1907.] 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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Mr. Collins: I have taken out as 

 high as fifty and sixty in a day, but 

 sometimes I would go over them twice. 



Mr. Gill: I always like to find all 

 I can. By their work ye shall know 

 them. I use very little smoke, I usual- 

 ly go and hunt for my queen about s 

 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 



Mr. Porter: There is a certain ac- 

 tion or moving of bees which will 

 draw your attention, which will indi- 

 cate where the queen is. Queens from 

 one to five days old you will find are 

 liable to be on the further end of the 

 comb. 



Question 2: "Is the Pure Food Law 

 responsible for the advance in the price 

 of honey? 



Mr. F. Rauchfuss: The price on ex- 

 tracted honey in California which has 

 furnished the main supply for United 

 States has advanced fully 50 per cent., 

 you cannot buy white California honey 

 less than six cents and it is almost im- 

 possible to get it at that. Perhaps 

 from five to ten cents a gallon. The 

 price of comb honey has gone up some 

 but this is due to the scarcity of pro- 

 duct. 



Mr. Gill: Perhaps Mr. Wilson can 

 give you the information desired as I 

 am not posted on the market. 



Mr. Wilson: I don't know that I 

 can give anything reliable at all. 1 

 was in Mr. Mercer's establishment sev- 

 eral times but I did not learn of any 

 advance of prices, the price was about 

 4 1-2 cents per pound early in the 

 season. 



Mr. Gill: Mr. Mercer had then 

 about 25,000 pounds nice white honey 

 they were putting it up in t:ie same 

 way as our Association is doing here, 

 but their honey has advanced since that 

 time from 10 to 20 cents. I did 

 not find any honey that was being 

 ofifered there for less than 6 cents and 

 they lay it to the Pure Food Law. 



Mr. Collins: All foods have advanc- 

 ed about 25 cents, all foods and all 

 food supplies advanced a little over 20 

 cents. I could not say that the reason 

 honey has advanced is on account of 

 the Pure Food Law. 



Mr. C. Adams: I have not heard 

 of any advance. I got 1-2 cent more 

 for my honey this year than two years 

 ago, but I have not seen any advance 

 since the first of January, which I 

 believe was the date the Pure Food 

 Law took efifect. 



Mr. F. Rauchfuss: The standard of 



the agricultural chemists of the Unitea 

 States, on extracted or strained honey 

 is, honey extracted out of combs or 

 pressed out must not contain 

 more than 25 per cent, water. 

 Now each one of you that puts 

 up extracted honey don't put any hon- 

 ey up thinner than that. 



Mr. O. Foster: I would like to 

 ask how you can tell whether our 

 honey weighs 25 per cent, water or 

 not. 



Mr. E. Rauchfuss: The honey that 

 will weigh about 11 1-2 pounds per 

 gallon, you need not be afraid to put 

 out, for it is not likely to be troubled. 



Question 3: What is the best time 

 to requeen? 



Mr. Collins: Sometimes I go into 

 my apiary with a view of getting out 

 any queens of any age that are not 

 what I consider top notch. If I have 

 foul brood in an apiary the best re- 

 sults I had was in killing the queen. 



Mr. Gill: I think a person can pre- 

 vent swarming, if you have got a ripe 

 cell. This is a good time for requeen- 

 ing. I used to think that anythmg 

 that would hatch a queen would do but 

 believe now otherwise. I just want to 

 get those cells that are up to my 

 standard and you can put those cells 

 right in where there is a strong colony. 

 Follow nature and you will be alright. 



M't. Collins: I think the best time 

 for requeening is when they are super- 

 seding. If I find that they have not 

 superseded, use the cells that are 

 ready, and have not produced as much 

 honey as I thought they ought to I 

 think it is a good plan to requeen. 



Mr. Miller: I have studied on the 

 swarming and requeening, and killing 

 the queen, I cannot see that I have 

 ever had any success in that. I allow 

 nature to tend to that herself as far 

 as I can. 



Mr. Adams: The less fussing I do 

 with them the better I get along. Let 

 nature take its course instead of fus- 

 sing about the hive. 



Mr. Gill: How do you control 

 swarming? 



Mr. Adams: Shaking. 



Mr. Gill: How many bees do you 

 handle? 



Mr. Adams: About 700 to take care 

 of, have one man with me this year. 

 900 three years ago. 



Mr. Gill: 1,000 swarms of bees in- 



