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i86 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [August. 



ing again we will take honey instead location for mating queens over trees, 



of whiskey. as I have heard that queens are mated 



Mr. Francis: Can anyone inform over trees. If there is a satisfactory 



me how Bishops, Los Angeles, can spot why cannot we see there are no 



sell honey at $2.25 per dozen? bees within ten miles, have some one in 



F. Rauchfuss: Those people buy charge during the mating season. If 



their honey in carload lots and pay we can get queens mated in such a way 



434 cents per pound and buy their that we know how they are mated, 



bottles much cheaper than you can, we have something special, 



for they have appliance for putting H. Rauchfuss: I can tell you my 



them up, and for that reason they experience. There were three dififer- 



make money where you would lose ent times I took a lot of queens and 



money. drones out of the reach of other bees 



H. Rauchfuss: Mr. Francis puts up — no bees within seven miles in either 

 his honey and goes ont to sell it, direction. I had about 150 queens on 

 and collects for the honey. Here this the trip. I took a very strong colony, 

 man comes with his honey, he has made it queenless, gave it all the 

 all kinds of groceries and carries that choice drones possible and took it to 

 as an accommodation. I believe it this place with the queens. I kept 

 is a great deal better to try and build virgin queens for seven days, I had 

 up your home market, and I found the entrance covered with queen-ex- 

 it would pay to put up more 60-pound eluding zinc. Now I took them out 

 cans, as I don't think it profitable and saw them flying and brought them 

 to peddle honey; sooner give it away back. Some queens were lost, a good 

 and advertise. many queens commenced to lay. I 



Mr Francis- In regard to my time, g'^t another batch ready, I took them 



while other bee-keepers spend their o"} and it was so hot that the bees 



time in hunting rabbits, I come home P^^l "ot fly. Heat was mtense. I put 



with a few dollars after peddHng honey, honey around the entrance to try to 



Mr. Bolinger: Using honey for me- make them fly, but there they would 



dicine; I know a good many people lang from mornmg to night. I went 



use honey as cough syrup, and have ^]om^ and came back a week later; 



sold considerable that way. the honey was still there, queens were 



Mr Tomlin- T wnnld rather have "ot mated. I am going to try it again 



Mr. Lomlin. 1 would rather have ^^^^ ^^ j^ ^ jj^^j^ earHer. Latter 



them use honey in cooking and so ^j y^ ^,^^ through June there 



forth, han have it for medicine as P .^^ ^ ,f^^j^ ^ ^J ^^ gathered 



when hey regard it as medicine they ^^^/^^ ^j^^ .^.^ blossoms, and per- 



keep It on a shelf until some one has ^ j ^jfj ^^ ^^j ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 



a CO d and, therefore, do not use very ^^^^^^^ j ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ -^ 



™"^ , /- 1 J a place out east where there are big 



Question: Can we, as the Colorado cotton wood trees, where drones are 



Bee-Keepers' Association, establish and flying; can hear the drones making 



maintain a practically isolated queen a noise flying over those trees. There 



mating yard in which to have our are a great many bee hawks which 



breeding queens purely mated?" injure the colonies, they suck the blood 



V. Devmney: It seems to me there out of bees. In the early part of 



is some difficulty in the way that it the summer these bee hawks are not 



cannot be done without state aid. The as numerous. I think the plan can be 



state has so many bills presented to made a success. 



it, with demands of all kinds, for more Mr. Gill: This is a subject I have 



than the whole state is able to give, been interested in, and I was thinking 



if half of the bills are granted. Don t when Mr. Rauchfuss was speaking of 



think the legislature would know what it, did he not take the wrong time 



a queen is from a drone and laugh of the year? I think that three or 



at such an article. five miles .is sufificieHt. I have gotten 



O. Foster: 1 don't see why we need different kinds of queens from Mr. 



state aid; I don't see why there should Davis, perhaps 350. I must say that 



be any expense, why the Association he says his apiaries are located just 



could not be permitted to establish about three miles apart. His queens 



it. We can find an isolated spot are always what he claims them to 



either out on the prairies, and especial- be. I will agree the trees are where 



ly where we can get a place where the drones come, and I think that 



there is an orchard, so as to have the queens are directed by that noise. 



