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be crowded on to as few combs as they 

 can occupy with 20 to 25 pounds of 

 stores and well packed. 



4. "Does it pay to use reversible 

 frames and section boxes? " 



No one present had made any use of 

 them except Mr. Conser who had used 

 them and was well satisfied with 

 them. 



5. "How far from each other should 

 larye apiaries be located in a good 

 honey country? " 



This question brought out from some 

 of the members statements of long 

 fliglits for honey, but the opinion most 

 generally accepted was that if placed 

 not less than four miles apart there 

 would be no conflict. 



Association adjourned till nine 

 o'clock next morning. 



Association met at nine o'clock. The 

 president not having arrived, vice 

 president R. B. Leahy took the chair. 

 L. W. Baldwin was selected to pre- 

 pare the table of statistics. There 

 being no other business- to be trans- 

 acted the list of questions was taken 

 up and opened with the question : 



6. " Does it pay the trouble to use 

 wired fi-ames? " 



A. A. Baldwin : I have had but very 

 little experience with them, but all I 

 have examined showed the wire. 



Mr. Conson: I have used them. 

 Where a m&n is shipping bees I think 

 they are of great benefit. In handling 

 combs at home they are not of so much 

 use. 



L. W. Baldwin: I have had probably 

 as much experience as any one present 

 in handling and moving bees for several 

 years and in all that time have not had 

 a half dozen combs injured even if 

 transported without springs and as far 

 as I have ol)served cannot see any use 

 for wires. 



R. B. Leahy : If I were going to run 

 for comb honey, using a frame with a 

 short top-bar, I should not use wires. 

 In handling, I had rather have them 

 wired, especially for lower story. 



7. "How can we remedy the turning 

 out of the starters in the sections as 

 the bees work them?" • 



This question called out this sea- 

 son's experience of several leading bee- 

 keepers, and it was generally thought 

 that the cause was the slow flow of 

 honey, cool weather and colonies 

 light for bees ; some advocated using 

 smaller starters, others turning the 

 sections around, while others thought 

 to crowd the bees would remedy it. 



8. "What direction is best to have 

 the hives face in winter time?" 



Mr. Thorn: I would have them face 

 the same way summer and winter. 



S. W. Salisbury : I have loose bottom 

 boards and raise the hive in summer 

 and prevent the bees from lying out 

 and let them down on the bottom board 

 in winter. I think the hives should 

 face the south. 



7. "How should young swarms be 

 handled to secure the largest amount' 

 of honey?" 



James H. Jones : Ihavetrie'd several 

 different methods year after year and 

 am not satisfied yet. 



S. VV. Baldwin: I make a nucleus 

 from the swarm and put the rest in the 

 parent colony. , . 



r. Baldwin : A good way is to shut the 

 swarm on five or six frames and compel 

 them to go into the sections at once. 



10. "Is there any successful way of 

 introducing queens?" 



E.M.Hayhursthavingmade the state- 

 ment that he could introduce five hun- 

 dred queens without the loss of one 

 was called on to give his method which 

 is as follows : After making the colony 

 queenless I have a young queen caged 

 in a Peet cage and place the cage di- 

 rectly over the cluster of bees and leave 

 it there till I see the bees are perfectly 

 reconciled to the queen; this will re- 

 quire two or three and sometimes 

 several days. I then remove the queen 

 cells and place the cage on an outside 

 comb over some honey, remove the 

 slide and rim out a plug through the 

 comb letting the plug remain in place 

 and leave it undisturbed for a week. 

 If the bees are disturbed before the 

 queen begins to lay she will become 

 frightened, running and piping and the 

 bees will chase and kill her. The im- 

 portant point is to have the bees rec- 

 onciled, every cell out and no robbing. 



L. W. Baldwin : I have found that 

 colonies long queenless are very difli- 

 cult colonies to introduce queens to, 

 almost impossible with me. 



Adjourned to L30 p. m. 



Closing session.— Meeting called to 

 order at L30, president Hayhurst pre- 

 siding. 



Several persons came forward and 

 became members of the association. 



A member handed in the question 

 " What is the most simple, cheap and 

 expeditious way for the practical bee- 

 keeper to change his stock by re- 

 queening?" 



L. W. Baldwin : I put in cells after 

 the colony has swarmed and again im- 

 mediately after Ihe honey harvest by 

 taking the queen from the colony and 

 the next day give it a queen cell. 



