ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Mr. Pyles — Three years ago this 

 month was' my first attendance at the 

 convention, and, if I remember right, 

 we got here along about noon> and met 

 with the second session; we met and 

 organized committees in the morning, 

 for the first hour after we met. There 

 was but seven in the roam the second 

 session. It looks to me as if we have 

 grown some. 



Mr. .Stone — We have !had a nimiber 

 of meetings when we just about got 

 nine fees on to our Mst; but the work 

 of getting the members comes after. 

 There has hardly a month passed but 

 what we got from one to a dozen mem- 

 bers; they are coming in all the time. 

 My book will show now that two or 

 three have paid for 1910. Their fees 

 are not counted in our statistics in our 

 financial report; they will be counted 

 next year. 



Bee- Keeping in the Schools. 



Mr. Moore — Wihile we are talking on 

 this subject of education, I think a 

 great many of us are so situated we 

 can do something along that line. Take 

 it in the public schools, and in the 

 High schools, particularly: they are 

 advocating more time and attention to 

 outdoor studies of animal life and in- 

 sect life, and, by talking the matter 

 up, we could get a chance to demon- 

 strate before the pupils, and give them 

 lectures and talks on bee-culture that 

 will help them out wonderfully; and 

 the teachers and the principals are very 

 glad to receive such help, generally. 

 Not long ago I was talking with a 

 principal of our ihigh school; the chil- 

 dren were getting specimens of various 

 insects. I happened to find a seventeen- 

 year locust on the sidewalk, and gave 

 it to one of the girls^ in this class, as 

 a specimen. I spoke to the principal 

 about bee-culture; he knew that I was 

 in the business,! and he said he would 

 like to have me come and give them 

 a talk, and demonstrate the working 

 of the bees. So I took an observation 

 hive right into the schoolroom, and 

 gave them a lecture on the subject of 

 bees and ibee- culture. I think, if more 

 of us would do something of that sort, 

 we could accomplish a great deal in 

 educating the people in this line. If 

 you take an observation hive right into 

 the schoolroom, and talk to the chil- 

 dren, you will find that the knowledge 

 you give them will be pretty well dis- 



seminated. It will create a demand for 

 honey, and stimulate the interest of 

 every one in bees. 



Mr. York — ^I may say that I have 

 done that. I did a 'little along that line 

 in the Chica'go schools during the past 

 summer vacation. I was invited to 

 IjrSnjg some live bees to one of the 

 vacation schools. I gave them three 

 or four talks. They would fill the 

 room up with children, and then those 

 would pass out, and another lot would 

 come in; and so I kept it up for about 

 three hours. I also have 75 or 80 

 stereopticon slides, that take an hour, 

 or an hour and a half, to run through. 

 Next Tuesday night I expect to deliver 

 a bee lecture before the T. M. C. A., of 

 our suburb. I have given this lecture, 

 and it seems to take witlhi the people, 

 especially if "you can show them pic- 

 tures on the screen. I would toe glad 

 to use them more, if I had an oppor- 

 tunity — ^^an evening a week, perhaps, in 

 different parts of Chicago, that I could 

 reach in an evening. I think it is a 

 good thing. 



Mr. Coppin — ^In order to make up a 

 collection of insects, I always give the 

 children queens, drones and workers: 

 that will help to make a display. 



Beeswax and Butter. 



"Is it not true that ^beeswax is in the 

 honey, the same as butter is in milk?" 



Mr. Moore — I should say not. 



Mr. Coppin — The honey Is in the 

 wax, instead of the wax in the honey. 



Mr. Moore — I think that has been 

 demonstrated by scientists — wax is a 

 secretion of the bees. 



Mr. Moore — I have had people ask me 

 if those bunches of stuff bees had on 

 their legs was wax. 



Mr. Stone — Is not beeswax in all 

 honey? 



Mr. Dadant — Beeswax is in sugar, 

 when you come to that. 



Mr. Moore — The bee has to eat honey 

 and digest it, to stimulate those glands 

 to secrete the wax. 



I>r. Bohrer — This stands in about 

 the relation that blood stands to 

 corn or brf ad. There is blood in bread 

 — in corn bread — in any of the digesti- 

 ble food that we eat, and it is what 

 the bees eat that enables them to se- 

 crete wax; but you will never find wax 

 in globules in honey, not as you find 

 globules of butter in milk. W^e have 



