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little money, according to the amount 

 invested. 



We both work on that system; there- 

 fore the man who has little money and 

 lots of brains, and is not afraid to do 

 a little labor, can make twice as much 

 as the fellow does with lots of money. 



Mr. Kannenberg — One question I 

 would like to ask Mr. Dadant. I have 

 tried to prevent swarming also, and in 

 raising the bottom board I raise the 

 cover of the hives. Did he ever do 

 that? I know it helped me. When my 

 bees were laying out I gave them room 

 on the top and they got into the hive 

 and were quiet. 



Mr. Dadant — You did not leave it 

 open? 



Mr. Kannenberg — Left it open for 

 weeks. 



Mr. Dadant — We never tried that — 

 never had to; if it gets cold at night 

 it might not be very good. If your col- 

 ony is real strong it probably would 

 not hurt. 



Mr. Dadant — What do you do if you 

 have a storm? 



Mr. Kannenberg — Just raise it about 

 % inch, and don't leave the cover off. 



Mr. Dadant — There is circulation 

 through the brood chamber only. 



Mr. Kannenberg — I have tried put- 

 ting the queen down below without ex- 

 cluder and my queen went up Into the 

 next hive and left the lower empty. 



President Miller — The question here 

 asked in regard to swarm control with 

 comb honey was not satisfactorily an- 

 swered. 



I would suggest that you read Doo- 

 little's book on Out Apiaries. 



Mr. MacNeil — I would like to ask Mr. 

 Dadant what is the distance from cen- 

 ter to center? 



Mr. Dadant — One and one-half 

 inches. 



Mr. MacNeil — You would have to 

 have a specially built frame. 



Mr. Roehrs — Change ten frame to a 

 nine. 



Mr. MacNeil — Would you consider a 

 twelve frame Langstroth hive would be 

 equal to your Quimby hive in keeping 

 down swarming? 



Mr. Dadant — It is in the depth; I 

 would rather have a deep ten frame 

 than a shallow twelve. 



D. L. Hoffman, of Minnesota, has 

 changed practically all his ten frame 



Langstroth hives to ten frame Jumbo — 

 Quimty depth with Langstroth length. 



Mr. Moe — As to the suggestion in re- 

 gard to queens from the south — if 

 young queens you will have no trouble. 



You are all familiar with the year 

 1913 — a great honey year, and then of 

 course we had swarming as in no other 

 season. 



You save having so much trouble if 

 you have a young queen. 



With me, I rear my queens. I have 

 a boy that takes a great delight in it. 

 You can improve your stock, as well 

 as getting them from the south. 



My object is to introduce some of 

 those queens early in the season as 

 possible, to control swarming. 



President Miller — We will have a re- 

 cess and then hear from others who 

 have something to say to us. 



President Williams (After recess, ten 

 minutes') — We are very fortunate in 

 having a man with us who is known 

 practically to every bee-keeper in the 

 United States, Mr. E. R. Root, of Me- 

 dlnah, Ohio. 



Mr. Root — I was not able to get in 

 yesterday as I had planned; some of 

 you saw by the papers that we had 

 a little fire in Medinah; it was set in 

 six different places; there is a fire fiend 

 operating in our locality. There were 

 piles of lumber six or seven hundred 

 feet left to burn, and the fire melted 

 the car wheels that stood on the track; 

 the fire lighted up the sky so that it 

 was noticed by towns twety-five and 

 thirty miles, even forty miles away, 

 and the fire chiefs offered the services 

 of their crews. 



It looked as if the entire bunch of 

 lumber was going, but we confined the 

 loss to 21,000 and saved the bulk of our 

 best and choicest lumber. 



I had intended to be at your conven- 

 tion yesterday morning — but I wanted 

 to go to this place — and a very inter- 

 esting thing in connection with this 

 discussion occurred. My brother-in- 

 law had some hives, perhaps about one 

 hundred feet from the piles of lumber — 

 one hive in particular, a nice colony, 

 had the side burned off from it — you 

 could see the combs — there was the 

 metal cover, and under the metal cover 

 it burned the wood, burned the thick 

 top l^ars, so that they were charred 

 down half way. 



Everybody supposed that colony was 



