128 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [July. 



industry. It may be stated that we season, as her bees are to late for 



have reached a productive capacity the honey flow, but otherwise I think 



that cannot be excelled. I am one that the second season is best for 



of the belief that there is nothing so queens. 



good that it could not be made better; Mr. Frank Rauchfuss: The way I 



the only question is the knowledge understand the question, suppose your 



of how to do it. I think the outline queen is reared during June, naturally 



that I have given to the Bee-Keepers' it would not be a year old until the 



Association and the members here as- next June, which would be two sea- 



sembled will be the outline that I sons, so there is a little distinction 



desire we should work for, for the in that. 



coming year, and the only way of Mr. Gill: I stated that if a queen 



making that work most effective, and works satisfactorily she can remain 



the reason I do not suggest any other with me. I was well aware of the 



lines, is because it can only be made fact that it meant one year, but if 



so by turning one's whole energy to the next season her work is unsatis- 



the one line of thought. When I factory I mean to dispose of her, the 



was keeping a farm and bees, the month of August next, the time that 



production of those bees per unit was you need her the most she fails. I 



very much less than when I turned have some of the very best work I 



my whole attention to the honey in- ever had done with queens second year, 



dustry. Let us turn our attention Keep close to nature you are the 



to the perfecting of the Association best off. There is one thing perhaps 



and give it all that one thought for I am alone on. I have a strain of 



this year, that we bring the organiza- bees that work a long time without 



tion to the greatest point of pro- a queen, which is pretty well filled 



ficiency that it has ever reached. with brood, and I have had strains 



of bees that had no queen for ninety 



Committee to decide what the pre- days, and still have bees. I know that 

 mium should be, party to receive the there is a race of bees that live forty- 

 prize of putting up sections in section five days. It is those bees that are 

 contest, and also to award the pre- most industrious and have the best 

 mium. wing power and the longest life that 



Committee: R. H. Rhodes, A. F. get our honey. 



Foster, D. Moon. Mr. F. Rauchfuss: I have brought 



Question: "Is it correct to say and up this question in former years. It 



teach that a queen does the best work was about twelve years ago I had a 



in her second year?" hive south-east of Denver on a farm. 



Mr. Collins: I get the best returns It was by an accident that I put this 

 from a queen that is one year old. hive on a scale; it was the most con- 

 It would be a queen that is hatched venient for my shop, and I have kept 

 under ideal conditions before the this hive on a scale for seven years, 

 honey flow and does practically the There were four queens, the original 

 first season's work, or a queen that queen lived four years, the other three 

 is hatched just at the opening of the were the daughters of that queen. The 

 season. I get a hive full of brood stock was only a dark Italian, 

 for her to get working on. and could you look into the hive du- 



Mr. Gill: "By their work ye shall ring the season you would have found 



know them." I think it will hold five frames of brood, but those five 



good in queens as well as anything, frames of brood were five frames of 



It a queen is three years old and brood good and solid; at the same 



don't give the best satisfaction, say, time the hive was always full of bees, 



at the time when flow commences, there was nothing in the yard that 



it is always shown by the condition could compete with it. I had several 



oF the brood, and I would dispose hives in the yard that would give 



of her. I would rather have a queen more honey than the scale hive, but 



two years old then. As long as a one year with the other the scale 



queen is doing satisfactory work with hive was away ahead; which points 



me I care not whether she is two to the fact that good queens are es- 



years old. I have always found satis- sential. 



factory work with queens that are Mr. Gill: There is one question 



reared under proper conditions. I would like to bring up. In 1880 



Mr. Jouno: It seems to me that I got some queens ; they were im- 



a queen can not do her best the first ported; there is one of them I got 



