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SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



and introduced another of the same kind 

 of queens, and the bees came back and 

 killed her. I took the frames out of 

 the hive-body and put them into supers. 

 I filled up the lower story with frames 

 of empty comb and put the queen in, 

 put a queen - excluder over her and 

 set the super of laying workers right 

 on top, and they accepted the queen. 

 But I guess it would have been better 

 if I had broken up the whole business. 

 I think that is the better way. 



Mr. Wilcox — I said I did not wish to, 

 and I do not ; but I have done it a 

 great many times by introducing a comb 

 of hatching brood and about 48 hours 

 after introduce another comb of hatch- 

 ing brood, and those hatching bees us- 

 ually destroy the laying workers, or they 

 cease to be laying workers, and will 

 accept a queen or queen-cell. It will 

 not work every time, but it does in a 

 majority of cases. Sometimes I try the 

 third or fourth time. Meanwhile they 

 are hatching their bees. 



Mr. Whitney — I had forgotten that. 

 I tried that very thing. I put in one 

 frame and then another, but they did 

 not produce any queen-cells at all, and 

 I just adopted the other plan. 



"What percent more honey can be se- 

 cured with the Danzenbaker than with 

 other hives?" 



A Member — Not any more. 



"Which is best, to increase by natural 

 swarming or artificial?" 



Dr. Miller — It depends altogether up- 

 on circumstances, the man and his de- 

 sires. 



Mr. Abbott— Locality ? 



Dr. Miller — Yes; a great many things 

 come in. 



Hives in Cellar — Putting Out Bees. 



"Should hives be set on an incline 

 forward in the cellar? What are the 

 conditions indicating the proper time to 

 set them out in the spring?" 



Dr. Boher — Yes, I would say to the 

 first; and second, any day in March that 

 is warm enough for the bees to fly out. 

 That is in central Kansas. Farther 

 north it would perhaps be too soon. 



Mr. Taylor — As I set them I would 

 not incline them. I set them directly 

 up one on another. As to taking them 

 out, Mr. Wheeler speaks of when he 

 sets them out, they gather into the hives 

 that are not their own. I can tell him 

 how to prevent that. Do not take them 

 out when it is warm enough for the bees 



to fly. Take them out rather early in 

 the season, and taken out when it is 

 too cold for them to go out of their 

 hives. I generally take them out about 

 the last of March and they are quiet, 

 just as quiet out there on their stands 

 as they would be if they had been there 

 all winter; and when it becomes warm 

 enough for them to fly they 'begin to 

 fly just as they would in the spring if 

 they had been out there in the winter,, 

 and we have no difficulty with their 

 "drifting," as it is called, or swarm- 

 ing out, or anything of that kind. 



Mr. Thompson — I would like to ask, 

 in the case of drifting in the spring, is 

 there danger of carrying foul brood at 

 that time if there is any foul brood in 

 the yard? 



Mr. Taylor — I don't know, but I 

 should think very likely there would be. 



Mr. Kimmey — Two years ago I took 

 my bees from the cellar, carried them 

 out and put them on the stands on a 

 bright, warm, sunshiny day. Immediate- 

 ly upon my moving them out, I nar- 

 rowed the hive-entrances so I thought 

 I would prevent any robbing, and they 

 flew out and went back of their own 

 accord, seemingly every bee in its proper 

 hive. Last spring I took them out on a 

 cool day and they staid out 2 days. I 

 took them out Friday, and on Sunday 

 morning the air was full of bees, and 

 they "drifted" right into that corner of 

 the yard, and this corner had scarcely 

 any. That is an actual experience. 



Mr. Taylor — Locations must differ. 



Mr. Wilcox — I will say, in answer to 

 that question, I agree with Mr. Taylor 

 emphatically. I put my bees into the 

 cellar without bottom-boards, and con- 

 sequently they stand level. If the bot- 

 tom-boards were on I would prefer they 

 should be slanting, so that the bees in 

 a warm spell might clean out the dead 

 ones more easily. But in carrying them 

 out in the spring I find it more con-, 

 venient to move them while the tem- 

 perature is going down. For that rea- 

 son I carry them out between 4 o'clock 

 and bedtime, and if they fly a little before 

 dark all the better, but if they do not,^ 

 they take their chances in the morning. 

 It may.be a foggy, wet day, in which 

 case it would be bad for them, but other- 

 wise it is all right. 



Miss Wilson — We commence carry- 

 ing out ours in the morning and carry 

 them out as fast as we can. When we 

 close the entrance down to a small en- 



