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to lay. That is my experience. Whenever I find brood in 

 sections it is drone-brood, every time. I never find any 

 worker-brood, unless it should be in the same comb where 

 there is drone-brood. 



Dr. Miller — I have found some cases where without any 

 drone-comb at all, the queen has gone up and laid in the 

 worker-comb, but it is a very rare thing when that occurs. 



Mr. Bowen — You people neglect the early education of 

 your bees. 



Dr. Miller — It is a rare thing that they will go up into 

 the sections. 



Mr. Smith — Is that very frequent? 



Dr. Miller — It is not frequent at all, but it is a rare 

 thing when a queen will go and lay in cells that are filled 

 with foundation. Some have a great deal of trouble with it ; 

 the only way to account for it is that their sections are not 

 filled with foundation. 



Mr. Bowen — I never .allow my bees to go in sections 

 from four to six days after putting bees into the hive ; they 

 get the sections above full before they get the frames below, 

 if I do. 



Dr. Miller — Mr. Bowen has brought up the question, 

 who will answer it? I wait until the bees get started below 

 before I put the sections on. This is a separate thing, and in 

 case of swarms you will have brood in your sections. It 

 just depends on the season in regard to getting brood in the 

 sections. If there is a swarm, and you use full sheets of 

 foundation in the brood-frames, the bees will, use no sections 

 for brood-comb. In those combs nothing but worker-bees 

 will go if you have excluders. If you put sections on the 

 next day it is very seldom the queen will go up. I put 

 sections on the next day after hiving a swarm, and they 

 don't go up with me. 



Mr. Poindexter — I was going to ask about queen-ex- 

 cluders ; do they store honey in the surplus as well with as 

 without them? 



Dr. Miller — I don't know positively. 



OUGHT BEES TO BE ASSESSED? 



Dr. Miller — The way property is assessed the bees ought 

 to be assessed. I want protection of my property. I want 

 my bees to be protected as well as anything else. I don't see 

 any reason why they should be excluded. 



Mr. Stone — I believe we ought to be willing to have our 

 bees assessed. The reason I never have done it is, the as- 

 sessor says they are not on the roll and are not assessable. 

 I heard Mr. Becker say his bees were assessed. If we go 

 before the Legislature and ask them to pass the law prevent- 

 ing the spreading of foul-brood, I want it to be said that 

 we pay taxes on our bees. 



Dr. Miller — How many think bees ought to be assessed? 

 Rise to your feet. Unanimous. 



Dr. Miller — I think it is a very important item that you 



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