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per day dm-inj? that period, and it would \ary, of course, with the 

 lenj;ih of lier life. 1 am not enough of a mathematician to calcu- 

 late that olf-hand, but it can very easily be done. 



QUESTION: "How could you change bees from the black to the 

 Italian?" 



MR. BARCLAY: By removing the black queen and the introduc- 

 tion of the Italian queen. I hardly have time to discuss the matter 

 of the introduction of the Italian queen. 



QUESTION: "Is the queen able to law drone eggs or worker eggs 

 at will?" 



MR. BARCLAY: That is somewhat of a disputed question; it 

 would seem funny if I answer that she is able to control the fertili- 

 zation which results in controlling the sex of the egg or the pro- 

 geny. Higher organized animals are not able to do it, but I think 

 that it is generally accepted that the queen can control the fer- 

 tilization of the egg which in time controls the sex. The queen will 

 lay drone eggs in worker cells if she has no drone cells in which to 

 lay them. 



Adjourned to 1..30 o'clock P. M. 



Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, 1.30 P. M., October 14, 1004. 



The session was called to order by Deputy Secretary Martin, 

 who announced that Mr. Clark, not being well, Mr. Billings, of Erie, 

 would act as Chairman. 



The CHAIRMAN: Gentlemen, a great many of us are certainly 

 interested in the session this afternoon. The first topic on the 

 program which we will take up is, "The County Chairman." This 

 discussion to be opened by the Hon. Jason Sexton. 



MR. SEXTON: Mr. Chairman and members of the Farmers' In- 

 sritutes from the different counties and the county chairmen and 

 managers of Farmers' Institutes, who our Deputy Secretary and 

 Director of Institutes holds largely responsible for the success or 

 failure of the institutes of the several counties, I am certain we 

 shall be ready and willing to admit that without the right man in 

 the right place managing the institutes in the separate counties, 

 his work would be very much curtailed and even the Department 



