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that it is any advantage to tnis Associa- 

 tion or whether it would be to my- 

 self; but in all my experience in the 

 bee business I never had anything 

 equal with this Spring — the loss of 

 queens; whether it was ibecause they 

 were poor queens, or what it was I 

 don't know. I considered that I had, 

 in the fall, good queens, but for some 

 reason or other (and they were young 

 queens) I found a great many col- 

 anies, queenless this spring, more so 

 than ever in my life in the spring of 

 the year. I laid it to some other con- 

 dition besides poor queens; some of 

 my best queensi (what I considered my 

 best) were superseded). 



Mr. Pyles — ■! have raised some 

 queens myself. I have, I think, a fairly 

 good strain of bees; I believe they will 

 compare favorably with most bees in 

 apiaries that I have been in. I have 

 reared queens that within one month 

 from that time were superseded; you 

 would say that queen was no good; 

 and I would not give anything for it. 



When I rear queens for myself, and 

 I go along and find a queen has been 

 laying for one Aveek and has not got 

 two or more frames of eggs laid — off 

 goes her head that quick! 



Another thing: If you have gone 

 through severe winters, like the last 

 one was, it is generally expected? 



Last year a great quantity of queens 

 were not so good as they are the aver- 

 age year. It does not make any differ- 

 ence about the age of the queen. I had 

 a queen give good satisfaction this year, 

 four years old, and she will be given a 

 good chance to try the same thing next 

 year. 



I found in inspecting bees, that a 

 great number of queens this year — 

 when they should have had a hive full 

 of bees — had a very small number. I 

 think that perhaps the severe winter' 

 had something to do with making those 

 queens worthless, and whenever you 

 find, that young queens of last fall are 

 superseded this spring, normally or ab- 

 normally, or any other way, something 

 is wrong with the queens. 



Mr. Kubick — I attribute it to the 

 severeness of the winter because the 

 bees came through very weak. 



Pres. Huffman — Well, last spring was 

 most unusual, and also last winter; I 

 guess that is enough on that question. 

 We are pretty nearly all of the same 

 opinion, that the queen is no good in a 

 way. 



Bees and Bee Products Shown by Mov- 

 ing Pictures. 



"Why are not bees and bee products 

 put on the screen of moving picture 

 shows like many other industries are? 

 Whajt better way of advertising is 

 there?" 



Mr. Arnd — ■! think there is a manu- 

 facturer of moving pictures who is ex- 

 perimenting now and they expect to 

 put them on the screen before long; 

 they take the bee from its development 

 and show it in its different growth, I 

 was toM. I have been promised, as 

 soon as they produce the pictures, that 

 they will let me know; it is going to 

 show up everything, all the stages, right 

 through. I think Mr. Boyden knows 

 something about that. 



Mr. Boyden — I have had some talk 

 with the moving picture people and 

 they expect to put one on next year. 



Mr. Arnd — I was told they were doing 

 something about it now, and that they 

 got their material from the A. I. Root 

 Company. 



Pres. Huffman — Something like that 

 would be interesting, to the bee-keep- 

 ers, anyway. 



Mr. Cavanagh — I would like to ask, 

 and perhaps Mr. Boyden will tell us — 

 who defrays the expense of those pic- 

 tures? The people who make the 'pic- 

 tures; do they pay for the expense? 



Mr. Boyden — There are several differ- 

 ent ways in which they can go at that 

 subject; if you want to control the 

 film, you pay for it; if you want to sell 

 it to the moving picture people, then 

 go at it the other way and they will 

 pay for it ; it ■ is expensive. 



Mr. Cavanag'h — Could you give us an 

 idea of the expense? 



Mr. Boyden — Six or seven hundred 

 dollars. 



Mr. Schrall — A moving picture man 

 wanted to give me $50 if I would let 

 him take pictures of my bees, but he 

 has never been around. 



]\4:r. Pyles — If anybody wants to give 

 me $50 to see mine, show him around; 

 I will be very willing to take him 

 around and give him all the exercise 

 he wants. 



Mr. Boyden — I might give you a little 

 more light on the moving picture prop- 

 osition; the way these films are usually 

 handled: If the film is controlled by 

 the people producing it: Colleges and 

 such like prefer to have the use of them 

 first, for educational purposes; and 



