ILLINOIS STATE BEE KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Mr. Pressler — Yes. Go to work and 

 put out about 100 pounds of honey in 

 combs, to clean up your combs or 

 honey you want cleaned up, where 

 you have a yard of 100 colonies, and 

 let them go to work on that, and go 

 along the row and see which ones are 

 working freely, and, as Mr. Coggshall 

 says, they stop and look at each other. 

 Those that have sufficient stores will 

 •not fly rapidly and will not get as 

 much excited as those colonies which 

 are depleted in stores. Those that 

 have the least amount of stores will 

 work freely like they would in June, 

 and those that are queenless will not 

 work at all; and they will not fly 

 much; they will fight with each other 

 and look for trouble. 



Mr. Holterman — That carries out 

 the principle that a queenless stock 

 never takes down syrup as well as 

 one which has a queen, but I think 

 the remedy is worse than the disease. 



Mr. F. J. Miller — That is not my own 

 experience. When talking to S. D. 

 Chapman of this state in regard to 

 this matter he told me that he could 

 invariably tell a queenless colony be- 

 tween sunset and dark or in the morn- 

 ing as they were going to the field, 

 not at other times during the day, by 

 diagnosing the entrance; he would 

 notice those bees that were restless 

 and trotting across the entrance 

 rather than going to the field in the 

 morning, and at night he would see 

 them there with a blocked appearance. 



Question No. 2 — Is there a bee man 

 who has tried artificial heat in the 

 spring to build up colonies? 



The President — If there is no one 

 here who has, I presume we can't 

 answer it. 



Question No. 3 — ^How are we to pro- 

 ceed to recover stolen colonies? 



Mr. Muth — Go and get them back. • 



The President — ^If the questioner 

 knows where the colonies are and has 

 a suspicion as to who carried them 

 there, there is a process of law, and 

 beyond that I know not. 



Mr. Hershiser — I suggest that the 

 iparty retain a lawyer. 



Mr. Taylor — I suggest he put salt 

 on their tails. 



■ The President — Will the questioner 

 state, if here, wheither the bees in 

 question were stolen or whether it 

 was a siwarm that had been taken by 

 somebody else? 



Mrs. Williamson — We ihad a colony, 

 hive and all, taken from our ^ee yard, 

 and we would like, to know how to get 

 it back. 



Mr. Pressler — Would you advise to 

 apply the law? 



The President — Not i:rl could settle 

 it otherwise. I would first go to the 

 party and lay the case before them in 

 a personal way ani ' try to settle the 

 matter. 



Question No. 4 — How can you con^ 

 trol the swarming of bees? (No re- 

 sponse- to this question.) 



The President — Our Manager has a 

 resolution he wishes to present at this 

 time. 



Mr. France presented the following 

 resolution: (By request.) 



Resolved, That it is the sense of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 that it is imperative for the continua- 

 tion of the bee-keeping industry in 

 the United States that the present 

 tarifE of 20 cents per gallon on honey 

 be retained, and, if possible, that it be 

 increased, so that the bee-kepers of 

 this country will not be compelled to 

 compete on the market with two and 

 a half million pounds of cheap honey 

 which is now annually imported. 

 j Resolved, That it is desirable that 

 beeswax be remove! from the free 

 list in the United States and that a 

 tarifE of ifot less than ten cents per 

 pound be placed on this article. 



Resolved, That it is the sense of 

 the National Bee -Keepers' Association 

 that it is imperative for the continua- 

 tion of the Bee-Keeping industry in 

 Canada, that the present tariff on 

 honey be retained, and if possible 

 that it be increased so that the bee- 

 keepers of the country will not be 

 compelled to compete on the market 

 with the chea;p honey which is now 

 annually imported. 



Resolved, That it is desirable that 

 a tarifE of not less than ten cents per 

 pound be placed on beeswax in Can- 

 ada. 



Mr. Hershiser — Mr. President, I 

 want to say that if the promises of the 

 presidential canJidates are to be car- 

 ried out we are almost sure to be up 

 against this question in a year or so. 

 The tariff will, no doubt, be revised 

 before very long, and the people who 

 are looking after their interests will 

 have to look after them, ^nd those 

 who do not look after their interests 



