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brush and brush them right off it in 

 less time than I can tell it. 



Mr. Bruner — ^My experience is that 

 they don't stick to the combs. If you 

 want to find a queen you will have to 

 ^o some hunting. The queen will be 

 on the bottom -Tjoard. 



Mr. Taylor — You want to take a 

 different way to find her. I can find 

 two queens to your one with Italians. 



Mr. Hatch — Tell us 'how you do that, 

 Mr. Taylor. 



Mr. Taylor — Put a honey-board on 

 the hive, and a super of some kind on 

 top. Smoke into the front of the 

 hive, and tap on it with one hand and 

 smoke with the other, and in two or 

 three minutes — previous to that you 

 have the honey-board loose — you take 

 off the super and tip up the honey- 

 board, and the queen will be on the 

 honey-board. 



Mr. Hatch — ^You mean the queen-ex- 

 cluding honey-board? 



Mr. Taylor— ^Yes. 



Mr. Hatch — ^I have tried this tapping 

 on the hive, and the bees generally tap 

 on me! 



Mr. Taylor — You have Italians? 



Mr. Hatch — No; hybrids. 



Mr. Bruner — There is a difference in 

 hybrids, certainly. I have hybrids that 

 will do the tapping, and hybrids that 

 won't do it. They are gentle enough. 

 They are scared to death when you 

 come near them with a little smoke, 

 and that is the worst troutole so far as 

 handling them is concerned You have 

 to get out and chase them with a dog, 

 sometimes, to round them up. 



■Mr. Taylor — My dog won'jt chase 

 them. 



Mr. Moore — ^Chasing is "the other 

 way. 



Getting Pollen Out of Extracted Honey. 



'How can you get the pollen out of 

 extracted honey?" 



Mr. Hatch — Let it settle and skim it. 



Mr. Kannenberg — Don't pollen dis- 

 " solve in the Ihoney ? I think it does. 



Mr. Taylor — It doesn't dissolve. It 

 ibreajis up, of course, but it doesn't dis- 

 solve. 



Mr. Kannenberg — ^I think it does. 



Mr. Moore — I have an opinion on 

 that, but I have nothing to back it up. 

 I see in the reports of the Pure Food 

 Commissioners that one of the tests 

 of pure hon«y is that pollen is always 

 found in it. I judge that it is like a- 



good many other things — part 4s 

 soluble, and some of it is not soluble. 

 That is my guess, that some of it 

 is soluble in the honey 



Mr. Taylor — I don't think it is soluble 

 in the proper sense of that term. 



Mr. Kannenberg— I extracted some 

 honey and there was a lot of pollen in 

 it. The bees got in the supers and 

 had their pollen all up in the extracting 

 supers, and when I extracted it the 

 - pollen went out with it, and was as 

 soft as the honey, and melted the 

 same as if it was honey, and it was 

 black, and if you smelled it, it smelt 

 as if you had pollen altogether, in- 

 stead of extracted honey. You couldn't 

 see any pollen; it was all dissolved. : 

 Mr. Gruner— ^Pollen is a pretty broad 

 term. It covers practically every 

 different kind of plant, and its char- 

 acter, etc., vary with different plants. 

 You are covering a broad field. Some 

 of it is very tender. It will dissolve 

 and go to pieces in honey. There are 

 other kinds of pollen that certainly 

 would not. 



Mr. Taylor — Isn't it a fact that a 

 man with a microscope can tell what 

 plant the pollen comes from that is in 

 the honey? 



Mr. Bruner — ^Almost to a certainty, if 

 he is posted on pollen and its different 

 forms. But thete are thousands and 

 hundreds (Jf thousands of different 

 kinds. Those found in honey would 

 be known to a man who had given it 

 a little study. 



Mr. Taylor — That shows it doesn't 

 dissolve. 



Mr. Bruner — ^It would show so far as 

 those you found undissolved were con- 

 cerned. I doubt very much if it would 

 dissolve in most cases. 



Mr. Hatch — 'I would suggest that 

 sometimes pollen ferments itself, and 

 it might be the result of fermentation 

 in this case. Otherwise, I don't think 

 a few particles would come out if 

 packed in very solidly.' - . _ 



/Hiving Swarms. 



"Where of necessity hives must be 

 placed close together, how can the bees 

 returning from a swarm be hived in 

 the hive in which they belong? Queens 

 are clipped." 



Mr. Hatch — I would cover the hives 

 on each side with a cloth. That is 

 the way I do it 



