

STATE bee-keepers' ASSOCIATION. 75 



Dr. Miller — A single bee never swarms. 



Mr. York — That's so ; I believe they have to get married 

 first ! 



Mr. Duby — I don't believe a large or small number o| 

 drones has anything to do with it. I have had colonies that 

 swarmed three times, and they had but very few drones, 

 and I have seen lots of drones and have had no swarming. 



Mr. Hutchinson — Mr. Aspinwall is now working with a 

 non-swarijiing hive. I believe he spent $i,ooo in making 

 wooden combs and his idea was that the bees wouldn't rear 

 drones, and he was going to get rid of swarming that way, 

 but the bees swarmed just the same with those wooden combs. 



METHODS OF WIRING BROOD-FRAMES. 



"Why are brood-frames wired horizontally and not ver- 

 tically?" 



Mr. Hutchinson — I have seen a great many that were ver- 

 tical. 



Mr. Baldridge — I wire all of mine vertically. I never had 

 a pupil that went to the horizontal wiring. 



Dr. Miller — I have had lots of them wired both ways. 

 One reason for the horizontal wiring is, it doesn't make any 

 difference with the strength of the top or bottom bar. A good 

 many have found by wiring vertically that there was a tend- 

 ency to draw together. The horizontal wiring is not affected 

 in that way. Mr. Hutchinson says put in an upright stick to 

 hold that. Yes, some have used that and some have used a 

 piece of tin, but that's so much more machinery. For myself, 

 I prefer to put in several little sticks. 



Mr. Baldridge — The reason, perhaps, that I wire up and 

 down is because I commenced that way, and I found it a 

 very good way. I don't have to have a saw-kerf. The top- 

 bar is 5-8 thick, and the bottom-bar is 3-8 and I use only six 

 bars in a frame. I don't fasten my foundation at the top at 

 all. It is not necessary to fasten it at the top, and it is not 

 necessary to have a saw-kerf to insert, neither one, if it is 

 wired properly, and I can use narrow strips. I use the 

 standard shape of frame. I put all those strips on the per- 

 pendicular wire, and I use every particle, and when they are 

 done you can not tell that they are made of strips. You 

 can use a half inch or an inch strip that way. 



Mr. Whitney — Do you split those strips ? 



Mr. Baldridge — No, they are all woven together, and 

 just as nice combs as though of solid foundation. 



MATING OF A SUPERSEDED QUEEN, 



"If a queen is superseded in the fall and not fertilized 

 then, will she be fertilized the next spring? 



Mr. Hutchinson — I don't know. 



Mr. Moore — She may be sometimes. 



Dr. Miller — The Atchleys reported a number of cases in 

 which the young queen superseded in the fall laid in the 

 soring, but I think they claimed the queen would be fer- 

 tilized in the fall and didn't lay until the spring. For my- 



