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NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Stone — We generally hold it in 

 the afternoon, but the last time it was 

 in the morning. 



President Kildow — I would suggest 

 we appoint the time we shall have the 

 election, and would also like to ask 

 that we try to get through with this 

 business by noon tomorrow; as a rule, 

 there is very little business in the aft- 

 ernoon of the second day, and some 

 of the members want to go home. I 

 would like to have this done, if we can 

 get through. 



Mr. York — ^I move, then, that we set 

 the election for tomorrow morning at 

 10 o'clock. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Mr. Stone — I move We take a recess 

 until tonight at half-past seven, and 

 have a night session and a question 

 box. 



Motion seconded. 



Mr. Moore — I am a little dubious 

 about a night session. 



Mr. Dadant — It is only four o'clock; 

 why can't we have a question box be- 

 fore we adjourn? 



Mr. Stone — I withdraw the motion to 

 adjourn. 



President Kildow — I think it would 

 be a good plan to have the question 

 box. We have not had any yet; I think 

 that is one of the good things of the 

 convention. Anybody that has any 

 questions, the Secretary will pass the 

 slips and collect them. 



Drug Treatment of Foul Brood. 



President Kildow — Here is a ques- 

 tion for Dr. Bohrer to answer: 



"How strong does carbolic acid have 

 to be in solution in order to destroy 

 the spores of foul brood?" 



Dr. Bohrer — Persons that have test- 

 ed the matter, I heard Dr. Phillips say, 

 or Dr. White, spores kept in solution 

 of carbolic acid over night, were living 

 yet, some of them; I don't know how 

 strong the solution was. When I have 

 made a solution in which to dip my 

 hands, after coming from the hive, be- 

 fore washing them with soap, I have 

 added a teaspoonful of carbolic acid to 

 probably a quart of water, and I would 

 just immerse my hands in that, and 

 give them a good scouring with soap; 

 but I won't guarantee that will kill 

 them; I thought it would, until I heard 

 Dr. Phillips, or Dr. White, say they 

 had been kept in a strong solution over 

 night and were not yet dead; I don't 

 know how long, that being the case, 



nor how strong the solution should be 

 to do the work completely. I have never 

 handled any since I heard them read 

 that paper. I have even gone so far 

 as to scrape my hands. 



We don't know enough about cer- 

 tain matters definitely; we are in the 

 dark about a good many things; as to 

 the original cause of these spores — 

 these germs that spring into existence 

 — we do not. know anything about it. 

 It is a matter for future investigation, 

 and to be ascertained, if it is learned. 



President Kildow — It stands us in 

 hand to use all the precaution we 

 can. 



Dr. Bohrer — Cut off every avenue of 

 spreading the disease by contagion or 

 infection. 



Honey From a Foul Broody Hive. 



"What can be done with honey in a 

 foul broody hive, where the bees have 

 been removed?" 



Dr. Bohrer — I wish somebody would 

 answer that; I have several gallons In 

 ten-pound buckets, and I don't know 

 how I can use it safely, unless I boil 

 it, and that I understand would destroy 

 it for table use. I might feed it to the 

 bees — boil it quite a time — and then I 

 guess it would be injurious to the 

 brood. I am hesitating as to whether 

 I shall dig a hole and put it in and 

 bury it, beyond the power of the bees 

 or anything, or anybody, getting access 

 to it. I won't sell it; some sell it to 

 confectioners and to bakers, but I 

 won't do anything of that kind. If you 

 set a bucket out somewhere that has 

 honey of that kind in it, and a bee 

 should take a dose of it to the hive, 

 there it spreads again. The safest 

 plan I know of is to get rid of it; I 

 believe that is what I will do. 



President Kildow — ^I have had a little 

 experience in that line, extracting it. 

 I boil up a good many boilers full; 

 stand by a full hour stirring it, hut I 

 have always fed it back to the bees. 

 I never sold any. That is all I would 

 do — boil it well and^feed it back to the 

 bees; otherwise it would go into a 

 hole. I have never had any evil re- 

 sults from feeding it, but have boiled 

 it for a full hour, and you want to keep 

 stirring it. 



Mr. Moore — I would ask if you have 

 any repugnance to using it for cook- 

 ing? 



Dr. Bohrer — I have thought of using 



