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sociation, we are only opening the 

 door for every other bee-keeper. 



Mr. Foster: As for colonies of bees 

 they can be furnished. When we do 

 get to raising queens, the station will 

 soon receive the benefit, while if the 

 Association would go in with the ex- 

 perimental station they would furnish 

 this, would help us out and make us 

 a stronger association and double our 

 membership. 



Mr. Gill: The government is not a 

 bit modest and will let us know 

 whether they will help us or not. 



Mr. O. Foster: This motion is not 

 exactly in the form it could be. It 

 seems to rne what we want to find 

 is a location where queens can be 

 purely mated. What we want is to 

 furnish a place where bee-keepers can 

 make their own stock, we want some- 

 thing that we can depend upon as 

 to the mating of our stock. 



Mr. F. Rauchfuss: The govern- 

 ment is distributing queens and is 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [September. 



QUESTION BOX. 

 Question one: What is the best 



method of finding. a queen whenever 

 it is necessary to locate her? 



Mr. Charles Adams: Lift the frames 

 out and look for her until you find 

 her. Take middle frames first. 



Mr. Bolinger: The way I do is to 

 lift a frame out and to separate it 

 from the hive so she won't be able to 

 crawl on to another frame while I 

 examine the first one taken out. I 

 commence in the center to look for 

 the queen. 



Mr. A. Wilson: My idea of finding 

 a queen is to commence one side and 

 take out the comb and look over it. 

 Take frames out one at a time and 

 look carefully. I go clear through to 

 the other side. If I do not find her I 

 shut the hive up and go back in an 

 hour. 



Mr. Foster: I found a good plan 

 to use a good deal of smoke, and emp- 

 ty hive ready to put the frames into 

 as you look; over them. In case 



Do you do this in the 



distributing them to responsible par- you do not find her you can turn your 

 ties, that they may sell queens again 

 and not at a high price and not to sell 

 less than 150 queens a j^ear. 



Mr. Collins: I am one in favor of 

 this yard, if we can get an isolated 

 place, we can be sure of getting just 

 what we want. I am in strong favor 

 of having a committee to attend to 

 this. 



hive up to the sun and find her after 

 she has fallen down in the corner of 

 the hive. 



Mr. Pease: 

 heat of day? 



Mr. Tomlin 



Mr. Booth: If J understand the 

 idea I think I am right, the idea here 

 was to establish a pure bee farm at 

 some isolated point where we can 

 send our bees. Now we ask the gov- 

 ernment to do this. That would be a 

 great idea. You might as well ask the 

 government to buy the land for Colo- 

 rado farmers to work. I siy *:' 

 appoint a man that we think is cap- 

 able to take such a position and then 

 buy our queens from hirn and we send 

 the best t^qie of our queens to him. 



Mr. O. Foster: It is not a bee farm 

 we want at all, we want a location 

 where we are sure that we can have 

 our queens purely mated. I move that 

 a committee be appointed to see to 

 this. 



Mr. Collins: I move that the com- 

 mittee consist of Mr. Frank Rauch- 

 fuss, Mr. O. Foster, Mr. Gill. 



It majr be the queen 

 is in the center and perhaps on the 

 second frame, I take two frames out 

 and take the frame next to me, I most 

 generally find her by going over the 

 frames twice. 



Mr. Pease: Where do you find your 

 queen in the middle of the day? 



Mr. Tomlin: Near the edges in the 

 middle of the day, in the center morn- 

 ings. 



Mr. Porter: The condition of the 

 combs indicates much. If a queen is 

 laying a great many eggs you will find 

 this is the comb the queen is liable to 

 be on. If you have a comb perfectly 

 filled -^ith brood she is not liable to 

 be on that as her work is on the comb 

 where there is work for her. 



Mr. Collins: The question is one of 

 mine. If after I put supers on, I just 

 take my smoker quite heavily, then I 

 set all of my frames out two at a time 

 just as fast as I can, then I look for my 

 queen. I find as high as 19 out of 20 

 by this method. 



Mr. H. Rauchfuss: How many can 

 you look over that way in a day? 



