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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Dr. Miller: The oil that comes from 

 the flower. 



Mr. "Wilcox: And the smell from the 

 volatile oil. 



Mr. Chapman: That is a good ques- 

 tion. These volatile oils are subject 

 to contamination by whatever is put 

 with them. That is the way perfume 

 is made. 



Mr. Lyman: If you have honey from 

 a certain flower, wUl the pollen affect 

 the flavor? 



Mr. Dadant: In the blossom there 

 are 3 smells: The smell of the petal, 

 the smell of the pollen, and the smell 

 of the honey. Perfume is .made from 

 the petals. Pollen has a very 

 faint smell. The way the pollen 

 in the hive gives flavor to honey is 

 of very little importance, because the 

 pollen is separate from the honey. The 

 Italian bees put honey in more com- 

 pact shape, and fill every cell Avher- 

 ever they can. A few grains of pollen 

 in a section, I imagine, can not have 

 any effect worth mentioning upon the 

 honey, especially as the honey is not 

 in the dust shape, but is in a paste. 

 You will see bees pass by a rose which 

 gives its smell from the petals, because 

 there is no honey. Bees will go after 

 honey in flowers that have no odor. 

 Bees will go into blossoms only when 

 there is honey. Bees will pass white 

 clover if no nectar is in it. There are 

 very distinct smells in a flower. A bee 

 will find the flowers that have the 

 smell of honey, although there is no 

 smell of petals. The blossoms that 

 you and I like because of their smell 

 are disregarded hy the bees. 



Mr. Wheeler: That is a nice story. 

 It sounds good, but I have seen bees 

 alight on white clover without at- 

 tempting to gather honey. 



Mr. McCain: In regard to the pollen 

 giving taste to honey, I would say 

 that I have honey now that was gath- 

 ered by the bees last season, and a 

 few days ago, on trying it, I hit some 

 of it that had a strong pollen taste. 

 I looked to see where that pollen was 

 and could not find it. There were no 

 pollen cells, either sealed or unsealed. 

 There were no pollen- grains. The pol- 

 len taste was very decided. I believe 

 that the presence of pollen in the hive 

 in some way gave that honey a very 

 strong flavor. 



Mr. Moore: I absolutely condemn 

 any pollen in comb honey for the mark- 

 et, on account of the looks, and the 

 possibility of the moth breeding in it. 



Dr. Miller: The idea of the moth 

 larvae going through honey would be 

 nastiness in the extreme. I don't be- 

 lieve they would go into honey. 



Mrs. Holmes: The egg is carried 

 in with the pollen. I don't think the 

 worm lays its egg in the honey. 



Clipping Queens. 



"Is there any harm in clipping' 

 queens?" 



Dr. Miller: How many of you think 

 there is no harm in clipping queens? 

 (18.) How many think there is harm 

 in clipping queens when the clipping 

 is properly done? (None.) 



Large vs. Small Hives. 



"Some prominent bee-keepers state 

 that an 8 -frame Langstroth hive is as 

 profitable as a larger one, and that 

 such hives give as good results per 

 comb as large hives, say 12 to 15 or 

 more frames. AVhat results have any 

 present had with large vs. small hives?" 



Dr. Bohrer: One of the first mov- 

 able-frame hives I ever used was 

 either 16 or 18 frames. I got more 

 honey from that than from any other 

 colony I ever had. That was in In- 

 diana, and right beside others in 8 

 and 10-frame hives. In Kansas I have 

 had none larger than 10-frame until 

 the past season, and this season was 

 none to compare by. I am of the im- 

 pression that if you have the best kind 

 of a queen, that you will get better 

 results from a 14 -frame standard 

 Langstroth than from one smaller. 



Mr. Anderson: I have kept both 

 side by side for nearly 40 years. I 

 have about 40 colonies in 10-frame 

 hives and about the same in 8-frame 

 hives. I am increasing my 10-frame 

 hives. They will fill 28 sections as 

 quickly as the colonies in 8-frame hives 

 will fill 24 sections. The only objection 

 is the weight. 



Growing Sweet Clover. 



"Will sweet clover grow in any kind 

 of soil, and in any part of the United 

 States? If not, why not? Is there any 

 practical way to make it grow as in- 

 dicated ?" 



Mr. Wilcox: I have tried to grow it 

 repeatedly, and have never made a 

 success of making a good stand. I have 

 sowed it with grain, and the winter 

 snows would melt and then freeze 

 solid and smother out the grain, then 

 the sweet clover would grow. It 



