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third inferior, and the fourth — no good. 

 I think the cutting of combs is as well 

 where there are plenty of eggs. 



J. B. Hains — If there are only a few 

 eggs in a hive — in many cases the eggs 

 are taken out — is it not probable that 

 eggs are used to help prepare royal jelly? 

 We find, in a hive that has casta swarm, 

 l)lenty of brood in all stages. I prefer 

 to raise queens from a vigorous queen, 

 rather than to have one shut up in a 

 cage, and I object to tobacco. 



E. E. Hasty— There are five of us who 

 were on committee, and the President 

 besides, in the committee room, when 

 the landlord came in and passed around 

 the cigars, but no one took any, as they 

 all replied that they did not smoke. In 

 regard to the eggs, if the bees use them 

 in any way for royal jelly, they must eat 

 them to help secrete the jelly. We do 

 not know the exact relation of royal jelly 

 and the food that is fed to the larvae. 

 If you stop feeding larvee, and still give 

 them eggs enough to feed queen-larvie, 

 it might be well. 



E. R. Root — I do not want tobacco un- 

 less to prevent robbing — chloroform will 

 do the same. 



"Has any one present had any expe- 

 rience in hatching queens above a queen- 

 excluding honey-board?" 



W. Z. Hutchinson — I have started. 

 tliem, but never left them to mature. 



E. R Root — It will work, but our man 

 thinks it too much trouble. 



J. F. Moore — I tried it, by having cells 

 above and below at the same time, and it 

 worked very well. 



W. Z. Hutchinson — I can see some ad- 

 vantages in raising a queen above the 

 honey-board — you can utilize more heat, 

 and in the Fall you can unite them better. 

 Mr. Alley starts cells in one colony and 

 transfers them. 



Mr. Edmonston — I use the Alley 

 method. I. have often had every cell 

 started, and think that sometimes all 

 were hatched. Sometimes the eggs will 

 be missing. Set rules do not always 

 work. 



Mr. Hutchinson — I have had queen 

 cells lay out-of-doors two days, and 

 hatch. 



Mr. Edmonston — One time I had a 

 queen cell lay on the sitting-room 

 window for several days, when my little 

 girl brought it to me saying, "Oh, pa! 

 There is something alive in this peanut," 

 when I saw, to my surprise, that it was 

 a cell with a queen in it just gnawing out. 

 J. B. Hains then read a short essay on 

 "Spacing of Frames." 



E. R. Root — I think % of an inch is too 

 close. 



Dr. Mason — One and one -quarter 

 inches, from center to center, is right. 



E. E. Hasty — I think if too close spac- 

 ing is used, that you crowd the bees out 

 to loafing in the porch. 



W. Z. Hutchinson — If there is no work, 

 I had just as soon they would loaf about 

 the porch as in the sitting-room. 



Dr. Mason — If the frames are clos(% 

 they will go above to put honey. 



F. A. Eaton — If too close to let the air 

 circulate above the brood, the bees will 

 go out to give the brood air, so as to 

 keep it from smothering. 



W. Z. Hutchinson— If the brood will 

 smother, how will it be when the bees all 

 go in of a cool night — what then? 



"Will close spacing prevent drone- 

 rearing?" 



E. R. Root — I think that close spacing 

 discourages drone-rearing. 



Mr. Bleesch — I have found that smok- 

 ing the bees several times causes them 

 to go into the supers, to remain and go 

 to work. 



W. Z. Hutchinson — I can see no object 

 in driving them in, when there is no 

 honey coming in. 



F. A. Eaton — I think there is a point 

 there; would they not fill themselves 

 with honey, and go up and go to build- 

 ing? 



D. R. Morris — One and one-quarter 

 inches, from center to center, is right. 

 I never had trouble to get them to work 

 in the supers? 



The secretary then read letters from 

 E. M. Bennett, of South Charleston; and 

 Henry Beatty, of Massilon, O., request- 

 ing to be admitted as members of this 

 Association, which request was granted 

 by unanimous vote. Letters were also 

 read from H. F. Moore and J. S. Barb, 

 enclosing clues. 



On motion of E. R. Root, W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson was made an honorary member of 

 this Association. 



Cincinnati was decided upon as the 

 next place of meeting, the time to be de- 

 cided upon by the Executive Committee. 



The election of officers then took place, 

 with the follgwing result: 



Charles F. Muth, of Cincinnati, Presi- 

 dent. 



Miss Dema Bennett, of Bedford, Vice- 

 President. 



S. R. Morris, of Bloomingsburgh, Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer. 



The committee on the Columbian Fair, 

 reported as follows: 



"Your committee, appointed to consider 

 the subject of the Ohio Bee-Keepers' 

 share in the Columbian Fair, have unan- 

 imously agreed to recommend to this so- 

 ciety the adoption of the plan proposed 



