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Question. — Will a brood chamber frame do for extracting? 



Mr. Heinzel, — I would say, yes. 



Mr. Bishop. — I use the full depth Langstroth frame for extract- 

 ing and like it pretty well. The reason is, if I want to switch with any 

 brood chambers, I can do that any time, with the same size frame. 

 In that way I think it works out very nicely. I do not believe they 

 are as nice to handle as a shallower frame; at the same time, when you 

 get one of them uncapped and set two or four in your extractor and 

 sling out the honey, you do not have to handle so many frames to get 

 the amount of honey. For some reasons I like them the best, for some 

 other reasons I do not like them so well, 



Mr. Heinzel. — In case you have a light colony in the fall of the 

 year it is nice to slip into it a heavy comb of honey. 



The Secretary. — I want to tell about my plan for lifting. I had 

 a whole lot of brood frame size supers and I did not know how I was 

 going to lift them. My son does not Uke the bees at all and they do 

 not like him. If he gets a bee sting anywhere on him it will swell 

 him all over in blotches, so I planned a derrick, or a tripod, about 12 

 feet long and then I have a little block and tackle to go on and made a 

 kind of a clamp, that took hold of the hive as ice tongs do a piece of ice. 

 Then raise up with that and it locks anywhere. Raise the super, then 

 put the bee escape in, you can do anything you please with it, then 

 the second day you can go back and take that off without any bees, 

 take it off the same way with your tackle and put it on the wheel 

 barrow as it stands right there. I do not handle them at all. That 

 is a good arrangement for an old man that does not like to lift. 



The President. — ^Those are all the question. Is there any further 

 buisness? 



This evening the meeting will be held across the hall in the dining 

 room. That is the only room in which we can hang up the curtain 

 to use the latern and Mr. Pettit will give us a talk at that time. 



TUESDAY NIGHT SESSION. 



Illustrated lecture (lantern slides) Mr, Morley Pettit, of George- 

 town, Ontario, Canada. 



