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EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Taylor: I use my own make. 



Mr. Frank: What is the weight of 

 it? 



Mr. Taylor: The weight is about ten 

 to twelve feet to the pound. I can 

 make it .thinner, but I don't like it 

 thinner than twelve. 



Mr. Whitney: At what stage of 

 progress ^o you invert it? 



Mr. Taylor: As soon as the founda- 

 tion will stand up. 



Mr. Bodenschatz: I should like to 

 ask Mr. Taylor what he does when 

 he finds more glue on them. I should 

 think they would stick more or less 

 to the frames. 



Mr. Taylor: They cannot get any 

 more on this. 



Mr. Bodenschatz: Thej' will get 

 some on the edges. 



Mr. Taylor: There is some on this. 



Mr. Bodenschatz: I should think if 

 they would stick more, it would break 

 more sections pushing them out. 



Mr. Taylor: No; it doesn't break 

 any. 



Mr. Jones: I would like to ask Mr. 

 Taylor in regard to the spaces. Is 

 there a full space above and below? 



Mr. Taylor: Half space each, half 

 space below and a half space above. 



Mr. Jones: When they are inverted 

 the same spacing will be there? 



Mr. Taylor: Yes. 



Dr. Miller: How much do you call 

 a space? 



Mr. Taylor: Three-eighths is what 

 I call a space. Of course, I don't al- 

 ways get it. 



Mr. Wheeler: You wrote to me last 

 spring and said you were going to 

 try some bottom starters. Did you 

 do it? 



Mr. Taylor: Yes; I tried a few. 



Mr. Wheeler: You don't like them? 



Mr. Taylor: No. 



Mr. Wheeler: This was an extra 

 good honey flow. Don't you think there 

 would be an advantage another year 

 with a poor honey flow, or with a 

 moderate honey flow? 



Mr. Taylor: I don't think there 

 would. Of course, there would be in 

 some cases; but with my foundation 

 it is quite difficult to do that. 



Mr. Wheeler: Won't it stand up? 



Mr. Taylor: If the foundation ia 



hard you can do it. My foundation is 

 soft, and it is more difficult. 



Mr. Wheeler: What makes it differ? 

 Mr. Taylor: I suppose it is the ma- 

 chine. I use the Given press. 



Mr. Wilcox: It is the process of 

 making, then, that makes the differ- 

 ence? 



Mr. Taylor: I think so. 



Mr. Wheeler: Do you think that 

 your foundation extends down to the 

 bottom? 



Mr. Taylor: Generally it will un- 

 less there is a poor flow. I have no- 

 ticed that with my foundation they 

 draw it out more readily than the or- 

 dinary foundation. With a hard foun- 

 dation they will build out the cells, 

 but they apparently don't like to ex- 

 tend the bottom. 



Mr. Whitney: On this subject, I 

 have a short paper that perhaps might 

 come in here, and if it won't bore the 

 members too much, I would like to 

 have it read. 



Mr. Kimmey: I understand that Mr. 

 Taylor gets a dollar for this, which 

 is small compensation for what he 

 has done for us. In addition, I move 

 that we give him a vote of thanks. 



The motion was seconded, put and 

 carried. 



Dr. Miller: It seems to me the 

 thing is all right without remarks. He 

 is the only one who has enterprise 

 enough to do anything of the kind. 



Mr. Taylor: The dollar, of course, 

 will help me to pay the expenses of 

 getting that here, but I don't want 

 to lug that to Chicago again for a 

 dollar, but the vote of thanks will 

 recompense me. 



President York: He will no doubt 

 sell the honey for twenty-five cents a 

 section. 



Mr. Taylor: I will sell it for fifteen 

 cents a section. 



Mr. Horstmann: I will take the 

 whole case. 



Dr. Miller was then asked to show 

 his exhibit. 



Space Under Bottom- Bars. 



Dr. Miller: The question is, what is 

 the proper depth or space there should 

 be under the bottom-bars, and we 

 have been in the habit of having 

 something like three-eighths of an 

 inch, and at one time or another in 



