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Mr. Root — That's the question. I don't think the wax 

 can be gotten that way, so much of it, compared to the pres- 

 sure. In my experiment I found that if I put a great deal 

 under pressure I didn't get it all. The question is whether 

 you want the wax or the time. If your time is valuable, I 

 would by all means use some method as that, or the press 

 when the wax is heated in some other place. If you want the 

 wax, I still insist my method gets it. 



Mr. Wilcox — Do they leave it in the kettle cold? 



Mr. Niver — It rises to the top of the can. He will have 

 several hundred pounds at a time at work. 



Mr. Wilcox — You leave it there to cool. I think I have 

 observed others who have tried it, and there is danger of a 

 little iron-rust coloring the wax. 



Mr. Thompson — Has anyone ever used additional screens 

 in the solar extractor for turning after it had gone to the 

 bottom once? I had an extra screen made for mine last 

 summer and I think it was satisfactory. I couldn't find any 

 wax in the refuse after that, where if allowed to remain in 

 the bottom there would be wax on the edges and around the 

 bottom. 



Mr. Moore — How many have the German wax-press? 

 [Four.] 



Pres. York — Mr. Wheeler tell us about it; you raised 

 your hand. 



Mr. Wheeler — I think of nothing but what has been 

 spoken of. 



REPORT OF THE FOUL BROOD COMMITTEE. 



Pres. York — We will have the report of the foul brood 

 committee. I think they are here now, and perhaps ready 

 to repert. 



Mr. Moore — A year ago Pres. York appointed three of 

 us as a foul brood committee to co-operate with the com- 

 mittee from the Illinois State Association to get a law 

 through the legislature. Your Secretary, Mr. Kanenburg, 

 and Mr. Clarke, were appointed to act as such committee. 

 I will simply say we did a lot of work, and we got the law. 

 The two associations working together seemed to carry 

 weight with the legislature, and it didn't seem to be a hard 

 matter to get that law through. The law is now on the 

 statute books, for an appropriation of $2,000 for the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association. It had to be in the name 

 of the State Association, first, because it is a State organiza- 

 tion, and second, because it is incorporated. The proceedings 

 were very interesting, and if there was lots of time we might 

 tell you about it in detail. There was a lot of work done. 

 Letters and circulars were sent out to every bee-keeper we 

 knew of. to every member of the legislature, especially, mem- 

 bers of the committees to which our bill .was presented, and 

 representatives of the House and the Senate, telling them the 

 strongest things we could think of on the subiect. We told 

 them we had just as good a right to have a foul brood law 

 as we had to have a law against smallpox being carried 

 around in the public schools and along the street. The re- 



