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EIGHTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



it was classed right. He makes no 

 distinction between liquid honey in 

 glass and comb honey in case. I would 

 like to hear about it. 



Dr. Miller: Mr. President, I make 

 a motion to adjourn for dinner and 

 allow Mr. Becker to go with the rest 

 of us. 



At the close of this discussion the 

 convention adjourned to meet again 

 at one-thirty (1:30) P. M. 



Afternoon Session, Nov. 19. 

 The President: The meeting will 

 please come to order. I will just state 

 this, this afternoon any member ad- 

 dressing the chair will give your names 

 so the reporter can get your name. 

 Speak loud and not too fast so we can 

 get it all in our report. 



The first thing on the programme 

 will be a reading by Mrs. Snyder. 



The President: We will take up the 

 question box, Mr, York, will you read 

 the questions? 



Mr. York: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Stone: Mr. President, here is 

 the report of the Auditing Committee. 



The President: Read it, please. 



Report of Auditing Committee was 

 read and on motion received. 



Springfield, 111., Nov. 19, 1908. 

 We, the undersigned. Auditing Com- 

 mittee, having examined the accounts 

 of Treas. Becker and Secretary Stone, 

 of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, find same correct. 



Rob't Holekamp, , 

 A. Li. Kildow, 

 George W. York, 

 ' Committee. 



Read and approved and ordered filed. 



The question box having been called 

 for, the questions having been hand- 

 ed to Mr. York, he read them. 



Question No. 1. 



Does smart weed produce much 

 honey, and what is the quality? 



Mr. Kildow: Smart weed doesn't 

 produce any honey that ever I saw. 



Dr. Miller: Smart weed is a great 

 honey plant. Very likely the person 

 that asked the question didn't have 

 smart weed in view but heartsease. 



What is properly called smart weed 

 is that which has a very pungent taste; 

 if you bite a leaf you wish you hadn't. 

 It doesn't grow as high as the other. 

 What is called smart weed and yet 



what is not, is heartsease. It has a 

 taste which is very mild. That is a 

 great honey plant. I don't know 

 whether the real smart weed is. 



Brother Kildow, have you plenty? 

 Mr. Kildow: I think so. 



Dr. Miller: The heartsease which 

 is often called smart weed is a great 

 honey plant. 



Mr. Kildow: I answered the ques- 

 tion as given. 



Smart weed in our country is just 

 about that high (indicating the height). 

 And men of my experience never saw 

 a bee on it, but heartsease is a good 

 honey plant in our neighborhood. 



Dr. Miller: What color is it? 



Mr. Kildow: Light amber. 



Mr. Stone: Heartsease is one of the 

 finest honeys we have. I have great 

 difiiculty in telling the heartsease from 

 the real smart weed till I see the 

 mark. 



A man told me how to distinguish it. 

 He said, "It is the lady finger;" you 

 can rub it in your eye. While he was 

 saying it he rubbed some of the hearts- 

 ease in his eye. I did, too, and you 

 taste the leaf and it is good. Animals 

 like to eat it. It is something in its 

 nature like slippery elm bark. He 

 said, "Whenever you see this mark of 

 a kind of heart-shape in the leaf and 

 a blood color, you could be sure it 

 was not smart weed." 



He then said when Adam and Eve 

 were in the Garden of Eden she cut 

 her finger and wrapped it in one of 

 these leaves. That is the only way I 

 can tell them apart. I often see smart 

 weed that you can't tell very well. I 

 have seen heartsease so high I could 

 hardly get through it. 



Mr. Spracklen: I think the brother 

 is right with regard to the real smart 

 weed not producing any. honey. I think 

 I thoroughly investigated that and I 

 don't think I ever saw a bee working 

 on smart weed, but the plant called 

 smart weed by a number of people is 

 what we denominate heartsease and is 

 a great honey-producing plant in our 

 country. 



It is as Brother Stone says, you will 

 always find that dark shade represent- 

 ing a heart on each side of the stem of 

 the leaf showing the shape of a heart. 



Question No. 2. 



About the quality of the honey? 



