Gleanings in bee culture . ear for her safety. If the bees and thenew queen can be brought to the same stateof mind (sounds queer, but it is the best waywe can exjaress it), or distress, or what-not,there is no ground for a fight. When con-ditions return to normal, all tliought ofprevious differences are forgotten andthings are accepted as they then exist. Eveij one knows that bees retreat beforea i^utf of smoke; tlierefore when smoke ispuffed into the hive entrance preparatoryto limning the queen in, the bees leave thebottom-board and the bottom-bars of theframes in a general route to get awa
Gleanings in bee culture . ear for her safety. If the bees and thenew queen can be brought to the same stateof mind (sounds queer, but it is the best waywe can exjaress it), or distress, or what-not,there is no ground for a fight. When con-ditions return to normal, all tliought ofprevious differences are forgotten andthings are accepted as they then exist. Eveij one knows that bees retreat beforea i^utf of smoke; tlierefore when smoke ispuffed into the hive entrance preparatoryto limning the queen in, the bees leave thebottom-board and the bottom-bars of theframes in a general route to get away fromthe smoke. The consequence is that, whenthe queen runs in, tliere is nobody at home,and she is alone to fight it out with the firstguard she may meet. Such a condition isabout as unfavorable to her acceptance aswell could be, as all methods have for theirprime purpose to get the queen into closerelationship with a large part of the colonywithout causing suspicion or a quarrel. It occurs to me that Mr. Millers uniform.
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