ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Bees allowed to select, given free choice 

 of brood of all ages, will never select a 

 larva that is too old for a good queen; 

 and if they did do that, then some of 

 those should have matured and emerged 

 .before the period of 12 days, and they 

 never do. 



Mr. Hutchinson — When I take away a 

 queen from a colony and leave the brood 

 of all ages, I almost invariably get some 

 poor 1 queens ; but if I allow all that 

 brood in the hive to mature, and then 

 give them a frame of just hatching 

 brood — just put in a comb filled with 

 eggs nearly all of the same age — I don't 

 know that I ever got any poor queens. 

 Where they had larvae of different ages 

 to choose from, sometimes they chose 

 too sold larvae, but when they had 

 nothing except the young larvae to 

 choose from, had no larvae that were 

 too old, then the queens were always 

 good. I have found in rearing 

 thousands of queens that it is' not safe 

 to allow a colony more than 10 days for 

 the hatching of the queen. If you wait 

 more than 10 days, when you go to the 

 hive you will quite likely find some of 

 the larvae hatched. 



Mr. Taylor — It is so invariably in 

 Michigan. 



Mr. Wheeler- — At one time I lived 

 about so miles south of where Dr. Mil- 

 ler lives, and my experience was the 

 same as in Michigan--— lo days from the 

 larva. It may be different now. I 

 have not tried it for a few years. 



Dr. Miller — I tried it last year. 



Discriminating Against Certa'in 

 Members for Officers. 



"Should the constitution of any bee- 

 keepers' association bar any of its mem- 

 bers from holding an official position 

 in the association?" 



Mr. Taylor — Using the words of a 

 noted author, "I don't know." 



Mr. Wilcox — I do not think any of 

 us know the constitutions of all the 

 various bee-keepers' associations. That 

 question was evidently asked in refer- 

 ence to some association other than this. 



Pres. York — No. The question is: 

 Should the constitution bar any of its 

 members from holding an official posi- 

 tion — should the constitution be made 

 in that way? 



Mr. Wilcox — Whoever wrote that 

 question was thinking of some other 



association than this, probably the Na- 

 tional. 



Pres. York — Not necessarily. 



Dr. Miller — He might be thinking of 

 this association, whether the constitu- 

 tion ought ot to be chang-pH in that 

 way for this association. You can't tell 

 what the questioner was thinking about. 

 If you will allow me to say- so, I think 

 he was thinking of the National, and 

 what was done at San Antonio. 



Dr. Bohrer — I wrote the question, and 

 I will tell you what I was getting at. 

 I know there was proposed an amend- 

 ment to the constitution of the National, 

 to bar certain members of that Associa- 

 tion from holding official positions be- 

 cause they were dealers in bee-keepers' 

 supplies, or editors of bee-papers. There 

 was an effort of that kind made, it is 

 true, at San Antonio. I opposed it and 

 declared then that if that kind of an 

 amendment were added to the National 

 Association I would not be a member 

 of it any longer. I took the position, 

 and Mr. Kimmey here took the same, 

 and the constitution of the United States 

 takes the same view of it, and all the 

 States of the United States, that there 

 is only one class of people barred from 

 being eligible to the presidency of the 

 United States, and that is foreign born; 

 and the constitution of any organization 

 must apply to all its members. It not, 

 it is un-American and unjust. It places 

 the members in a state of alienship be- 

 fore that association, and I was opposea 

 to it, and I believe it is our duty to 

 discuss that question here. I am a 

 member of the Kansas State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association — President of that 

 organization — and a member of the Na- 

 tional, and I do not want an amend- 

 ment so un-American as that, and so un- 

 just as that, to become a part of the 

 organic law of our National organiza- 

 tion or of any State organization. I 

 took the broad stand, and made the 

 sweeping declaration, and I repeat it, 

 that if it became a part of our organic 

 law I would not be a member of the 

 organization any longer. While it may 

 not be at all times policy upon the part 

 of the members of the organization to 

 elect a dealer in bee-supplies to an of- 

 ficial position in that organization, it 

 is simply the duty of every individual 

 member, if he does not want a man to 

 serve in an official position, to vote 

 against him, and so get rid of him; but 

 place the membership on a common 



