. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. D. Rider—It' a swarm conies off with 2 queens, how can we well decide which is best. T. G. McGaw—Let the bees choose in that case. S. J. McKinney—I think bees have some instinct as well as other animated things, and that they can choose a good queen as well as a bee-keeper. If they get a poor queen, they soon supersede her. Afternoon Session. The following letter from one of the Vice Presidents was read by the Secretary : Kind greetings to pleasant friends. As the time draws near for the meeting of our Society, I find myself thinking much about it, an
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. D. Rider—It' a swarm conies off with 2 queens, how can we well decide which is best. T. G. McGaw—Let the bees choose in that case. S. J. McKinney—I think bees have some instinct as well as other animated things, and that they can choose a good queen as well as a bee-keeper. If they get a poor queen, they soon supersede her. Afternoon Session. The following letter from one of the Vice Presidents was read by the Secretary : Kind greetings to pleasant friends. As the time draws near for the meeting of our Society, I find myself thinking much about it, and should like to be one of those present, but as circumstances are inau- spicious 1 shall have to forego that pleasure, but shall try to be with you at the tall meeting, the location of which arrange among yourselves, and count upon my concurrence therein. I shall look forward to the AMERICAN Bee Jocknai.'s report of the meeting with much interest, as I am feeling somewhat dis- couraged, having lost must of ray bees during the past winter, only saving 9 out of J.'i colonies. Unit- ing and fall feeding seemed to be successful, until there came two or three cold days about Christmas, when all such died, with feed by them, on summer stands, with quilts over them. Also, I am doubtful about the February feeding, whether it did not do more harm than good. The honey season must be very late, for the weather has been so very windy that the poor bees can scarcely do anything. The usual supply of hazel pollen was nearly all cutoff by a severe frost in March after the blossoms had partially opened. Last week there were two or three good days in which they gathered honey from the peach, pear and gooseberry, and pollen from the plum, and now, better than all, there is an abun- dance of apple bloom, 60 or 90 acres of which are accessible to my bees. Oh! that I had a few mil- lions for a few days, only that it seems as if the God of winds had turned all his furies loose upon us to-day.
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