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Dr. Bohrer: Wliat kind, of honey? 



Mr. Whitney: I think it is white 

 clover, mostly, but a little mixture. 

 I think, if you use proper care, you 

 can keep comb honey indefinitely. 



Mr. Kimmey: "What is "proper 

 care ?" 



Mr. Whitnej^: Keep it in a warm, 

 dry place — comb honey. I have often 

 heard groceryinen say, "I keep my 

 honey under the counter." I sold some 

 to a gracer once. I said, "Where do 

 you keep it?" and he said, "Down un- 

 der the counter." I said, "You put it 

 in the gallery under the chimney, 

 where it is the warmest place." Ho 

 said, "Is that necessary?" I said, "You 

 will find it necessary if you want to 

 keep the honey in proper condition for 

 your customers." 



Mr. Ahlers: I would like to find out 

 how to stir honey in a single can when 

 you heat it in hot water. 



Mr. Moore: This article even gives 

 a machine for stirring honey while 

 heating. 



Mr. Ahlers: In a single can? 



Mr. Moore: I simply take a five- 

 gallon can and a big spoon and stir it. 

 The top is cut off. 



Mr. Ahlers: The cans are worth 

 considerable. I sell them for fifteen 

 or twenty cents each. 



Mr. Moore: A great many people 

 cut the tops off the cans and stir the 

 honey. The cans are %vorth less than 

 the risk of spoiling your honey. 



Mr. Ahlers: I raise the can half a 

 dozen times, and pour off the honey as 

 fast as it liquefies, and I heat it in 

 an open galvanized kettle on a stove 

 with eight holes, and. heat it with dry 

 heat. It will not candy so quickly. If 

 you heat it with steam heat it will 

 candy more quickly. 



Mr. Baxter: Put your honey in bar- 

 rels instead of in cans, and when any 

 customer w^ants it liquefied you can 

 liquify it from the barrels in an ap- 

 paratus on purpose for liquefying it, 

 without any risk. Do not keep it in 

 the cans. 



Dr. Dadant: I think I can liquefy 

 honey in single cans without stirring 

 it at all. Don't let the water boil. 



Mr. Moore: We are in a hurry 

 sometimes, and we get the water too 

 hot, and then, if it is not stirred, the 

 honey on the edges will become heated 

 too much and will scorch. 



Mr. Wheeler: I want to hear Mr. 

 Baxter's method. 



Mr. Baxter: I should take it out of 

 the barrels and liquefy it in a liquefy- 

 ing apparatus, where there will be 

 no danger of burning it. 



Dr. Miller: I have attended a good 

 many bee conventions, and I am ready 

 to say right here and now that in 

 Chicago I find the most interesting 

 conventions where beees are discussed. 

 There is, however, one thing wrong. 

 You put on the tension and you keep 

 it up right straight through, and try 

 as nearly as you can to kill every fel- 

 low that is here before the session is 

 over in the afternoon. I move that 

 we have a recess. 



Recess taken for ten minutes. 



Joining tine Illinois Association. 



President York: Mr. Smith, the 

 President of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, has a statement 

 to make. 



Mr. Smith: The State of Illinois 

 has been very generous to the bee- 

 keepers by allowing them an appro- 

 priation to carry on their meetings, 

 hold their meetings, and publish their 

 reports, and for the suppression of 

 foul brood. Now, it has been said that 

 while the State Association was grant- 

 ed the money and had the use of it 

 the Northwestern had not been treated 

 as it should have been, as its mem- 

 bers were citizens of the State, a good 

 many of them. That impression is not 

 true. I am here to explain. Now, we 

 want the members of this Association, 

 or as many as live in the State of 

 Illinois, to join the State Association. 

 We need your membership and your 

 Association. We are trying to get a 

 foul brood law passed that will give 

 the State Inspector the authority to 

 destroy or clean up where the bee- 

 keepers have bees that are diseased, 

 and who object to the Inspector en- 

 tering their premises. Now, we have 

 been very careful with our finances, 

 and the proposition is this: We pro- 

 pose to pay the expenses of the short- 

 hand reporter's work of getting this 

 meeting on record, and its publication. 

 We propose to pay for publishing your 

 reports, and we will combine it with 

 our report and mail it to every mem- 

 ber that will join our Association, 

 upon the payment of twenty-five 

 cents. This is taking all the respons- 

 ibility, or all the expense, away from 

 your institution, and we are willing 

 to pay for it. We are willing to di- 

 vide. The money is as much yours as 



