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EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



heads that honey with practically the 

 same composition, the same materials 

 only in a pleasant form, could be sub- 

 stituted — a delightful article of food — 

 for the exceedingly disagreeable cod 

 liver oil. They take cod liver oil dis- 

 guised in all sorts of ways. Now, it 

 appears from what Dr. Bohrer isays, 

 and I confess it is news to me, and a 

 delightful thing to learn, that they are 

 awakening to the fact that honey may 

 take the place, with consumptive pa- 

 tients, of cod liver oil. It is a good 

 thing for us to tell, and to talk about 

 it, for there are people who need some- 

 thing of that kind all around vis — very 

 few that don't. 



Bee Dumping Its Load. 



"How long <Joes it take a bee to 

 dump her load?" 



Mr. Wilcox: Several years ago I 

 had wild bees. I took out my watch 

 and timed them, the time a bee start- 

 ed from its home and returned, and 

 from its first base, and I believe, as a 

 termined the distance it probably was 

 from its first base ,and I believe, as a 

 rule, five minutes was about the short- 

 est time from the time the loaded bee 

 started with its load until that same 

 bee returned again. In case they were 

 two or three miles away the time was 

 about an hour — rarely under five min- 

 utes. I have known one to return 

 within four minutes, but in all cases 

 the tree was near by, so that the time 

 must have been taken principally in 

 unloading. 



"Does Honey Freeze?" 



President York: You will have a 

 good time to try it within the next 

 two or three months. 



Dr. Miller: How are you going to 

 tell whether it is frozen or not? 



Mr. Moore: I would like to ask if 

 any one says that honey does freeze. 

 I believe honey will not freeze under 

 any circumstances. But does honey 

 freeze, and what bearing does that 

 have on our interests? 



Mr. "Wilcox: That question has 

 been discussed, and it has been repeat- 

 edly stated that honey does freeze, and 

 a good many members have seen it 

 when it has frozen so that it expands 

 when the capping cracks. Marketable 

 honey such as we call honey certainly 

 does freeze. If there were no water 

 in it at all I am not sure it would 

 expand any on account of the cold, 



I am not sure it would congeal any 

 harder, but I suppose it would. I sup- 

 pose by freezing you mean congeal- 

 ing hard as ice. 



Mr. Taylor: The thing is to deter- 

 mine what is freezing. When you 

 tackle that it will settle the whole 

 thing. 



Dr. Miller: I think Mr. Taylor is 

 right about that. As ordinarily used, 

 when a beekeeper says his honey has 

 frozen he simply means that it has 

 been subjected to a degree of temp- 

 erature at which water freezes. In 

 other words, if you would ask if honey 

 has frozen when it has been out in 

 zero temperajture, I would say yes. 

 Whether that would agree with the 

 scientific degree of freezing or not, I 

 don't know, but in ordinary language, 

 when it has been down to that temp- 

 erature we say that honey has been 

 frozen. 



Mr. Whitney: As I stated in a forrti- 

 er talk about freezing honey — the can 

 that I spoke of which was kept in an 

 ice box for a long time, the honey 

 would fiow as I turned the can up- 

 side down and right side up, without 

 any evidence appearing that it had 

 frozen at all. In the common accept- ' 

 ation of the term, I could not freeze it 

 — kept it there a long time — and yet 

 that extracted honey would run when- 

 ever I turned the can. 



Mr. Moore: By freezing do you 

 mean granulating? 



Mr. Whitney: No; it was liquid 

 honey when I put it ' there it was 

 liquid all the time, didn't granulate, 

 and as we commonly speak of freez- 

 ing, it didn't freeze. We thought we 

 couldn't freeze it. 



The T-Supep and Others. 



"Did Dr. Miller bring a T-super of 

 honey? If not, why not?" 



Dr. Miller: I didn't see that suffi- 

 cient good could be done by it. I did 

 bring one other thing along. I am 

 always willing to show it when you 

 want to see it. 



Mr. Moore: I was ordered to notify 

 everybody to bring in their supers of 

 honey, and to give each one a dol- 

 lar who brought to this meeting. Two 

 or three months ago Mr. Taylor wrote 

 to the secretary and asked him what 

 had been done, and up to that time 

 nothing had been done. A notice was 

 published in the bee papers, but no 



