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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



with pollen in sections, for a queen 

 doesn't go in them. A streak of honey 

 in the brood-frame next to the super 

 tends to prevent pollen getting into 

 the sections. I would put on a queen- 

 excluding honey board. If you hive 

 a swarm and put the sections on the 

 same day or the following day, the 

 queen will get there quickly, and there 

 will be pollen there. 



Dr. Miller: One thing that helps to 

 keep pollen out of the sections, and 

 the queen out of the sections, is to 

 fill the sections entirely with founda- 

 tion. If a section is only partly filled 

 with foundation, the bees will build 

 drone comb, and I have known bees 

 to leave drone-cells above, apparently 

 waiting for the queen to come up and 

 occupy. I have no trouble to speak of 

 at all. I don't use queen- excluders at 

 all. The amount of pollen and brood 

 that I find in the super wouldn't pay 

 me to use excluders. I have the sec- 

 ' tions entirely filled with comb founda- 

 tion. 



Mr. Wheeler: I notice a peculiar 

 thing about foundation in the sections. 

 In using the Heddon hive, I find that 

 if I hive a swarm in two sections, and 

 leave them there 2 days, then put on 

 the honey super, I have no trouble. 

 But if I hive the swarm at once and 

 then put on the honey-super, the bees 

 having no brood to feed that pollen 

 to, store it in the sections. I leave off the 

 comb honey super for a few days and 

 let the bees get well established, and 

 then crowd the bees into the lower part 

 and put on the comb-honey super. 



Dr. Miller: Along this line of pol- 

 len in sections I will relate a little in- 

 cident. Quite a number of years ago 

 a man wrote asking why it was that in 

 sections that he had over shallow 

 brood-frames i\e had a great deal of 

 pollen, and over hives with deeper 

 frames, he had no pollen. I answered 

 that it was a mere "happenstance," 

 that bees wouldn't carry pollen into 

 the sections over shallow frames as 

 they would in deep frames. Not long 

 after I got some shallow frames. I 

 have 2 colonies on shallow frames. 

 In the sections produced over those 

 frames I had more pollen than in 100 

 full sections over Dangstroth frames. 

 I don't know whether that is always 

 the case. 



Mr. Reynolds: A normal colony 

 "would be prepared to swarm and 

 would not have much pollen. If the 



"shook" method is used, they would 

 be in the habit of gathering pollen. 



"Can bees be induced to remove the 

 pollen when stored in the surplus 

 chamber? If so, how?" 



Dr. Miller: I have had pollen re- 

 moved simply by leaving it there long 

 enough. If you take the frames that 

 are entirely filled with pollen, in the 

 course of time the bees will work out 

 the pollen. But if it is stored in the 

 sections, I know no way of getting it 

 out. 



Mr. Dadant: "Would not pollen in 

 the sections, even if taken out, leave 

 a stain in the sections? (I don't know.) 

 Have you had sections with a black 

 spot here and there but no pollen? 



Dr. Miller: I have never noticed 

 it. I have never thought of it be- 

 fore. I laid it to the brood. 



Removing Eggs. 



"Can bees be induced to remove eggs 

 or brood from the surplus chamber when 

 desired by the bee-keeper? If so, how?" 



Mr. Taylor: Kill it. 



Mr. Wheeler: Kill it by leaving it 

 off the hive for a few days. 



Dr. Bohrer: Yes, by immersing the 

 frames in water. It will float the brood 

 and eggs out. 



Dr. Miller: Simply dipping down in 

 the water would not in all cases bring 

 water where the eggs are. 



Mr. Wilcox: Lay them down flat 

 on the ground in a rainstorm. 



Mr. Baldridge: Very frequently I 

 find brood in the surplus apartment. I 

 can get the bees to remove the brood 

 or the eggs very readily by sprink- 

 ling them with water. I use a device 

 such as the florists use to sprinkle 

 plants. The brood will immediately be 

 removed by the bees. This is est^ecially 

 useful if you want to sell the honey in 

 the t)rood-combs. 



Mr. Wilcox: The question of re- 

 moving bee-bread is valuable. But as 

 for removing brood, I never saw the 

 time when I couldn't put it somewhere 

 else. 



Mr. Baldridge: Suppose you had a 

 colony with eggs or unsealed brood 

 of black bees when you have Italians. 

 Water will remove every egg and 

 every larva. 



Adjournment to 2 p. m. 



