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brood without looking at my records. 

 I could also pick out those same col- 

 onies when I got ready to take off 

 supers. 



Mr. Anguish — Of course we can raise 

 exceptions to several of these little 

 "Don't pay me to" — 



It did not pay me to use starters — 

 but it may be different here. 



I have got queens from this side and 

 they were no better when' they got 

 across the line. If I want lots of 

 drones, and it takes as much honey to 

 raise one drone as two workers with 

 me, I would use starters, and that is 

 where I think I may fall down, and 

 maybe it would pay to raise those big 

 fat drones instead of workers. 



I am using full sheets of foundation. 



Mr. Stewart — I want a double hand- 

 ful of good husky drones in every hive 

 I have got, from May until September. 



Give me no crowded brood nest and 

 that hive of bees will work. There will 

 be no loafing there; that is the point 

 — no loafing. 



Mr. Wheeler — I use the Heddin hive; 

 put starters in the upper and lower 

 stories. 



Mr. Stewart — You take Hutchinson's 

 Success in Bee -Keeping, it will tell 

 you how to do that. 



President Miller — I can see the ad- 

 vantage in raising your own drones. 

 There was a time when I let my 

 neighbor raise my drones, and I 

 wondered why I had so many black 

 bees. 



You can see where I got the blacks 

 bees — Italians in a little While would 

 be black. "^ 



Mr. Stewart — Don't you like your 

 black ones? 



President Miller — Not so well as tli^ 

 others; they do not like me so well, 

 either. 



A member — ^I have an observation 

 hive; I think it was bought foolishly, 

 but I wanted to see them work and 

 there are more drones than workers 

 in that hive. Let some one tell me 

 why. 



President Miller — Because you had 

 drone comb instead of worker comb in 

 your hive; probably you did not use 

 full sheets of foundation. 



A member — Yes, I did. 



Mr. Wheeler — Have you drones now ? 



A member — Yes. 



President Miller — See if you can find 



the queen. Sometimes the' queen will 

 lay drone eggs. 



A member — I had hoped that the 

 winter would solve that — ^that they 

 would either take a new queen or 

 something. 



Mr. Anguish — Mr. Chairman, I think 

 the winter will solve that problem. 



President Miller — Is there anything 

 further before we take up the Question 

 Box? 



Question — Are bee diseases an ad- 

 vantage to the bee-keepers, and why? 



President Miller — Is foul brood a 

 good thing? 



Mr. Wilcox — That question is sar- 

 casm. 



Mr. Anguish — I think I will answer 

 that question. Yes, it is a good thing; 

 it puts the bee-keepers on the alert 

 and makes them careful. I think T 

 look after my bees a little better than 

 before it was in the country. 



President Miller — It puts the care- 

 less fellow out of business. 



Mr. Anguish — And it puts his neigh- 

 bor out, too. The careless fellow 

 wants to be looked after if you know 

 where there is one; he is apt to put 

 a lot of you out of business. 



A great many have the idea that 

 because a young man is just starting 

 ut» he should not have encouragement. 

 We have them over in our country. 

 Some of our great big fellows do not 

 want to see any one start up; still they 

 like to stand amongst a group of 

 students and boost themselves, but I 

 would say, help him all you can. 



President Miller — I am glad to help 

 any one who will help himself. 



Mr. Stewart — It is a benefit to me — 

 foul brood. Twenty or twenty-five 

 years ago we did not know much about 

 American ft)ul brood. It struck my 

 neighborhood, and within two miles of 

 'me there were within two and three 

 hundred hives of bees. I kept still 

 and sawed wood. There are not a 

 dozen hives of bees within two miles 

 of me now. 



Question — ^What is the cost of 

 Langstroth comb and frame built on 

 a wire frame and full sheets of brood 

 foundation? This includes wood and 

 foundation and comb after it is 

 drawn otQb. 



Mr. Stewart — It depends upon what 

 you want J to use it for. 



President Miller — Use it in the brood 

 chamber — ^supposed to be a perfect or 



