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secrete wax anything like as fast as 

 they do when shaken, and under those 

 conditions wax is secreted at a very 

 much less cost. 



Something has been said about 

 whether it is desirable to save bees- 

 wax or not. That also goes into the 

 loss question. If we are to have any 

 hope of success with the eradication 

 of bee diseases, we must save this 

 wax and save it all, or the bee dis- 

 ease treatment cannot be carried on 

 as a financial success. A colony in a 

 ten-frame Langstroth hive contains 

 over four pounds of beeswax. At 30 

 cents a pound — that is higher than the 

 average bee-keeper gets — the average 

 bee-keeper with an ordinary wax 

 press cannot get very much over three 

 pounds, but there is over four pounds 

 there — but figuring on what he gets, 

 that is 90 cents, that two story hive 

 contains $1.80 worth of beeswax, and 

 it does not pay to throw it away, be- 

 cause any one who is worthy of the 

 name of bee-keeper will take care of 

 that and see that it is not robbed out. 



In the eradication of bee diseases 

 we must look to the method of treat- 

 ment which the successful and careful 

 bee-keeper can use. There is no use 

 in trying to get a method which all 

 bee-keepers can use, because the time 

 is going to come when all bee-keepers 

 cannot continue to keep bees. The 

 time is going to come when bee dis- 

 eases are going to wipe out about 50 

 per cent of the bee-keepers in the 

 United States. 



Mr. Byers — Just a word in regard to 

 what Mr. Taylor has said and criticiz- 

 ing whether the super combs should 

 be washed out. He says he thinks 

 they would not have trasmitted the 

 disease if they had not been washed 

 out. I do not know positively that 

 when you put super combs over a foul 

 brood colony that never had it, they 

 will transmit the disease. 



Dr. Bohrer — In connection with 

 what Dr. Phillips has said I would like 

 to call attention to another matter 

 that has not been named. I don't 

 know what protection you people have 

 in Canada in the way of legislation, 

 and I don't know what the different 

 states outside of my own have in the 

 way of legislation, but I do know this, 

 it is very defective. I intend to for- 

 mulate a bill on my return home pro- 

 viding that the Bee Inspectors of the 

 different counties shall not permit col- 

 onies of bees to remain in any man's 



house or barn when known, and shall 

 not allow men to keep bees in boxes 

 or ordinary box hives. As long as you 

 allow them to do it I do not see how 

 an inspector can do his duty, nor see 

 how we are going to stamp it out and 

 keep it stamped out. In heavily tim- 

 bered sections of the country you may 

 provide that all trees containing bees 

 may be cut down and the bees taken 

 out. We do need legislation against 

 allowing bees to remain in houses and 

 barns and other out-buildings and be- 

 ing kept in box hives or logs. I make 

 the suggestion that all bee-keepers 

 consider this. 



Mr. McEvoy — "We have a clause in 

 our Act whereby we can order all box 

 hives changed into frame hives where 

 they are diseased. 



Dr. Bohrer — ^How about bees in 

 houses or trees? 



Mr. McEvoy — "We have nothing to 

 do with the trees; I suppose we could 

 have, though. 



Mr. Lewis — I would like to ask what 

 we would do in that case, after we 

 have ordered all the bees to be put 

 into frame hives, when the people will 

 let hundreds of these common farmer 

 bee-keepers build combs crossways of 

 those frames. 



Mr. McEvoy — They can transfer 

 them all the same. 



Mr. Richardson — ^I would like to ask 

 about this treatment of Mr. Taylor's 

 in changing to the new hive when 

 disturbing that diseased swarm and 

 they would fill up with the diseased 

 honey, wouldn't they carry the disease 

 into the new swarm? 



Mr. Taylor — They may carry some, 

 but they get rid of it before they get 

 comb built to store it in. 



Mr. Richardson — They •would use 

 some of that diseased honey to build 

 some of that comb? 



Mr. Taylor — No. 



Mr. Friess — A gentleman over here 

 has spoken about washing his combs 

 out. Why couldn't the bees in in- 

 creasing their brood below carry that 

 honey from below and put it above, 

 and would it be safe to use that? 



Mr. Taylor — I don't think there is 

 anj' danger In that. 



Mr. Friess — ^Don't you think th*i 

 honey from below would contain these 

 germs after being carried above? 



Mr. Taylor — I don't think they carry 

 any above. The conclusion I have 



