1907-] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 229 



REPORT OF THE COLORADO STATE BEE-KEEPERS' 

 CONVENTION, 



CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH. 



Question 4: How much does it cost 

 to produce one pound of comb honey- 

 on an average of 40 pounds per colony? 



Mr. H. Crawford: It looks to me 

 like that would take a good deal of 

 figuring on a forty pound lot. I pro- 

 duced 27,000 pounds of honey this year 

 with the expense of $700.00 for labor 

 and supplies, that was not counting 

 hives and was not counting my own 

 work. 



M'r. Porter: I think this question is 

 of a good deal of importance. I know 

 it is a hard proposition what a pound 

 of honey has cost the bee-keeper. You 

 have to take about ten years to do it, 

 a man has got to figure in his salary 

 for ten years, figure up his expenses, 

 this is the correct way to do it. 



Mr. H. Rauchfuss: I think it best 

 to let this question drop and let it 

 come up to-morrow and let them do 

 some figuring. 



Mr. Collins: To average 35 or 40 

 pounds we must have a good year, 

 think 35 pounds would be a good deal 

 to average year in and year out. 



Mr. O. Foster: I could not give any 

 figures for this past year, my work 

 has been largely experimental. 



Mir. Collins: For the past ten years 

 my average has not been over 40 

 pounds, I have not had an average of 

 ten cents per pound, not counting my 

 own work. 



Question 5: What is the best meth- 

 od of finding queen cells during the 

 swarming time? 



Mr. Wilson: I don't know as I can 

 give anything new on that. I open a 

 hive use little smoke take out the fol- 

 lower and generally the first comb I 

 hardly ever look at. I look at the sec- 

 ond comb and put it back and the next 

 one, etc. This is about all there is to 

 it. H the bees are on the comb I us- 

 ually shake them ofif but hardly ever 

 have any trouble in finding queen cells 

 and have no trouble in missing one. 



Mr. Gill: In searchinsr for queen 

 cells I also require my help to look 

 after every colony. He has to look 

 into the top, I think I can look over 

 two swarms while they are looking 



over one. I want my bottom boards 

 fastened. It takes a quite experienced 

 hand to take up a frame and determine 

 whether a queen cell will materialize 

 or not. There is a larger percent, than 

 very many bee-keepers think there 

 are. 



Mr. Collins: I never cut out queen 

 cells and kill the old queen. I have 

 this year had a good flow of honey and 

 got my foul brood ofif and have every- 

 thing in fine shape; if a queen is past 

 two years old or if she is not doing 

 first class work, I dispose of her, she 

 may be doing first class work, and is 

 doing good work that is no sign that 

 she is a good queen, I will dispose of 

 her also, that is after superseding. 



Mr. Gill: In going over the swarms 

 I cut out queen cells to prevent 

 swarming I don't allow any swarms 

 at all. I aim to discourage. I found 

 25 per cent, of those that I discour- 

 aged had gone to work again. I find 

 that they have gone back and supply- 

 ing cells again. I don't think that I 

 lost much money by it and I have not 

 had 1st. swarms in the last three years, 

 and it gives me more honey than I 

 had. There is a proof indicating here 

 and there that supersedure cells would 

 not come if they had a perfect queen. 

 The ivitural cells are usually long and 

 on edge of comb and bottom and 

 there is not such a difference in age, 

 in superseding two or three cells are 

 sometinis found only. I can tell that 

 this is a natural condition if the swarm 

 is superseding. 



Mr. H. Rauchfuss: It is very often 

 you will find a young queen is super- 

 seded. 



Evening Session. 

 Report of the Bee-Inspector of Adams 

 County. 



Report: Number colonies examin- 

 ed, 1682; number colonies inspected, 

 572; number colonies diseased, 31; 

 number colonies transferred, 13; num- 

 ber colonies burned, 18; amount re- 

 ceived, fees and expenses, $107.50. 



Miotion made and carried that re- 

 port be received and filed. 



Question Box: Question i: What 



