54 FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



membership for 50 cents each per member. They can't object 

 to accepting that. 



Mr. Primm — We can take their $1.00 and send 50 cents 

 of it on to the other body. 



Dr. Miller — I move that this society as a body go into 

 the National Association, and accept their offer to pay into 

 its treasury 50 cents per member. 



Mr. Smith — You have heard the motion. All in favor 

 say, "Aye;" contrary, "No." Motion prevailed. 



Dr. Miller — I don't know. 



Mr. Smith — I have found it successful by queen-exclud- 

 ers; they won't carry pollen where the queen can't go. 



Mr. Poindexter — There is one case in which pollen is not 

 carried into the sections — where they have drone-comb mixed 

 with it. 



Mr. President — My experience is that they have both 

 brood and pollen in the sections. 



Mr. Smith — Mr. Poindexter is right; it is a rare thing 

 to see pollen in drone-cells if you have drone-comb. 



Dr. Miller — The queen will get into the sections unless 

 the excluder keeps her out. If you have drone comb in your 

 sections and the queen goes up here, the queen will lay in 

 the dro ne-comb and the bees will store pollen in the comb 

 close by. If you allow me to say so, it is a rare thing to 

 have pollen in section. I don't have an excluder, but I have 

 the sections filled entirely with foundation, and that is the 

 important part, because if the sections are only partly filled 

 it will be drone-comb in the part left, and that encourages 

 the queen coming up. Fill your sections with foundation 

 and you will have no more pollen. 



Mr. Poindexter — My experience is that the foundation 

 which I am using will certainly keep the brood out, but it 

 doesn't keep the pollen out, not by any means; it is still 

 there. 



Dr. Miller — May I ask what is the depth of your brood- 

 frames ? 



Mr. Poindexter — I have had shallow brood-frames but I 

 have pollen carried up. I don't know any especial reason for 

 it. It may be there is a surplus of pollen in my neighbor- 

 hood. What troubles me is the getting of pollen in section 

 honey. 



Mr. Smith — ^Do you use queen-excluders? 



Mr. Poindexter — No, sir. 



Mr. Smith — You try that and you will have no trouble. 



A Member — I use queen-excluders in two colonies at 

 present and it is just the same. 



Dr. Miller — The point is this, he says they store honey 

 over the excluder. I think the reason the excluder keeps 

 it out is because the queen doesn't go up there, and there is 

 no laying in the surplus. 



Mr. Smith — Is it not a fact that the workers will build 

 drone-comb in the surplus where the queen can't get? 



