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that is not a common custom among 

 bee-keepers. 



Mr. Huffiman — For instance, a comb 

 that had a little foul brood in it, and 

 that brood would all hatch and you 

 didn't Jtnow it, and you put that in the 

 super and let it fill with honey, 

 wouldn't that germ be in there and 

 condemn that honey? And when you 

 extracted it and put it into the honey, 

 and people buy the honey and get dis- 

 eased? How did they get it? There 

 is some way the disease is trans- 

 mitted. Now, I would like to have it 

 explained how it is done. Parties will 

 buy honey and feed it, and get foul 

 brood, and how do their bees get it 

 unless it comes in contact with some- 

 thing that is affected? The germ is 

 there. People that don't know what 

 foul brood is, are very apt to do that, 

 .and t don't see any other way, unless 

 that comb had foul brood in it, and 

 that ihatched out, and yet it was used 

 for honey. 



Mr. Baxter — They mean the germ of 

 foul brood. 



President York — Of course, the 

 question does not mean whether it is 

 the brood that gets into the honey. 

 It means the germ of foul brood in the 

 extractor. If it gets in, it is marketed 

 with the honey; no doubt about that. 



Chunk Honey. 



"What about chunk honey? Can its 

 production be made profitable in the 

 North?" 



Dr. Miller — I think that question 

 ^should be changed. Texas people don't 

 like to have you talk about "chunk" 

 boney. It is "bulk" honey. 



President York — All right, call it 

 Tsulk honey, then. Has any one here 

 tried it? Bulk comb honey, as they 

 produce it in the South, is cut out of 

 combs and put in cans and filled up 

 "With liquid honey? 



Mr. Huffman — I did years ago; but 

 I didn't know any better. (Laughter.) 



Mr. Burnett — ^I had some of it in 

 that form at first, and also have had 

 the producers here and they explain- 

 ed, or endeavored to explain, to us the 

 advantages of it in the market. They 

 said, "We have cut the combs out and 

 poured the extracted honey into it to 

 preserve the honey," as they speak of 

 it, to preserve the comb. Now, I think 

 that is like a good many other things 

 1 don't know enough about, but we do 

 know that where people are accus- 



tomed to using things in certain ways, 

 they like it better that way than they 

 do prepared in other ways. As a mat- 

 ter of fact, we were not able to sell 

 that honey in this market, other than 

 to people who would take and melt it 

 from the can and run the wax off. 



Mr. Winter — I have, to a limited ex- 

 tent, cut up some combs and put it in 

 cans along with the extracted honey. 

 It makes it look nice, and as it came 

 near cold weather. I kept it on ac- 

 count of the granulating, you see? 

 Then how would that be with those 

 pifeces of comb, and how would comb 

 be when it melted? 



President York — ^I was hoping Mr. 

 Scholl might be here from Texas and 

 tell us all about this. ,They work it 

 down there, and make a success of it. 



Dr. Miller — Thirty or forty years ago, 

 there was on this market and all mar- 

 kets all through the country, jars of 

 honey with a piece of comb in the 

 center. C. O. Perrine & Co. at that 

 time were large dealers, a large con- 

 cern in Chicago, and they put it. on the 

 market. If you see a nice section of 

 honey, if it should happen to fall into 

 a dish of liquid honey, you would think 

 we had spoiled it to some extent, and 

 it looks unreasonable to believe that 

 anyone would want nice comb honey 

 all mixed uip with the sticky liquid 

 honey. And when it is talked about we 

 think of it as something that could 

 not possibly be desired, and yet men 

 of intelligence, successful bee-keepers, 

 especially in Texas, tell us, and we 

 cannot dispute it, that they find a 

 fine market for it. You know very 

 well you can produce a large sheet of 

 honey with less trouble, and more of 

 it, perhaps, than you can to have it 

 divided up in sections, and they can 

 sell it for just as much as they can 

 a section of honey, and that is what 

 they say — men of such character, you 

 cannot dispute them. Now, the ques- 

 tion is, whether there is something 

 about the climate there that the people 

 want it, or whether it is a matter of 

 education. If it can be done here, and 

 it can be thrown on the market or 

 sold as it is there, there is something 

 that northern bee-keepers might gain 

 by it. It does not look to me that it 

 could be introduced in a lifetime, or 

 that people would want it, and yet 

 they sell it right along down there, 

 and there is a bigger demand for it 



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