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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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President Smith: Mr. Becker has 

 g'one as inspector to places where I 

 had not time to go. 



Mr. Kildow: You had better have 

 two or three deputy inspectors ap- 

 pointed in my part of the country. 



Mr. Kluck: It is said by some that 

 when it is heated foul brood honey 

 is all right. Honey that is so treated 

 may be fed to bees. Honey that has 

 "been boiled an hour is safe, but I do 

 not believe it is safe to tell people that. 



Mr. York: No inspector advises de- 

 stroying hives. 



President Smith: I never advise de- 



the bees on account of fertile workers 

 and I finally got so disgusted that I 

 shook them out on the ground, brought 

 my queen that I wanted to introduce, 

 took her out of the cage, and dropped 

 her into the cluster of bees on the 

 ground and they 'went into the hive 

 queen and all. Examining them sev- 

 eral days later I found the queen had 

 been busy laying eggs and was filling 

 the comb with eggs. I have used this 

 plan w^ith other hives that did not have 

 fertile workers. 



Mr. Dadant: Did you ever try that 

 metnod with queens that have been 



TREASURER CHAB. BECKER. 

 Courtesy Geo". W. York. 



stroying hives, but do advise boiling 

 them out. They should be well aired. 

 The air and sunshine purify them. 

 Have also covered them with kerosene 

 and burned them out. 



Mr. Stone: I wish Mr. Smith would 

 tell us again his method of introducing 

 queens into the hive. He has done so 

 before but it was not recorded and I 

 wish he would either give it now or 

 write it for publication in our report 

 of this meeting. 



President Smith: The case I was 

 telling about, I had had trouble with 



traveling a long time? We have not 

 found that method would work with 

 queens that had been traveling. Owing 

 to the fatigue of the trip they are not 

 so acceptable to the bees in the hive. 

 I do not practice killing old queens, 

 unless they are worthless. 



Bees are very sensitive to smell. 

 How do the bees know when the queen 

 is lost? Some of them probably do 

 not see her for a week at a time. I 

 am of the opinion that bees know of the 

 presence of their queen by the smell. 

 Otherwise how do they know when the 



