. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. G46 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Oct. 10, are able to feed her before she is out, and the feeding leads to an acquaintance. By this method I have had a queen intro- duced to three different colonies inside of 24 hours. R. A. Harrison—I give the bees a thorough smoking with dripd grass, and then put the bees in a cage from which the bees can release her inside of 8ve hours. The smoke gives a strong odor to the bees, queen, and hive. J. T. Calvert—I visited Henry Alley this summer, and he introduced virgin queens to nuclei, filling each nucleus with smoke,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. G46 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Oct. 10, are able to feed her before she is out, and the feeding leads to an acquaintance. By this method I have had a queen intro- duced to three different colonies inside of 24 hours. R. A. Harrison—I give the bees a thorough smoking with dripd grass, and then put the bees in a cage from which the bees can release her inside of 8ve hours. The smoke gives a strong odor to the bees, queen, and hive. J. T. Calvert—I visited Henry Alley this summer, and he introduced virgin queens to nuclei, filling each nucleus with smoke, putting in the queen, and then stopping up the en- trance with a plantain leaf. The leaf wilts and releases the bees. Mr. Aspinwall—Mr. Alley uses too much smoke. I think we should use as little smoke as possible. Next came an essay by Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo, III., on Xtae Amalgfaination of the North American Bee-Keepers' Association and the Na- tional Bee-Keepers' Union. Shall there be a union of the Union and the North Ameri- can ? Should the North American Bee-Keepers' Association ask this question, the Bee-Keepers' Union might answer :. Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, III. "Mind your own business. Better not discuss publicly whether there is to be a 'wedding' till you find out privately whether I'm willing to ; And yet, and yet. The two organizations have been close- ly identified, their interests should be the same, their member- ship is to some extent the same and should bo more fully the same, and more members of the Union can be found together at one time at a North American convention than at any other time and place. Indeed the nearest the Union has ever come to having a meeting has been at the meetings of the North American, and aside from that there has never been the sem- blance of a meeting of the Union. So there seems nothing particularly inappropriate to talking the matter over at this convention. I am asked to say something introductory,
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