 

 that discarded old Given foundation 



press that I have had away back since 

 1878, making the best foundation on 

 earth ; a foundation you. can put right 

 in the box, half one and half the other, 

 and the bees draw out the old Given 

 foundation first, and I can make it 

 so thin that the wax is all in the parti- 

 tions of the cells, and will even push, 

 the bottom right out of the base. ; 



ALARM ON SCALES. 



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One thing more: I have had some 

 questions about this bell. One party 

 wanted to know how I fastened it on 

 the scales. It is not fastened at ' all. 

 This simply rests against the post of 

 the sdales, and when the honey brings 

 up the weight it simply drops down. 

 Tou can do that without a bell; you 

 can take an old pie-tin, and have a 

 hammer hard enough so that you will 

 hear the noise when this. weight comes 

 down, and know your can is full of 

 honey. . . -: i -• 



WHEN AND HOW TO RE-QUEEN 

 WITH A FALL HONEY-FLOW. 



Now, it has been my purpose for a 

 number of years to devise a plan 

 whereby an apiary could be re -queened 

 every year, if necessary, without ex7 

 pense, and the best possible queens 

 reared in doing it. I suppose I will 

 have plenty of oppoisition along these 

 lines, but I have been pretty careful 

 in my training, and one thing I want 

 you to understand before we begin 

 is that this is not for your locality, 

 it i^ for mine; it is designed for the 

 locality that has two honey-flows — a 

 clover honey-flow beginning about 

 June 18. and another one beginning 

 about August 18. Those are my condi- 

 tions, and that is what this plan is 

 made for. I rear my queens all at 

 one stroke, so to speak, in one litter; 

 whether it is 25 or 50, or 100, or 200, 

 they are all reared) in one motion. 

 They are reared at the time of the 

 year when it is most propitious for 

 them; they are reared at a time of the 

 year when it is nature's time. Josh 

 Billings told uis the best time to set 

 a hen was when she wanted to sit, 

 and . I' believe he is right; and the 

 rearing of these queens should be 

 done when they have the least to do 

 otherwise. 



Now we start in the spring of the 

 year with a Langstroth hive, 8 -frame, 

 I use, when the supers are full of 





