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Dr. Miller whether he had all sealed 

 brood, or was the larvae and brood 

 mixed ? 



Dr. Miller — ^You mean those diseased 

 combs? Took everything just as it 

 was. 



Dr. Miller — Mr. Cavanagh, can you 

 detect it as to color? 



Mr. Cavanagh — Tes, where the larva 

 is not straightened out yet, a gteat 

 many times it will show a cream color, 

 and sometimes they will die before 

 they straighten out; the color is no- 

 ticeable; they will start to turn cream, 

 and then brown, and then almost 

 black; it is different; there is nothing 

 regular about it; it works different in 

 one hive than in another. 



Dr. Miller — I am not sure that I ever 

 saw anything straighten out — in my 

 locality — but it is very easy to see the 

 difference between pearl-white and 

 yellow-like. 



Dr. Bohrer — One other method was 

 spoken of; about making colonies 

 strong. Nearly all the colonies that I 

 ever treated for American foul brood 

 I find weak. I always adopt this rule. 

 As soon as I know they are on safe 

 ground, that the disease has disap- 

 peared, I put them on comb founda- 

 tion the second time; then going to a 

 strong colony, get the brood just 

 hatched' from cells and build them up 

 with that. The comb foundation must 

 be entirely free from disease. 



Swarm From a Foul Broody Colony. 



"Will a swarm cast from a foul 

 brood colony develop foul brood the 

 same season?" 



Mr. Cavanagh — Sometimes it will, 

 and sometimes it won't. As a rule, 

 no; we saw several instances this year 

 where we were uncertain. Mr. De 

 Muth called my attention to the fact 

 that we should not pass those colonies 

 without examination. 



Mr. Macklin — I asked the question. 

 I have kept a record for a good many 

 years. Where I have found a colony 

 with foul brood, frequently I have 

 traced it into the first swarm, so that 

 since I have discovered that, when I 

 have a swarm, I immediately go to 

 the colony from which it came and ex- 

 amine it to see if it has foul brood, 

 and if it has, I put the new swarm on 

 starters and leave them there three or 

 four days, and then put them on full 

 sheets of foundation, and I have been 

 able to keep track of them, and keep it 



down; I go back and treat the old col- 

 ony. 



Mr. Baxter — Can a foul broody col- 

 ony cast a swarm? 



Mr. Holtermann — Oh, yes, right 

 along. 



President York — Perhaps I would 

 better appoint those committees. 



First, the committee of five on reso- 

 lutions: Mr. Moore, Mr. Horstmann, 

 Mr. Baxter, Mr. Huffman, and Mr. Cav- 

 anagh. 



Legislative Committee. 



The committee of twelve on Legisla- 

 tion: Mr. Baxter, Mr. Lyman, Mr. 

 Macklin, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Winter, 

 Mr. Horstmann, Mr. Kannenberg, Mr. 

 Moore, Mr, Baldridge, Mr. Kennicott, 

 Dr. Miller and Mr. Grabbe. 



"Pure Extracted Honey." 



Should the words, "Pure Extracted 

 Honey" be stamped on tin cans when 

 they are made? 



Mr, Moore — I have sold extracted 

 honey for twenty-four years or so, and 

 I want to enter an emphatic protest 

 against the words, "extracted honey." 

 People say they don't want "extract 

 of honey." They say they want 

 "honey." I think it should be "honey 

 separator," or "slung honey" — any- 

 thing but "honey extractor." 



Mr. Thompson — ^Where have you sold 

 honey for the last twenty-four years? 

 What kind of people can your custom- 

 ers be? 



Mr. Moore — For twenty years in 

 Chicago; I have sold honey in Logans- 

 port, Ind. 



Dr. Miller — You object to the name, 

 "extracted honey" — what would you 

 call it? 



Mr. Moore — ^Slung honey, liquid 

 honey, separated honey, clear honey. 



Mr. Hfuffman — I think if Mr. Moore 

 is going to change the name of the 

 honey, he ought to change the name 

 of the extractor; call it "solar ex- 

 tractor." 



Mr. Moore — It doesn't matter what 

 you call it for you folks, but it does 

 to people in the city, full of supersti- 

 tion and distrust. Extracted honey 

 doesn't mean anything to such men. 

 Call it "pure honey," or "liquid honey," 

 or "clear honey," but don't use the 

 word "extracted" on your tin cans, or 

 labels, or on anything. 



Dr. Bohrer — Pure honey covers the 

 ground. They are putting up a good 



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