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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Vaughn — I tried putting combs 

 ttack on one hive myself and they all 

 got in bad humor and the robbers had 

 a start and they had a battle on hand 

 every morning. 



When the honey is taken off this 

 way in the fall, by the bee-escape, how 

 do you manage to get the comlbs 

 cleaned up and in shape to keep over 

 winter ? 



L. C. Dadant — Just put them on the 

 hive, in the evening, and they will clean 

 them up so that you won't know them 

 from new comibs. 



Mr. Vaughn — I put this on in the 

 evening, but probably a little bit too 

 early. ^-^ 



Mr. Baxter — I put them ok Jtt four 

 o'clock; I cannot afford to wait until 

 •dark. If you see a tendency to robtoing, 

 pick up a little grass and put it in front 

 of the entrance, it prevents robbers 

 from coming in, and the others will 

 push their way out. It all depends on 

 the man; you have to use judgment; 

 that is all there is to it. 



Mr. Coppin — I consider that any bee- 

 T\eeper who is putting honey out with- 

 out the use of the bee-escape is a little 

 iDehind the times. I can do it without 

 using the bee-escape, but I don't want 

 to. 



With regard to the queen excluder — 

 T don't think we need to use that in 

 producing comb honey. Any man who 

 1-5 using a queen excluder while he 

 is producing comb honey is behind the 

 times. 



I find there is no difficulty with the 

 ■queen coYning up in the supers provided 

 we use a full sheet of foundation In 

 our sections. The only thing that 

 makes a queen come up in a comb 

 honey super is where they use a starter 

 in the section and a full Pheet probably 

 in the brood chamiber; the bees, being 

 kept without drones, will build drone 

 comb up in the supers, and the queen 

 will go up there; outside of that we 

 don't get any brood up in the comb 

 honey supers, not in one case out 

 •of a hundred; that is my experience. 



Mr. Baxter — I think the other way; 

 the man who raises comb honey wants 

 a queen excluder; the one who raises 

 extracted, does not care. I should 

 "hate to have a batch of comb honey 

 spoiled by having brood in. 



I don't care for it in extracted honey. 



Pres. Dadant — Although Mf. Cloppin 

 qualifies his statement a little strongly 

 by saying thstt any bee-keeper who is 



putting honey in the market, without the 

 use of a bee-escape, is a little behind 

 the times — I must acknowledge Mr. 

 Coppin knows how to raise comb honey. 

 I passed upon his exhibits of comb 

 honey at the State Fair. Mr. Coppin 

 can raise nice honey. 



M]r. Stone — I have had more ac- 

 quaintance with pollen in the section 

 cases (put on for comb honey) than 

 ever I had in the brood frames put 

 on for extracted honey with the queen 

 excluder. 



Mr. Vaughn — If you have starters, 

 the queen likely goes up there to find 

 the drone comb, but where you have 

 full sheets and plenty of room to lay 

 below, they don't seek the super's so 

 much as where you use starters and 

 have drone comb. 



Mir. Coppin — ^^They will put pollen 

 sometimes in the sections, without a 

 queen excluder. I use full sheets of 

 foundation. There is no need of a 

 queen excluder as I see unless to keep 

 the pollen out; sometimes there seems 

 to be a surplus of pollen. 



Mr. Moore — I have had some experi- 

 ence in that line; there is a difference 

 in hives; I have used many of the 

 Danzenbaker hives; I found that to 

 produce comb honey with the Danzen- 

 baker hive, I had to use a queen ex- 

 cluder. I had a number of cases be- 

 fore I found out that the queen was 

 going up and spoiling nearly the whole 

 center super of comb honey — using full 

 sheets of foundation, she went up there 

 and laid and they raised brood in there 

 and I had a job too, to get the bees 

 out in the fall. 



Pres. Dadant — How many frames to 

 the lower story? 



Mr. Moore — Ten frames, but shallow 

 Danzenbaker. 



While the Danzenbaker is a igoodhive, 

 if you have plenty of time to work it — 

 to take a good quality of honey out, 

 it takes too much time. The Danzen- 

 baker hive I used for the extracting 

 super. The only way to take off sec- 

 tion honey I think is to use the bee- 

 escape. It is a great help in taking 

 off extracted honey. It depends alto- 

 gether on the season and the honey 

 flow. 



If you take off extracted' honey 

 when there is a light flow on, it is all 

 right, but if the honey flow is over, it 

 certainly is more comfortable to use 

 the bee-escape. 



Mr. Duby — I think there is somethingr 



