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EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



tions, throw them out. The idea is to 

 get nice, clean comb honey. 



Mr. Moore: Do the bees use both of 

 those eight-frame hives as brood- 

 chambers? 



Mr. ■Wilcox: Perhaps he has made it 

 plain enough. We Tsrant to consider 

 that the two-story eight-frame hive is 

 still an eight-frame hive, two stories 

 high, to be used in that condition until 

 it is time to put the sections on, which 

 will be after white clover shows its 

 bloom and before the bees make prep- 

 arations for swarming. It is neces- 

 sary that it should be a week before, 

 otherwise it will not discourage 

 swarming. "When you put that on, re- 

 move all the brood from the second 

 story to the first, and remove the 

 combs that have no brood in them or 

 reserve them; then you put on your 

 super at the proper time, when your 

 apiary is in the best possible condi- 

 tion for comb honey. The story be- 

 low it is filled with brood. They will 

 naturally store it as near as they can 

 above, and by having that super on be- 

 fore the principal honey-flow begins, 

 they make preparations to fill it, in- 

 stead of making preparations to swarm. 

 It tends to discourage swarming. 



Mr. Horstmann: There Is lone thing 

 I didn't mention — the extra brood I 

 have in tbose two hive-bodies. I have 

 brood enough to give to other colonies 

 to help them out. It is very seldom 

 I am able to get all the brood in one 

 hive-body, tout I will have the fullest 

 hive -body below with all the bees. 



Mr. Kannenberg: Has it ever hap- 

 pened that your bees filled the second 

 story from the lower story, and left 

 no brood at all in the lower story? 



Mr. Horstmann: That happens 

 where I am working for extracted 

 honey. 



Mr. Kannenberg: The queen left the 

 lower story, and just put brood in the 

 top story, and left nothing in the lower 

 story. 



Mr. Horstmann: I would advise you 

 to get a better queen. I would take the 

 head right ofC a queen that would do 

 that, if she didn't know enough to stay 

 below. 



Frame Bottom -Bars. 



"Should bottom-bars be made of 

 light or heavy lumber?" 



Mr. Macklin: Heavy. 

 President York: What is considered 

 the best bottom -board? 



Mr. Kannenberg: I think a good, 

 heavy bottom-board is the best of 

 anything. I have very thin, %-inch 

 bottom-boards, and I would not use 

 them any more. They warp and come 

 apart. If you have a bottom-board 

 %, I think that is the best bottom- 

 board. 



Best Hive-Stand. 



"What is Ihe best hive-stand, and 

 how is it made?" 



Mr. Kannenberg: I think the best 

 'hive- stand is of cement. It will last 

 forever; it doesn't rot the hive, and 

 it is always dry. 



Mr. Wiloox: It is too heavy to carry 

 into the cellar. 



Mr. Kennicott: A 2x6-inch wood, set 

 up edgewise, is about as good a hive- 

 stand as you can get. 



Mr. Wilcox: The hive-stand I am 

 using is made seven inches high, forty 

 inches in length, and as wide as the 

 hive is long, about twenty inches, and 

 two hives on a stand; stands two or 

 two and a half feet apart. I prefer 

 those stands, for tQie reasion that the 

 hives are in pairs, and they stand level, 

 they settle level, and for the further 

 reason that I can pick them up and 

 move them when I wish to run the 

 lawn mower, or move them to a new 

 piece of ground once in a while. 



President York: What sort of a 

 lighting board leads up to the en- 

 trance? 



Mr. Wilcox: The bottom-board of 

 the hive projects out in front, and sit- 

 ting on this box, they do not leave. 

 The bottom-board sits on the stand, 

 and the bee strikes under and hits 

 the stand, and she can can climb up 

 into the hive. 



Mr. Whitney: But suppose one 

 practices clipping a queen's wings. It 

 seems to me the stand advertised In 

 the catalogues, about a two toy six 

 piece of timber, witih an alighting 

 board slanting to the ground, wouW 

 be better than anything else, and 

 cheap, as well. 



Mr. Bodenschatz: The best thing I 

 can use is a box from twelve to twen- 

 ty inches wide; about twenty inches 

 long, and atoout two feet high. I level 

 off the ground and set the box in, and 

 use alighting boards from one foot' 

 long to about sixteen inches wide, or 

 whatever hive I use, and have the 

 bees climb up. The boxes are as 

 cheap as anything you can get hold of. 



