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MR. LIGHTY: I would like to ask Mr. Barclay if the Geniiun 

 brown bee is identical with the black bee which he so heartily con- 

 demned. 



MR. BARCLAY: Yes, the brown German bee is the same thing. 



MR. BRODHEAD: I would like to ask Mr. Barclay if there is 

 much foul brood in the State of Pennsylvania? 



MR. BARCLAY: I am very much afraid there is. 



QUESTION: "Compared with other states, do you think there is?" 



MR. BARCLAY: Perhaps not more in percentage, perhaps more 

 than there is in New York State, where they have good legislation. 



PROF. SURFACE: I want to say on that point that it is preva- 

 lent in many hives and colonies throughout our State, and the 

 keepers do not know of its presence, and they never will know of 

 its presence until experts are sent out, as in New York State. It 

 is for the interest of bee-keepers to have a man sent out over the 

 State to wake up the bee-keepers and to get legislation to help 

 wipe out the disease in our State. If we are going to have honey 

 or fruit we must do this. 



MR. BRODHEAD: I will state that I lost sixty-five stacks of 

 bees, and lost them by foul brood. 



MR. NELSON: Speaking of the fertilization of the queen, and 

 the time for laying afterwards, don't you find that the fertilization 

 acts much sooner than was stated? It is my experience that young 

 queen bees invariably lay on the tenth day, and that means fertiliza- 

 tion on the third day; I have found it so in about 75 per cent, of 

 observations to be the case. 



MR. BARCLAY: Did I understand you to say that from the 

 tenth day of their hatching they begin to lay? 



MR. NELSON: Yes. 



MR. BARCLAY: I have talked about that subject with Mr. 

 Swarthmore, who is a queen-breeder, and is right there to see what 

 is doing every day, and it is his idea that they fly out from the 

 fourth to the sixth day, ordinarily. 



The Chairman suggested that as Prof. Menges was obliged to 

 leave soon, it would be desirable to ask him any questions applying 

 to his subject, so that he might have an opportunity to answer them 

 before leaving. 



