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enough so that I could stand my hand 

 in it — about 140 degrees; that causes 

 all the bubbles of air to rise to the 

 top, and while it is in this hot condi- 

 tion I seal it as well as possible. There 

 is, a cork lined cap in the upper part 

 and the screw is screwed down tight 

 on to that cap. The jelly glass is 

 sealed 'by taking a disk of parafflne 

 paper laid over the top of the jelly 

 glass and the tin cover forced down 

 over that. If every one of you ibee- 

 keepers will try to put up your honey 

 and sell it locally land get better prices 

 for it it will stimulate the market all 

 round and the gentlemen engaged in 

 packing largely will have the market 

 stimulated, and they will get as good 

 prices and get all the business they 

 can handle just the same. 



Mr. Root: I understand Mr. Hers- 

 hisher to say he got the water hot 

 enough to put his hand into it. Did 

 he ever take a thermometer and try it? 

 If he put it into water at 140 degrees 

 I think he would draw it out with the 

 skin off. 



Mr. Holterman: I would like to say 

 a few words from the standpoint of a 

 Canadian. I know it is quite custo- 

 mary to laud a man under such cir- 

 cumstances as this, even if we don't 

 quite agree with what he says. I am 

 not one of those, but I would like to 

 say that I consider that address which 

 Dr. Phillips has given shows very care- 

 ful preparation and excellent work, 

 and is on the line that bee-keepers 

 need very much at the present time. 

 I hope that that address will be dis- 

 tributed very widely. I would like 

 very much if it could be arranged that 

 the members of the Ontario Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association at least would be able 

 to get a copy of that address. 



He touched the question of pollen 

 in honey. I believe that is an item 

 which deserves a very great deal of 

 consideration. That opens up another 

 line of investigation. I asked Dr. 

 Phillips as to that and he said it had 

 been found that in these 200 samples 

 there was a great variation of pollen 

 In the honey. I believe with seasons 

 and sources the amount of pollen varies 

 very much. Where the flow is poor 

 and where the toees have to visit a 

 grreat many flowers in order to get a 

 load the tendency may 'be that there 

 may .be a great deal more pollen in 

 that honey; and in our northern dis- 

 tricts where the bees are confined a 

 long time through the winter it may 



have a very important bearing on the 

 way in which bees winter. 



I must congratulate you upon having 

 at Washington a gentleman who is 

 able to give you the address he has 

 given this morning. 



Mr. York: Some members of the 

 Association think they do .not get 

 anything out of it and don't feel like 

 paying a dollar, but this is only one 

 of the things they get in the Annual 

 Report. When you first began bot- 

 tling honey and didn't know much 

 about it, how much would such a paper 

 be worth to you? This question I ask- 

 ed of a gentleman here and he said. 

 Two or three hundred dollars. Of 

 course it would. I think it would to me 

 in that case. If there is anything I 

 ought to know a little about, it is bot- 

 tling honey. It seems to me we ought 

 to emphasize some of these things 

 among the bee-keepers because it is 

 simply a cheap way to get information 

 to join the National Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation and read these things.-, 



Dr. Phillips said in bottling honey 

 to put it in the bottles when it was 

 warm. We always bottled it hot and 

 sealed it immediately. We thought for 

 a long time that prevented granula- 

 tion. We heated the bottles about 160 

 degrees; we immediately had some one 

 follow the filler with a rubbing ring 

 and top; and we have had very little 

 trouble with granulation. 



Mr. Selser: In regard to heating 

 honey, it is not so much bringing the 

 honey to a certain temperature as it 

 is not to let it stay very long. A very 

 valuable thing I found in my work for 

 preserving the taste, flavor and aroma 

 of honey was after it was bottled hot 

 and then sealed doubly to reduce the 

 temperature immediately by an ice bath. 

 Those ladies who preserve their fruits 

 would say by putting the bottles heated 

 to 160 Fahrenheit into ice water it 

 would crack every jar. It will not. 

 There is a great thing in regard to the 

 temperature of that ice bath and the 

 temperature of the houey. There is a 

 ratiq between the two. 



Prof. Surface: I would like to ask 

 Selser if the cans are only partly 

 submerged, or completely so. 



Mr. Selser: I use crates that will 

 hold two dozen each of honey with 

 slats in the bottom. It has got to 

 be done in a wholesale way. These 

 crates are submerged in very large 

 tanks, and this ice is being put In 

 every few moments, in 1500 pound 



