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get at that honey. You don't want 

 to take any chances. If you can't 

 use it during the cold winter weather 

 it is better to dig a hole and bury 

 it. 



Mr. York presented the report to the 

 Nomination Committee as follows: 



Report of Nomination Committee. 



N. E. France elected Chairman of 

 the committee, and George W, York 

 V Secretary. 



Nominations : 



President — George W. York, Chi- 

 cago, 111.; Thos. Chantry, Price, Utah. 

 Vice-President — W. D. Wright, Alta- 

 mont, N. Y.; G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, 

 Tenn. 



Secretary — Morley Pettit, Jordan 

 Station, Ont., Canada; Louis H. Scholl, 

 New Braunfels, Texas. 



Gen. Mgr. and Treas. — ^N. E. France, 

 Platteville, Wis. 



Three Directors — J. E. Crane, Mid- 

 dlebury, Va.; J. J. Wilder, Cordele. 

 Ga.; R. A. Morgan, Vermilion, S. 

 Dakota; Edw. G. Brown, Sargent's 

 Bluff, Iowa; B. A. Hadsell, Buckeye, 

 Ariz.; E. F. Atwater, Meridian, Idaho. 

 (Signed) 

 GEORGE W. YORK, 



Secretary. 

 For Com. from 11 States. 



Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 23, 1909. 



On motion of Dr. Bohrer, seconded 

 by Mr. Goddard, the report was re- 

 ceived and adopted. 



On motion, the convention stood ad- 

 journed until 1:30 p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



At 1:30 p. m., the President took 

 the chair and said: The convention 

 will please come to order. I appre- 

 hend the majority of the members 

 have gone to the Fair or something. 

 We will take up the subjects, how- 

 ever, and dispose of them according 

 to the program. The first upon the 

 list is "How to Get Big Honey Har- 

 vests Without Swarming," by A. C. 

 Allen, of Portage, Wis. 



Mr. France — Mr. President, that is 

 one of the papers which, as yet, has 

 not arrived. Possibly I might outline 

 briefly the method by which Mr. Allen 

 conducts this way of handling bees, 

 so that we may have some of the ben- 

 efits of it this season. However, I 

 will see that the paper becomes a 

 part of the Annual Report, alth-ough 

 it has failed to reach here. In short, 

 it is simply this, working for extract- 



ed honey to gather all the products 

 and not have swarming. As soon as 

 the bees are out of the cellar in the 

 spring, weather permitting, stimula- 

 tive feeding to encourage more brood 

 rearing. As soon as the first hive 

 body or brood-chamber is well equip- 

 ped with brood, taking a portion of 

 that brood into another hive body, 

 placing it above this one, and con- 

 tinuing, so that by the time the white 

 clover harvest comes you have two 

 hive bodies nearly solid, full of brood. 

 That is a big swarm. It is the big 

 swarms that we realize our returns 

 from. The swarming fever would 

 soon take place under tnose condi- 

 tions when th4 harvest opens. To 

 get the harvest and have no swarm- 

 ing just at this time when queen cells 

 would begin , to be formed, he raises 

 that entire double hive body up, put- 

 ting another hive body under with a 

 queen-excluder between; in this low- 

 er hive comb foundation and some 

 drawn combs, if he has them, giving 

 thereby the queen an empty division 

 to work in, a Ad as the brood above 

 hatches, you still have all the work- 

 ing force of that big swarm. That 

 gives you room for the storage of 

 honey as fast as it comes in, and if 

 need be then you can^add your other 

 super for more honey. In doing that, 

 those combs are filled, and there is 

 no necessity for being in a hurry to 

 extract your honey before it is ripen- 

 ed. There is no shaking energy in'o 

 the bees, if you please; it is giving 

 lots of room, and at the same time no 

 swarming. Mr. Allen has out -apiaries, 

 and without hired help is enabled that 

 way to work those yards •;\ithout any 

 swarming whatever, and get good, big 

 returns. I have been at his yard sev- 

 eral times, and he has nearly double 

 per colony the yield that his neigh- 

 bor bee-keepers have. 



HOW TO SECURE- THE HONEY 



HARVEST WITHOUT 



SWARMING. 



(By A. C. Allen.) 



During the past fifty or more years 

 the attention of all large honey pro- 

 ducers has been turned toward de- 

 vising some means of absolute con- 

 trol of swarming; and at the same 

 time not detract the amount of honey 

 that a colony would gather, did it not 

 contract the desire to swarm. For 

 all we know that honey gathering is 



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