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ence is that during the swaitning and 

 honey-flow seasons, to give them plenty 

 of room has something to do with it. 

 I almost entirely use a two-story hive, 

 and by extracting some of the honey 

 above and using the queen-excluder; 

 and if the queen is confined below, it 

 seems to subdue the inclination to 

 swarm. 



Mr. Anderson' — ^There is a matter in 

 my mind that is very important, and 

 now we are in the middle of our 

 convention. It is going to trend to- 

 wards decline from now on; members 

 are going away because their tickets 

 are exhausted, and they are needed at 

 home, and we all have faith in the good 

 judgment of our President in the ap- 

 pointment of committees. The question 

 of freight-rates ought to come before 

 the body from the Resolutions Commit-- 

 tee this afternoon. Could the Commit- 

 tee prepare it this afternoon or this 

 evening? We desire that no one leave 

 until this is settled. Now, then, we pro- 

 duce bees and honey to sell, but the 

 freight-rates are so high we cannot sell 

 them. In the North there are as good 

 members as there are here; they are 

 not here because the tarriflf is too high. 

 If they were here they would voice 

 their sentiments as affecting the tariff. 

 Now, then, we know that with this 

 matter being put in the proper hands 

 it is going to result in good. 



Pres. Dadant — ^The Committee will 

 make a report this afternoon in regard 

 to the transportation question. Now, 

 Mr. Adkins started to make a state- 

 ment in regard to a personal matter, 

 let us hear from him. 



Mr. Adkins — I ask that we ad- 

 journ till 2 o'clock this afternoon. 



The motion was seconded and car- 

 ried. 



SECOND DAY — Afteknoon Session. 



The members were called to order 

 by President Dadant, who said, "We 

 are yet without the papers that were , 

 to be read, but some one has gone to 

 the postoffice for them, so we will pro- 

 ceed with the questions until the papers 

 come. The Secretary will read the next 

 question. 



YOUNG QUEENS TO PREVENT SWARMING. 



"Can I prevent swarming by the in- 

 troduction of young queens?" 



Dr. Bohrer — As no one seems to want 

 to take the matter up, I will give my 



own observations. I have given a 

 queenless colony a queen just before 

 she was hatched, and was almost white, 

 and sometimes they are well received, 

 and I have never known them to swarm 

 again. I don't know whether there 

 would have been any difference if I 

 had introduced a fertile queen. When 

 I was a queen-breeder, the queens were 

 almost white when they were first 

 hatched out. Walking about among 

 the bees in Kansas, I think year before 

 last, I tried that sometimes and the 

 bees would not take to the queens in- 

 stantly, and would not accept thejn, 

 but I did not try this year, and do not 

 know how they would have received 

 them; if it had been a fertile queen I 

 don't know what the result would have 

 been. I might say that the first time 

 I ever saw Qiis done was in the apiary 

 of Mr. Langstroth, in Ohio, and when 

 she came out she was not yet colored, 

 and in a half or three-quarters of an 

 hour she had begun to turn" and seemed 

 to be paying no attention. Mr. Langs- 

 troth said, as a rule, they were acepted 

 when they first emerged. But as to a 

 means of preventing swarming, I don't 

 know. 



Mr. France — That varies according to 

 the latitude and condition of the sea- 

 son. If a honey-flow is coming in rap- 

 idly, and the swarming fever has al- 

 ready advanced, it is pretty hard to 

 stop it. The time to check the swarm- 

 ing fever is before it has fully devel- 

 opend. I think a change would check it. 



Mr. Hatch — I have tried almost every 

 kind of method that has been sug- 

 gested, and all the methods I could 

 think of, and have always found fault 

 with every one of them. One plan 

 would weaken the colony so as to cut 

 off the honey-flow, and another plan 

 would weaken me so I was not fit to 

 get the honey, and so I let the bees 

 swarm. One plan is to put a queen- 

 excluder above the colony, and put a 

 hive on the lower box. 



PREVENTING HONEY-GRANULATION IN 

 GLASS JARS. 



"How can extracted honey be pre- 

 vented from granulating after being put 

 in air-tight glass jars?" 



Mr. Holekamp — ^There is being put on 

 the market honey from California that 

 is claimed doesn't granulate. Now, our 

 honey granulates, but there is a way of 

 preventing this granulation, because 



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