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belonged in that hive. I tried to catch her. First I tried the honey 

 plan, daubing her with honey and went back in 15 to 20 minutes and 

 she was balled again. Then I tried to catch her and they were balling 

 her again and they continued that. I watched them all afternoon, 

 went to the hive every little while and they continued to torment her 

 until they killed her and they had absolutely no preparation for a new 

 queen. They were queenless afterwards and tried to raise a queen 

 right away. They knew there was absolutely no queen in the hive. 



Mr. Bishop. — If he had got hold of this queen, and caged her, 

 this odor that he left with the queen would evidently have escaped by 

 the time she was released, and nine times out of ten she would have 

 gone back all right. 



Mr. Heinzel. — Why would not dipping her in honey remove the 

 odor? 



Mr. Bishop. — That does not necessarily take the odor away 

 from her, the honey does not. It takes a certain length of time to 

 escape. All you do is to daub that over the body and she still has 

 that odor, she cannot clean herself of it and by the time they get that 

 honey off, she still has that odor, it has not any chance to get away. 



Mr. Tayler. — You understand, this bee was balled when I 

 opened the hive, I did not touch her at all. So she had the odor of 

 the hive, she was balled when I opened the hive, because I saw the 

 ball drop to the bottom. It was a large ball, a cluster around the queen 

 the size of a walnut. It was the first frame I took out and she dropped 

 to the bottom. 



Mr. Dadant. — I just want to suggest that perhaps bees are like 

 human beings. We have known of boys killing their mother. 



The President. — Absolutely. 



Mr. Dadant. — I mention that, because perhaps there are a few 

 bees in the hive that get angry at the queen, we cannot tell, it is sub 

 normal, it is a mystery, it is not normal for a boy to kill his mother, 

 but that happens, and I suppose there are cases where the bees become 

 cross; it is too bad to think so, but they have as bad traits as we have. 



Question. — How are the golden, crossed with leather colored 

 bees for work and gentleness? * 



Mr. Pettit. — We very often get the report that the so-called 

 hybrid bees are good workers. It is like any live-stock, they often 

 get the best results from the first cross of grade animals and I do not 

 know that that is an argument in favor of keeping races of bees, be- 

 cause while the first cross may be all right, we do not know what we 

 are going to get from the future generations. If we can stop at the 

 first cross, it may be all right. We always find that the crossed races 

 are cross bees too. 



Question. — Is the shallow or deep extracting frame the best? 



The President. — I might answer that. I asked that question 

 several years back and a certain gentleman said the shallow is better 

 on your back, he meant it was easier on the bee-keeper. Of course 

 the question came up awhile ago that possibly in the shallow frame 

 the queen would go up to the second story as readily as she did in either 

 frame, but as far as the production is concerned, I never could see any 

 difference. I have tried both. 



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