72 MEETING OF E1T8PECTOB8 OF APIARIES. 



a man put in his place who is competent, but under no circumstances 

 subject an inspector to the criticism of the bee keepers of the com- 

 munity or of the bee-keeping press. This is unwise, for it gives the 

 public a prejudice against inspection rather than against the indi- 

 vidual inspector, while those few deserving of censure arc perhaps 

 unaffected. 



BOILING HONEY FROM DISEASED COLONIES. 



Mr. Mi in. Mr. France has said that you can not kill the germs in 

 honey until you boil and boil until the life is all out. 



Mr. Rankin. All you have to do is to make a hot lire and the 

 honey will boil. Of course you have not to boil it sufficiently long 

 to kill the germs. 



Mr. Mini. How large is the tank reservoir? 



Mr. Rankin. Big enough to hold your combs: as Abraham Lincoln 

 said of your legs, thev must be long enough to reach the ground. The 

 tank used by one bee keeper is 6 feet square and -t feet high, and you 

 would be surprised to see the amount it will take care of. 



Mr. Theis (Wis.). Are the frames destroyed then? 



Mr. Rankin. Yes; we never use any secondhand frames. 



Mr. J. A. Rouse (Mo.). I would like to ask if that water does not 

 get too thick? 



Mr. Rankin. Not at all. 



Mr. Rouse. How do you get rid of the honey? I tried that plan 

 and found that honey and wax hung with the frame- until they did 

 not look like frames. 



Mr. Atciiley. Mr. Rankin's treatment is similar to ours except that 

 we burn. The labor for digging ditches is A~ery cheap. It would 

 only cost us $5 to get ten ditches, and in each ditch we can burn •"><> 

 or 40 colonies. Our treatment is something like your California treat- 

 ment, except that it is not so complicated and is less work. 



Mr. Rankin. That is another phase of the proposition. Condil ion- 

 are different in that also. In California you can not hire a man to do 

 the work for le>s than $80 per month. 



Doctor Phillips. We have gone over the subject of treatment thor- 

 oughly, and I think all persons here have arrived at about the same 

 conclusion; that is. that it will not do for a man who has a few 

 colonies in one part of the United State- to write to our bee journals 

 and tell us all what to do. We want to know what he i- talking 

 about. The vast majority of the men who write to-day know 

 nothing about the varying condition-. What will work in one 

 little county in the East will not work in the Wot. and \ ice versa, 

 the methods of the West will not work in the East. Suppose that 

 Mr. Scholl should sit down here and tell everybody in the United 

 State- to burn their bee-. 



