Page 2                  WISCONSIN BEEKEEPING                   January, 1932

 
 
    Mr. C. D. Adams, Chairman of the 
  World's Fair Committec, reported that 
  conditions did not look very favorable 
  for the participation  of Wisconsin 
  beekeepers in the World Fair, and as 
  yet it was quite impossible to tell just 
  what would be decided by the State 
  Legislature with regard to the Worlds 
  Fair.  Mr. Adams' report was ac- 
  cepted by the convention. 
    The   following   committees  were 
 then appointed by President Seefeldt- 
    Auditing Committee-A. L. Klee- 
 ber, Chairman; Charles Stone; Guy 
 Sherman. 
    Resolution  Committee-Mrs. M. 
 Hanneman, Chairman; Vincent Steck; 
 A. E. Wolkow. 
    The report of the Board of Man- 
 agers was then read and accepted, and 
 the following resolutions were passed 
 at this time- 
   No. 1; No. 2; No. 3; No. 4; No. 5. 
   A motion was then made, seconded 
 and passed that the Board of Man- 
 agers' recommendation which favored 
 a beekeeping extension man, be left to 
 the regular business session on Friday. 
    The morning session adjourned at 
 11: 50 o'clock, with 45 present. 
       THURSDAY AFTERNOON 
   The meeting was called to order at 
 1:20 o'clock by President Seefeldt. 
   Following announcements, Mr. See- 
 feldt read his address, which will be 
 printed at an early date. 
   Mr. C. D. Adams, of the Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture and Markets, in 
 his talk on "State and National Honey 
 Grades", called attention to the new 
 bulletin of the Department of Agri- 
 culture and Markets on honey grad- 
 ing. He said that the chief difficulty 
 of this past season was in the color 
 of the honey.   He pointed out that 
 there had been complaints of bee- 
 keepers selling white honey which was 
 anything but white; he said that the 
 Department of Agriculture and Mar- 
 kets stands ready to cooperate with the 
beekeepers in adjusting these difficul- 
 
 
  ties.  "Another thing which makes 
  this year unsusal", said Mr. Adams, 
  "is the apparent necessity of bringing 
  outside honey into Wisconsin; for sev- 
  eral years this has not happened, but 
  this year there have been some ship- 
  ments, and there probably will be 
  more. We have had inquiries from 
  beekeepers as to how they shall label 
  the honey they secure from outside 
  Wisconsin.   If these beekeepers sell 
  the honey straight without mixing it 
  with honey produced in Wisconsin, 
  they must in some way state that it 
  was produced outside the state; and 
  if it is blended with Wisconsin honey, 
  the label must state that the honey 
  has been produced in Wisconsin and 
  other states." 
    Mr. John Kneser, of Hales Cor- 
 ners, Wisconsin, then presented a paper 
 on "Beekeeping Twenty Years Ago 
 and Today". Mr. Kneser's paper will 
 be published in an early     issue of 
 "Wisconsin Beekeeping". 
    Following a brief recess, Mr. Clar- 
 ence Gwin, Research Assistant on Bee- 
 keeping at the University of Wis- 
 consin, Madison, presented a paper on 
 "The Presence of Impurities in Bees- 
 wax". Mr. Gwin's paper will appear 
 soon in this magazine. 
   In discussing   "The Relation    of 
 Temperature to the Preservation of 
 Honey in Storage", Professor Wilson 
 explained the work that was being 
 done at the University and said that 
 the knowledge that had been obtained 
 on this subject would make it much 
 easier for the beekeepers to take care 
 of the honey in storage, and that it 
 would also change the responsibility of 
 the beekeeper on any honey which he 
 might sell to dealers and which was 
 found fermented after it had been in 
 storage for 5 or 6 months, as the re- 
 sponsibility would then fall upon the 
 dealer, it being necessary for him to 
 keep the honey stored at proper tem- 
peratures. Professor Wilson also ex- 
plained that the general discussion on